John Kaster

Ha! I can't. I was mainly thinking of the Fed vs state balance of power so presciently and carefully created by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay.

Sounds like a great idea. Pity the system in the US was corrupted by oligarchs because it worked pretty well until Reagan broke it

Republicans are going to gerrymander and cheat no matter what.

Democrats need to go on offense.

The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

Trump expands use of tariffs to reach national security goals The Trump administration is using trade negotiations to achieve national security goals, including containing China’s strategic influence, documents show.

Isolate America, drive away our allies, increase costs, sink the US economy.

Well done, 49% of American voters.

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17 children vanish into the night — 'Weapons' is terrific and terrifying Weapons is a story about a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma that arrives like a natural disaster, wreaks havoc, and then cannot be reversed, only survived.

Weapons is a story about a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma that arrives like a natural disaster, wreaks havoc, and then cannot be reversed, only survived.

FOTUS 2I34C is a weakling, coward, and fascist. We should only expect the worst behavior from him and constantly harass Congress to stop betraying the country and Constitution

Just like Trump inviting the Taliban to Camp David, inviting Putin to Alaska stinks. The only legitimate reason for Putin to set foot in the U.S. is to arrest him as a war criminal and send him to The Hague for trial. Trump looks like a weakling trying to “Reset” with Russia.

Just curious: who doesn’t loathe and despise the forced split screen on #NFL preseason games (on YouTube TV)? I want to watch the game I chose, not some tiny inset view of two different games at the same time.

It’s so annoying I just turned it off. Congrats on losing that tiny ad revenue from me

The State Department’s annual human rights report is considered the most authoritative in the world.
 
The Trump Administration is skewing it to fit their political agenda—another way to erase the truth and empower human rights abusers globally.

How Trump’s Acting U.S. Attorneys Are Driving the DOJ’s Partisan Turn Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

NEW ANALYSIS: To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys’ offices, legal experts warn that Trump and the DOJ are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that circumvent the appointment processes laid out by the Constitution and federal statutes.

Alligator Auschwitz

He can't die fast enough, but his toadies won't be any better unless the regime can be destabilized by the in-fighting

The Republican playbook is simply lie, gaslight, repeat.

No amount of lying will change the reality that, because of their votes, hospitals will close and people are going to die without care.

Thune hits brakes on Russia sanctions package The Senate bill is now in limbo after President Donald Trump pledged to take action Monday.

Senate Leader Thune got badly played by Trump on the Russian sanctions bill. 85 co-sponsors. Mike Johnson said he would have move it in the House. Would have put our Congress and the US on the right side of history.

Instead we got cowardice and appeasement.

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I would add to this critique that the way they're silently hedging on the shadow docket makes this all far worse. They have no intention of being stuck with their own precedent when a Democratic President is sworn in.

Is today Ghislaine Maxwell’s spa day or yoga class?

Every news org in the world should be working to get Thune on the record about Trump selling out Ukraine and the role he played to help make it possible.

Thune's pulling of the Russian sanctions bill was one of the most cowardly acts by an American leader in our history.

china has made the better bet

Trump Is Building a Maximalist Government In a series of actions this week, the president sought to expand the government’s reach.

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

Desperate Trump Attempts To Flush 14-Year-Old Masseuse Down Toilet WASHINGTON—In a frantic bid to dispose of damaging evidence amid ongoing scrutiny of his relationship with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a desperate President Donald Trump reportedly attempted to flush a 14-year-old masseuse down the toilet Tuesday. “Oh Christ, c’mon, Ashley, don’t get stuck—uh, just gimme one second in here!” Trump said as […]

Desperate Trump Attempts To Flush 14-Year-Old Masseuse Down Toilet
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How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies ... and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More - emptywheel There are a lot of pieces of evidence that Durham not only chased a Russian conspiracy theory to frame Hillary Clinton, but did so knowingly. Most telling is the way Durham obscured the timeline showing that the draft report he claimed to be chasing was created at least a day after a Russian discussion about creating a Deep State conspiracy theory.

How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies … and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More.

Prasad was ousted from the FDA following a campaign against him led by Laura Loomer.

Two weeks later, he’s back?

We’re training one million Americans how to chip away at the civic pillars Trump needs to cement and uphold his power — media, business leaders, civic organizations, and beyond. Join us on Wednesday: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Exclusive: President Trump’s use of tariffs may have been more extensive than was publicly known.

Internal government documents obtained by The Post encompass an array of national security goals as well as the interests of individual companies. wapo.st/3UQ4NWC

Republicans are full steam ahead on redistricting — and not just in Texas Trump’s team is putting “maximum pressure on everywhere where redistricting is an option.”

Texas was just the beginning...

Republicans know they can't win a fair election, so they're redrawing state maps to silence your vote and your voice.

They'll do anything to cling to power — except pass policies that actually help working families. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

They’ve known for weeks that this trial is happening on Monday, but they only ask to close Zoom access now? Sigh.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

Trump is turning the FBI into an East German-style Stasi. In front of our very eyes.

Senator Wyden eviscerated Long & the pathetic excuse of a background check that was done in June re his confirmation over his longtime links to corruption & court documents that linked him to a bribery conspiracy. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb... And even Long said he couldn’t give this data.