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These senators are weaponizing their treason, as GOP Senate Leader Thune is trying to secure a payday for the insurrectionists in the new funding bill. Their claims that Jack Smith tapped their phones and violated their rights are completely baseless, but serve to distract the public from their complicity.

Reports indicate that Trump will indicate his handmaiden Pam Bondi to settle with them instantly, because of course they have no case, but settling will both enrich Trump stooges for their betrayal of America as well as–so they hope–persuade Americans to wipe the slate clean in a revisionist mass amnesia.

It’s all part of the monstrous criminal sham being perpetuated by Trump and the Republicans. And it’s all part of the fascist playbook, in which state perpetrators of crime claim that they are the victims.

Happens again and again. It shouldn’t be happening here. It is.

Schumer voted against, but actually AUTHORIZED the Democrats’ surrender caucus to broker a capitulation to the Republicans.

“The mystery is why Schumer keeps flirting with capitulation in exchange for nothing,” David Dayden wrote in The American Prospect two days ago.

“Even when Schumer and centrist Democrats have been dealt a strong hand, these are the sort of players who would fold a royal flush.”

They seem to be on the verge of another one of their calamitous caves, voting to end the shut down without ANY protection of ACA subsidies.

Even when Democrats win in a rout, they still govern as if they lost. Did last week just not happen?

Robert Davis at Raw Story reports on the rising outrage.

Trump’s hands clawed the air weirdly as he bellowed greetings last night to his glad-to-be-fleeced club members. As Ben Meiselas points out, his splayed hands–in evidence when he fell asleep in the Oval Office yesterday–now seem to fall naturally into positions reminiscent of the cerebral palsy victims he mocked on the campaign trail in 2016.

This is the man MAGA worships as a virile superhero.

This is the man whom The New York Times complimented in 2024 on his allegedly ever-youthful appearance.

Bari Wess is turning CBS “News” into a fully-integrated propaganda arm of the White House.

According to the Washington Post, “Some newsroom employees say Weiss’s sensibility has begun to shape editorial operations at the network.” Indeed.

In his feeble, addled voice, Trump summons his cognition to launch a new attack on SNAP recipients a la Reagan’s “Welfare Queens” defamation.

How can Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff expect to command any respect after he bends over to service Trump’s extortion?

Of course they are congratulating him today.

You cannot call yourself a “progressive,” then vote to give billionaire developers carte blanche.

It looks like we’re going to see another bait-and-switch administration a la De Blasio, which is not surprising given that Mamdani has chosen to partner with De Blasio’s hacks.

Imagine the uproar if Biden had chosen to make himself up this way.

And imagine the uproar if Biden had put on the kind of moth eaten spectacle that Trump did today. As Aaron Rupar tweets, “Hannity would immediately start anchoring special coverage and the New York Times would fire up a live blog breaking down every syllable.”

It didn’t take long: after not endorsing the monstrous ballot referendums, at the very last moment he did, thus perhaps ensuring their passage.

They will result in less affordable housing, not more, and if he is gullible enough to think otherwise, he needs to wise sup and fast. You have got to do better, Mr. Mayor Elect. You cannot say that are working to make the city more affordable while endorsing the developers’ demands that they be allowed to build more and more and bigger and bigger luxury towers. You cannot call yourself a progressive and be a developers’ pawn.

This is what comes from Mamdani allowing himself to be steered by so many DeBlasio advisors.

In his victory speech, Mamdani might just as well have said, “New York Developers: This City Belongs to You”

He needs to throw out the DeBlasio crew as fast as possible.