Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Another Day of Ugliness

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I haven’t been able to watch all the way through this, but from what I have it’s a good, if crowded, recap:

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Don McGahn Looks Down the Barrel

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Cold Grey Pre-Dawn Impeachment Recap Open Thread: Sondland’s Testimony

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Whole Lotta “Nothing” Goin’ On

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Back in the (TV) Box

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread

Fortunately, the GOP is all in favor of enhanced interrogation techniques, so they can hardly claim *this* is torture…

… Pelosi also refused to elaborate on what — if any — charges House Democrats would bring against Trump, notably declining to say whether the president’s Twitter attack on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during her testimony amounted to witness intimidation.

“I haven’t had a lot of time to pay attention to the president’s tweets and the legal implications of them. I just think that was totally wrong and inappropriate and typical of the president,” Pelosi said on CBS’ “Face the Nation“ in an interview that aired Sunday…

“The president of the United States was using the massive powers entrusted to him to try to use tax payer dollars as leverage to get a foreign country to interfere in an election,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press.”

“If you don’t use impeachment for this type of offense, then I am not sure what you use it for.”

Murphy’s remarks came after a week in which House investigators — and millions of Americans — heard detailed accounts about the pervasiveness of the campaign to pressure Ukraine into helping the president damage a top political rival, the smearing of reputations along the way and Trump’s direct involvement in the effort…

The slate of hearings this week will kick off Tuesday morning with testimony from Jennifer Williams, a top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a senior official on the National Security Council.

Both Vindman and Williams were on the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky and later expressed alarm about the president asking for “a favor” that included investigating an energy company associated with Biden’s son…

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Impeachment Inquiry Open Thread: Watching History in Real Time

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… Whether Americans ultimately come to believe that the President’s alleged misconduct merits the terrible sanction of removal or come to believe the Democratic impeachment attempt is narrowly political and unjustified, this was a clarifying day.
At a time of swirling misinformation, propagandistic pro-Trump news coverage and conspiracy theories, it showed that while facts may be under assault, they can ultimately still emerge in a way that will allow history to render a judgment even if the fractured political climate makes that it impossible in the moment.
Friday piled more testimony on the mountain of evidence suggesting that the US is in the grip of not just the most unorthodox, but the most corrupt presidency of the modern era.

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