Retired electoral administrator - this account replaces my previous one, which was hacked
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MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
It turns out that Kash Patel's and Pam Bondi's firing of all the FBI investigators and DOJ lawyers that were investigating Trump just might be the stupidest thing either could have done. Those people don't work for the government anymore. They cannot be ordered to withhold testimony or evidence. Nor can they ignore Congressional subpoenas. This just might be a case of Trump hoisting himself by his own petard.
Not to mention that it gave the new Dem Congress a shit ton of talented and knowledgeable investigative hires.
FBI agents who were fired by Trump can now work for Congress as special investigators .
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
With the midterms, I am always wary of "better America bias", the natural inclination to look at events in the United States through a positive prism, and which fit with a grand narrative of continual advancement and national self-improvement. History does not work like that.
Does America have a new moral majority? Or is US morality linked to US inflation?
historyneverended.substack.c…
My latest at History Never Ended.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
USA, this is your president.
It must be deeply embarrassing to have a president who behaves like this and represents your country on the world stage.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
An American president can weaken NATO without formally leaving it. Conservative writer Jay Nordlinger explained that the United States would “not lift a finger” if Russia invaded Estonia. That is his prediction, not established American policy.
Article 5 obliges members to assist an attacked ally, but each decides what action it considers necessary. It has never guaranteed an automatic American military response.
If Moscow doubts Washington’s willingness to fight, deterrence can weaken while the treaty remains unchanged. European allies should build the forces, ammunition stocks and command capacity to sustain their defence if American combat support is delayed or withheld. They do not need certainty that Trump would abandon them before preparing for that possibility. The consequences of being unprepared are sufficient reason to act.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
The politics of hate is over.
It ended at the ballot box, in Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina, the places where grievance politics was supposed to be bulletproof.
Here’s my accounting of the damage. 👇🏼
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
This was how Mississippi eliminated poor folks with no credit cards from the voter rolls.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
This is insane!
Trump just announced that he offered the press secretary job to Dana white and he wants two Russians to help out.
Islam Makhachev is a Russian UFC fighter from Dagestan.
Khabib Nurmagomedov is a Retired Russian UFC champion from Dagestan.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
As possibly the only person in American politics less popular than Trump himself, it makes perfect sense. An autocrat's circle always grows smaller as ruthless loyalty out of complicity becomes the only relevant qualification.
Steven Miller's immigration policy has taken arguably the GOP's best issue and made it a liability. He, second only to Trump himself, is responsible for blowing up the multiracial coalition that elected Trump in 2024 and sparked the GOP's dream of a multiracial working class coalition. He's also probably the single most despised person in American politics. So of course, Trump appointed him Chief of Staff after getting humiliated at the polls. It's so perfect.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
Oh good. Replace the least psychotic person in the President’s inner circle with the most psychotic person in the President’s inner circle.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom has flipped Forrest County, a once reliably Republican County named for Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest mississippifreepress.org/sco…
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
After months of threats from the Trump administration, Election Day ended without the feared federal confrontation. Was it the courts, election officials’ preparations, or simply a defeat too big to challenge? votebeat.org/national/2026/1…
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
James Talarico says America doesn't have capitalism anymore, it has crony capitalism, socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor
“Capitalism was an innovation. I think we forget that now.”
“We don't have capitalism, at least not in this country. We have crony capitalism.”
“Where the gains in this economy go to those who can afford to buy access, who can afford to buy politicians for control.”
“He said, we have socialism for the rich, and we have rugged individualism for the poor.”
w/ @jamestalarico
Trump’s oddly conciliatory tone is the likely precursor of an attempt to cut a deal with the Democrats under which he will make concessions on all sorts of policies on the condition that the incoming Congress doesn’t pursue his and his family’s and his cronies’ corrupt dealings.
MichaelMaleyfish retweeted
THIS is voter suppression
Ohio allows just ONE early voting location per county, whether it has 10,000 residents or 1 MILLION.
It’s BS that the American people are numb to this. File a lawsuit against the state of Ohio.
Long lines. Hours of waiting. Deliberate barriers is a violation of the 14th Amendment