Brendan R Quinn

President Trump is breaking or ignoring all sorts of presidential norms President Trump's critics accuse him of breaking or ignoring norms. But, others say he may just be treating them differently than past presidents.

As I told @npr.org's Mara Liasson for her new report, President Trump is playing with fire by blatantly ignoring presidential norms. The consequences for the rule of law and even our economy could be profound. 1/ www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

BRB running for Congress on a pro-sex platform

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

NEW: FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1 million to MAGA Inc, the Trump super PAC, in April.

She attended a fundraising dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 4.

She lobbied Trump to pardon her son, who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes.

3 weeks later, Trump issued the pardon.

Miss Rachel Instagram post: I posted a photo of a severely malnourished child in Gaza. Some have tried to discredit the horror by the new information that he has pre-existing health problems. Let's be clear: Starving a child who is sick doesn't make it less horrific. They are being denied healthy food and medical care. Another girl named Rahaf, 12, who also had medical conditions and was severely malnourished is doing so much better now that she was evacuated. Fadi, who has CF, also gained weight when evacuated treated. Every child deserves to be fed, loved, and cared for. No exceptions.

As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.

GOP Candidate Says Violent, Neo-Fascist Proud Boys Just 'A Group To Scare Left-Wing People' The Proud Boys are just “the guys who went and fought antifa,” Joe Kent said of the rioters who tried to overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021.

Today the Senate will vote to confirm Joe Kent -- a guy who said the violent, far-right, neo-fascist Proud Boys are just "a group to scare left-wing people" -- to lead the National Counterterrorism Center.

Can't make it up folks.
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4 lives stolen. An NYPD officer leaves behind a pregnant wife and 2 young sons.

Because a gunman from a state with weak gun laws brought an AR-15 to New York.

We once had a national assault weapons ban. It worked.

Republicans in Congress must find the courage to pass it again.

If White House employees are working for free, what are they getting instead? - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington According to the report, eight employees are working for the White House without taking a salary from it. Forgoing a government salary may seem like a noble choice, and in some cases it can be. But it...

Eight employees are working from the White House without taking a salary but could still be earning outside income.

Government employees should be motivated by public service, not maximizing their own profits.

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

As Trump tries to downplay his role in helping Israel starve Gazan children, remember that his Admin burned 500 tons of food provided by American farmers to feed starving children.

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2. DId you know a 1929 law set up a process for redistributing 435 seats for the U.S. House of Representative's voting members after each census that has pitted states against one another in a once-a-decade fight for power in Congress and the Electoral College?

Congress could change that law

An Egyptian dude figured out that if you partially filled a plastic bottle with rice and other grains and threw it into the ocean from Egypt at the correct place given currents the bottles would wash ashore in Gaza within 96 hours so ordinary Egyptians are doing it and... it's worked?

i'm just astounded by how many people showed up for this TX redistricting hearing in houston today. i really can't stress enough how wild the turnout was. so many people wanted to speak they literally ran out of forms. at least 700 but i can't wait to hear the final number.

As funny/infuriating as Republicans' constant hypocrisy is, reminder that not only did Walters misappropriate public funds to buy Trump-branded Bibles to force into every classroom in the state, he was also the main figure behind the coverup of Nex Benedict's murder.

“Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, said Wed. night on his weekly broadcast that the Venezuelan government had warned U.S. officials at the airport that they were “taking away a convicted murderer.”
“The United States defended their murderer and asked for him to be included,” Cabello alleged.”

Genuinely worried that media will just present Maxwell's testimony, coerced to reduce her sentence by the President's personal attorney/Deputy Attorney General, as something even remotely credible.

This is my 7th-grade band director when he heard me play a scale on the oboe.

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign An investigation by THE CITY uncovered Adams donors who insist they didn't donate, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don't live where they claimed to.

“If you had said something like $210, I would’ve said, ‘OK, maybe!’ But $2,100? He’s really — he really has very little money. I don’t think he even makes $2,100 a month.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

CLC Successfully Defends Political Speech of Civic Engagement Groups in Court Nonpartisan civic engagement groups that help voters engage in the political process are essential to our democracy. These groups ensure that all voters are able to register to vote and make their…

In a big win for voters, CLC successfully defended the political speech of civic engagement groups in Kansas — again.

This decision affirms what the Constitution makes clear: Encouraging voter participation is protected First Amendment speech. campaignlegal.org/update/clc-s...

Trump, Miller, Noem et al are disappearing innocent people to a concentration camp to be tortured. They know this is what they're doing. Everyone who has touched this policy belongs in prison.

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie’ Three Venezuelans, released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said they were repeatedly beaten and denied access to lawyers.

Sharing this GIFT LINK so people can’t say they didn’t know what’s been happening in our name.

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Breaking:

Federal judges in the district of New Jersey have rejected Alina Habba's effort to extend her appointment as interim U.S. attorney.

This happens because we have a federal political system in which voters in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago do not matter. Simple as that.

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

What the Cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” Means CBS and its parent company, Paramount, have set an end date for one of the last public pipelines to some version of the truth.

Remember that part in V for Vendetta, when Stephen Fry's late night comedian host character does a bit the fascist government doesn't like and then they murder him?

We're not there yet, but you can see it from here.

“'Inspectors general are supposed to serve as checks on the president, but it looks like Trump is weaponizing them to attack his political opponents,' [says] Brown University professor Corey Brettschneider..."

Trump Media Announces its Purchases for Bitcoin Treasury Reach $2 Billion Company’s Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Enabled by $3 billion in Liquid Assets SARASOTA, Fla., July 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) (“Trump Media” or the “Company”), operator of the social media platform Truth Social, the streaming platform Truth+, and the FinTech brand Truth.Fi, announced today that the Company has accumulated approximately $2 billion in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities as part of its previously announced bitcoin treasury strategy. The holdings now comprise around two-thirds of Trump Media’s approximately $3 billion in liquid assets. Furthermore, approximately $300 million of additional capital has been allocated to an options acquisition strategy for bitcoin-related securities. Trump Media plans to continue acquiring bitcoin and bitcoin-related assets and to convert its options into spot bitcoin, depending on market conditions. These assets will be used by the company to generate revenues and potentially to acquire additional crypto assets. Trump Media’s CEO and President Devin Nunes said, “We’re rigorously implementing our publicly announced strategy and fulfilling our bitcoin treasury plan. These assets help ensure our Company’s financial freedom, help protect us against discrimination by financial institutions, and will create synergies with the utility token we’re planning to introduce across the Truth Social ecosphere.” This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in the United States or any other state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

📢 Just in: Trump Media announces it has purchased $2 billion worth of Bitcoin.

Now, an investment in Trump Media is a bet on Bitcoin, too.

Stock price is up 7.5% in pre-market trading.

Happy belated Crypto Week.