Germany arrests two German-Russian nationals who were scouting facilities for sabotage on behalf of Russia. They scouted US military installations.

One more time for the folks in the back: We may not think we are at war with Russia, but Russia thinks it is at war with us.

What’s behind the new brand of white nationalist pseudoscience preached by Richard Hanania and Christopher Rufo? The same old brand of white nationalist pseudoscience preached by the likes of David Duke and Charles Murray.
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'There’s a lot of anger with the national media, the New York Times and the Washington Post in particular. People feel that they have allowed the Fox News kind of media to set the agenda.' My interview with Chris Quinn. presswatchers.org/2024/04/an-int…

Biden is now Nixon because he won’t give private interviews to the outlets that employ journalists who do things like mock him for visiting his son’s grave.

NEW: The Trump-RNC fundraising was worse than it looked last month—but a new ruling from the FEC’s Republicans about how legal accounts can be used may have bailed them out just in time. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/republicans-ju…

6 months of delay. Thousands of lives lost. Hundreds of thousands more suffering. Hard-fought gains, wiped away. And what was accomplished? Absolutely nothing, except temporarily appeasing Trump and MTG.

Shameful.

This woman introduced an amendment with the word 'Transcarpathia' in it yesterday. I've sat across a hearing room from her for long enough to know she couldn't spell that word before this week, let alone find it on a map.

We all know what's going on here.

Pro-Trump activist Scott Presler is at the Trump rally in NC today collecting signatures to get Cornel West on the ballot, which he says will take away votes from Biden

It’s time to tell America the story of what happened to their money 👇

50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says.

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For the media outlets jonesing for debates: This is why you have not earned them.

Hahahahaha. Not only is this not a “scoop” but Neukam is too committed a dick pic sniffer to note Trump already did this, including with Hunter Biden.

I can’t help but notice that it was right after the Southern Baptist Conference called on Congress to pass the Ukraine aid bill that Johnson finally agreed to bring it to the floor.

It’s hard to remember now but one of Trump’s big covid talking points 4 years ago was absurd Obama whataboutism. Obama was somehow responsible for not developing tests for a virus that didn’t exist when he was in office. Something something Obamacare website. He was flailing.

“The US political system has numerous failures: among them gridlock, right-wing bias, and corruption. But few of these failures are the result of the 2-party system. On the contrary, it’s easy to find similar or worse problems in multi-party democracies.” publicnotice.co/p/two-party-sy…

This piece ⤵️ plus Aaron Rupar’s ‘this day in history’ videos are important reminders of the absolute failure of trump & his incompetent administration to keep Americans safe during a pandemic. Do not memory hole this stuff, people.

Not to mention the people who died BECAUSE they went to Trump events. He was, unto himself, a super-spreader.

Ex:
'Super-spreading Trump rallies led to more than 700 COVID-19 deaths, study estimates' (Oct 2020)
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👇🎯 Today in 'Joe Biden is good at politics'

'We focus so much on Trump’s stupidity that we forget how deliberately evil he is. He lied to the public for his own political gain. A research panel concluded the US could’ve avoided 40% of all covid deaths under a different president.' -- Stephen Robinson publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-…

New in PN: It can be hard to remember now with the pandemic receding from view, but despite all the other horrors of the Trump presidency — family separation, stacking SCOTUS, the coup attempt — his mishandling of covid should on its own disqualify him. publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-…

Coachella is all over my timeline and I can’t help but wonder if people know that the festival is one of the largest funders of hate against LGBTQ Americans in the county? And its owner is anti-migrant, anti-abortion, and puts his money where his heart is?