Hugh Cutler

@maddow.msnbc.com Sorry, Rachel, to suggest a correction, but I beg to suggest yet again that Trump’s team *IS* “sending their best.” This is indeed the caliber of talent willing to work toward the dismemberment of democracy in service to a convicted felon and sex criminal.

The “Katie Johnson“ deposition video online specifically cites a Trump ‘rape fantasy’ involving her and a fellow Epstein girl named Maria that ended in “Johnson’s” assertion that Trump brutally took her virginity at age 13. Please inquire if this Maria participated in such a “fantasy.”

I sure hope that someday soon you can find a way at least to allude to the case filed by “Katie Johnson”/Jane Doe, which is described in summary on Wikipedia and in some greater detail a few years back in Newsweek & even longer ago in Politico.

@maddow.msnbc.com You say Trump is “not sending their best people.” What if they ARE?!! I suggest for a guy who bankrupted casinos, was convicted of defamation in a sex abuse case and of 42 felonies in a corporate civil corruption trial—that this IS the best he can attract.

@weissmann.substack.com Legalisms are complex. But when a fed judge rules that an act is unconstitutional, why let an appeal stay allow the unconstitutional act to proceed while the offender seeks a different outcome? The illegality persists!

The cruelty is the point. The grift is the point. Which IS it? Well, truly, they BOTH are!

@nicollewallace.bsky.social: Hosting Jacob Soboroff’s empty Port of Long Beach sailing tour, with drone coverage, was very creative TV—one cargo ship at dock and empty cranes throughout! A strong visual representation of Trump’s tariff fiasco.

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social: Fabulous idea & fantastic job sailing the Long Beach port with its director & and overhead drone! Very effective way to show how moribund the economy has become because of Trump’s cockamamie tariff “war.” Just ONE cargo ship visible at dock and empty cranes everywhere!

#RachelMaddow, sure I’m positing a conspiracy theory, but how long before we learn that the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) outfit is hiring pardoned Jan. 6 convicts for the violent force mistakenly conducting raids on US citizens? Would anyone be surprised?

Viktor Orbán’s latest clampdown bans Budapest Pride – but he won’t stop us marching Elected leaders from across Europe should join us on the streets. It is critical to democracy – in Hungary, and the EU as a whole, says Hungarian national assembly member Katalin Cseh

Regarding Alex Wagner/Hungary: I wonder how soon protester arrests will start happening:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Viktor Orbán’s latest clampdown bans Budapest Pride – but he won’t stop us marching Elected leaders from across Europe should join us on the streets. It is critical to democracy – in Hungary, and the EU as a whole, says Hungarian national assembly member Katalin Cseh

Regarding Hungary: I wonder how soon the arrests of protesters start:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good interview but one key quibble: Your story wrote that Trump said, “… the second time, I run the country and the world.” But in Jeff’s transcript, he says, “This time I’m fighting to help the world and help the country….” That’s not just a semantic difference. I hope there’s a clarification.

A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem ) Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

Wikipedia offers a citation I, at 77, recall well: “In 1943, the Howdy Doody children's radio show adopted the name for its live audience of children. [The show] is most remembered for its later transition to television, which included the Peanut Gallery audience, then on camera. …”

A Vanity Fair article in 1990 reported that first wife Ivana Trump told her attorney that he kept a book of Hitler speeches in a bedside cabinet. Trump said in 2023 that he’d never read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” though his reference to immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. echoed the Fuhrer.

Michelle Obama will skip Trump inauguration, but ex-Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush will be there….
Michelle should update her mantra: “When they go low, we go ghost!”

@nicollewallace.bsky.social If you aren’t already on the case, you might consider a shoutout to The Contrarian, the Substack commentary site just launched by Jennifer Rubin (who just quit WaPo on principle) & Norm Eisen, which has a roster that includes most of MSNBC’s regular panel of experts.

Why wouldn’t Jack Smith dismiss charges v. Trump’s 2 lackeys (since that was meant mainly to make both cooperating witnesses), then release THAT report too? Public should learn what’s in it.

From NYTIMES:
In abandoning the original spending deal and stripping it of an array of policy changes that had been included, Republicans dropped at least four bills related to pediatric cancer research and treatments. That drew sharp criticism from even right-leaning pundits….

It takes a special combination of chutzpah, ignorance and incompetence to lose these early legislative battles of one’s second term in office even before you’ve been sworn in.

A ton of voters only get their news about Democrats… from Republicans. To fight back, we should build up independent progressive media, reach out to voters who don’t watch political news—AND go on offense on conservative outlets.

That’s why I went on Fox News. Break the bubble.

Tulsi Gabbard Holds the Knife An Operation We Might Not Survive

Tulsi Gabbard is not just completely unqualified to be Director of National Intelligence – she is anti-qualified.
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I’ve been hoping some astute journo would post this nimrod’s hit list, so thanks for that. Patel obviously has too much time on his hands. We should probably send holiday greeting cards to all of them. I’m sure I can’t be the first to mention, though, that Eric Holder was Obama’s AG, not FBI chief.

Where’s Arlen Specter when you need him?

How can anyone ‘own the libs’ if there are none in attendance?