Ted Hogbin

President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.

I said this in my most recent @theatlantic.com article: The lawmakers had to make that video because it's so likely that Trump is, in fact, giving illegal orders, as @gregsargent.bsky.social discusses here.

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"Ukraine is fighting for the values we claim as our own: freedom, sovereignty, human dignity, democratic self-determination....If we fail to support that, we are not merely abandoning Ukraine. We are abandoning ourselves." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ihTiSP

Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It The disappearance of inconvenient facts and the remaking of reality.

NEW: "The real threat to our understanding of the U.S. economy" is that "the Trump administration has been quietly snuffing out thousands of other data series, particularly those that might produce politically inconvenient results."

From our @crampell.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...

Anyone who says "machines can't have a bias" can be safely ignored. They have terminal TechBrain. Machines are programmed by people and people ... have biases!

9 The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images. Axon_Body_4_Video_2025- 10-03_0949_D01A2556T at 00:00–00:42. To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage.

Of course one of these morons used ChatGPT to write a use of force report. Of. Course.

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy

Howard Lutnick has reportedly promoted projects as commerce secretary that his kids are benefitting from in business.

Strong story by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, @mrothfeld.bsky.social, David Yaffe-Bellany and @anaswanson.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

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It should be easy for educated, rational citizens to hold these two thoughts in mind: drug traffickers are the bad guys but due process of law protects us all.

Being against blowing up alleged drug traffickers at sea on the president's word does NOT make one a supporter of drug traffickers.

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy

NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has financially benefited from vaccine-related litigation and advocacy, particularly through lawsuits and nonprofit fundraising tied to his anti-vaccine stance.

Here’s a breakdown of how Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism has intersected with financial gain: ..."

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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Good morning! Beautiful sunrise!

If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.

At least three weeks

And to show you how much an overuse of water saves you money, Trump had an employee at MAL flood his security and computer server room during the secret documents probe…

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations

The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Jane’s Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Openly corrupt. And Congress won’t even bother to investigate. This is what America looks like without a Congress.👇

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Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

Horrifying from the WSJ on the sloppy, dangerous, self-indulgent reign of Trump’s FBI director

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

100% this. The idea that our "great Founders" intended for the President to be able to raise taxes on Americans because someone in Canada ran an ad he didn't like is legitimately insane. It's the epitomization of arbitrary power.

As much as I see the Senate action as not gaining anything, could this all be a head fake to get the House back in session to approve the new legislation - which forces the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition to be sworn in.

Coal miner unaccounted for after Nicholas County mine floods - WV MetroNews Mine flooded Saturday afternoon; Gov. Patrick Morrisey reports coordinated response.

Nightmare wvmetronews.com/2025/11/08/c...

Marshall - the 75 game

I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.