Quick Note: Depending on how long today’s Special Session runs (I’m thinkin’ real long), I might miss a lot of it while I’m enmeshed in the blues-rock stylings of Joanne Shaw Taylor. So, I need you to fill us in on what’s happening. Thanks in advance!
Why Democrats Suck–Mach Infinity: the clowns looking for their own Sister Souljah moment:
Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared on the Megyn Kelly Show, hosted by a former Fox host, where he said that a man cannot become a woman — then joked that given the likely reaction of his fellow Democrats, that answer would require him “to go into a witness protection plan.”
As prominent Democrats begin testing the waters for potential 2028 presidential runs, some have been explicitly rejecting tenets of liberal orthodoxy in high-profile ways, often in venues that might attract independent or pro-Trump listeners.
The appearances come as many Democrats, especially centrists, are urging the party to embrace what they say is a key lesson from their 2024 loss to President Donald Trump: that Democrats must distance themselves from the most easily weaponized left-leaning positions, and that they must engage with podcasts, radio shows and other media that are outside the liberal sphere.
OK. First, this reflects the editorial bent of the Washington Post finding its way into the so-called news side. Second, these guys ignore the corporatization of the Democratic Party as a key reason for the Party’s increasing irrelevance. Third, yes, let’s make The Blacks, The Hispanics, The LGBTQ community, among others, walk the plank in order to achieve what? Electoral superiority? Without their historically strongest supporters? Good luck with that. You know what’s popular? Progressive policies. Too bad that the current corporate financial base of the Democratic Party views progressive policies as the enemy. While they cut deals with our Fascist president.
Speaking Of WaPo Interference…:
As The Washington Post documented in advance of Trump’s declaration of what looks a lot like martial law within the District of Columbia, violent crime spiked in 2023 but fell sharply in 2024, and since the start of 2025 it’s stood lower than during nearly all Trump’s first term as president (when Trump paid D.C. crime little heed). This is part of a national trend; according to the Post, homicides are down 30 percent nationwide, as are burglaries and robberies. Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police and his deployment of the National Guard therefore have no justification in observable reality. Even Trump’s own FBI director, Kash Patel, in a hilariously off-message statement at the press conference announcing the deployment, said that “the murder rate is on track to the be lowest in U.S. history.”
Regrettably, after the Post got finished showing “what the data shows,” someone (I’d bet an editor) added this sentence: “Not captured in statistics, though, is the grief, pain and shattered sense of safety that follow each crime.” Oh, please. In the context of an imminent and deeply troubling federal takeover of the city’s police force, I put that statement somewhere between rationalization and abject surrender. Similarly craven was the Post’s subsequent framing of the matter as a dispute between a president who thinks violent crime is going up and a D.C. mayor who thinks it’s going down. Mayor Muriel Bowser doesn’t think it’s going down. It’s going down.
BTW, don’t search The Post for any ‘grief, pain and shattered sense of safety’ when it comes to the kidnapping and disappearing of immigrants. You won’t find any.
Trump Nominates New Guy To Distort The Statistics. As always, the vote comes down to which R’s ultimately cave:
President Trump announced on Monday that he would nominate E.J. Antoni, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Mr. Trump fired the previous commissioner of the agency after it reported weak job growth.
Dr. Antoni, who would need to be confirmed by the Senate, has previously criticized the bureau and questioned its methods and reports. His nomination underscored Mr. Trump’s attempts to place his own allies in control of a key repository of data about the nation’s hiring, wages and prices.
Economists on both the left and right of the political spectrum say it is critical that the heads of the statistical agencies are seen as politically neutral
Many cited William W. Beach, who led the Bureau of Labor Statistics during the first Trump administration, as a model to follow. A conservative economist with decades of experience working for right-leaning think tanks, he was also widely praised for his nonpartisan leadership, and has condemned Dr. McEntarfer’s dismissal.
Trump Profits Off Of Trump. Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely. Open Secrets shines the light:
No modern president has jumped so directly from the world of business to the presidency as Donald Trump. And in so doing, Trump has refused to do as his predecessors have done: sever ties to the companies or financial interests that may pose, or present the appearance of, a conflict of interest. By keeping his assets in a family-managed trust, which he can revoke at any time, Trump and his family are in the unique position to profit directly from his public service. Special interests in Washington have caught on. Those seeking to curry favor with Trump are not only donating to his reelection campaign but holding fundraisers and galas at his resorts, private clubs and hotels – the proceeds of which benefit him and his family.
To track this new influence-buying and presidential profiteering, OpenSecrets has created this page to track payments to Trump properties from Trump-related entities and beyond.
Oh, and this doesn’t even include 2025, where the corruption has metastasized.
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