I feel like California’s only option is to hold its federal tax contributions…CA cannot be punished, while at the same time funding the U.S. economy.

Rand Paul: "In the one instance you're killed on sight. On the other instance, if you're captured, we just say, 'Oh well, we're gonna send you back to your country.' It doesn't make any sense."

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats: "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."

Dude has a net worth north of **half-a-billion dollars** and will directly benefit from a farm bailout & he's trying to pretend he has to clip coupons to save a buck. The kind of tone deaf comments that Democrats would get crushed for but receive ZERO push back from Republicans.

Kaine: "We can't do a deal with Trump then have him tear it up tmrw & start mass firings or canceling programs he doesn't like or ones that help blue states. We have to be sure that a deal is a deal ... thus far he's not been willing to even discuss a deal, much less guarantee he'll live by one."

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.

MAGA math.

ICE Facility unlawfully denies routine visit from Member of Congress
Congressman Horsford about the incident: "What are they hiding? You don't get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit.

Republicans Keep Gerrymandering and I Keep Suing Read more here.

Republicans bowed to pressure from Donald Trump to midcycle gerrymander at the expense of minority voters — only to be sued by my law firm within hours or days.

If they expect us to eventually give up and back down, they are sorely mistaken. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

“After Mr. Trump circulated an A.I.-generated video of him dumping feces from a bomber jet over peaceful protesters, Mr. Johnson sang his praises.”

Yes, that‘s really (appropriately) in the piece.

I’m sure James Comer will totally look into this

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

‘At least the rich got their tax cuts!’ GOP fiscal hawks mocked as debt hits record high As the national debt hit a record $38 trillion this week – rising by $1 trillion faster than ever outside the pandemic – many Republican lawmakers who once decried spending stayed silent, something th...

‘At least the rich got their tax cuts!’ GOP fiscal hawks mocked as debt hits record high

www.rawstory.com/national-deb...

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment

👑 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.

"Forgive me, but how in the world is this not on the front page of every American newspaper, leading every cable news show, and right smack dab in the middle of every legacy media homepage? Why are we, at Zeteo, the only folks leading with this insane story?"
zeteo.com/p/trump-ille...

“There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $40 billion. There is enough to purchase a brand-new aircraft for $173 million for the Homeland Security secretary. There is enough money to renovate the White House ballroom. There’s not enough money for you.” - Sen. Brian Schatz

#ResistTrump

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And I'm going to post this cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social so the world never forget what Trump did . . .

... by the way, if he had been stopped back then, the White House would still be completely...

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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

He’s admitting to murder

Then why are the spineless republicans still afraid to cross him??

So now Trump’s mar-a-lago ballroom for billionaire grifting is going to cost $300 million, according to Trump? What’s the extra for? Trump’s pockets? Of maybe he’s building a Führerbunker like Adolf did?

Congratulations to Cassie Robbins Forbus and the Lewis County Democrats for an amazing evening.

I feel hope for our country when Democrats, Republicans and independents come together for an evening filled with great conversation and laughter.

Trump links federal storm relief with how a state voted

The sad and pathetic truth is that if he did do this Republican cowards in Congress would still say nothing.

"There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $40 billion. There is enough to purchase a brand-new aircraft for $173 million for the Homeland Security secretary. There is enough money to renovate the White House ballroom. But there’s not enough money for you." - Sen. Brian Schatz

#ResistTrump

We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino Thinking like a dissident movement.

“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

Well, well, well...