With Latest Missteps, Veneer of Discipline in 2nd Trump Term Falls Away (Gift Article) The mistakes, miscommunications and flip-flops are piling up after an early run defined by a flood of major policy changes that were rolled out at breakneck speed.

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Trump Signs Orders Punishing Those Who Opposed His 2020 Election Lies (Gift Article) The president targeted two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm as part of his campaign for retribution.

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Saturday’s ‘Hands Off!’ Anti-Trump Protests Try to Reach the Newly Alarmed (Gift Article) The rallies on Saturday are being held all over the country and emphasize cuts to health care, Social Security and education.

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Power to the people! When we fight, WE WIN!💥 @cynthianixon.bsky.social

White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors (Gift Article) Two prosecutors were dismissed out of the blue, notified by a terse one-sentence email stating no reason for the move other than that it was on behalf of the president himself.

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Law in Mahmoud Khalil’s Case Was Once Struck Down — by Trump’s Sister Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.

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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

Sanders: We are not a poor country!

There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.

I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense

I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared.

And we will remember their names.

Do Not Buy Chuck Schumer's Book!
Do Not Buy Chuck Schumer's Book! Do Not Buy Chuck Schumer's Book!
Do Not Buy Chuck Schumer's Book!
Do Not Buy Chuck Schumer's Book!
Do Not Buy Chuck Schumer's Book!

I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail.

I choose the latter:

www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

The members of the Jan 6 Committee are all proud of our work.

Your threats will not intimidate us.

Or silence us.

DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...

"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO...

"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...

"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
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I'd rather we fund cancer research than Elon's exploding rockets.

I'd rather we fund critical services for our veterans than Elon's swasticars for our embassies.

I'd rather we stop oligarchs from using our treasury as their personal piggy bank.

Hey back on Substack Live at 4p eastern. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social and Rick Wilson return to cause absolutely no trouble whatsoever. See you soon!

Reminder: Amazon Blackout—starting tomorrow.

Amazon ❌, Whole Foods ❌ off the to-do list!

Here’s where Houstonians can get their measles shot Several mobile clinics will be available on Saturday/ Although there currently aren’t any active cases of the disease in Harris County, there have been 159 confirmed measles cases related to the outbreak in West Texas.

Houstonians have several options for where and when to get their measles vaccine over the weekend and through next week.

Things are a shitshow right now, so please take a moment to enjoy this recent photo of the destitute outcast Rudy Guiliani on a scooter in Walmart shopping for hair dye.
You’re welcome. 🙃

Photo ~ TMZ

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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

They’re going to cut Medicaid

Who Paid for Trump’s Transition to Power? The Donors Are Still Unknown. (Gift Article) President Trump has not made good on a promise to disclose who contributed to his transition effort.

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Marjorie Trailer Greene is concerned with decorum all of a sudden. 🥴

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?