Laurie Brookins

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Agreed — also, why isn’t it leading every newscast on every news network? It took roughly a year for Watergate to gain serious media traction following the Woodward and Bernstein reportage. We are way past that now. He must be held accountable.

There will be two kinds of reaction to this. People who believe it. And people who believe who are Republicans and who therefore will pretend they don't or that it doesn't matter.

One of those moments I'll never forget.

MSNOW today: House Judiciary Dems released a 50 pg report today detailing multiple allegations against Trump and discrepancies in his statements Trump was “an active participant in Epstein’s abuse..in the mid-to-late 1990's” www.ms.now/news/house-j...

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

Earlier I saw an anecdote that he went after Iman hard, and she rejected him before dating and then marrying David Bowie. She clearly won, but the felon’s hate for Somalia (where Iman was born) and Ilhan Omar suddenly makes a lot more sense, doesn’t it. Beyond his deep-seated racism, that is.

Every reporter standing there should have said, “Please answer her question.” WTF is wrong with them?

If the first question at Hegseth’s next presser isn’t, “Who is going to pay for the cost of restoration?” we all should be seriously pissed off. Even more than usual.

Grifters, plain and simple, eager to gain unfettered access to Florida’s bank vault. Vote Jolly. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Every member of Congress needs to see this ad. The fact that we’ve reached this point should terrify everyone.

It should be a bigger conversation that they think we are all absolute idiots and/or we are not paying attention to their blatant corruption. Let’s prove them wrong on both counts once and for all. #Vote.

“What Trump doesn’t get is that, unlike the white Americans who voted for him, these “white people” over here care more about preserving their democracy of less than four decades than MAGA does of what’s left of ours.”

Please, for the love of all that’s good and true, #VoteBlue so we can put an end to this insanity.

Made a little video about my reporting on “Tommy” from the viral @abdulelsayed.bsky.social town hall

We thought Mueller would expose him but Barr stepped in, or Jack Smith would indict him but Cannon stepped in, or Congress would impeach and convict him but McConnell stepped in, or the judiciary would stop him but SCOTUS stepped in. It’s up to us, we must step in & stop him!

The United States continues to help Putin murder civilians in Ukraine

Two decades ago the Chicks got in trouble for saying at a concert that they were ashamed George W. Bush was from Texas, and now they've got a contender for Texas's Senate seat saying at a concert how proud he is they're from Texas.

Zelenskyy: “We can't change the truth. We can't compare me and Putin. “Putin killed children. He is a terrorist.”

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

No lies detected.

Just when you think you can’t hate him more, he makes it easy to hate him more.

This

Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago: “I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.” Trump has only gotten worse since.

Gladys and Glynis! (I am available to join your bar trivia teams.)

Remember how insanely good Jen Psaki was at this? And from the very first moment. But this is what we’re stuck with now.

A tantrum doesn’t make a thing true. If a toddler does this, they get a time out. In his case, it should be the 25th Amendment, because he is mentally ill.

Say it louder.

Fact-check: True.

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .

If someone in Oslo emailed him tonight to say, “Well, you were on the shortlist, but we just read about this firing squad; you really blew it, buddy.” I would never stop laughing. #Nobel

RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Someone please explain why anyone should believe any of this at this point.

Have you ever noticed that only a complete and utter narcissist and thoroughly unreserved egotist says things like, “I can do whatever I want”?

Trump and lots of people close to Trump are making a lot of money off wars.

We are saddened to say goodbye to our dear friend, Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint. One of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, we’ll forever be grateful for unforgettable contributions to cinema, her generosity and her humor. Our thoughts are with her loved ones.

Just more lies.

What a despicable commander in chief.

Several of our country’s leaders and pundits have been calling for the President to be removed from office because he isn’t mentally or physically well. Why isn’t the conversation growing louder?