As Donald Trump returns from his trip to Beijing, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the consensus of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” panel is that the American president appears weaker now before the summit.And Trump all but admitted it.On Friday morning, longtime political analyst John Heilema...
From the article: “Individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy,” Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement.
Great--when can we expect the indictment of #BenedictDonald for #TRE45ON...?
* In fairness, I suppose his defense would be that hes always been COMPLETELY OPEN ABOUT IT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/arcadia-california-mayor-chinese-agent.html
RE: https://mastodon.social/@spythriller/116392599370226750
And now, of course, a #TRE45ON -ous administration with a VERY personal grudge against our profession has basically DROPPED A MOAB on that pipeline, by abolishing the 20 year old Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence program with which my colleagues & I tried to systematize and structurally support it in the wake of 9/11. 😖
A bipartisan duo of senators fired off a furious letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, demanding to know how a delegation of Russian lawmakers was allowed to visit Capitol Hill and tour it with members of Congress.The letter, sent by Sens. Jean...
* To be clear, I do *not* want Donald Trump dead. Not unless he dies of a heart attack while being dragged to his execution following his due-process conviction for #TRE45ON. Not at the hands of his fellow self-serving #MAGAts. Not at the hands of the Iranians. Not at the hand OF GOD.
As I've noted before, the tattered shreds of our Constitutional system would simply hand power to the much younger (and, sadly, more intelligent) but just as fascist Reichsleiter JD Vance, and Gilead would roll on. No, I truly pray God waits at least until--in sha' Allah--we have a newly-elected Democratic Congress to impeach HIM, and a Democratic Speaker of the House to take the reins.
But this post was WAAAYY too good not to boost on the Ides of March! 😅
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Dr. Jim Ellsworth