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If any other president in all of our history said the military should use American cities as a training ground, he would have been removed from office that same day.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

thank you brett kavanaugh!

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

A day in the Portland war zone

The Portland War Zone isn't for everyone but at least the chaos is locally sourced.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

😬 awkward

It really is an amazing accomplishment to be able to stand out for your callous awfulness in this Trump administration.

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

My politics right now are, in sum, "The president of the United States should not try to conquer the United States."

🤣🤣🤣

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

Portland is not on fire, but Donald Trump's, Stephen Miller's, and Karoline Leavitt's pants are.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

Soooooo, What are your flags about?

Luna with a good night kiss

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

Medicare for All is a fundamental human right. Full stop.

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia has sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — after Lutnick called Jeffrey Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer ever' — urging him to testify before the panel about his knowledge of Epstein and his crimes.

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity.

Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute.

Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections.

But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents.

The legacy of the Roberts court.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Truer words were not spoken today!

TRUMP HAS REPEATEDLY SAID THE PRESIDENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS "[When they talk about the government shutdown, they're going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the things in Washington. So I really think the pressure is on the president." - September 20K3, Fox & Filench intendew "If you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the president's the leader, and he's got to get everybody in a room, and he's got to lead. And he doesn't do that, he doesn't like doing that, that's not his strength.' • September 2012, For & Filende intervien "You have to get everybody in a room. You have to be a leader. The president has to lead. He has to get [the Speaker of the House] and everybody else in a room, and they have to make a deal. You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole and do all sorts of things, but you have to get a deal." - October 2013, Arterview with then. Fox News host Geete Ven Sosteren Image/quote collection from MeidasTouch

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks look at the anatomy of the latest Trump shutdown.

The repubs have a shutdown once more,
Like with Trump they had three times before.
But what’s different in kind
Is they don’t seem to mind
There are suffering people galore.