There was a time, back when there were rules and norms, when any federal law enforcement action related to political candidates in the immediate lead-up to the election was expressly forbidden.
We don’t live in such a time.

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Turns out that Trump's announcement of an "energy ceasefire" in the Russia-Ukraine war was bullshit. Turns out that major media will keep falling for it every time.
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
It would be nice if the news media would ask Republican candidates why they're welcoming big-bucks campaign help from a white supremacist who supports fascist movements both in the U.S. and abroad.
I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.
We have to get money out of politics. This isn't democracy.
This search was conducted by the Homeland Security Department, where lying and harassment are routine.
There was a time, back when there were rules and norms, when any federal law enforcement action related to political candidates in the immediate lead-up to the election was expressly forbidden.
We don’t live in such a time.
Fox, probably being fed info from the regime, says the feds' search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home "stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child." In other words, it's fascist bullshit.
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Big loss in court for Trump’s taxpayer-funded TV commercials
If the task we face of reconstructing our government, economy, and even society is comparable to the challenge FDR faced, it won’t be enough to enjoy the failures of our opponents. Don't let up.
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
So as usual, one more element of Trump's Big Brilliant Plan for Ukraine is backfiring: He demands elections in Ukraine while aiding and abetting Russia to make those elections impossible.
1) Don't write this movie off. It split critics, tanked at the b.o. You'll find much to unpack via the prism of personal experience in FB's notoriously manipulated town square - Zuckerberg refers to it as "a cork board" onto which we thumbtack self-aggrandizement and society-corrupting mendacity.
It's not that box office reporting is devoid of value, but it does feel at times like it's used to reinforce the safest pathways forward. I didn't like DIGGER, but I do not give a shit about how much money it lost, and I think studios should spend big on original ideas.
Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.
"I have one Haitian friend, I invited her to a birthday party, and she asked, ‘Is it in a restaurant or a home? Because if it’s in a restaurant, I will not go.’”
If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©.
Wait'll we flip Congress and find YOU, Homan.
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New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."
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