It's just one thing. But vowing to make federal funding contingent on voters electing his favored candidate is unprecedented, incredibly destructive, and astonishingly corrupt.
But he keeps doing it, and there's really no way to stop him.
Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation.
This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome.
That’s not a typo.
Trump's commencement message to Coast Guard cadets: "I'm gonna be here in '28. Maybe I'll be here in '32 too. I don't know. Maybe I will."
The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal:
“[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.”
“We could have fixed it right then and there.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...
(Also still loving your walks.. I'm right by Main Justice and god that thing gets me every time. Pissed about Freedom Park, too! And the Stargate on the WH lawn!)
A thing I finally just put my finger on: part of what annoys me so much about AI hype is that it seems like all its proponents want to be pundits. It feels as if they think that the louder they tout the supposed virtues of AI, the more they'll be recognized as geniuses and gain subscribers/followers
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It's not that you'll get your ballot and the USPS won't send it back to your state; it's that they won't let the state send you a ballot to begin with. Glad DC (et al.) are suing. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...
@musicologyduck.bsky.social the overpass shots of a motorcade you posted ~4h ago; any clue who that was? I was guessing Vance? Asking b/c I saw photos of some US Govt. vehicles today that looked similar at Katie's Cars and Coffee today (e.g: www.instagram.com/stories/kati... )
NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy?
McDONALD: I'll take a different question