The Washington Post gives Majorie Taylor Greene yet another prominent headline — and says in a sidebar that she “has no following.”
What’s wrong with this picture?

“A vote for Trump is a vote for The Handmaid’s Tale.”

A reminder that the trump MAGA 2025 plan calls for dismantling weather/climate agencies like the National Weather Service that provides free weather info including tornado alerts to Americans.

Fox News propaganda about Trump's trial has taken on some serious North Korea vibes: It absurdly portrays him as exerting total mastery over the proceedings and even depicts his dozing off as an act of heroic defiance.

This is MAGA cult stuff. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/181138…

Former Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas thinks a guy convicted of racketeering, bribery and extortion “met my standards for ethics.” That says it all about Vallas.

Gym Jordan translated:
“Let Trump target witnesses and jurors like a mob boss.”

White evangelicals must think infidelity is for Republicans only.
Franklin Graham, 1998:
Bill Clinton must resign. If he’d lie to his wife, “what will prevent him from doing the same to the American people?”
Graham, 2018:
“This thing with Stormy Daniels … is nobody’s business.”

Tom Cotton graduated from Harvard Law School. He knows how courts work and why a judge would issue a gag order when a defendant publicly targeted witnesses.
Cotton knows all this, but he’s a fascist propagandist, so he pretends he doesn’t get it.

'If this was a functioning democracy, we wouldn't be waiting for two justices who took secret gifts from billionaires and three others appointed by a criminal to tell us whether it's okay for the President to murder his rivals.' Pat Kreitlow of UpNorthNews w/ Mark Jacob

Brian gets at something we discussed in our pod chat:

'Mainstream journalists who drape themselves in high-minded abstractions about the press’s role in creating an informed citizenry will simultaneously disclaim all responsibility for the up-is-down state of public opinion.'

I’m not going to worry about computers taking over the world as long as autocorrect fails to understand the difference between “it’s” and “its.”

“The choice for advertisers has never been starker: stick around and back Elon Musk, or protect their brands and ensure their marketing dollars aren’t used to enable the spread of hate, abuse and disinformation.”

- Imran Ahmed CEO Center for Countering Digital Hate to Dan Milmo The Guardian 2022 #Advertising

Pecker’s testimony “reveals the seedy underbelly of his tabloid journalism.” Yes, quite a “revelation.” Because until this trial we thought the National Enquirer was like the New York Review of Books.

Tom Cotton likes to cite violent crime in Baltimore and Philadelphia, but Little Rock — the biggest city in Cotton’s state — is the nation’s 5th most dangerous metro area. Baltimore and Philly aren’t in the top 25.
Why doesn’t Cotton fight Arkansas crime? realestate.usnews.com/places/ranking…

When Darren Bailey won the '22 GOP primary Dan Proft summoned him for a meeting where Proft had an envelop, he said, containing $20 million from billionaire Dick Uihlein. If Bailey wanted it, he had to make Proft campaign manager...story from Rick Pearson: chicagotribune.com/2024/04/29/at-…

“Fact-Checking Trump's Remarks in the Hush Money Trial”
“That [New York Times] headline was the equivalent of a sports headline in which the Times declared that ‘We Covered the Knicks Game’ but did not disclose who won.”

Now would be a good time to consider which family and friends may lean toward Trump but are persuadable. They’re the ones we must work on – not with a hard sell but by gently explaining why Trump is so dangerous and offering to chat confidentially.
This can make a difference.

Republicans are running away from the abortion issue, but they’ll run right back to it if they win in November.