Michael McDonald

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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If not obvious:

- this was not the first time Signal was used to conduct government business
- likely not the first time used to conduct sensitive government business
- this violates the Presidential Records Act

I’d like to report that the White House looks like a war zone. Rubble everywhere. Time to send in the National Guard to restore order

Never forget who Trump appointed to be the head of our domestic anti-terrorism people.com/trump-admin-...

Trump Admin Taps 22-Year-Old Who Is One Year Out of College for Terrorism Prevention Role at Homeland Security

Donald Trump's White House has appointed 22-year-old Thomas Fugate to help lead a counterterrorism division at the Department of Homeland Security

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Ted Cruz: "As we sit here right now tonight, the threat of terrorist attack is higher now than it has been for decades. There's two causes of it. Number one, Joe Biden ... "

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New Kennedy Center schedule just announced! Weekly Miss Teen USA competitions with special dressing room inspections by the Kennedy Center chairman

My quick read of Callais decision is that the majority says if a racial community votes consistently with a party, then it is okay to deny them representation because that's just partisan gerrymandering

Trump says it plainly that he is directing the Department of Justice to target his political enemies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: "We have a lot of law firms that we're going to be going after, because they were very dishonest people. They were very, very dishonest. We have a lot of law firms that we're going after."

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This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels

The media’s inability to state facts when it comes to Republicans (and Trump) is partially how we got here. The plane is a corrupt violation of the U.S. constitution (not to mention a security risk). This is a fact. Full stop. It’s not up for debate with weasel words like “raises concerns”

Citizens United has come home to roost, build a nest, and sh*t all over democracy

Trump says he’s destroyed Iran’s military while Trump says we’ve left their military alone. Hard to know who to believe

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump claims his strikes haven't really hurt the Iranian military: "We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that."

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My personal government data was stolen by DOGE. Where is my $10 billion?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you respond to people who say it's a conflict of interest for the president to be seeking funds from those who he's administering? BLANCHE: We're looking at how to handle that. He's not wrong that what happened there was horrible, the fact his tax returns were leaked.

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The United States is the world's number one bullshit producer and consumer

They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

If you were one of the millions of people at No Kings who has a subscription to the NYT that diminishes your number to thousands. Now would be a good time to cancel your subscription

Hunter Biden says wtf

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract

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Have they yet produced a single person over 150 years old receiving social security?

Today’s firehose of lies wash away yesterday’s lies

Nothing to see here. Just a president placing pressure on a private business to provide more favorable political optics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

ROBERTS: I understand there might've been a phone call from the president to Jeff Bezos on this this morning STEPHEN MILLER: I have no news to add on it. All I can say is things worked out exactly as they should.

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Who are the Sunday talk shows going to have on weekly to lie now?

In the Free Country of America you are free to ask any question Dear Leader approves

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

"You're not supposed to be asking that question ... that's enough" -- Trump gets mad at and shuts down a reporter who tries to ask him about reported clashes between Musk and Rubio

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When my students ask how we got here I say the laws are not self-executing. Our contract with our government only works when we elect people of good faith into office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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Republicans’ SAVE act would not even accept marriage certificates for name changes. You’d have to have a passport and good luck getting the State Department’s depleted workforce issuing you one

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates

The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

Hard to imagine an event more effective at discrediting organized religion

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't. *crowd groans* I know we have some here today. I don't know why they're here, because they certainly don't give us their vote ... they cheat."

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The United States is open for bribes...in direct violation of the constitution

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you TRUMP: I wish you did. I'd take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it RAMAPHOSA: Okay

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