WATCH: Jamie Raskin Gives Senate Republicans EXACTLY What They Deserve

Rep. Jamie Raskin eviscerates Senate Republicans over multi-million-dollar self-care package.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1W_YKd0DHQ

 

The War on American Soil (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Seidelines #2)

In this bonus episode of One Nation Indivisible, Andrew addresses current events including a harmful Supreme Court opinion, political violence, and Trump’s self-enrichment practices. 

Seidel also highlights a recent Supreme Court decision upholding a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors, critiquing the legal reasoning and broader implications for transgender rights.

Interview: 

https://onenationindivisible.supercast.com/subscriber_v2/feed_items/513116

‘I have never seen such open corruption’: Trump’s crypto deals and loosening of rules shock observers | Trump administration | The Guardian

"Self-enrichment is exactly what the founders feared most in a leader – that's why they put two separate prohibitions on self-benefit into the constitution," said former federal prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig. "Trump's profiting from his presidential memecoin is a textbook example of what the framers wanted to avoid."

 Scholars, too, offer a harsh analysis of Trump's crypto dealings. 

"I have never seen such open corruption in any modern government anywhere," said Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and an expert on authoritarian regimes who co-authored the book How Democracies Die…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/trump-crypto-memecoin-corruption 

J. D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil - The Atlantic

"This isn't bribery. This is extortion…" 

"It's hard for Americans to wrap their minds around the idea that this country is not an example to others—a positive example—that its institutions are not somehow robust, that everything won't be all right. But what we are watching here is an attack on all of those foundational premises of American life. This is a scene not out of American history; it is an orgy of extortion and corruption unlike anything I've ever seen before in this country, and only comparable to things seen in the countries of the world that Donald Trump once called "shitholes." Why are shithole country shitholes? Not because they're poor, but because the authorities are not responsive to the people. The authorities are perverted from their duty and use that perversion as an opportunity for self-enrichment and aggression to the detriment of their own societies…" 

"Great villains require more of a backstory, more interiority, more rise and fall. And—let me keep testing this—J. D. Vance has that backstory. You know, the greatest of all literary villains is John Milton's Lucifer, who starts as the brightest of the angels and then has the steepest fall. Maybe there's something kind of Luciferian about J. D. Vance. I mean, he's someone—we know this from his own words—that he knows the difference between right and wrong. He saw Donald Trump as wrong. He became one of the most eloquent critics of the wrongness of Donald Trump. And then when opportunity beckoned, he chose wrong. He chose wrong, fully knowing what he was doing, aware of its consequences. He took a long time. He brooded over the decision, and then he made the choice. It's epic. It's literary. It's Luciferian. And it's more interesting than the crocodile that simply bites children and drags them under the Nile and drowns them for fun…"

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/05/the-david-frum-show-vances-bargain-with-the-devil/682954/ 

 

Musk could use the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ for self-enrichment

Musk could use the 'Department of Government Efficiency' for self-enrichment

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/30/elon-musk-government-efficiency-self-enrichment