Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)

Cause and effect

Knicks have a historic 13 game postseason winning streak going

Trump shows up. Falls asleep. Knicks lose

USMNT in the round of 16

Trump sticks his nose in the Balogun red card controversy

The team has a nightmare game and Pulisic gets injured

Everything
Trump
Touches
Dies

The hood is fully off Alito

“None of the..statements by..[Trump were] overtly racial..all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justification”

Kagan’s reply

“The evidence..includes statements..so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social

Awful: After SCOTUS ruling, Trump is free to deport thousands of Haitians from deep red Clark County, Ohio. It may now take a big economic hit. Oh, well. If you vote for the guys that lied in your faces so viciously about immigrants, this is what you get. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2124...

This MAGA Ohio Town Could Soon Face the Mother of All ICE Raids

Is Springfield, Ohio—home of the Haitian community that Trump and Vance brazenly lied about in 2024—about to become the next Minneapolis?

It’s heartwarming that Emmett Till is honored in Chicago, but we must acknowledge that the racism in Mississippi which led to his murder thrives, as people there symbolically lynch him on a regular basis by vandalizing a sign marking where his body was recovered

We still have so much work to do

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Emmett Till was born right here in Chicago on July 25, 1941. And it is with deep humility and great pride that I signed legislation this week at Roberts Temple to declare his birthday as the Illinois Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.

Trump was first impeached after he tried to extort Zelensky. He wanted Ukraine to announce it was investigating Joe Biden

It was a lie-cooked up by Putin. Trump knew it. So did members of Congress like Jim Jordan and Ron Johnson, plus Fox hosts like Hannity

This is fraud
There must be prosecutions

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com

Hunter Biden responded to Donald Trump’s speech with a statement noting that Trump’s own newly declassified documents undermine years of false claims about the Biden family:

Either Todd Blanche is lying and knows that the FBI works under the Attorney General-which would disqualify him as a dishonest hack

Or he’s ignorant of the DOJ hierarchy-which would disqualify him as an incompetent hack

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social

A source tells MS NOW that Todd Blanche told Epstein survivors during their meeting, "The FBI has the power to open investigations, not me." "I'm just the attorney general," Blanche added.

Todd Blanche meeting leaves Epstein survivors stunned and angry

Sources tell MS NOW the acting attorney general made false representations, refused to make commitments and seemed to have no interest in meeting with survivors.

Approximately 20% of the military is Black. Roughly 18% are women

When they realize they Hegseth is blocking them from receiving promotions, what do you think they're going to do

The DOJ “asked” Liz Oyer to recommend that Mel Gibson’s right to own a firearm be restored-highlighting Gibson’s relationship with Trump

Oyer, citing Gibson’s longstanding abuse of women, refused

So Todd Blanche fired her

Then he began to intimidate and abuse her

He CANNOT be Attorney General

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social

Former DOJ pardon atty Liz Oyer says then Dep AG Todd Blanche "fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation." www.lawyeroyer.com/p/my-letter-...

My Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Concerning the Nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General

As Deputy Attorney General, Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again.

Democracy stands on the precipice of extinction

ICE regularly kills people

The so-called SAVE Act is really a plan to stop Americans from voting

The Iran war has us struggling to afford groceries

Please follow these fighters who have one goal: Save democracy by stopping Trump
go.bsky.app/JraPDWW

Major Jason Watson has apparently been restricted to a military base as the Air Force considers what charges to bring against him

Being silenced by a gag order as well, he can’t communicate with the general public

But if he COULD speak, I think we all know what he’d say

IMPEACH
CONVICT
REMOVE

“When the president..orders military action against foreign countries absent an emergency scenario..that's..usurpation of Congress's authority..These violations resulted in the deaths of 13 service members..For this, the president and vice president must be impeached”

Active Duty Major Jason Watson

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social

Major Jason P. Watson calls for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

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Whenever MAGA calls for civility in a time of tragedy, we always know they’re full of crap

Stephen Miller’s wife proves the point perfectly by mocking Joe Biden when he sets aside his differences with Lindsey Graham to honor the friend he once knew in the Senate

MAGA are truly despicable people

“Todd Blanche charged Carmen Lineberger with felony obstruction of justice..and misdemeanor theft..for emailing copies of Volume II to her Gmail and Hotmail accounts.

