Dale Murphy

Trump only got 56% of the vote in Texas this last election.

Romney got 57%

GWBush got 59% and 61%

Reagan got 63% in 1984

Nixon got 66% in 1972

LBJ got 63% in 1964

FDR got 88%, 87%, 80%, 71%

In the Solid South era, Dems routinely did >70%.

None demanded the prize that Our Special Boy wants

Trump NATO leaders: "They do whatever I want."

Trump Administration Won’t Say Why It Transferred Ghislaine Maxwell To A Minimum-Security Prison — HuffPost The White House denied that Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice has received preferential treatment.

Ghislaine Maxwell is a “convicted sex offender.”

“Why is Trump protecting these people at the expense of ordinary Americans.”

Senator Jack Reed: “Sexual predators shouldn’t be afforded preferential treatment,” “Trump needs to come clean about Epstein & Maxwell.”
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How does someone "discriminate against conservatives" exactly?

“The draft order also criticizes the role that some banks played in an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.”

Curiouser and Curiouser 🧐👇🏼

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades

Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
#EpsteinFiles

Leader Schumer Calls On FBI To Immediately Launch A Counterintelligence Threat Assessment Into The National Security Risks Posed By Donald Trump’s Potential Connection To The Epstein Files And Ensure ... Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the utter lack of transparency from the Trump...

Schumer Calls On FBI To Immediately Launch A Counterintelligence Threat Assessment Into The National Security Risks Posed By Donald Trump’s Potential Connection To The Epstein Files And Ensure Foreign Adversaries Cannot Leverage The Files Against Our Government

"the late financier and sex offender"

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

I’m Not panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...

Plastics cause disease, death, and $1.5T+ yearly health costs. They harm infants most, tied to miscarriage, low birthweight, genital malformations, IQ loss, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, and impaired fertility. -Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

They found the woman who shot this viral video—and the man in it.

Juan Carlos lived in the U.S. for 19 years. The only thing that separated him from the rest of us was paperwork. He was a threat to no one.

You literally can’t make this sh*t up

Donald Trump launched a youth sports initiative at the White House today, appearing alongside Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct involving a trafficked 16-year-old girl

A new low.

I might have hoped for a break after the #BrokenTimes horrendous Sunday (🧵below) but they top themselves today, making Trump's illegal blackmail of economic allies and *tax* on Americans into a game-show and book blurb. This is how it covers dictatorship and fascism.

TRUMP & EPSTEIN SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

Don’t let them forget, ever, and don’t be distracted: EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN Infinity

“Anything and everything Donald Trump does as president gets undone and reversed” should be the position of the Democratic Party.

Anything and everything.

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "There's something else going on here. It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden DOJ."

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 Trump Legacy in one ugly ass project.

Logo for International Theory, featuring the text "International Theory" and "#OpenAccess" over a stylized globe background.

#OpenAccess -

Reply to ‘How (not) to advance Global IR: a rejoinder’ - cup.org/45b9yPh

- Michael Barnett & @aysezarakol.bsky.social

#FirstView

What should Global IR try to be, and where should it go? Read the exchange in IT, hot off the press!

A Fight Over a West Point Job Reveals Two Visions of America Under Trump

On the one hand, a patriot with decades of experience defending America. On the other hand, a conspiracy theorist who hates Americans and American institutions. Presented here as "two visions of America under Trump"

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Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

That Jeffrey Epstein evidence isn't missing - there's more than you can imagine Thanks to annieli for tipping me off with the hard drive picture above in her diary on whether Pam Bondi is lying. I went looking for pictures and found a lot more than that. _________________________...

FBI's 2019 NYC raid yielded Epstein's safe with drives and troves of CDs, DVDs, and binders of illicit photos/videos. Black books, surveillance tapes, client lists. Wolff says he has “hours” of Epstein re Trump. If there’s nothing to hide, why the cover-ups? www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...