LisaOKC

@JDCocchiarella I’ve been saying for a couple of months - this is THE guy to watch!! @jamestalarico will be president one day!!!!

The man is a walking national security hazard

trump says if negotiations work, "we'll have FREE OIL..." This is why you can't believe anything he says. He just says shit, totally disconnected from reality.

The Trump admin tried to end-run an order blocking the East Wing ballroom's construction by invoking an exception permitting work on the project’s “safety and security” features. Judge Leon indignantly clarifies: “That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!” buff.ly/kWARaBf

KAINE: You've sacked 350,000 people, do you know how many were veterans? VOUGHT: *deflects* KAINE: 30% of the federal workforce are veterans. So when you fire 350,000 people, I think you've fired more veterans than any other administration in history.

DoD civil war between Hegseth and Driscoll increasingly being waged in public.

Shortly after taking office, Vance used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to scold European allies for their outrageous assaults on free speech principles. But Orban banning political opponents from state media didn’t stop Vance from campaigning for his bff.

BIG personal news: I wrote a book! And it's good. I promise. It comes out on September 15th! So what is I DISAGREE about? It's my answer to the question I get the most: How do you do it?  It's not just Democrats that ask me. It's people of all political stripes who watch the Five or see clips of me flying around and feel like they're going to get an ulcer from just a few minutes of the heated political debate we engage in daily. They want to understand the dynamic - "what's it like in commercial breaks?" - but more than that they want to know how I stay true to my values, find common ground where it's available, and communicate across political and social divides. And they want to do it, too! That's what I DISAGREE does. It uses my life experiences, and some social science, as a roadmap for big lessons that can help all of us do better in representing our beliefs in tough situations. Hopefully, we'll be able to forge a path toward better politics and, crucially, better relationships. You could be facing anything from the Thanksgiving table, to the water cooler at work (if you go to the office), to a TV hit in front of 4 million viewers. It's all rooted in using the same accessible tools for building confidence, knowledge, and approach to difficult conversations and issues.

Complete break with reality

Trump just said gas prices are "not very high." The national average for a gallon of gas is $4.09.

1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes. politico.com/newsletters/po…

7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in.

RFK Jr: I could not answer those questions because it's not my agency HORSFORD: You don't coordinate with the EPA in rolling back protections that would increase exposure to heavy metals?! RFK Jr: Calm down, congressman HORSFORD: Do not tell me to calm down! Healthcare is real

Even the architectural critic who encouraged Trump last year to build a triumphal arch in Washington thinks he's going too far. "It's way too big for that site." @lukebroadwater @ZacharyHSmall nytimes.com/2026/04/15/us/…

So the holiest of Bible thumping Christian Nationalists, Pete Hegseth, literally read the Samuel Jackson fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction at his monthly command performance church service? Amazing. Pete never fails beclowning himself.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: "The vehicle of the ICE agent pulled up next to him and drew a gun and pointed it at their heads. That, we believe, was illegal."

After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood. open.substack.com/pub/lettersfro…

Trump's Budget Director Russ Vought just REFUSED to tell me how much of YOUR taxpayer dollars Trump has already spent on his war of choice with Iran. That's outrageous. It's literally his job to know, and the American people deserve answers!

The time and energy spent over 10 years hiding Trump’s many crimes and dementia is extraordinary. A coup to overthrow the govt. Selling classified documents. Conspiring with Russia. Selling pardons. Epstein crimes. Fake physicals. He accomplished nothing. He vandalized the country. His enablers will be remembered for hiding the dementia, crimes and treason of for the worst parasite in US history.

Imagine beefing with the Pope all week and having your sycophants claim the Pope doesn't know the Bible only for one of your sycophants to come out here and quote a fake Bible verse from a movie. Embarrassing.