📘 Blue Dragonfly 📘

I spent the entire Biden presidency warning idiotic establishment Senate Dems and Biden who opposed getting rid of the filibuster that Trump and the GOP would come back to power and do it themselves. I hate to say I told you so but… I fucking told you so.

Fired CBS Staffer Says Only White Producers Survived ‘Bloodbath’ Layoffs A producer for one of the network’s streaming shows said all the producers who were fired from his team were people of color.

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You Don't, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump's Hands He has a terrible poker face, and keeps telling us what he believes his greatest vulnerabilities are.

"Trump views propaganda as key to his political viability. Without it, he suspects the whole edifice would crumble."

@brianbeutler.bsky.social connects a lot of dots here, good rebuttal to Douthat's (feigned?) naivete about the Epstein saga
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The judge: "Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer."

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The cover up here, and the complicity of the mayor enabling these DHS thugs to operate in a dangerous and deadly fashion alongside the DC police, is shocking and unacceptable. There have to be consequences.

If some of the people paying to build the ballroom are doing so because they are in the Epstein files that Trump is covering up, then it is only right for it to be named the Epstein Ballroom.

The REAL FACTS about SNAP benefits and why Trump & the GOP are hurting millions of Americans with their stupidity

The American First guy on Air Force 1 today with his Qatari business partners: “It’s an honor to have you on this plane … first time.”

You gotta hand it to Johnson and the House Republicans - they’re not missing a paycheck, while federal workers get cut off. They’ve stayed away from DC and doing their jobs since Sept 19! Getting paid for nothing while others struggle. So GOP!

Doug Ford's ad using Reagan's words slamming tariffs just aired during the World Series

OMG. What an ad!

CNN: “Trump's Argentina beef deal angers America's struggling farmers: ‘You're selling us out’”

Trump is sending ARGENTINA $20B and increasing their beef imports while STARVING AMERICAN FAMIILIES.

There's funding available to help keep food benefits, but Trump just doesn’t want to provide it.

What'll it take for him to start leading the country he actually lives in?

AI gun detection system mishap was partly human error, official says Baltimore County Superintendent Myriam Rogers said the software worked as designed — and the program needs human verification before prompting a police response. "In this case, the program did what it...

Imagine if the cops had shot and killed him... over Doritos. www.wbaltv.com/article/ai-g...

👑 Trump's Third Term? Peter Rothpletz on Donald Trump's brazen push to secure a 3rd (forever?) term, the White House's transformation into a Saddam Hussein-style palace, and the bombshell NBA gambling indictments.

👑 Trump's Third Term?

⁦‪⁦‪Peter Rothpletz‬⁩ has today’s First Draft morning newsletter from Zeteo and leads on what everyone in the media should be leading on.

Jamie Raskin’s Harsh New Takedown of Trump Reveals MAGA’s Dark New Aim As Rep. Raskin’s broadside against Trump’s $230 million shakedown of DOJ hits home, a legal expert demystifies why this scheme is so appallingly corrupt—and what it says about MAGA’s ugliest designs.

Trump's confidence that he can steal $230 million in taxpayer money was brought to you by SCOTUS.

On the pod, a treat: @leahlitman.bsky.social breaks down the legal details of this scandal, Raskin's response, SCOTUS's role. Everything you need to know in 20 min:

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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

In case you missed it, read Andy’s deep dive on how Vought used his position as budget chief to dismantle entire federal agencies, use the government shutdown as a way to fire civil servants, and put workers “in trauma”:

Who are the 95 Palestinian medics held captive by Israel? Israel continues to hold 80 Palestinian doctors and medical workers from Gaza and 15 from the occupied West Bank.

Israel continues to hold 80 Palestinian doctors and medical workers from Gaza and 15 from the occupied West Bank.

But now he has immunity (which he didn’t before), has installed civilian leadership at the Pentagon and DOJ who will refuse him nothing, and is in the process of purging senior military and DOJ careerists who might stand up to them.

In this episode, rural organizer Matt Hildreth says he's never seen a confluence of policies come together to screw rural America quite this badly. Put all this together and it's a "perfect storm," he says. Great stuff from him here:

YouTube video by Associated Press Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and activists in the West Bank

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The MAGA leaders still haven't quite realized what kind of base they have created/emboldened/incited. Talk about Frankenstein and monsters.

It certainly appears Mike Johnson cares more about protecting Jeffrey Epstein than working for the American people. Full interview with AG Mayes is up now on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/Wwbwyn1lxH8

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Revised headline: Trump wants to steal another $230 million from taxpayers

These criminals that Trump pardoned keep getting arrested. Pretty much every week there is a new one.

The President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau isn’t happy about Trump’s plan to import beef from Argentina.

Never forget they aren’t telling the truth when they say they care about stopping political violence.

Few acts in history have done more to incentivize political violence than the January 6th pardons. And virtually every mainstream Republican supported letting them all out.

It’s such an odd coincidence that so many people in and around the Trump admin have insanely racist things surface.