Sorkin: This is now state-sponsored capitalism. This is not really capitalism. Everything runs through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue now. That is a fundamental reshift, and that is something that’s more akin to places like China, frankly.
It’s almost like they’re making this shit up.
HOLY SH*T
This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.
Some of you asked me what I think it means to be "conservative" now. I wrote about it three years ago here:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
I read every word of the Gabbard Files so you don’t have to.
It won’t shock you to hear there’s no there there. But I wanted to lay out what she’s claiming against the timeline of the interference & collision investigations to expose just how dishonest it actually is. Helpfully organized by drop!
Dementia Don.
Trump: "[Ghislaine Maxwell's] friend or boyfriend, Epstein, was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She's now in jail. I wish her well...I mean, do you know that she's guilty?" (2020)
Got damn
Very good work. Read it and act.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...
As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members: 1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual. 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160 Filed 07/07/25 Page 2 of 4 The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned. Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
Bondi flips out and refuses to answer after being pressed by @senjeffmerkley.bsky.social on Trump's crypto scheme
Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995
😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns
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Beta Musk.
Amazing that when they get in courtrooms, all the big claims they make outside the courthouse to the media suddenly go away.
The admin has never explicitly said it's pro-corruption, but the end of the FBI’s public corruption squad is part of a pattern:
- gutting the DOJ's Public Integrity Section
- halting Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement
- firing IGs
- Eric Adams case
- pardons for those convicted of corruption
A great read from my better half:
Why I Left MAGA In 2020
The real, honest truth
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
Yeah, but I think Trump could be just that spiteful.
Probably doesn’t help that they have a Democratic governor.
Alienate our allies
Crash the market
Devalue the dollar
Spike prices
Dismantle the federal government
Cause immigrants to live in fear
Make others not want to come here
If you made a blueprint for how to hurt 🇺🇸, it would look a lot like this
Putin is enjoying the show
It’s not. Congress could solve this quite easily.
This is evil.
"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
This is absolutely insane.
Rubio says that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportations of American citizens www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
