Marc Mullendore

Donald Trump, a simpleminded, deeply dishonest man, thinks:

1. If you don't test for COVID, you don't have as many cases;

2. If you don't honestly report bad jobs numbers, you'll have more jobs; and

3. If you destroy the satellite that monitors greenhouse gases, you won't have climate change.

"He obviously was expecting a different reaction." @willsommer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social break down Rep. Mike Flood's awkward healthcare town hall exchange

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Maybe The American Experiment Isn’t Dead Yet Death by a thousand cuts still requires a thousand cuts.

“Trumps is at 18% approval, 70% disapproval on his handling of the Epstein matter. He’s also at 31% approval, 63% disapproval, on the issue of tariffs and on that of inflation—our old friend from the Biden presidency which may well bedevil Trump, too.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/maybe-the-...

Just Stop Oil.

Jeans AND genes both rhyme with EPSTEIN.

Killing Democracy—And Not Bothering to Hide It The assault is happening in plain sight, from the Epstein case to Texas reapportionment to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"It seems as if the authoritarian assault on the long-established and seemingly solid institutions of American democracy has reached a critical point....liberal democracy is being killed not in darkness but not in darkness but in broad daylight."

Paging Jake Tapper...

However Donald Trump wants to fight against data, he can't make the underlying truth go away. Americans see what he's doing.

How Kash Patel Was Duped Trump’s lickspittle FBI director fell for obviously fake Russian documents. So much for Wizard Kashs’s “smoking gun.”

"Honestly, I’m disappointed in you, Russian spymasters. This is not like they showed us on The Americans. Couldn’t you have found an actual speaker of American English to vet your Hillary fanfic? Were you using Google Translate, 2016 vintage?"

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BREAKING: Yeonsoo Go, Perdue University student and daughter of NYC Episcopal priest, has been released from ICE custody this evening.

Trump Smashed a Obama Legacy Item—Harming Many and Pleasing Few Not even industry lobbyists are rushing to praise it.

The organizations and people who work on climate and energy every day "understand that the world has changed dramatically since 2009—in ways Trump and his hard-core supporters apparently cannot grasp, or maybe just don’t want to acknowledge."

First Donald Trump cleared the field for Mike Rogers.

Now the same far-right oil baron billionaire backing the Texas gerrymandering scheme just gave five MILLION to his SuperPAC.

Michigan voters will decide who wins this race. Not the highest bidder.

When Blue state governments aggressively react to Texas gerrymandering by doing the same, watch for reporters to do annoying think pieces about how this is "risky" for Dems. Note that they don't do the same to Repubs.

We are *here* partially as a result of a sycophantic media in service to the GOP.

Donald Trump melted down this morning when I told the truth on CNBC about how his economy is devastating working families.

This ought to be good.

"Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy."

-Senator Elissa Slotkin

Note: Slotkin is a former (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense official, ending her career in the field as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.

If anyone knows...she does.

A Democrat for the Trump Era Jasmine Crockett is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.

Democratic voters have said they want a fighter, and now they might have one in Jasmine Crockett, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. She spoke with Crockett about testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.

America: Where some Americans love America so much they'll hate other Americans for not loving America the exact same way.

dan balz upon retiring his column after 47 years at the washington post:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

MAGA Inches Closer to a Ghislaine Maxwell Alliance Is perpetrating heinous crimes against children too big a hurdle for a political alliance of convenience? Maybe not.

"Not even a month ago, the idea of Trump supporters openly embracing a convicted child sex trafficker would have been unimaginable." Well, Trump sure grows some folks' imaginations.

Yes, definitely! Take care and get some good rest tonight.

Very scary - so glad you are ok!

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio
adoptastation.org

How Trump's campaign of hatred against migrant "invaders" is fueling potential violence "There's nothing normal about any of this."

Reminder: Six years ago today, a gunman motivated by hatred of immigrants carried out a horrific massacre in Texas. The demagoguery and ideology he cited had been pushed heavily by Donald Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Supreme Court Enablers Will Face History’s Verdict They will be remembered for their part in the damage done to people’s lives and to the Constitution.

The six reliably pro-Trump justices are "racking up a rap sheet of constitutional abuses of staggering import." ICYMI Philip Allen Lacovara on the coming judgment of history:

I know we say “Everything is bigger in Texas,” but this is, in fact, bigger than Texas. This is nothing but a power grab, and it will ultimately impact all of us.

This is why the whole campaign might have been better focused from beginning to end—by any opponent—about his pathological lying on anything and everything.

This was a super interesting clip