Jack Smith will appear tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where the majority no doubt lies in wait w/ obtuse, counterfactual questions designed to convert his 100% righteous prosecutions into the pursuit of political vendettas. Expect Smith to keep his cool.

When the man who investigated Trump firsthand — before Republicans refused to let us see and hear everything he found - says the danger Is "greater than anything he has seen in his lifetime," we should LISTEN. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith didn't mince words: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime." This isn't coming from a political commentator or a random pundit. It's coming from the prosecutor who spent years examining the evidence against Trump, reviewing classified documents, interviewing witnesses, and seeing how power was used behind the scenes. Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, or independent, the rule of law is supposed to be the foundation of our democracy. It means NO ONE is above the law, no matter how wealthy, powerful, or politically connected they are. And, ask yourself, what's the harm in seeing the FACTS!? If Trump didn't do anything wrong, he shouldn't have anything to worry about, right? When someone with Jack Smith's experience warns that the threat is unprecedented, it shouldn't be dismissed because of politics. It should prompt every American to ask what's happening to the institutions that are supposed to protect democracy. 📸 Really American

A federal judge just blocked FEMA from withholding anti-terrorism funds from local governments that don't change how they run elections. It's the latest blow to Trump's attempts to rewrite election rules.

Monday ended the way it started for Trump, which is badly. His White House spent the morning building up a 2 p.m. event in the Oval Office, and what the country got was an 80-year-old president reading a steel plant announcement off a laminated binder, promising every adult $5,000 before the midterms, and nodding off while his energy secretary spoke. The NFL asked Trump’s Homeland Security Department to take down a video it made out of a Hall of Famer’s highlights, and the department ignored it. Two of the superfans who followed Trump to more than 100 rallies say they’re done with him, and one says he may not vote at all. And Justice Samuel Alito dropped out of the biggest climate case of the Supreme Court term after weeks of pressure over his oil stocks. There are 36 days until the midterms. Read it all in the Really American Substack:

BREAKING: The 10-part Trump TV documentary Donald Trump is spending tax dollars to film about himself is reportedly having trouble with the interviews because Trump can't stop dementedly changing the subject to his ballroom, that day's stock trades, or Arnold Palmer's giant dong.

MAGA white man: “My family’s been in this country for 4 generations. You need to leave.” Me: “My family’s been in this country since before it was even a country. If anyone needs to leave, it’s you.” — crickets 🦗

The fact that Smith, a sitting premier of a Canadian province, isn’t in the streets day and night like a soldier standing up for her province to remain in Canada, is disgustingly egregious. Her playing both sides is utterly criminal and worthy of the worst public shame.

When that orange asshole finally leaves the WH, and he WILL be leaving, the American people need to sue him and the rest of his criminal syndicate of a so-called family, for every fucking dime they stole from us. Every. Fucking. Dime.

Taking the House and Senate with narrow margins isn't the goal. We need to send an undeniable message to Trump and his gaggle of bootlicking sycophants. We need to rebuke that motherfucker in overwhelming numbers so the whole world sees that they can trust Americans again. Vote.

Let's see the essays. Make them public. Let us read these scrawled golden tickets offered up by Cornell administrators to allow rapists to continue on with their lives unscathed. Was there a required word count? Did any of them use AI to write their "sorry for raping you" pieces? I want to see the essays.

The reflecting pool is empty and blocked off. The Kennedy Center is completely boarded up. The East Wing is in ruins, and the White House looks like a tacky, cheap Vegas whorehouse with all the fake gold laminate. The visual decay in D.C. says everything you need to know about the current state of our country.