Today, the [DOJ] filed notice to Judge Aileen Cannon that THEY wrongly emailed THREE copies of Volume II to Lineberger’s attorneys”

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

DOJ Accidentally Sent Volume II of Jack Smith's Report to Outside Counsel

The kicker? The Outside Counsel they accidentally sent the report to is representing a woman they charged with a crime for taking Volume II out of the DOJ

We already know there are witnesses who contradict the government’s story about the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Now video is starting to come out as well

We’ve seen ICE lie-many times-about people they’ve killed. Seems like it’s only a matter of time before this is revealed to be murder

Ossoff: [On] day 3, you said [a] core objectives was to ‘destroy the missile threat’ and..on day 5 to ‘obliterate Iran's missiles and drones’..which 4 months ago you declared..every single objective achieved. Were those..achieved

Hegseth: Noone ever stated that every single missile was gone

Uh-oh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

OSSOFF: On day 9, you assured us of Iranian surrender. Does that remain your prediction? HEGSETH: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon O: So to review, you will not answer whether your statement that Iran's military was 'destroyed' was truthful as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more?

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Maybe the worst thing you can say about Lindsey Graham is when he did these awful things-like helping a “xenophobic, race baiting bigot”, pushing a Supreme Court nominee accused of sexual assault, taking away lifesaving public benefits

The worst you can say is-he knew better, but did it anyway

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

New in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism "Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of the GOP. Has America ever seen a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader?"

Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism

From Gingrich to Trump, Graham was a fixture as the GOP became increasingly malignant.

For me, these two statements about Trump will always define who Lindsey Graham was

"I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office”

“What concerns me..is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy some kind of kook not fit to be president”
youtu.be/kSEvatYTgyY?...

Lindsey Graham changes tune on Trump

YouTube video by CNN

"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you."

"Are you OK?"

"Help me! They shot me!’”

"I was trying to stop"

The last words of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero before they were murdered by ICE

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

It’s been over a week since @govandybeshear.bsky.social called on Mitch McConnell to disclose the state of his health

There has been no credible, transparent response

Beshear should call a #KYSpecialElection

Anybody who has a problem with that should talk to Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland

YES, TODD BLANCHE, IT EFFING IS A BLACK AND WHITE ANSWER

THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PROSCRIPTION AGAINST WARRANTLESS SEARCHES AND SEIZURES MAKES IT A BLACK AND WHITE ANSWER

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

KLOBUCHAR: Do you agree that it's unacceptable for federal agents to forcibly enter someone's home without a warrant and drag them onto the street without checking that they even have the right person? BLANCHE: Well, it depends on the circumstances. It's not a black and white answer

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I spoke with Jason Watson before his selfless act of civil disobedience against Trump and JD Vance

He felt his actions were required to save the nation he swore an oath to defend

Now-as we celebrate America turning 250-he spends Independence Day in military custody

Patriot

Impeach
Convict
Remove

Drew Webb 🏳️‍🌈 @archeryfan93.bsky.social

I’m SO proud to call USAF member Jason Watson a friend of mine. He was arrested yesterday for protesting in his uniform against the administration. Bravo sir. #Impeach #Convict #Remove.

The connection between Collins and Nick Fuentes shows the inextricable link between the GOP and neo-nazis

Trump hosted Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago

Young Republicans praised Hitler in text messages

Of course, there’s Charlottesville

And it’s no coincidence Ossoff is Jewish

MAGA is built on bigotry

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Ossoff: "We've learned in recent weeks that Mike Collins's office was briefing Nick Fuentes and other prominent white supremacists on its efforts on behalf of a prominent Holocaust denier, and that Mike Collins has had a neo-Nazi propagandist based on his property."

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Some are worried about Trump reshaping the White House-saying he’ll never leave

But most people dismiss Trump’s talk of a 3rd term-arguing the Constitution is clear

Well-the Constitution is clear about birthright citizenship, too

And despite the recent SCOTUS decision, THAT’S still not safe

Trump called press “the enemy of the people”-many times

He threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC and NBC

His DOJ goons Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton subpoenaed reporters from

The NY Times
The Washington Post
And the Wall Street Journal

Yet tonight he attended the WHCD

By invitation

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

Trump to journalists at the White House Correspondents Dinner: “When I’m gone, you’re all gonna be broke.”

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Ossoff:

“And the failure of that scheme..enraged him ever since. Now..more reviled than ever, he reanimates his 2020 obsession while he spirals in fear of the rebuke to come this fall and the accountability that will follow it. Because accountability is coming”

It certainly is

#BlueWaveIn100Days

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"

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