I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

Is a negotiated payment to the President to compensate him for his litigation expenses, without a judgment on the merits in his favor or a court order except voluntary dismissal, a violation of Art. II, Sec. 1, Cl. 7 of the Constitution (“the domestic emoluments clause”)? Asking for a nation.

Instead of lying about the “No Kings” rallies, Reps. Finstad, Emmer, Stauber, and Fischbach should be leading them. Take back your constitutional authority. Don’t hide behind Trump. If you support tariffs and immigrant renditions and murder on the high seas, vote for it. Reveal who you really are.

The Epstein discharge petition may break MAGA. GOPs will choose between voting for Trump (no file release) or against him. They will discover that it is better to oppose him. If they don’t release the files, the base will revolt.

After that, Trump’s power will recede, until it vanishes.

Jesse went to college?

Jesse Waters is the guy who bragged that he deflated a co-worker’s tires so she would accept a ride home from him. (!!) Now she’s his wife. He has a record of creating “facts” and situations to engineer the result he desires. More FOX news fraud.

Indict them, charge them, try them, convict them, and send them to Joliet Penitentiary.

“No songs in English should not be allowed …”????
What language is that statement translated from?

Dems need an extensive ad campaign targeted at the military and law enforcement to counteract Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and the others. A message of constitutionality, right and wrong. The outraged reaction of MAGA against such a campaign would be an accelerant spreading the message.

I understand it.
What’s more, the end of due process for foreigners — inside the United States and outside the country when the US government seeks to impose its will upon them — is the end of due process for all.
Stop the murders of Venezuelans. Even accused drug smugglers are entitled to justice.

It is hardly news amid the authoritarian fire hose, but the US fired upon another Venezuelan watercraft today on the high seas.
Casualty count unknown.
No investigation, no arrest, no due process. No evidence of hostile fire.
Serial murder authorized by the White House.

Disregard (for the moment) the Epstein files, the maritime murders, and his other offenses.

Two days ago the President called on the most powerful military force in the world to use American cities as the “training ground” for combat.
He wants to attack his own country.

Impeach him immediately.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

Mass killings are always evil, no matter the identity of the killers or of the victims.
That is true even when the killers are US military and the victims are foreigners in a watercraft, suspected of but never charged with a non-capital crime, and never alleged to have initiated hostilities.

First saw Jethro Tull when I was 16 (15?) at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago, with Led Zeppelin and the headliner, Savoy Brown.

The only transgender issue that makes me lose sleep is Trump turning American farmers into welfare queens.

Maybe the aide who turned off the escalator is the same person who conflated the Four Seasons Hotel in Philly with Four Seasons Sand & Gravel and scheduled the 2020 post-election press event outside of the sex toys shop.

This thought cannot be original to me: is Trump’s concern with the Epstein files less about complicity in pedophilia and more about being a useful idiot who the Russians made into their asset?
The sudden accidental deaths of Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein sure have a Putin resonance.

The problem with the MSNBC discussion of what to believe is its omission of the “cry wolf” factor: why should we believe Trump, even if his assessment turns out to be correct? He lies every other time and he never owns up to his mistakes.

Are these unintended consequences? Or is this part of a complex plan to intentionally subvert the US economy?

If ICE does not have a warrant, its agents should be arrested under New York law for battery and attempted kidnapping.

“No Kings” rally in St. Paul.

Happy birthday Taj Mahal!

@tajmahalblues.bsky.social

#tajmahal #goffinkingsongs

Polls don’t only measure opinion, they generate it. Ask (versions of) these questions every week in every red county: Is Trump corrupt? Is the Trump family using the Presidency for personal gain? Should Congress take action to make Trump stop his corrupt activities? Soon voters will say “yes”.

Take away DEI, and you get Pete Hegseth.

YouTube video by Jagatjeet Singh Brar Last letter to wife ( emotional last scene from The Ox-bow Incident)

This is from “The Ox-Bow Incident,” a 1943 film about a lynch mob that hangs three innocent men. If we silently tolerate rounding up suspects and deporting them without giving them the right to a defense, then we are part of the lynch mob. youtu.be/dkpQb0FfOU4

Two questions for Trump at his next news conference.
1. Do you want to destroy the world economy?
2. If not, what would you do differently if you decide destroying the world economy is what you do want to do?

Great, Governor Walz, but why didn’t you go after Trump’s outdated notions when you debated J.D. Vance? How about, “The media won’t fact check you, but I will” and then ask him if he truly believes in Trump’s fantasies about tariffs or if he understands that Trump plans to destroy the U.S. economy.

Yup. My dad died on 2/28/2011. His SS check was deposited 3/1/2011, clawed back automatically 3/4/2011. I did not have to do a thing.
OTOH, it took about a week of calls and emails in 2020 to determine where to return the Covid relief check the Trump administration sent to my dead father-in-law.