Judith A. Milch🇺🇲🇺🇦

Trump declares almost 50% of Americans to be public enemy number one – right after Iran. This is no longer politics; this is open civil war from the mouth of a president. Anyone who brands half of their own people – millions of ordinary Americans who simply vote differently – as the "greatest enemy" hasn't understood America; Trump hates it. This rhetoric isn't "tough," it's treacherous. It destroys precisely what makes America strong: the idea that Americans, despite all their differences, are one nation. Trump has just proven that he doesn't want to be president of all Americans – but merely the leader of a faction that considers the rest the enemy. Insane. And extremely dangerous.

@ElmerThoughts @mmpadellan @brithume Yes we do. Dems didn't elect the buffoon. Dems want all of the Epstein Files released. Dems want TSA to be funded. They also want a few restrictions on ICE & CBP. Dems want health insur. & SNAP benefits funded. Dems want mail-in ballots b/c there's almost zero voter fraud. .@GOP?

@mmpadellan @brithume While I don't condone or support Trump's comments about Mueller, y'all don't get to pretend you have the moral high ground.

Is that what would you say about Trump if he died tomorrow?

You know Brit, it's very simple. People expect a higher standard of conduct from the President of the United States. At least we USED to. There are SO many things that you and your fellow talking heads at Fox just ignore, or sanewash, or explain away as "That's just trump being trump." But no, man... he's the leader of the free world. There are a bare minimum of expectations that come with the job, like not acting like a drunken idiot at the end of the bar. Like treating the Japan OM with respect. Like not posting crude sentiments about a highly-decorated war veteran upon his death. And you KNOW this. Stop trying to hold George Conway to a higher standard. If George were President, I guarantee you he wouldn't do that. And THAT is the point.

This is characteristically vile and predictably deranged, but the important thing to remember is that Trump never said anything remotely so negative or definitive about the death of his long-time best friend Jeffrey Epstein. And he wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well. Think about that.

Reminder that Mueller indicted 26 Russians and 8 Americans for working together to interfere with the election. All 8 Americans were convicted in court, but 5 were pardoned by Trump.

Donald Trump is a pox on humanity. He's the worst President this country has ever had. A disgrace. He's a threat to Democracy everywhere. Trump wld rather lift sanctions on 🇷🇺 & do Putin's bidding on Ukraine, than have the decency to say nothing about Mueller's death. Enough! 🙅🏻‍♀️

And that's just one state: North Carolina

Today we filed a lawsuit to block the largest TV merger in American history. The biggest local TV company in the country wants to buy one of its biggest competitors. Why should you care? Because it would mean paying more for TV. It would hit about half the families in North Carolina. Nationally, about 80%. If you watch Sunday afternoon football, local news, or network shows, you'd end up paying more. It would also gut local news. Fewer reporters, fewer stories, less scrutiny on state and local leaders. This company has a track record of merging newsrooms after it buys a competitor. In one city, two supposedly competing stations now share the same anchors, the same news director, and the same website. Two channels. One newsroom. The company has said it expects to make roughly $135m from raising prices and another $165m from "synergies" - i.e., laying people off. The USDOJ has historically been the one to challenge mergers like this, and it did, twice, when Nexstar tried similar mergers in 2016 and 2020. But that's not happening right now. The federal antitrust enforcers who are supposed to be policing these deals have stepped back, and that's left a void. State attorneys general are filling it. That's why eight AGs have filed this case together, and I'll keep you posted.

For more detail about our legal argument, when I say it's not a close call, here's what I mean: There's a standard measure the federal government uses to determine whether a merger puts too much power in one company's hands. It's been the benchmark for antitrust enforcement for decades. If a merger pushes concentration above a certain level and increases it by more than 100 points, the law presumes it's illegal. In the NC markets affected by this deal, the increase isn't 200 points or 500 points. It's over 1,000 points in every single one. The legal trigger is 100. This deal hits 13 times that in Charlotte, 14 times in the Triad, and 19 times in Norfolk. Not a close call.

