Ken Hamilton

See you in court. democracydocket.com/cases/florida-…

@CarolLeonnig @jkbjournalist Thank you Julie Brown!

Congrats to you @jkbjournalist

Trump: *causes $5 gas* MAGA:

I confront @GeraldoRivera after he called me a dick.

Why do you spread such dishonest bullshit @joerogan? Hillary publicly conceded & congratulated Trump the morning after Election Day. She then didn’t say a word about the 2016 election for 3yrs. And Trump didn’t just “question” the election. He refused to accept the result. He lied about it. And still does. And then he committed crimes trying to overthrow the election. He’s the only president in American history to do ANY of that. And he’s trying to fuck with the elections this year. And he again won’t accept the election results this year. So yeah Rogan, you attack our elections process like that, you ARE a threat to democracy.

Norman Rockwell painting "Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)." It depicts the final moments in the lives of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights workers killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan over 50 years ago for registering people to vote.

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy. Since that day, job growth has come to a standstill, with only the non-traded healthcare industry adding meaningfully to payrolls. Also, since that day, inflation has accelerated, with the consumer expenditure deflator increasing at a 3% year-over-year pace, up from 2.5% before the tariffs and well above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. And the trend lines don’t look good, especially as the economic fallout from the Iran War hits with full force. The higher energy and other commodity prices caused by the war threaten to do even more economic damage than the tariffs, further undermining growth and pushing inflation higher. The U.S. economy is resilient, but just how resilient is set to be tested.

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Former Mueller prosecutor @AWeissmann_: Paul Manafort, Trump’s 2nd campaign manager, met with a Putin ally—with Trump’s implicit approval—to discuss a deal allowing Russia to annex part of Ukraine. *Manafort was present at RNC 2024.

@ConceptualJames @VaTechPhiDelt @adammocklerr Discussing an issue is growing. Adults know this. Others say stop crying.

@VaTechPhiDelt @adammocklerr Quit crying and grow.

One thing I've noticed here on this app is that the vast majority of the posts that go really big have something in common: directing opprobrium at some group that is morally sanctioned to blame viciously for one's own problems in life.

Planter has a tattoo used by Nazis, Collins supports the policies of Nazis. That’s your choice, Maine.

“Unprecedented destruction” Majority of U.S. military sites in the Middle East damaged by Iran, CNN investigation reveals. Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth desperately tried to keep the extent of the damage from the public so people wouldn’t see how badly this was botched. Now the images are coming out and they’re disturbing.

Trump's disapproval just reached a new high in the Post-ABC-Ipsos poll. Disapproval of Trump on: 62% his job as president 76% cost of living 72% inflation 66% situation with Iran 65% relations with U.S. allies 65% the economy 61% taxes 59% immigration

You don’t need an autopsy to know why we lost 2024: In-party fundamentals, nominee switch 90 days out, and the Harris field team forbid canvassers from talking about Trump- leaving 60% of swing voters to have fond memories of term 1 WHICH ENDED IN INSURRECTION.

Do you need a hug? Be Best.

MAGA influencer Craig Long was arrested this week in Florida for his role in a sex trafficking ring. Long, who is a close friend of Donald Trump Jr. and strong supporter of Donald Trump, was caught in a sting operation in Polk County.

Leave aside your views of the Iran War or the CNN melodrama of Scott Jennings yelling: "get your fucking finger out of my face!" What's most notable is that Scott Jennings became enraged at exactly the moment when his history of working in the Bush/Cheney Adm was raised, and it was pointed out that he and his allies sold the Iraq War to the American public based on the *exact arguments and scripts* Jennings is now using to sell the Iran War to Americans (WMDs, terror state, oppressed their own people, can't wait for a mushroom cloud, etc. etc.). The DC swamp is so accountability-free that they all think they're entitled to have everyone just forget -- and not hold against them -- that they deceived the country into a historically disastrous and criminal invasion of Iraq, only to now return to use the same exact mentality, ideology, tactics and narratives to sell this new war against a country bordering Iraq, all as if it none of it ever happened! That Jennings and countless media and political elites are using the same arguments to justify the Iran War that they used for Iraq doesn't, of course, by itself prove that the new pro-war arguments are wrong. But OF COURSE that should be a vital factor in determining the credibility of these people and their assertions. And it should be the main metric for determining whether these are the people who should be presented as experts and listened to when advocating the very war policies that disgraced them when they defended them 20 years ago. In no other profession or sub-culture would such catastrophic error (or deceit) be deemed irrelevant. But because this basic standard would reputationally harm and disqualify the bulk of the DC political and media class on a bipartisan basis, they all unite to pretend it never happened or at least implicitly agree that it's irrelevant. The CNN guest violated that implicit self-protective taboo against raising it, and that's what sparked Jennings' rage.

I’m old enough to remember when Fox News threw tantrums and Republicans called for endless hearings when Joe Biden received a $40,000 loan repayment check from his brother. Trump has made over $4 billion from various grifts and shady deals, from just his second term.