@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and I start with this clip of me from 2024 on Jimmy Kimmel Live and we talk about how Trump told us for years what he was going to do to the country now.

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If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

Trump’s “plan” to lower drug prices? Let his son cash in.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

White House says Trump will visit Walter Reed on Friday for a routine check up

Deluded or lying? Portland has plenty of stores. And boutiques. Lots of boutiques.

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country." www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

Jeffries: "The streets are hot right now on Capitol Hill because the Republicans are just falling apart. They cannot justify their position having shut the government down. They cannot justify their position in terms of hiding the Epstein files from the American people."

Utterly impossible to argue otherwise. Even if you laughably believed Trump wasn’t in the files, Johnson is protecting everyone in them!

I don’t even know Habeas. He was a coffee boy

Noem thinks habeas corpus is the president’s constitutional right to remove people from the country. Trump? Thinks Habeas is a person.

"While ICE is invading immigrant neighborhoods and kidnapping people by the thousands, the fact that a hugely popular artist would sing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is a sign that America is still a polyglot nation. And that is unacceptable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

No one asked for this

Jack Smith wouldn't be involved in the classified documents until months after the raid.

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

This right here is Trump's ultimate goal: staying in power

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Aren't we all?

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.” The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.

See how he always calls Black Dems "low IQ"?

Yeek! Too old to be president! 🙄🙄🙄

Jack Posobiec is at Trump’s “Antifa roundtable” at the White House today. Last week we reported about Posobiec voting in a state he didn’t seem to live in.

Pritzker isn't low-IQ because he's not Black. Only Johnson is low-IQ because he's Black.

"We took freedom of speech away" is probably the most honest thing Trump has said or done in a long time

the revenge of woke

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.

Nap time for Grandpa!

The Emperor's new war. A complete fantasy presented in a room full of nodding sycophants who don't question a thing he says.

Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?

He is dazed and confused.... Yikes! 😬😬😬

Hello?

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Just to be absolutely clear: The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person. And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Pam Bondi, in this single exchange, confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is not the Attorney General of the United States. She is Attorney Specific of Donald Trump.

Republicans won’t come back to work because we can now force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files. Meanwhile, folks' insurance is skyrocketing because they refuse to extend healthcare tax credits. They’re putting Pedophiles before the American People.

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Who is crucifying dogs? Also, what a fucked up verbal tic to pick up from your father. They’ll describe anything that way. “It was so hot that I drank the Gatorade in one gulp, like a dog.” “That looks great on you, like a dog.” “My father didn’t give me enough love and attention, like a dog.”

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.