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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the Trump administration is bringing America to a “tipping point” where democracy will soon be unattainable. Murphy said, “So I just think there’s a tipping point at which you can’t get your democracy back. And I see all of these very purposeful lines of effort that the Trump administration and Elon Musk are taking. And I think we just have to be right now, at this moment on, you know, red alert mode. And what I see, right, is the normalization of violence. I don’t think you can underscore...

An LGBTQ group in Ecuador tapped into a $25,000 grant from the Biden State Department to produce a two-day drag workshop intended to promote diversity and inclusion abroad. Footage obtained by The Post showed drag queens donning makeup, strutting around topless wearing nothing but pasties and crowing about how the displays could be used as a “political tool.” Fundacion Dialogo Diverso, a nongovernmental organization that aims to promote democracy and the “LGBTIQ+ population” of the South American country, organized the drag show and published footage of it last July. The State Department footed some of the bill for the show...

On MSNBC on Monday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued that Democrats have “got to be at top volume level every single day. And I think if you are, your credibility of that the message that you’re sending, the oligarchy is forming, our democracy is falling, the corruption is beginning, it just has a lot more weight if you’re consistent about it.” Murphy said, “We are meeting every day, later today, to begin to build out that campaign that’s going to stop, hopefully, not just a couple of these nominees, but stop that billionaire tax cut. Again, we have faith because...

It’s hard to say who is the worst attorney general in American history. The candidates are many and comprise a veritable rogue’s gallery of sadists, reactionaries and incompetents. They range from A. Mitchell Palmer, mastermind of the original Red Scare that decimated the left in the wake of the First World War, to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and William Pelham Barr, who sacrificed the rule of law in service to Donald Trump. Merrick Garland may not share the malignancies of his fellow train wrecks, but he deserves to be in the discussion. Decades from now, historians will memorialize Garland not...

Whatever you think 2025 will bring, you’re most likely wrong. If Donald Trump’s first term taught us anything, it was that even preparedness has its limits. Trump’s knack for stoking high-level uncertainty keeps his opponents off-balance while forcing the media into a constant state of catch-up. That puts the president-elect in a uniquely powerful position, even before considering his governing trifecta.

“Unprecedented” is an insult to the intelligence of every newly homeless, property-tax-paying citizen.The brush was dry, the drought was high, Santa Ana winds made sparks fly, and Los Angeles officials lied about why residents have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed.This fire is different, they insist, and for this lie alone, Los Angeles voters should do what it takes to remove incompetent leaders when they are done sweeping up the ashes.“[T]his is an absolutely unprecedented event,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a press conference on Wednesday. “It has been many, many years since we’ve faced...

“Hands off our Democracy” has now become the rallying cry of the German ruling establishment and press. In a recent interview with the German magazine, Spiegel, Green chancellor candidate Robert Habeck was asked if he believed Musk to be a danger to Germany. He responded with the following.He [Musk] will do anything to push through his interests. The combination of immense wealth, control over information and networks, the use of artificial intelligence and the will to ignore rules is a frontal attack on our democracy. Just because he comes across as relaxed and builds electric cars, we should not be...

Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that democracy cannot survive if there was “great wealth in the hands of few people.” Reich said, “I think the biggest problem with having so many billionaires at the top of government is that billionaires don’t exactly know how normal people live, but secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the way people get to the top of the Trump administration is by providing a lot of money.”

In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, Romania’s constitutional court announced last week the annulment of the results of the first round of the presidential elections held on Nov. 24, in which the independent populist candidate Călin Georgescu came out on top. The ruling, which restarted the entire electoral process, came just days before the scheduled runoff between Georgescu and the pro-EU candidate Elena Lasconi, which Georgescu was tipped to win by a large margin. It’s the first time a European court has overturned the result of an election, signaling a troubling escalation in the EU-NATO establishment’s increasingly open war on...

One can hardly believe it anymore. The West has dropped all pretense of their sacred cow of ‘democracy’, used for generations as an instrument of moral superiority with which to browbeat the rest of the world. Romanian candidate Calin Georgescu larruped his opponent in the first round of presidential elections, only for the entire result to be ‘nullified’ by a Romanian court, absurdly citing “Russian interference on TikTok”—with no real evidence. (See here for a deep dive on said ‘evidence’.) A few context-setting reactions: (snip) On top of that, current Romanian president Klaus Iohannis—taking a page out of Zelensky’s playbook—has...

