Amanda Carpenter

My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

RIP Charlie Kirk. No ifs, no but this, or but that. He was murdered in cold blood for his advocacy, speech, and beliefs. I stand with those who grieve this terrible crime. That’s all for today.

Each of these companies should be free to fire employees for performance. That can be subjective! No one is entitled to million-dollar paychecks for big news & entertainment jobs.

But when decisions are made to hire and fire to appease a vengeful ruler that’s different. That’s autocracy at work.

LISTEN: Trump calls for licenses of TV networks that give him 'bad publicity' to be revoked President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that “97%” of some network coverage was negative toward him. “They give me only bad publicity or press,” Trump said. “They’re get...

It's not about Jimmy Kimmel. It wasn't about Colbert. It wasn't about the CBS interview with Kamala Harris or George Stephanopoulos, either.

Trump is finally coming out with it.

Don't make him look bad.

Or even joke about it.

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Anticipatory obedience www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/reversing-...

What happened to Charlie Kirk is horrific. I join the calls to condemn political violence and wish for his recovery.

Donald ❤️ Jeffrey The NSFW version of the Epstein book proves that Trump knew exactly who and what his buddy was.

The Epstein birthday book was the celebration of a sexual predator for his sexual predation.

No other way to read it.

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Trump Drags JAGs Into Immigration Court Possibly illegal move “makes as much sense as having a cardiologist do a hip replacement.”

NEW: "It actually might be illegal....There’s a provision that allows military lawyers to work in certain areas, but this is not one of those areas."

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This is why I’ll never give up on libertarians. When it matters, sometimes, the principled ones are the only functioning conscience of the GOP.

Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order Trump has always wanted his own muscle he can deploy to silence critics and intimidate his enemies. His new executive order could create just that.

Read @radleybalko.bsky.social at @rollingstone.com today: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump is against wars in foreign countries but for war on US cities.

That’s a fair assessment of his current policy, yes? See his words about Chicago in my previous post.

Are we supposed to laugh because it looks stupid?

File this under “it’s all a joke until it’s not.”

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Hungary Could Free Itself from Orbánism Next Spring An upstart opposition leader, Péter Magyar, is shrewdly capitalizing on the prime minister’s blunders.

Despite what his far-right American admirers believe, Orbán is not popular in his own country. A lot of his staying power is just that: inertia, which has given rise to a feeling in Hungary that he is inevitable. Yet things in Hungary have started to move.

Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.

Some media outlets reported that Trump was joking when he made this comment.

About that: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/hes-just-j...

Hungary Could Free Itself from Orbánism Next Spring An upstart opposition leader, Péter Magyar, is shrewdly capitalizing on the prime minister’s blunders.

Mood in Hungary "is palpably different" than a year ago, with people "more comfortable criticizing Orbán in public.…Public figures speak about the 'Orbán regime' instead of the 'Orbán government.'…

"In response, the rhetoric from the regime…has become more threatening, violent, and openly fascist."

Cerin is currently giving a master class in appropriations and impoundments. If you are into that kinda thing. :)

‘He’s just joking’ his way to autocracy Who is laughing now?

This is a take that’s been heavy on my mind for quite some time. Trump’s absurdity and autocracy go hand-in-hand. The absurdity provides plausible deniability for the autocracy to take root. It’s all a big joke until…it’s not.

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The Dangerous Plan to Turn Military Lawyers Into Immigration Judges The U.S. military is not a civilian law enforcement agency.

It's being reported that the Pentagon is authorizing military lawyers to serve as immigration judges. This is a threat to the Constitution. Don't say we didn't warn you. From the archives:

The Financial Times’s Mischaracterizations of What I Said I did an interview with the FT in which, for accuracy, I had them submit their questions in writing and I replied in writing. They then did not publish the exchange and instead published mischaracteri...

Well…now he isn’t so happy with his interview.

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Thank you Ray Dalio for speaking up.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief."

Injunction granted.

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So the troops can stop doing litter pickup outside the WH and can go home now, right?

Hey D.C. friends! If you see billboards or posters in the District from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social demanding federal agents take off their mask, be sure to take a picture and share it!

Public servants should face the public. So why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their faces?

Check out our mobile billboard driving around Washington, D.C. right now demanding federal agents take their masks off!

“Every day little children came into Union Headquarters, some with their hands off, some with the thumb missing, some with their fingers off at the knuckle. They were stooped things, round shouldered and skinny. Many of them were not over ten years of age…”

When you think about this as Trump taking control of the Capitol city this makes more sense.

Vance on undermining the Federal Reserve: "I don't think we allow  bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates without any input from the people that were elected to serve the American people...POTUS is much better able to make these determinations."

Three officials arm in arm with cheering supporters behind them. Photo credit to Sam Stein.

Three of the officials who have resigned in protest, outside CDC HQ just now with their colleagues.

In his resignation letter Dr Demetre C. Daskalakis (on the right) warned that the Trump administration “risks our personal well-being and the security of the United States.”

(📸 Sam Stein)

“What if Democrats Simply Said That an Unpopular President Deploying the Military Against His Own Citizens Is Quite Troubling?”

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