AG Bondi appeared before the Senate Oversight Committee on Tuesday. She delivered the most disgraceful, insulting, unprofessional performance by a witness to appear before the Senate—ever. In a just world, she should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office because of her disrespect.
But there are even more signs of desperation from Trump. He is apparently ordering Speaker Mike Johnson to keep the House in recess to delay the inevitable floor vote on the Epstein Transparency Act, which will be voted on as soon as Johnson swears in newly elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva from AZ.
Trump just threatened 300,000 Republican federal workers with loss of wages that are owed to them under a law Trump signed...[they] have families...they have friends, relatives, fellow parish / synagogue / mosque members who understand the cruelty and desperation of Trump’s threat.
Trump is so desperate to force Democrats to surrender in the shutdown standoff he is making stupid threats that are backfiring...he is demanding his acolytes humiliate themselves before Congress in...acts of...self-immolation designed to distract the media from Trump’s plummeting public support.
They would not be fighting us this hard if they didn’t understand our power. Which means now, more than ever, we must understand it ourselves. Now is the time to link up. Now is the time to build new coalitions...Listen to the mothers crying. They’re calling to each and every one of us.
They would not be fighting us this hard if they didn’t understand our power. Now is the time to build new coalitions...to lay smaller disagreements aside and build as big a tent as possible to take back the tools of government and re-claim our power to become the nation we’ve never yet been.
They want us to be afraid of our immigrant neighbors, but their cruelty unveils their fear of our political power. Black, white, and brown people who want an economy that works for all of us are the majority in America. We have the power to fundamentally reconstruct America.
What are MAGA’s strategists and Trump’s backers so afraid of? They are scared to death that the shifting demographics in American society will make it impossible for them to hold onto power with the old coalition they built on the Southern Strategy’s divide-and-conquer tactics.
These mothers’ cries must be heard – across the weeks and across the millennia – because they expose something we must know about authoritarian regimes: while they project power through cruelty, their extreme actions reveal that they are afraid. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
The shutdown will end soon because Americans need to fly, not just the ultra-rich (private jets also need air traffic controllers) and not just business flyers, but most of us who plan to see loved ones over the holidays. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Bondi refused to answer a specific question about Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein...Bondi, who says she has seen the files, would not answer “no.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Polls show that most Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown and that 78% of Americans want to see the premium tax credits—the issue of healthcare costs on which the Democrats are making a stand—extended. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The OMB floated the idea workers furloughed during a govt. shutdown are not guaranteed back pay...Trump signed a law to make it clear furloughed workers would get paid. Caputo notes the OMB’s new reading of the law is “a major departure from the administration’s own guidance issued…last month.”
“The greatest fear of our founding fathers was not immigrants or taxes or men having a beard while serving in the military. [It] was...Trump.” “My message of alarm,” Pritzker added, “is that the constitutional crisis is not on its way. It is here, and we all better start acting like it.”
“The greatest fear of our founding fathers was not immigrants or taxes or men having a beard while serving in the military. [It] was...Trump.” “My message of alarm,” Pritzker added, “is that the constitutional crisis is not on its way. It is here, and we all better start acting like it.”
“Without the roadless rule we will have more intense flooding events, the water quality would go down, fish species like trout would suffer, and the tourism dollars for local towns will be affected too...’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
