This decision to allow a USSS agent - who is sworn to be above politics -to serve as a Presidential political adviser crossed a major line for U.S. Secret Service. It was approved by current director James Murray at Trump’s urging, a decision that infuriated current and former agents

Apparently my gynecologist friends are receiving a flood of requests for sterilization in twentysomethings. A morbid surgery as the only way to ensure bodily autonomy. This is where we are.

Bret Baier crushes Trump on Fox after the hearing, leaving his guests in stunned silence when he is finished. Very satisfying watch. “He says she’s lying. Cassidy Hutchinson is under oath, on Capitol Hill. The president is on Truth Social.”

On a related note, what do we imagine Ornato is teaching agents in his more recent capacity as USSS Assistant Director of the Office of Training?

Extremely cool of the source close to the Secret Service to let all the initial reports of his third hand denial circulate before adding that the thrust of Hutchinson’s testimony was accurate this morning.

While we wait and see if Ornato will dispute a colorful but legally meaningless detail of Hutchinson's account on the record, let alone under oath, Pat Cipollone, more importantly, does not deny he warned that Trump messing with Congress certifying the election would be a crime.

A source close to my butt says Tony Ornato is freaking out b/c his Lord and Master yelled at him last night, and is calling his BFFs in the media telling them to call him "a source close to Tony Ornato" b/c flooding the zone with lying shit works and never catches up with you. .

🚨 WOW: Gay teachers in Orange County, Florida must remove all photos of their spouses from their classrooms following the passage of the Don’t Say Gay law. All rainbow items of clothing or other memorabilia are banned. wftv.com/news/local/tea…

The dispute about whether Trump grabbed the wheel or not is a side show. In any event it does nothing to undermine Hutchinson‘s credibility. The person who needs to testify about it is the man she sent me the statement, Ornato. And he should be testifying anyway after yesterday.

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NEW: A 12-year-old child victim of rape and incest should be forced to carry and birth her father's child, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says. Even in such cases, he opposes abortion exceptions. "Every life is valuable," Gunn said. mississippifreepress.org/25273/12-year-…

Tony Ornato sure seems to deny conversations he’s apparently had. First this one with Keith Kellogg in “I Alone Can Fix It” & now he’s denying the story he told Cassidy Hutchinson. Those of us who worked w/ Tony know where his loyalties lie. He should testify under oath.

This story deserves much more attention. Ron DeSantis is destroying public education in Florida miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…

Let him say it himself and let him say it under oath. This unnamed spokesperson gaslight parade cuts a poor figure next to the astounding courage of yesterday’s testimony, and it’s not offering any real enough information to merit journalists lending their platforms to it.

say it turns out Hutchinson was right, who do we see about that? We don’t know who the spokesperson is. If we somehow find out, they’ll say Meadows told them to say it. If we put the matter to Meadows, we’re likely to get a new spokesperson. There’s no stakes to lying this way.

I believe Hillary Clinton is right. Justice Thomas is taking out his long-simmering resentments on tens of millions of women, LGBTQ individuals, & others with a personal agenda that leads him to violate 28 USC 455’s recusal law to protect Ginni and to abandon the judicial role

Scoop: Several national antiabortion groups and their allies in Republican-led state legislatures are advancing plans to stop people from crossing state lines for abortions. Model legislation is in the works. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

It feels like up until this year it was taboo for pro-life folks to say that the end of Roe would mean prosecuting women and now every conservative legislature is planning to run on doing it at scale.

*tap tap* Is this thing still on? Dropping in to say that Pilgrimage, my novel about the medieval Camino de Santiago is on big discount wherever you get your ebooks. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01097…