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He's tested every limit of decency and democracy, and every time he does the GOP bends a little lower. At this point, the question isn't just about Trump's crimes; it's about their complicity… Is Marjorie Taylor Greene leading the way, or the exception that proves the rule? By the shocking light of today's glaring headlines, it's time to ask a larger question that no one in the media appears to be willing to say out loud: at what point does the accumulation of misconduct by Donald J. Trump become so brazen, so corrosive, so frankly immoral and even criminal, that Republican elected officials and voters finally say, "Enough is enough?

The Best of the Rest of the News. — "Good for me, but not for thee." — Trump's new big lie: "There is no affordability" problem. — Against the orders of a federal judge, Trump/Bondi/Noem/Homan sent hundreds of immigrants to a hellhole torture center in El Salvador. — So much for equal justice under law, the slogan carved over the entrance to the Supreme Court. — Throwing almost 200,000 families out of their homes? Just another day in Trump's America. — Tax breaks for billionaires are more important to Republicans than tsunami warnings for the little people. — The spike in bowel cancer diagnoses among younger people, particularly women, appears to be linked to eating ultra-processed foods (UPFs). — Crazy Alert! Trump having sex with "Bubba"?!?

This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey… The New York Times reported that Donald Trump personally called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and then had Bondi, Blanche, and Patel take her into the top-secret no-recording-devices-allowed Situation Room to urge her to drop her support for releasing the Epstein files. He apparently also tried to reach Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for the same reason. Yesterday’s newly surfaced details about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump again reveal something far larger than the tawdry specifics of their relationship, as grotesque as those are. They point to a structural crisis at the heart of American democracy.

The American people begged their leaders to stand up to Trumpism. Instead, their Senate "leader" sold them out. When courage becomes optional, democracy becomes impossible.. What we witnessed this weekend in the United States Senate wasn't "compromise." It was surrender: the kind of gutless, morally bankrupt capitulation that betrays American families and feeds the billionaires devouring our democracy. Eight Senators who caucus with the Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, not in victory, not to secure healthcare for millions, but to hand Donald Trump and his morbidly rich cronies a gift-wrapped political win. And standing at the center of this disgrace is Chuck Schumer, the so-called "leader" of the Senate Democrats, who orchestrated — or at least approved or failed to stop — the entire debacle from behind the curtain, then had the gall to vote "no" at the last minute to wash his hands of it. Let's be clear: this was Schumer's deal. He built it, he pushed it, and he enabled it. His fingerprints are all over this betrayal.