Kristi Pope

The Three Stooges RFK Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard were in the hot seat this week as votes on their confirmations loom.

Three of Trump’s most controversial nominees were on Capitol Hill yesterday, and their hearings were anything but smooth. But will that be enough to derail any of them? Maaaaaybe. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Leavitt: Tomorrow, the President will be implementing a 25% tariff on Mexico, a 25% tariff on Canada, a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country that has killed tens of millions of Americans.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Not a great sign of things to come on this front.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocks Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs after Trump pardons.

In a written directive, the Democratic Illinois governor tells his hiring office that "no one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government."

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Be afraid. Be very afraid! 😳😤🤬

Fun fact: there’s never been a Democratic director of the FBI in its entire history.

there will be more articles written next week about the threat of “cancel culture” than there will be about this

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Truth

Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous This will be a much more radical regime – and it will operate under conditions that are vastly more favorable to its extremist cause

The Trumpists won’t be able to implement everything they have planned exactly as they have planned it. But they are better prepared and in a far better position overall than they were in 2017.

More malevolent, less incompetent, with a weaker system to oppose them.

More here:

Post by Daniel Feldman showing strong uptick in Republican accounts on X following Elon’s endorsement of Trump. Text: A massive shift happened on July 13, when Elon endorsed Trump. Republican accounts started getting vastly more views than Democratic, becoming more and more biased toward the election. This site is not free speech. It is one man's fiefdom.

This is why I am making my way over to friendlier, less rigged skies here. Why play on an unlevel field?

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for ***sex trafficking a minor*** into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

Pete Hegseth’s tattoos are the ones that white nationalists get. Federal law enforcement know these symbols well. Hegseth was banned from national guard duty at Biden’s inauguration for those tattoos. The Senate should consider this disqualifying for a nominee for Secretary of Defense—will they?

Trump’s transition team caught off guard by Hegseth allegation | CNN Politics President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team was in the middle of announcing new Cabinet picks this week when they were informed of a sexual assault allegation about one of his previous selections, ...

Trump vetted Hegseth in 2017; past allegations came up and scuttled a VA nom. This time Trump axed the normal vetting processes, hired a private firm, didn’t wait for a report, selected Hegseth. Now his team says it was blindsided. Uh, no—it got caught. This is why media needs curatorial journalism.

Fortune headline: Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X.’

Well, at least it got that one right.

The first rule of authoritarian politics is that there’s only one source of authority.

Congress will be expected to give up its role in governing, particularly anything that restrains Trump’s choices and desires.