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No big deal. Just your typical trillion ton iceberg, breaking away from Antarctica, in the dead of their winter. #LarsenC #Antarctica twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/…

Kennedy and Senate Republicans could have done this long ago, and so could have Trump. It was all a charade.

The good news is, if our malignant narcissist sliding into dementia president tries to do anything crazy with the military, Pete Hegseth is in a position to prevent it so what could go wrong?

Mike Lindell was served with a lawsuit today while doing an interview at CPAC.

More proof that Republicans wanted to withhold TSA funding to cause airport chaos for negotiating leverage. Everything they said about airports being a mess over the past two weeks is exactly what they wanted.

The Attorney General of the United States should know it is a right for hundreds of millions of Americans. x.com/atrupar/status…

Republicans in disarray.

House Republicans reject the DHS funding deal passed by the Senate last night and senators have all gone home and are in recess for the next two weeks. The dysfunctional Republican Congress.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 335. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

@RonFilipkowski Hegseth channelling his inner Mussolini.

Trump claimed he was giving Noem a promotion when he moved her from DHS Secretary to this.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 335. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

This is peak Trump: a malignant narcissist who maintains an enemies list like a two-bit autocrat and literally couldn’t stand the thought of Bob Mueller dying without being “punished.” No morality, no ethics, no fidelity to law or the Constitution—just raw, illegal, unconstitutional vengeance. That’s why he’s terrifying.

Taylor: The day that I decided to quit that administration was the day when a mentor of mine from capitol hill had died. His name was John McCain. The flags were at half staff around the country, and the president was trying to call us in Australia on the other side of the world, to say, not put out a statement in honor of John McCain, but to say, raise the flags back up. I don't care if you agreed with John McCain or disagreed. It didn't matter like Bob Mueller, he served this country in uniform. He was a sitting united States senator. He deserved to be honored with the flags at half staff—for the president of the United States to be so petty, so small and petty, to tell us to raise the flags back up in an act of active dishonor, tells you everything you need to know about that man and his lack of integrity and character.

Kudos to Aaron Rupar for this great piece about Mark Jacob, who is SPOT ON. This is SO IMPORTANT. Jacob has been sounding the alarm for a while not only about Trump's unfitness but the need for reporters to be bolder in how they cover him. YES! Jacob: “People in media are journalists, not psychologists. They don’t know how to react when Trump says or does something that’s mentally deranged. Too often, they try to fit it into a rational frame of reference even though it’s irrational." YES AGAIN! "This sanewashing has been going on for a long time, and it keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage. The press needs to be writing about his mental unfitness every day until we get rid of him and save our country.” HEAR, HEAR! Excellent piece, below. stopthepresses.news/p/media-must-c…

Trump's narrative over the past couple of days has gotten more fantastical than ever. His break from reality is widening due to age, illness, stress, and panic. As dangerous as he is, normalizing him going forward is just as dangerous. Some elected officials need to start speaking more loudly - he cannot address Americans truthfully, cannot even speak informationally; he is thus not fit to serve, and cannot continue as president.

Retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, just ripped LUNATIC Trump a new asshole over his blithering idiocy by going to war against Iran — calling his demands "delusional." "What we’re seeing is a situation where targetry never makes up for a lack of strategy. And by that I mean 15,000 targets have been hit. There have been significant military successes, but they are not matched by strategic outcomes. Now, some of the strategic outcomes early on, unconditional surrender, regime change, we’re going to dictate who the next supreme leader is — those were clearly nonsense. Those were delusional and you don’t hear those bandied about anymore."

When we finally took Iwo Jima there were nearly 7,000 US dead and 19,000 wounded. Lindsey didn’t take Iwo Jima. He’s sending our kids to die for oil. Period. This man is a monster.

Why are ICE agents coming to airports? Because GOP blocked 6 different bills that would have opened TSA. They won’t fund TSA unless we give ICE unlimited funds and impunity. This is the GOP’s mess.

The Republicans are finally reading the Save Act and finding out that the Red States are the ones where the Save Act will end up hurting the most since they have the lowest Passport ownership!