If the Trump administration were a British TV crime series (if only!), this division of Trump world into the select and the expendable would be key to explaining the mysterious attack of one of the people Trump chose for his plane. Check the alibis of those on the decoy plane!

Lessons from David Crowley in Wisconsin and Luke Bronin in Connecticut. "So it turns out you can be a centrist and for change. You can be a moderate and a fighter. You can be competent and combative. Not a bad model for other Democrats."

“HUNGARY’S PARLIAMENT TODAY elected a new president, András Baka, a former head of the country’s highest court whom Viktor Orbán purged from office in 2011…’[The Orbán system] started with the firing of Baka; now it ends with his election as president.’”

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent POINTED A GUN at a U.S. citizen, through her car window, while threatening her, in Falls Church, Virginia. And the excuse? They claimed she “almost ran them over.” Except… she had a dash cam recording the entire thing. She immediately called their bullshit: “You are so full of shit. I didn’t almost run anyone over.” The agent tells her, “You aren’t funny.” She responds, “You aren’t funny.” Then he threatens her… “Keep it up, I will arrest you.” While he has his gun aimed inches away from her. She says, “I’m a legal citizen, for what?” And they keep threatening her with arrest. Then, the agent repeats the accusation that she tried to run them over. So, she tells him, “Run you over when? I have dash cam recording. That’s a lie.” And suddenly… they WALK AWAY. Because if she had actually tried to run federal agents over, why did they just leave after she called their bullshit, and said she had video proving them wrong? And just to emphasize the seriousness of what happened… An ARMED federal agent had his GUN POINTED AT A WOMAN, through her car window, while threatening her with arrest. Pointing a firearm at someone is an enormous use of force that should NEVER be treated casually… especially when the supposed justification is an accusation they apparently couldn’t… or wouldn’t… back up. She wasn’t arrested. They didn’t show her evidence that she committed a crime. They just threatened her, pointed a gun at her, and repeatedly told her they would lock her up if she continued following them. And the SECOND she says, “I have it on dash cam,” they WALK AWAY. Because apparently the threat disappears when there’s a camera that can prove what actually happened. This is exactly why people need to DOCUMENT these encounters. Because when armed federal agents can point guns at citizens, and make accusations with seemingly no consequences, the public needs cameras. And when they threaten you for asking, “For what?” keep recording.

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

“The people who spent a decade of their lives lying, covering up, and apologizing for Trumpism—they are no longer the same people they were. Which is another reason Trumpism is forever.”

Just the President of the United States casually saying Somalis aren’t smart and have no aptitude. I probably have the woke mind virus, but this is an insanely racist and gross thing to say. Trump is trash.

It's fascinating how many on the right reject collective guilt while treating birthright like a personal achievement. If you aren't culpable for your ancestors owning slaves—and I agree, you aren't—you don't get credit for their successes, either. You won the geographic lottery.

Nobody, nobody relishes human suffering like the new right. It’s not about the rule of law, law and order. It’s about deriving pleasure from the suffering of other people, and ideally monetizing it. The thing about “woke” is that it at least had a constructive vision of a more just and freer world, even if it had its excesses and follies. These people simply want to derive as much enjoyment from as much human suffering as possible. It’s sick and needs to be defeated.

Trump wanted his personal lawyer running the DOJ ahead of the midterms (and 2028) because he knows he has to explore every avenue to undermine our elections if he wants to keep his party in power and protect himself amid collapsing public approval for his regime. The conservative movement is ready to help him do it, too. Heritage, Claremont, etc., all these orgs are prepared to help rationalize and justify every abuse of power while also pretending to care so deeply about the county, the Constitution.

Choosing Bove to swear in Blanche is a deliberate middle finger to all of us who are worried that the Department has become a tool of the president's wrath rather than a servant of justice. They don't want to prove us wrong by being better than we think they are; they are who we think they are.

The GOP's sticking with Max Miller and confirmed Todd Blanche. Trump is losing to Iran so badly he can’t even make a coherent argument about the war. The ankle monitoring of Haitian immigrants is grotesque. (And Tim shares some history...on bananas.)

"In his 1867 inaugural address at St. Andrews, Mill remarked, 'Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.' But if they do nothing but look on as bad men compass their ends, are they still good men?"

“'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.' We’re not yet living in Orwell’s totalitarian society. So the members of our ruling party don’t quite reject the evidence. They avert their eyes and ears. Above all, they do nothing."