Mark Badger

It's monstrous regardless, but did she forget she has a teenaged daughter? JFC

Media standards:

1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.

2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.

Way too many think that’s journalism.

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.

The House Republicans continue to protect a pedophile sex trafficking ring and all their friends who were involved.

Not surprising, but hilarious on a day when the GOP is insisting that a partial release of emails was meant to smear the innocent President.

Why keep hiding the files then?

Even if the GOP somehow keep their word this time and allow a vote in December (seems more likely they will kick it down the road, if not scuttle it completely), why do you think they will be more likely to vote to help their constituents than they are now?

It’s time for Speaker Johnson to cut the ridiculous excuses and do his job. Adelita Grijalva won an election more than 6 weeks ago, and she still hasn’t been sworn in to represent more than 800,000 Arizonans. Read her op-ed:

The president of the United States is on his way to an NFL game after a weekend spent partying at his country club and fighting to starve poor Americans.

And Senate Democrats want to surrender to him?!

Fuck that and fuck them.

Reflecting the messages i just left both of you. @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Oh I get it...a concept of a plan to release the files.

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I held this post up to the light.

Those Epstein files must be a doozy

Trump every time he’s confronted about one of his lies: “Who are you with?”

Reporter: Gives name of company.

Trump: You’re fake news. You’re terrible. I’m not calling on you anymore! You should be ashamed of yourself! This is why nobody watches you!

Then goes back to lying.

Kidnapped by state secret police at her court hearing

Democrats have been doing a good job holding the line in the shutdown. And the one-two of No Kings protests and electoral wins will add strength to their spine.

The American people don’t like what’s going on. They blame the party in charge. Fighting back has more political appeal than appeasement.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"

Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.

Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765

www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is

fwiw, I think Biden should have declared an emergency and ejected all those who voted to support the insurrection in house and senate from the chambers, then used the rump to pass all this stuff.

that wouldn't have been simple though! it would have been a massive constitutional crisis!

Don’t forget that the sandwich guy was released at the scene and then re-arrested in a raid by a full tactical team. They were willing to kill him and and any neighbors in the way to get propaganda footage of the “arrest”.

How can the FBI tell the real ICE from the fake ICE at this point? How can anyone?

17. But they didn’t know because our media has been so thoroughly corrupted. It sold them vibes. What they got was fascism.

In defense of Axios, concern-trolling is their brand

6. Each candidate amassed winning coalitions according to the conditions of their constituencies. That’s all they were thinking about. That’s all any of the winners was thinking about.

Definition of TROLL a dwarf or giant in Scandinavian folklore inhabiting caves or hills… See the full definition

7. No one was thinking about whether they speak for the entire Democratic Party in its fight against Donald Trump. That Axios is pretending otherwise is why its reporting about “civil war” is actually concern-trolling. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t...

I see they are taking more hostages to support the Trump/GOP Shutdown. Apparently not enough for them to try to starve poor folks and make their healthcare unaffordable, now they want to keep families from spending Thanksgiving together.

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

Johnson is a mendacious, humorless twat