Asha Rangappa

Trump is going to fire the people who put bar codes and price tags on groceries

This is an important point

Much in DC in its formative years as our capital was deliberately “plain”

Because our government was supposedly not going to reflect the excess & exclusion of Old World royalty

The White House is stately & straightforward as a statement of principle

You know.
No kings.

Is there an ugly patio like the new one at the White House at Mar-a-Lago? I feel like he’s trying to morph the WH into MAL

Heads up: the Bureau of Labor Statistics also calculates the Consumer Price Index.

Unfit to Serve: Jeanine Pirro Made Excuses for Jan. 6th Senators weighing her nomination for U.S. attorney should revisit her remarks denigrating prosecutors and calling defendants “hostages.”

The Senate just confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. If you want some examples of how ridiculous that is, see this piece I wrote with @normeisen.bsky.social:

www.thebulwark.com/p/unfit-to-s...

Paul Ingrassia—a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024—is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.

Trump seems to be using "invasion" agitprop to recreate the national trauma that reigned after 9/11, to hyper-militarize the homeland.

As one scholar tells me, this "could create a kind of domestic ‘Forever War,’ but one that is uniquely dangerous."

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Brown: Brad Edwards deposed Epstein’s accountant—she worked for Epstein’s modeling company

She gave more detail than we had heard before, including the fact that when Epstein formed that company, he told her he wanted it to be set up just like Trump’s modeling agency.

Just saw Superman. Can someone explain why he is supposedly so woke…he just seemed like Superman

Trump's Decision to Fire BLS Chief Echoes Putin's Strategies "While Trump may or may not be friends with Putin, he is clearly following the Russian leader's HR staffing guidelines."

In TIME magazine - How Trump’s Decision to Fire BLS Commissioner Echoes Putin’s Strategies - Trump may or may not be friends with Putin, but he's clearly following the Russian President’s HR staffing guidelines, eliminating lieutenants who bring bad news.

time.com/7307097/trum...

How Vladimir Putin Is Revolutionizing Information Warfare How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare

Just got done talking with two classes of students, which confirmed my suspicion that this is really the first "unreality" election. No two people saw the same thing & many people gave up even trying to know what was happening. "Unreality" propaganda strategy: 🎁
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Having flashbacks to Trump’s 2021 demand that a state official “find” missing votes, because the numbers weren’t in his favor.
This is what he expects of the BLS commissioner too: “find” missing jobs. He will try to appoint someone who does this bidding, unless GOP senators miraculously grow spines

Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief over jobs numbers he doesn’t like is another example of MAGA’s “Broken Reality.”

Trump and his followers reject reality when it conflicts with their desires and beliefs. They replace reality with conspiracy theories that confirm their beliefs.

In my heart, I believe that Kamala lost bc she’s a Black woman. The campaign made some grievous errors, but a white male candidate would have survived. I think about that about once every hour these days. All of this hell visited on us, it’s bc of that original sin.

The Quality of Mercy is in Fact Very Strained (in the Epstein case) A Trump pardon for Maxwell may not be the end of her problems.

It’s clear that we are on the path to a Trump pardon for Maxwell. I wrote on Substack why NewYork can (and should) pick up the baton open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Finishing the week with a very special program. Public speaker and Epstein survivor Jess Michaels joins today to ask: would you like Ghislaine Maxwell released into your community? Plus Harry Dunn on Trump erasing history. See you at 4p ET / 1p PT on Substack and later on YouTube.

Judge Coughenour continued:

“Looking back at what happened in Germany, my good friend Judge Lasnik said, ‘Where were the judges? Where were the lawyers?’”

“We need a call to action in this country from our lawyers and our judges to say ‘not in our country, not on our watch,’” he said.

That chyron

who told us about her? her VICTIMS, you disingenuous hack.

it takes a lot to gast my flabbers these days but even i can’t believe they’re seriously gonna try this revisionist history shit about a woman who aided and abetted in the rape of children.

Trump and right-wing media's attempt to rehabilitate Ghislaine Maxwell and ignore the Epstein files is not going to end well. It's because they have spent a decade radicalizing their own MAGA base that won't forget or let it go.

1/2 Repulsive and built on lies.

Truth: The criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell was open and shut.

Truth: Trump Justice Department investigated and indicted Maxwell.

This disinformation effort should backfire on those who try to carry it out -- many times over.

@asharangappa.bsky.social is going to keep reminding everyone of his prior impeachments and we are SO HERE FOR IT.

And convicted of 34 felonies. And found liable for sexual assault.

a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it ALT: a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

Hope everyone had a great Friday.

Trump was impeached, twice.

The right-wing media is laying the groundwork for Trump to grant a pardon (to cover his own ass) by claiming Maxwell was a *victim* when she was an abuser who trafficked young girls.

A morally bankrupt political movement.

The next signal Donald Trump will give that he’s seriously considering pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell will be to answer this question by saying, “We’re looking into it very closely.”

excellent thread on what happens when the government creates alternative facts and insists everyone else believe them too . . .

And again for the people in the back:

Maxwell didn't just recruit, groom and organize sex trafficking, she also PARTICIPATED in the raping of children.

With each accommodation this administration makes for Ghislaine Maxwell, it retraumatizes the victims and minimizes the harm she caused. And we're supposed to believe that these are the people who are super concerned with pedophelia and sex trafficking? Are MAGA supporters still buying this shit?

Wow