The race to replace Ken Paxton as attorney general of Texas is a contest that has way bigger stakes than you might assume from the outside www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
if you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, I've got a $5,000 Trump dividend and some Melania memecoin to sell you
Todd Blanche won't rule out trying to block states from certifying midterm results.
Asked whether the Trump DOJ might try to block a state from certifying results, Blanche said: "Yes. Of course there are scenarios that we could all come up with hypothetically. Some doomsday scenario, for example."
AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇
Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate?
JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.
🚨 VILE: Vivek Ramaswamy’s new attack ad against Amy Acton features her estranged mother, who stayed married to the man who sexually abused her daughter at age 12, even after his arrest.
Now even conservatives are calling the ad disgusting.
The horrifying story behind Vivek’s attack:
"They don't want to go fishing anymore. I don't blame them actually" -- Trump "jokes" that people don't want to go fishing because they might get murdered by the US military
“.. Nearly three-quarters said they struggled to pay for food, housing, medical care or daily transportation in the past year compared with 13 percent of upper-income adults.”
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MS NOW reports that Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson said he was too busy to meet with Vance because he was at a "breakfast meet and greet" 😆
Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era.
(Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)
UPDATE: Trump was asked what state Zacharia passed the bar exam.
Trump deferred to Zacharia to answer.
Zacharia said, "When I moved to China."
Which makes absolutely no sense.
She appears to waive away follow up questions.
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1. Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she is a lawyer.
She has claimed to be a lawyer repeatedly on national TV, on podcasts, and on social media.
But there is no evidence that Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law.
Trump has to keep feeding MAGA's bottomless appetite for the spectacle of him inflicting misery and suffering on the people they've been commanded to hate. Nothing ever quite satisfies them.
"A couple quick follow ups, Mr. Secretary -- what the ever-loving fuck are you babbling about? When was the Pentagon recruiting soldiers with 'My Two Mommies'? And how fucking drunk are you right now?"
FOX NEWS: If you lose the House, whose fault is that?
MIKE JOHNSON: If we lose the House, it will be because the people were misled
FOX NEWS: It doesn't fall on your shoulders?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know how it could. I mean, I'm traveling nonstop
Q: How do you define socialism personally?
JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year.
Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Measles was eliminated back in the year 2000. And now, 26 years later, we’re dealing with it coming roaring back.
Pennsylvania has now eclipsed 1,000 cases across 39 counties, with five deaths."
Shapiro says amid the outbreak, vaccinations have now doubled.
Katie Phang on Blanche: What are you trying to hide? Who are you protecting? This is the permissive culture that is created, that is then buttressed by conduct by people like the AG to protect perpetrators, co-conspirators, enablers of crimes. Crimes against children, crimes against women.
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches"
Remember when presidents had dignity?
Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
UPDATED: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 83,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.
We are continuing to track the increase in these cases:
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs.
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Thank you for your courage and for reminding us about this murder & cold blooded dismemberment of a courageous journalist.
I can never forget Pompeo’s off the cuff dismissal of Jamal’s fate and Kushner’s divulging of intelligence about MBS enemies in exchange for deal$; all of them put to death!
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.
w/ @regret.bsky.social