I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

Is a negotiated payment to the President to compensate him for his litigation expenses, without a judgment on the merits in his favor or a court order except voluntary dismissal, a violation of Art. II, Sec. 1, Cl. 7 of the Constitution (“the domestic emoluments clause”)? Asking for a nation.

Instead of lying about the “No Kings” rallies, Reps. Finstad, Emmer, Stauber, and Fischbach should be leading them. Take back your constitutional authority. Don’t hide behind Trump. If you support tariffs and immigrant renditions and murder on the high seas, vote for it. Reveal who you really are.

The Epstein discharge petition may break MAGA. GOPs will choose between voting for Trump (no file release) or against him. They will discover that it is better to oppose him. If they don’t release the files, the base will revolt.

After that, Trump’s power will recede, until it vanishes.

Jesse Waters is the guy who bragged that he deflated a co-worker’s tires so she would accept a ride home from him. (!!) Now she’s his wife. He has a record of creating “facts” and situations to engineer the result he desires. More FOX news fraud.

It is hardly news amid the authoritarian fire hose, but the US fired upon another Venezuelan watercraft today on the high seas.
Casualty count unknown.
No investigation, no arrest, no due process. No evidence of hostile fire.
Serial murder authorized by the White House.

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

Mass killings are always evil, no matter the identity of the killers or of the victims.
That is true even when the killers are US military and the victims are foreigners in a watercraft, suspected of but never charged with a non-capital crime, and never alleged to have initiated hostilities.

This thought cannot be original to me: is Trump’s concern with the Epstein files less about complicity in pedophilia and more about being a useful idiot who the Russians made into their asset?
The sudden accidental deaths of Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein sure have a Putin resonance.

“No Kings” rally in St. Paul.

Happy birthday Taj Mahal!

@tajmahalblues.bsky.social

#tajmahal #goffinkingsongs

Polls don’t only measure opinion, they generate it. Ask (versions of) these questions every week in every red county: Is Trump corrupt? Is the Trump family using the Presidency for personal gain? Should Congress take action to make Trump stop his corrupt activities? Soon voters will say “yes”.

This is from “The Ox-Bow Incident,” a 1943 film about a lynch mob that hangs three innocent men. If we silently tolerate rounding up suspects and deporting them without giving them the right to a defense, then we are part of the lynch mob. youtu.be/dkpQb0FfOU4

Great, Governor Walz, but why didn’t you go after Trump’s outdated notions when you debated J.D. Vance? How about, “The media won’t fact check you, but I will” and then ask him if he truly believes in Trump’s fantasies about tariffs or if he understands that Trump plans to destroy the U.S. economy.

Under the Postal Clause of the Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 8, Clause 7), Congress controls the post office. Not the Executive. Don’t acquiesce to this power grab. Tell Trump no, he cannot take over the post office.

I love the space program. I learned to read looking at the backs of Mercury astronaut trading cards. But if DOGE is looking to slash the budget, start with outer space. We need to go, but not now. Save up and restart in ten years. Or maybe twenty.

Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥

Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?