FS1 squeezing in a little Yankees/Jays game action in between the interminable commercial breaks.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns." […]

BREAKING: The GOP operative who drew Texas’ gerrymandered map testified that, at a White House meeting, he saw a draft of a letter written by DOJ officials urging the state to redistrict.

In other words:
“You repulsive slave! You who are completely resistant to any effort to make you good, and are instead capable of every evil thing! I pitied you…When you, savage, didn’t know the meaning of the words you were speaking, and would babble like some beast…”
“The Tempest”

I kept waiting for one of the senators on the oversight committee to confront the smug, ignorant Attorney General Pam Bondi whom she thought she was talking to. Why she considers herself the personal lawyer not for the people but for the lawless Trump.

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

Release the Epstein Files!!

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
“King Lear”

“By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!…a very weak monster!”
“The Tempest”

“Get thee gone, thou false deluding slave.”
“The Taming of the Shrew”

“[Her] dishonour mangles true judgement.”
“Coriolanus”

The federal Judge Karin Immergut of U.S. District Court in Oregon, a Republican appointed by Trump, in issuing a strong denunciation of Trump (“This is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law”), said that Trump “was untethered from the facts” and “can’t just make up “facts on the ground.”

“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, the which in every language I pronounce, stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world.”
“Henry IV, Part 2”

“WhenTrump is a litigant, [the Supreme Court] pace themselves to advance his interests. When he needed the all clear to run for president as an oath-breaking insurrectionist, the court moved fast. When he needed to run out the clock on his federal criminal indictments it moved slowly.”

Trump knows about insurrections. He sat on his hands for hours watching on TV like a malevolent Chauncey Gardiner the insurrection he incited on Jan. 6.

Apple and Google obeying in advance

Maddow: “Another split-screen moment in American courage and cowardice. You’ve got normal people refusing to stop protesting against the Trump administration…and on the other side you’ve got our nation’s biggest and most powerful corporations just folding when they don’t have to…”

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

Trump knows about insurrections. He sat on his hands for hours after inciting an assault on the Capitol.

Shameless, craven Republicans remain on the sidelines while Trump dismantles democracy.
To paraphrase Machiavelli,
When neither their office nor their power is touched the majority of Republicans live content.

“Bigoted, racist people will give up something they want in order to deny it to someone they hate.”
Republicans: Thus, better to take away everyone’s health coverage—even as we deny taking it away—than to run the remote risk of having one undocumented immigrant receive a benefit.