Tom Watson

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Where's my invite? 🧐

The next Democratic president should pursue the Trump family to the ends of the earth.

I don't want to like the next nominee. I want somebody who's vindictive. Goes for the jugular.

If we wins one, he'll win the other. (No idea about the nomination).

You're not reading this correctly - this is active voice. "I will fuck Trump up." None of that namby pamby shit, just menace.

The nomination? Who knows. If he gets it, he'll win.

I can see Newsom running on a platform of basically "I will fuck Trump up" and winning with that.

Velvet Elvis would be a massive upgrade in taste.

Mr. Speer to the white courtesy telephone, please.

Albert Speer, please pick up the white courtesy telephone.

"Giuffre's family called that admission by Trump "shocking," while questioning whether Trump was aware of Epstein's and Maxwell's actions. “It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago. It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal actions, especially given his statement two years later that his good friend Jeffrey 'likes women on the younger side . . . no doubt about it.' We and the public are asking for answers; survivors deserve this,” the family added. In their statement, the family also said that it was Maxwell who “targeted and preyed” on Giuffre while she was working at Mar-a-Lago."

Virginia Giuffre's family's statement about Trump's latest comments is...wow:

Cruelty Is the Point: Inside Trump’s ICE Roundups and the Joy They Bring His Base This is not about border security. It’s about institutionalized sadism, a despicable celebration of human suffering, and a moral emergency for the American project.

Watching Nancy Mace describe the sheer pleasure she feels when binge-watching YouTube videos of ICE round-ups, I had to write this.
open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

The Rudin family is among New York's most philanthropic old school families. Lew Rudin helped save NYC from bankruptcy in the 70s. Bill Rudin is my former landlord, and a very decent guy. I hate to see this. Mass shootings can happen anywhere, even Park Avenue. 😞

Fight the Oligarchy was actively bad messaging. And far too personality driven, imho.

Their main job is to hold the caucus together - Jeffries has excelled at it.

1. Who's "they" - gotta be specific.
2. What could they be doing a lot more of?

Exclusive: Schumer probes $50 billion rural hospital "slush fund" Democrats are demanding clarity on how the fund — created to ease the brunt of GOP Medicaid cuts — will be distributed to states.

Way back 2 days ago. Exclusive: Schumer probes $50 billion rural hospital "slush fund" share.google/W5jCrF1qlJNc...

What would "new leaders" do in the minority? Please be specific.

Some are and some aren't. There really is no "the Dems" - we're not a centralized party.

This is what Congressional Dems are doing. They currently have a weak hand but they're playing every card in the deck. I just think it's wasted energy to constantly carp about minority leaders (and I was VERY critical of Schumer during his capitulation phase).

Absolutely.

Michael Wolff's chapter on the last days of Jeffrey Epstein in his book "Too Famous" is wild. He's got Steve Bannon doing media consulting for Epstein about how he can be perceived as more of a john and less of a rapist.

States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric. Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Across the country, a wave of investigations launched by election officials, local prosecutors and Republican-led legislatures sought to uncover evidence of widespread noncitizen voting. They found — again — that noncitizen voting was nearly nonexistent. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/sta...

If there were a scrap of evidence against Bill Clinton in the Epstein Files, we'd have it by now. The DOJ had hundreds of people working around the clock to find any scrap of incriminating evidence against Democrats to serve up to their conspiracist base and prove QAnon. They didn't find anything.

You even saying it here is helpful to fascism. Sorry. Voting is communal, not personal.

Trump tries to imply he was framed. He wasn't. But if your weird sex friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is so well-known that Ghislaine Maxwell or Alan Dershowitz or the 14-year-old sex slaves are satirizing it in Jeff's Birthday Book, that's just as damning.

Whoever can win is my choice this time around.

'Tesla Diner' may be an all-timer in the category of failed brand rescue missions. What were they thinking?! 😂

Dark, dark times at the Onion.