What we learned today from the Bondi hearings; Tom Homan kept the $50,000 bribe and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files with half-naked women.
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What we learned today from the Bondi hearings; Tom Homan kept the $50,000 bribe and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files with half-naked women.
07.10.2025 22:57 β π 821 π 212 π¬ 79 π 12My absolute favorite capture in social media - of the week, month, year.
08.10.2025 11:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My absolute favorite capture in social media: of the week, month, year.
08.10.2025 11:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you. I never go there, loathe to attach ageist readings to behavior of the accomplished, but I was disturbed by Durbin and company, hovering over fully composed questions (they apparently hadn't practiced aloud), stumbling. I thought, "Imagine Jon Ossoff taking on Bondi." Seriously.
08.10.2025 11:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dirty little secret about todayβs hearing: Pam Bondi almost won. The Democrats, to a person, were blindsided by Bondiβs cheap theatrics and got flustered and tongue tied. Only Schiff came close to taking her on. Why is everyone so goddamned tentative. Bravo, Senator Schiff. The rest, sharpen TF up.
08.10.2025 02:33 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Most important commentary on the coverage. The Post - my first paper as a kid - is a shadow of its former self. We didn't discontinue our subscriptions without cause.
08.10.2025 01:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant.
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Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.
07.10.2025 23:25 β π 12819 π 3537 π¬ 324 π 101The Guard arrives in Chicago. Among other issues, they seem to be, um, the target audience in Jack LaHegseth's stout-hearted men address.
08.10.2025 00:58 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Country star's anti-ICE ballad has MAGA singing the blues
07.10.2025 21:03 β π 38 π 13 π¬ 2 π 1It would be useful if Durbin read this as if he wrote it - and genuinely meant it. Imagine the minimum performance requirements: looking up, staring her down, volume raised for emphasis and focus, slowly but forcefully issuing the same statement with something akin to passion.
07.10.2025 21:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It would be useful if Durbin read that as if he genuinely meant it. A pitiful illustration of public speaking for a career pol. Imagine the minimum performance requirements: looking up, staring her down, volume raised, slowly but forcefully issuing the same statement with something akin to passion.
07.10.2025 20:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 05) Viewing core identity as a "culture issue," a programmed remake of society via the erasure of science, history, and knowledge itself was always the Project 2025 goal. Already embattled, we must fight harder than we ever imagined ourselves capable. The stakes couldn't be higher.
07.10.2025 20:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 04) An America wherein anyone's innate identity is viewed as mutable by external forces: homophobic political indoctrination or antediluvian religious tenets and the hatred they unleash. Yet another reminder: 2024 was never about "kitchen table" concerns.
07.10.2025 20:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 03) As we witnessed last week at the Quantico Burlesque, this regime won't stop at celebrating rigid gender roles - shaping progressively evolved institutions into bastions of butchness - it's hellbent on recreating a world defined by structural heterosexuality.
07.10.2025 20:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 02) ... and enable Marcus Bachmann-styled quackery to reassert itself, tragic impact on our vulnerable children be damned. They stripped LGBTQ+ issues from the suicide hotline's targeted counseling for a reason. To alienate, disenfranchise, and we know from statistics, enable something far worse.
07.10.2025 20:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01) Make America 1959 again: Allow a posse of right wing zealots in black robes to exonerate "optional" medical therapies outside their expertise. To ignore a century of psychiatric scholarship, the pathologization of sexual orientation no longer allowed in diagnostics.
07.10.2025 20:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The nation faces military occupation of its cities, a historic descent into full authoritarian control, and the NY Times characterizes the crisis via culpability-denying, β2 states claimβ and use of quotation marks around invasion. Same paper that used a full page header about Clintonβs emails.
07.10.2025 14:01 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The nation faces military occupation of its cities, a historic descent into full authoritarian control, and the NY Times characterizes the crisis via culpability-denying, β2 states claimβ and use of quotation marks around invasion. Same paper that used a full page header about Clintonβs emails.
07.10.2025 14:01 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0May 1970 and September 2025: if you don't see the parallel, and escalation, you haven't been paying attention.
07.10.2025 13:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home." Eleanor Roosevelt
07.10.2025 13:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My generation remembers Kent State. We've dreaded the replication of that horror. And it's here. Outside the Broadview ICE facility, Rev. David Black, Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was sprayed in the face by a masked ICE agent during a peaceful protest.
07.10.2025 02:47 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Lawrence OβDonnell is taking down the self-promoting fraud known as Jake Tapper and Iβm totally here for it. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
07.10.2025 02:21 β π 229 π 37 π¬ 9 π 2Maddow tonight. Unmissable.
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