It wasn't Houston, Detroit, or Pittsburgh PA: @ryangodfrey.com talked to David Byrne at Philly's #NoKings rally, and @inquirer.com interviewed him about it.

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Genuinely least self-aware motherfucker in Washington.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

The Trump WH spent all weekend ripping Gavin Newsom for being concerned that this stunt by Hegseth and Vance could endanger people driving on one of the busiest highways in America. These idiots are going to get people killed.

My latest from @hyperallergic.com is on Trump’s proposed triumphal arch—& why looking at the structure’s history symbolizing imperialism & subjugation + its reception (Napoleon, Hitler) is important. NB: the ecclesiastical architectural firm pitching this structure. hyperallergic.com/1050375/the-...

The New York Times, incapable of distinguishing shit from shinola

WOW... JUST WOW... In order to justify invoking the insurrection act in Portland, Oregon, trump faked a riot with professional videographers, the military and hired extras. Sen. Jeffrey Merkley tells us what happened :

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

Trump just posted an AI slop video of himself dumping shit on protestors from a fighter jet while wearing a crown, just in case you were wondering how today’s events impacted his mental health situation. They’re losing. They’ve already lost. He will get a lot more weird and aggro from here on out.

Yes because of the Epstein files discharge petition, but also because Johnson and the rest of the GOP are going to try to overturn the elections of Democratic House members during the midterms, especially in more competitive seats. Laying the groundwork for that.

Yesterday, millions marched against fascism. Now our elected leaders need to take action to confront Trump’s assault on Democratic cities and states. In The Guardian today, I outline a strategy: “fiscal disobedience” as one part of an “anti-fascist federalism.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

if only someone could have predicted this www.theverge.com/business/793...

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

We live the cowboy life. It helped my girl through college with scholarships. Now she is a high school agriculture science teacher positively mentoring kids. It’s not all that masculine.

The fact that so few news outlets have written about Trump's disgusting video 12 hours later shows how much the media have normalized Trump’s insanity. In my free Stop the Presses newsletter back in March, I wrote about media ripping Biden but stepping around crazy man Trump. I may update that. 7/

This is what the 25th Amendment is for.

Austin, Texas showed up in mass for democracy and against monarchy! #NoKings #Austin #Texas

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

I hope reporters are prepared to ask Mike Johnson and JD Vance exactly what about a video of Trump dumping shit on people is funny when they inevitably claim the video was obviously a joke.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

El Sobrante, CA - We had low-riders! Also ukulele and bongo players! Vinceremos! #NoKings

Just $580 to go…

They called it as they saw it.

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

Reminder: enter your protest signs! The deadline is tonight at 11:59 PT. I've already received hundreds of submissions. Really excited to go through these. Winners will be announced on Monday at 7pm ET across social media and a few minutes before that on my blog.

I wonder if any wealthy Orange County voters will turn against Trump over this. Like, they could live with dismantling the government, corruption, and institutionalized kidnapping, but getting stuck in traffic was the bridge too far.

Leah and I just got off the stage in DC. More than 200k. Double what we saw for Hands Off! This movement is incredible. We’re better than fear. We’re braver than billionaires. We’re bigger than ever. And we will win. #NoKings

Boston is the OG No Kings protest.

🔪 #NoKings

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

This panoramic shot doesn’t begin to capture the huge size of the crowd at the #NoKings protest in Orlando. There’s a sea of thousands of people — not just in front of City Hall but also down all the nearby streets!!!

Nah, Craig's dad needed that fiber. You saw how he was peeling the paint off the bathroom walls.

Teapot Dome. Watergate. They’re Nothing Compared to This. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... I’ve gifted this because I’m bribing you to read it

Gun Violence is at an all time high. You have a 19-year-old rising star musician doing everything she can to raise money and awareness. Prove to her that there are good people in the world. Click to donate ANY amount. It makes a difference. Make her BELIEVE. gofund.me/f4fb3eb36

🚨The rule is likely to be the largest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance. 🚨The rule would particularly hurt older workers. 🚨The rule will likely cause disproportionate harm to people living in the South and Appalachia. www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

For the record, the judges and staff of our federal courts are working without pay, but Congress is being paid without working. I am infuriated by the preposterousness of these ridiculous times.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

When you’re making your #NoKings posters, remember… Donald Trump LOVES a good nickname.

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

This 👇🏾 happened after this 👉🏾was published www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Theiling of the Techbro Mind www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

🚫👑 No Kings No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. Power belongs to the people!✊🏾📢🚷 Political Cartoon by Michael de Adder

The Roberts court has granted expansive religious freedom rights to rightwing Christians who claim to be oppressed by LGBTQ rights and prior precedents on church-state separation. We'll see if it extends such rights to religious objectors to ICE's excesses.

Q: What could Maduro do? TRUMP: He's offered everything. You know why? Because he doesn't want to fuck around with the United States

Wait, is this why everyone is calling him Moses Mike? He let his people go?

This switcheroo happened post-Putin convo.