"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

Tragically, Tom Friedman is right. This is utter appeasement to a monstrous Vladimir Putin. Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Dan Driscoll, selling out America and Ukraine to Russia. Disgusting and disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Holy shit this photo!!!

Trump is 100% "America first," except when it comes to Argentinian beef

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

This sums up Trump’s presidency. And he’s not joking.

😂😂😂

"Oh, the humanity!"

You got me.

MAGA, the powerful alliance of greed and hate.

Bari Weiss, and her GOP supporters, have gone after DEI for years. But isn't Weiss a DEI hire herself? She wasn't hired at CBS because of her experience/competency in broadcasting, she wasn't hired for her strategic tv ability, and she wasn't hired for her years of working in news media.

They aren’t hiding the totalitarianism, folks.

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

Kaine: "We can't do a deal with Trump then have him tear it up tmrw & start mass firings or canceling programs he doesn't like or ones that help blue states. We have to be sure that a deal is a deal ... thus far he's not been willing to even discuss a deal, much less guarantee he'll live by one."

NBC's parent, Comcast, funding the destruction and desecration of the White House. Always remember that business leaders don't care about preserving the democratic values of this country. They care about money! Period!

It's not Trump's fucking house!!!

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

Russia was caught, red handed, interfering in the 2020 election. Trump never did anything to punish them.

"Authoritarianism is an instinct, a yearning for control, for hierarchy, and for simplicity. It manifests in different costumes, but it always tells the same story: trust the strongman, fear the outsider, silence the dissenter."

"Liberals believe in the dignity of all people and see the expansion of their freedom as central to upholding that dignity." This is a good read. www.theunpopulist.net/p/liberalism...

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

One thing that we learned from the Trump regimes is that we shouldn't expect business leaders to give a shit about our democratic values or the needs of the poorest among us. They very clearly don't care about freedom of speech or free and fair elections. What they care about is money - their money.

This is authoritarianism. Picking his media oligarchs.

Because "a picture is worth a thousand words."

Birds of a feather and all.

Make no mistake. Republicans aren't looking for cooperation from Democrats; they want capitulation. If Democrats don't agree to comfort the comfortable (tax cuts for the rich) and afflict the afflicted (cuts to health care support for the poor) Trump and his acolytes will seek vengeance.

this is truly invaluable reporting

Brian "I say horrible things" Kilmeade basically told the families of 9/11 victims to get over it! Who cares if your loved ones died or if the Crown Prince chopped up a journalist while he was still alive there's money to be made in the Middle East.

This is the first generation of ‘Trump Youth.’ They’ve spent their whole lives in the Upside Down world that is Fox News & MAGA influencers making money driving other people crazy. This is also part of Charlie Kirk’s legacy. No firewall👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

If you care about decency in America, follow Jacob Soboroff

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

So what do you say, J.D. Vance? You once feared Trump could be the American Adolf Hitler. But that seems to be the hope of the new generation of Republicans you’ve raised. Will you denounce this outbreak of antisemitism, racism and fascism in your party?

That's a fact, but it is kind of funny that the guy that the Evangelicals love pretty much admits that there's no way he's ever going to make into heaven.

Trump on Ukraine: "They'd like to have Tomahawks. We talked about that. We'll see. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so."

There are 7,000 union Machinists in Maine. You'll find them at the Bath Iron Works, in our paper mills, our lobstering industry. Middle-class jobs that can support a family: that's what you get when you have a union. I am honored beyond words to receive this endorsement.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

happy bday Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC. “I believe that democracy is based on the ability to make democracy serve the good of the majority of the people. If it can’t do that, then it should not survive.” “If silence seems to give approval, then remaining silent is cowardly.”

Me to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the Comey and James and (probably imminent) Bolton prosecutions "It doesn’t matter what your politics are. If you say he’s stupid, which he is, if you say he is wrong, which he is, if you say he’s a criminal or sleezy, which he is ... then you’re his enemy.”

Not really a "new talking point." MAGA has been calling peaceful protestors terrorists for years. They don't want any dissent. They want submission.

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

We might soon have a Tienenman Square situation or maybe an Oklahoma City. Possibly some mixture, which I suppose would be a Kristallnacht. Maybe I should start a pool. Either way, I'll be there in Chicago on October 18 with a bright white shirt like Harvey Milk wore to rallies. We shall overcome.

Yet again, Trump is grossly abusing the criminal justice system by directing an unqualified political lackey to indict his adversary. Let’s be clear: this kind of corruption is how authoritarians become dictators. And this is also on every Republican who doesn’t speak up.

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

This is scary stuff! The simple truth is that the people who say they want to make America great again, don't have a clue what makes America great.