Joe Sodd

How can the Administration justify asking for a $1.5 trillion defense budget when the Pentagon has never even passed a full audit?

This is assault. Under NY law, a class D violent felony. Maximum 7 years in prison. Minimum 2. Add the fact that there’s more than one agent, gang assault. A class C violent felony. Max 15 years. Minimum 3.5.

It's war. It's also a world war, and the bad guys know it and act like it while the free world is still in denial.

Trump telling Zelenskyy to “end the war” is like telling the homeowner to “end the burglary.” Maybe it’s on the burglar?

There are three big problems for Blanche with crooked Trump deal he incubated: (1) the slush fund for cop-beaters and MAGA-loons, (2) the Trump family tax fraud amnesty scam, and (3) they pulled it off through collusion and possible “fraud on the court.”

I can't top this npr.org/2026/07/28/nx-…

I have a question for those who study the media: Does anyone in corporate owned media wonder if their declining audience and trust is the product of events like we saw last night? Because, as someone who started an independent media outlet, it is definitely part of our growth.

The legacy media is reconsidering the White House Correspondence dinner because Trump insulted them. What they don't get is that they insulted their viewers and readers by attending it. Support independent media that doesn't suck up to Trump whether he is nice to them or not it.

Years ago, a USAF general came to the Naval War College and said: "Strategy? Strategy is just ordnance on target." The faculty said: Uh, no. But today that mindset - lethality! - clearly dominated our Iran planning. And that's why we are where we are.

“He stacked the judiciary with cronies. He took over the universities. He shut down independent news outlets. He gerrymandered the voting districts to ensure his continued rule, all in the name of saving the country and its heritage from liberal outsiders—and in the process became a model for an aspiring autocrat 4,500 miles to the west. “Three months ago, against the odds and in overwhelming fashion, Hungarians somehow showed Viktor Orbán the door anyway.”

@OffcolorBrewing Where will its' next home be?

Today is the day. But before the fun, we want to take a moment to recognize all the amazing breweries who started, and kept alive, this crazy pH1 story that we’re still in disbelief that we somehow get to be part of.

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night. It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me. Sad and embarrassed and exhausted. Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one. People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room. Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old. He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second. That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed. There is a name for it. So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers. The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin. And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride. Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was. And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving. Just another joke at our expense.

Six months ago, Alex Pretti was shot by federal immigration agents on the streets of Minneapolis, just 18 days after ICE fatally shot Renee Good. Alex was a 37-year-old intensive care nurse for veterans, an outdoorsman, a dog lover, a brother, and a son. His compassion touched more lives than he probably ever realized.   Alex’s killing shook Minnesota and Americans everywhere. People wanted answers. They wanted accountability. And they wanted to know that no family or community would ever be forced to endure a tragedy like this, at the hands of a federal secret police force, again. Today, our fight is far from over.    The questions raised by Alex Pretti’s death have not gone away, they have only grown more urgent. In the past two weeks, two more people were fatally shot by ICE agents: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and 26-year-old Jordan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Maine. None of the agents involved were wearing body cameras.    Refusing any type of independent investigation is not normal. Blocking local law enforcement from reviewing evidence is not normal. ICE is beyond repair. We can no longer reform our way out of this. It is well time to strip it down to the studs and start over.

Jake Tapper reports that Greg Bovino on a call with the office of the US Attorney in Minnesota during Metro Surge made an antisemitic remark about the Trump-friendly US Attorney in Minnesota

Around 4pm, more than 3 hours after the insurrection started: Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, sheltering in place at the Capitol, begging Trump to call it off. "MR. PRESIDENT! CALL IT OFF! YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN CALL IT OFF THE ELECTION IS OVER!!" (see below Jack Smith's argument for Trump's prosecution 👀)

Just voted early for @peggyflanagan!

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

トランプ氏を見たムニョスのリアクションが話題に😂 x.com/YazzLFC/status…

🇷🇺 Somewhere in Russia: From excitement to fear in 20 seconds. Sound on!