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Norman Ornstein
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Political scientist, contributing editor for the Atlantic, contributor to The Contrarian, cohost of the podcast Words Matter.
Washington, DC Katılım Kasım 2013
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Straight bribery
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
Breaking NYT: The Trump Justice Department is dropping Biden-era charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. The reversal came after Adani hired a new legal team led by one of Trump's personal lawyers. That lawyer went to DOJ and made a proposal: If prosecutors dropped the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs. nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyr…
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Lawless and disgusting
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Exclusive: The Trump administration planned to start working on the president’s proposed Triumphal Arch by piggybacking on an existing, unrelated contract for engineering services at the White House grounds more than a mile away, emails show. wapo.st/4uh1nwm
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Just a little thought experiment. Imagine Xi tells Trump that he will give him $10 billion plus unlimited Trump Towers and golf courses on Taiwan if he simply lets China take over. What do you think Trump would do?
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Streak ends at 291. I was stupid.
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Budgets reflect policy priorities.
It makes no sense to cut U.S. Forest Service operations & research while spending nearly the same amount on a presidential ballroom.
Today, I told the USFS Director there is no justification for such a cut to caring for our nation’s forests.
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This is crazy. 60 days for sexual abuse of a 6-9 year old. Pedophilia has basically become legal of you are a Republican.
GOP Ls@GOP__Ls
🚨Republican Attorney Adam Hoffman sexually abused a young boy for years. Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton gave him a 60-day sentence.
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Cameron Sexton. Racist authoritarian monster unfit for public life or decent society
Heartland Signal@HeartlandSignal
Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton has stripped all 24 Democrats in his chamber of their committee assignments because they protested the GOP's new gerrymandered map on the House floor. bit.ly/4dkScDF
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The specific email in this piece is the most useful single document.
When Missouri Governor Blunt considered appointing a judge Leo opposed, Leo wrote to the governor's chief of staff: "He will have zero juice on the national scene if he ends up picking a judge who is a disgrace. If this happens, there will be fury from the conservative base, the likes of which you and the Governor have never seen."
Blunt appointed the judge anyway. Leo followed up: "Your boss is a coward and conservatives have neither the time nor the patience for the likes of him."
Blunt chose not to run for reelection at 37. His political career ended.
That's the enforcement structure operating underneath the pipeline. Not persuasion. Not argument. Explicit threat of political consequences from a private citizen who had never held office, never argued a case, and never served a day on the bench - directed at a sitting governor.
Leo now controls a $1.6 billion trust aimed at expanding beyond courts to culture and politics broadly. 86% of Trump's circuit and Supreme Court appointees were Federalist Society members.
ProPublica@propublica
The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. propublica.org/article/we-don…
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Cowards who trade their integrity for access
Rick Reilly@ReillyRick
As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up 4 each other. I once got into a brawl w/ a U Miami ass't coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer. Grow a pair!
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As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up 4 each other. I once got into a brawl w/ a U Miami ass't coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer. Grow a pair!
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In this clip, Speaker Johnson says maps that gave Black voters representation "divided Americans."
This is the exact language used by segregationists and opponents of the Civil Rights movement to attack figures like MLK. They are using the same playbook to destroy his legacy.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Mike Johnson defends egregiously gerrymandered maps like the new one in Tennessee, but then in the very next breath claims the Virginia map that was struck down "was a hastily drawn gerrymander that was unconstitutional"
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BREAKINGNEWS: FBI Director made claim that @ChrisVanHollen paid over $7,000 bar tab in El Salvador while visiting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
We find out the $7,000 tab wasn't in El Salvador or wasn't at a local bar. It was through a catering service for staff paid for by campaign funds. Not a single dime from tax payers, but from contributions.
FBI Director Kash Patel should resign for this reason and 100 other reasons. 🚨
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The young people of China just love Trump! What a spontaneous outpouring of affection and admiration!
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
Chinese students greet President Trump with a flag-waving ceremony upon his arrival in Beijing. 🎥: @MargoMartin47
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Serial liar, serial grifter, horrible human being
Phil Williams@PhilNvestigates
He raised nearly $25,000 from a GoFundMe for a child’s burial garden that was never built. Now Andy Ogles says that money did not actually come from the public. (Link below.)
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This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Insanity.
.@GregTSargent
Is it legal for Trump to order a government agency to hand him a huge pile of taxpayer money? Note that the White House is directly discussing this with DOJ! Right-wing populists who hate "elite" self-dealing and corruption will be outraged about this, right?
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