Citing "evidence" provided by the Romanian Intelligence Service alleging that Russian participation in a social media campaign may have unduly influenced voters, Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first round results in which Calin Georgescu (Independent) finished first (22.9%) and Elena Lasconi (Save Romania Union) second (19.17%). This effectively cancels the top-two runoff leaving it up to Parliament and the Prime Minister to reschedule a new round one election. Lasconi opposed the court's action, saying "the Romanian state trampled over democracy" and predicted that "God, the Romanian people, the truth and the law will prevail." Alliance for the Union of Romanians...

Former GOP Congressman David Jolly said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the media should not give President-elect Donald Trump “equity” by going to Mar-a-Lago like “Morning Joe“ hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski did. Jolly said, “What is really unsettling about it is coming off of the election, those who have tried to act responsibly, feel the pain of the loss. We didn’t wake up after the election and think, I’m upset because I was wrong. We’re upset because we know we’re right, but we’re on the losing side of this battle. And so what does that mean for a...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) announced on Wednesday a nonpartisan state-level initiative to foster collaboration with fellow governors to protect against threats to democracy and strengthen government institutions. The nonpartisan coalition of governors, Governors Safeguarding Democracy (GSD), will “leverage the collective strength, experience, and institutional knowledge in governors’ offices across the country to craft laws and policies that protect the rule of law and serve the people of our great states,” according to the group’s website. Pritzker and Polis, who will serve as co-chairs of the new alliance, launched GSD one week after the...

In post-election remarks, a remarkably upbeat President Biden took his Party's loss a lot better than many of his fellow Democrats, saying "we accept the choice the country made. You can't love your country only when you win. You can't love your neighbor only when you agree. Something I hope we can do, no matter who you voted for, is to see each other, not as adversaries, but as fellow travelers on the road of life." "Looking at the election returns we see that Vice-President Kamala Harris got 10 million fewer votes than I did," Biden boasted. "There wasn't a...

Videos of meltdowns in the US, Oliver wondering in his charming Scottish burr what sort of people video their own nervous breakdowns and posts them on line. Compares Keir Starmer's remarks now congratulating Trump with his dismissive remarks about him in 2021, etc. Transcript linked below video.

An American political historian known as the “Nostradamus” of elections was seemingly at a loss for words early Wednesday when he realized his prediction — that Kamala Harris would win the presidential election — was wrong. Allen Lichtman, who has correctly predicted the outcome of nine of the 10 elections since 1984, was captured on a livestream repeatedly saying “I don’t get it” as Donald Trump’s landslide victory started to become evident. The 77-year-old professor and his son, Sam, shared their stunned reactions in real time as the results rolled in toward the end of their nearly six-hour coverage of...

Donald Trump was elected president again last night. After being voted out of office in 2020. After trying to rig the vote and then to overthrow the government by force in the wake of that loss. After all but welcoming a pandemic that ended up killing more than a million of us. After ripping away abortion care rights from millions of American women. After being impeached, twice. After being convicted of multiple felonies. After dogging it on the campaign trail, playing to emptying halls while speaking in demented tongues unknown even to him. After all of that, and God knows...

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President Trump's Reelection Win: An Indictment Against Lawfare and a Reinstatement of Freedom The reelection of former President Donald Trump represents a critical moment in American history, one that could be seen not only as a political victory for his supporters but also as a symbolic indictment of lawfare and a restoration of freedom. Lawfare—the use of legal systems and legal processes to achieve political, military, or strategic objectives—has been widely criticized as a tool of political manipulation, particularly when it comes to undermining public figures who challenge the status quo. Trump’s potential victory in a future election would signal...

Election officials have confirmed widespread problems with voting machines and software on Election Day in two heavily Republican counties in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. Officials have confirmed issues with scanning ballots in Cambria and Bedford counties, which former President Donald Trump won four years ago with 68% and 83% of the vote. “The Cambria County Board of Election learned early this morning that a software malfunction in the County’s Electronic Voting System has prevented voters from scanning their ballots,” Cambria County Solicitor Ron Repak said in a statement. “This should not discourage voters from voting at their voting...