Days before Memorial Day, Trump waved off the 13 Americans lost in his war of choice with Iran—"somebody else would have lost 100,000 people"—reducing 13 grieving families to a talking point.
The separation from reality in the Republican Party today - vaccines are poison; Iran can be conquered; January 6th was staged by Democrats - should really really worry people. These folks just aren’t fit to govern anymore.
The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.
His emotional and deranged social media posts alone “show a president who’s mentally and morally incapable of effective leadership. In a sane world, every manic posting spree would generate wall-to-wall coverage demanding his resignation or forced removal from office.”
More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump’s golden ballroom have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion.
Corruption at its finest.
Over the past year the Trump Administration has frozen, canceled, or slow-walked billions in funding for the sciences. We outline the dire consequences of those decisions — for the rule of law and the American economy. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born.
Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care.
Disgraceful.
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Sanho Tree
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care.
Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender.
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Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
Omar Artan was set to become the first Somalian to officiate a World Cup match. He was denied entry to the United States on Monday at Miami International Airport.
They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social
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Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.
