The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.

Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
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Trump Preemptively Pardons Rudy Giuliani, Others Involved in Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election | National Review Trump also pardoned John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and dozens of other Republicans who came forward to act as alternate electors.

Perhaps better headline:

Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.

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Yes, the Democrats caved. Their voters just had one simple demand of them - FIGHT. And meet this moment. And they couldn’t even do that. But more importantly - the traitor in the White House pardoned all his Jan 6th co-conspirators. His latest attempt to rewrite and erase Jan 6th. Despicable. We’re Letting Him Erase January 6th. Shame On Us

We’re Letting Him Erase January 6th. Shame On Us: Yes, the Democrats caved. Their voters just had one simple demand of them - FIGHT. And meet this moment. And they couldn’t even do that. But more importantly - the traitor in the White House pardoned all his Jan 6th co-conspirators. His latest…

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.

That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.

Republicans Made This Mess — Democrats Just Cleaned It Up for Them While Republicans partied at Mar-a-Lago and cashed shutdown paychecks, Democrats gave them an escape hatch.

The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.

Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.

Polls were turning on them.
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As always, the simplest answer is usually the correct answer. And if Trump commutes her sentence, it’s because it’s most likely that Trump is a pedophile.

Schumer should've been gone a year ago. Every time he's on TV, Dems scream "Be done with you!" This will only accelerate that. #ChuckSchumer #DemocraticParty #Politics #PoliticalCommentary #Election2024 #Reels Chuck Schumer Should Go - Analyzing the Political Moment

Chuck Schumer Should Go - Analyzing the Political Moment: Schumer should've been gone a year ago. Every time he's on TV, Dems scream "Be done with you!" This will only accelerate that. #ChuckSchumer #DemocraticParty #Politics #PoliticalCommentary #Election2024 #Reels

Principles First and @issueonereform.bsky.social are thrilled to announce Governor John Kasich is joining our slate of speakers next Wednesday, Nov. 19 in Salt Lake City, Utah for a conversation on Religious Liberty: A Shared Constitutional Guarantee.

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Ro Khanna, who has called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced, says the only reason other Democrats aren't calling for it is because it would "offend a lot of donors."

"Are we gonna be beholden to the donors that have gotten us two terms of Donald Trump, or are we gonna listen to people?"

fraud is when you drive safely & never claim on your auto insurance

Art of children playing baseball behind a photo of a young white boy eating dinner. The big text reads: "Every child needs a good school lunch." The lower text reads: "The War Food Administration will help your community start a School Lunch Program." more details here: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/nutrition-on-the-home-front-in-world-war-ii.htm

SNAP is a political football, but making sure the USA ate used to be a national security issue: "up to a quarter of draftees called up via the Selective Service Act of 1940 were malnourished and unfit to serve"

Today, we can't even see feeding people as being in the national interest.

Having to go on 60 Minutes to defend the concept of public funding for scientific research is WILD.

Publicly-funded science has been THE most successful thing produced in the US for 50+ years.

Like, what next: are we going to have to go on television to plead for the value of literacy & numeracy?

But…those are state charges. They were never federally charged. Nor could they be even if we win in 2028 because the statute of limitations will have expired. But okay.

Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Rule of law exemplified. Reagan appointed federal Judge who has resigned because President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment

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Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.

Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.

The American people need more from their leaders.

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts is (was?) a scholar of Black and African American history.

The fact that man leading the re-erasure of Black Americans' contributions to our nation's history knows better makes this episode, somehow, even worse.

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Schumer is spreading the word he was against the deal. But he is the leader. So he either tacitly let it happen or he failed as a leader. No excuse works for him. This is a fail.

President Donald Trump pardons Glen Casada, Cade Cothren - Nashville Banner President Donald Trump offers full pardons to former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his one-time Chief of Staff Cade Cothren in kickback scheme case.

If the GOP is law and order (how they justify rounding up brown skinned people), why would they want these guys free after bribery, kickbacks, money-laundering, wire fraud, and using public funds?

Maybe there's something else going on in the GOP?
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BlueSky is alive with rumors that Dems are about to cave. If they do, they’ll be doing Trump the biggest favor of his life. He’s on the ropes, don’t drop the pressure now.

Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better.

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:

First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.

Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

Econ 101 midterm question: Based on what you know about risk pools and adverse selection in healthcare markets, will giving people money instead of giving them money to buy health insurance lead these markets to function more effectively, or will it just lead more people to be uninsured?

Even if you’re talking subsidies, that’s a very inefficient way to cover contingencies, as opposed to pooling. You have to finance the extremes, rather than the average.

The advantage of regular insurance is that you pool risk. You don’t know how much you’ll need, so you pay the average. You get more back if you need it, and less if you don’t. With self-insurance, you have to basically save up to the maximum you might need, so it’s on hand when needed.

Health Savings Accounts - subsidized or not - are a form of self-insurance. That’s fine to augment traditional insurance, but they don’t spread risk. That means some people will need way more money than they receive, and some will need much less.

Republican politicians' budget bill, the Big Ugly Law, gives tax breaks to private jet owners.

Yes, it makes private jets fully tax-deductible.

It’s clear who Republican politicians are working for… and it ain’t you.

This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?

He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.

There’s never been a Gen X president.

Insane

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