Update: Yesterday, we filed a lawsuit to block the biggest TV merger in history (Nexstar + Tegna). That sparked a sprint by Nexstar to try to close the deal before a court could stop them. Less than 24 hours after we filed, USDOJ reportedly dropped its investigation, the FCC waived the rules that would normally block a merger this big, and Nexstar announced the deal was closed. Their CEO thanked the FCC chairman by name. Not so fast. This morning, I joined a group of AGs and filed an emergency motion asking the court to freeze this merger to give it time to hear our case. This merger deserves a full hearing before Nexstar starts raising TV prices on almost half the families in North Carolina and laying off reporters at local news stations across the state. This isn't speculation. Nexstar told its investors it expects to make roughly $135 million a year from charging higher fees to your cable and satellite provider, and another $165 million from "synergies" - their word for laying people off. And the law is on our side. When a merger gives one company this much control over a market, federal antitrust law presumes it's illegal. In every single NC market affected by this deal, the concentration blows past the legal threshold. It's not a close call, and that's probably why they tried to skip the part where a judge weighs in. Our emergency motion was just filed. I'll keep you posted.

I think about my kids. I think about the car rides where Jack or Charlotte asks me out of nowhere, the way kids do, when the radio’s low and you think they’re not paying attention, “Dad, what does the President do?” And I’d tell them. Proudly. That the President is someone who carries the weight of all of us. That the job calls out the very best in a person. That it’s the highest honor this country can give. I believed that when I said it. I will not have that conversation today. Not because I don’t have the words. Because I will not let my children believe for a single second that what they saw this morning is acceptable. That cruelty is strength. That power means you never have to be decent. That you can dance on a hero’s grave and call it justice. I will not raise children who think that is normal. I will not raise children who think that is America. And I know I am not alone. Because we have been here before. Men waded through freezing water at Valley Forge for a country that hadn’t fully been born yet. They bled on the beaches of Normandy for children they would never meet. They crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge into swinging batons because they believed, despite every reason not to, that America’s promise was worth the pain. They did not do that for us to surrender it in silence. The rot is deep. Scrubbing this stain from the soul of our nation will not happen in a single election, a single speech, a single post on a Saturday afternoon. It will take years. It will demand more from us than comfort allows. But we do not get to use that as an excuse to look away. So, it falls to each of us, Democrat, Republican, Independent, who has ever looked at their child and felt the terrifying beauty of knowing you are responsible for shaping who they become. Stand up. Not for a party. Not for a politician. For the country you are trying to hand to children who had no say in the world we’re making for them. Robert Mueller walked into fire, again and again, because he believed America was worth it. The least we can do, the absolute least, is honor that sacrifice by refusing to let cruelty become normal. By refusing to let the gutter become the standard. By refusing to sit down, scroll past, and let history record that we saw this moment clearly, and did nothing. Our children are watching. Generations not yet born are counting on decisions we make right now, in this hour, in this darkness. We do not get to look away. Rise. Fight. Restore. Push.

Russia has a lot of land -- the largest country in the world. Russia does not have a lot of people. Demographic trends are a major challenge. Putin is slaughtering young Russians to acquire tiny bits of land in Ukraine. Irrational.

Ukraine has seriously perfected their drone warfare. Every day there’s brand new footage of helicopters & air defences being destroyed. More land has been retaken in the last month than any since 2023. 4,000 russian losses every 48 hours & these numbers will continue to increase

Orban is blackmailing and threatening Ukraine. His entire campaign is attacking Zelenskyy. All because he’s in bed with russia. Kremlin election meddlers have been spotted with him. He is desperately clinging to power to avoid jail for corruption where he belongs.

Asking for a friend...🤔

Washington DC is not the President’s personal real estate empire. Our public buildings belong to the people.  The courts need to put a stop to the President’s backdoor efforts to remake our nation’s national landmarks and ruin our collective history.  That’s why I introduced the Federal Facilities Protection and Oversight Act—to protect our historic federal buildings and ensure no president can demolish or remake them on a whim. Because our heritage belongs to all of us! thehill.com/newsletters/th…

The hypocrisy of Europe is staggering: We use our fighter jets to shoot down drones in the Middle East, yet refuse to intercept a single Russian drone over Ukraine. It is utterly pathetic to defend another continent while letting a European nation burn

Peter Thiel claims to be a libertarian who despises government overreach, yet he is building his fortune by selling mass surveillance technology to the state. Warning against dystopian control while creating the means for it makes him a profoundly dangerous hypocrite

1/5 Wild paradox: Iran’s military has been incredibly unimpressive in this war, but it still managed to back Trump into a corner and keep the regime alive. The war is existential for Iran, not the US, and when you combine this with Trump’s horrible planning, you get a disaster

It is absolute insanity for Europe to be distracted by the Middle East when there is a war raging at our own borders. Ukraine is fighting for the survival of the entire continent. We cannot afford to divert our focus away from Ukraine