In their words · Updated August 5, 2026
17 verified quotes on the record, July 24, 2026 to August 4, 2026. Every one is a character-for-character copy from its source; the lens colors mark the outlets and channels that carried the words, never the person.
Posted it themselves Jul 24
“Feb. 27, 2026: Hundreds of American service members: Alive and well. Tens of billions of dollars: Not yet lit on fire. Gas prices: $3.00/gallon . Strait of Hormuz: Free navigation of an international waterway. Iran: No immediate threat. Saudi Arabia: No uranium enrichment.”
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Posted it themselves Jul 25
“China to Trump: You’re lying and we’re doing what we want.”
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Posted it themselves Jul 24
“Trump's expert at this: He signs a bad deal due to panic or greed (the Iran MOU, the Saudi nuclear deal). Then people point out he's been taken to the cleaners. Then he tries to redefine the deal unilaterally, and ends up flailing about. Pathetic.”
on Trump signing and renegotiating foreign deals unilaterally
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Posted it themselves Jul 28
“John Heilemann (kindly pinch-hitting for Tim Miller, who’s on a brief but well-deserved break) and I discuss the evidence that Trump and Hegseth have done real damage to the military as an institution. Meanwhile, how pathetic was Trump at the WHCA dinner?”
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Posted it themselves Aug 4
“Tim and I are in sync: The left and center-left are acting like the other is the enemy—and not Trump. C’mon, Dems! Keep your eye on the ball: Trump & the corruption, lying, & danger of his administration. And why is Schumer cutting a deal w/ Republicans?”
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Posted it themselves Aug 4
““Funding for the government doesn’t run out for two more months. Why allow Republican senators to go home for recess taking credit for a bipartisan budget deal? Democratic senators should kill the deal on the continuing resolution.””
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Posted it themselves Aug 4
“"Democratic senators should kill the deal on the CR. Then they need to use the Blanche confirmation to highlight that a GOP Senate will be a rubber stamp for Trump. Blanche may get confirmed. But Dems can turn that sour lemon into sweet, tart lemonade."”
on Democrats killing the CR deal and using the Blanche confirmation as leverage
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Posted it themselves Jul 29
“Important piece. “Boards of trustees are composed of people with agency. The foes of government intrusion must personalize to demand accountability from people with maximal power, resources and protection. So we address Yale’s trustees directly.””
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Posted it themselves Jul 31
““Democrats lead the generic ballot by six points. But if you add the two to two-and-a-half points midterms historically break against the president’s party by Nov., plus the two points likely voters have run ahead of registered voters, you get D+10.””
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Posted it themselves Jul 27
“"About 1 in 5 reliable Republican base voters are at risk this Nov...Those voters in Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, Montana, New Hampshire and Michigan are saying they may stay home or are weighing voting for Dems. “This is a scary number,” Nascimento said.”
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Posted it themselves Jul 29
“Good discussion tonight of Clayton’s confirmation as part of the election subversion threat for 2026 and 2028.”
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Posted it themselves Jul 29
“"It’s happening. The assault on our political liberties and our civic decency, on our polity and on our society, is happening. The pace and degree at which it’s moved is hard to believe. Our surprise is a product of a complacency we haven’t quite shed."”
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Posted it themselves Jul 25
““Let me warn you that this issue gets a little weedy. That’s by design; the administration wants you to not understand what they’re doing, so you won’t notice you’re being disenfranchised and robbed until it’s too late.””
on administration deliberately obscuring policy to hide disenfranchisement from public
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Posted it themselves Aug 2
“Doug Burgum is very wealthy. Why do the rich prostrate themselves before Trump so willingly and abjectly when they don’t “need” to? Can great wealth in modern capitalism tend to make one more servile rather than more free? One could drift down to one cheer for capitalism.”
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Posted it themselves Jul 27
“I’ve had plenty of guests on different podcasts over the years. Not sure any of them has been as impressive as Dani Bensky. Very much, I think, worth a watch or a listen. Epstein Survivor Asks: Will Any GOP Senators Do the Right Thing?”
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Posted it themselves Aug 1
““Here’s the thing: You’ve heard the expression ‘shout the lie, whisper the correction’? The Trump administration and its media hangers-on prefer to hype up the fabrication and then not even bother with the corrective whisper.””
on the Trump administration hyping falsehoods without correcting them
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Posted it themselves Jul 24
“They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina”
on honoring four fallen service members
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