Old joke, but now the joke's on the Donald.

To my Senators today. 1. STOP THE STEAL Trump has no right to demand $230million from the DOJ. 2. STOP THE MURDER Trump has no right to murder boats SUSEPCTED of heading to the US to smuggle in drugs. Even if we knew the boaters have drugs, drug SMUGGLING is NOT A CAPITAL OFFENSE. 1/2

CBS News confirmed the President's Emergency Operations bunker located under the East Wing of the White House, will be UPGRADED. Does that mean we can't get him out of there when the next President is to be installed? cbsn.ws/4qrjMEY.

Sounds about right.

ICYMI, too. #NoKings WHAT'S NEXT? Listen to last night's mass call. Starts at 4min. bit.ly/4oqmwAG #nokingsinamerica "#NoKingsDay

Aerial video from #AVL #NoKings march. #NoKingsDay #nokingsinamerica Video by Justin Mitchell (Insta: u/jutrut) No Kings protest in Asheville, NC. (10/18/2025)

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Trolling ICE in Portland. ##NoKings

The contrast certainly gives the lie to Trump claims of violent leftist protests.

My sign and Asheville. The city saw 5-6000 show up for the #NoKings rally and march.

#NoKings #Jan6

5,000+ gathered and marched as the sun set in Asheville. #NoKings Photo courtesy of Kathrin Weber.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

10M adults on ACA plans are self-employed or small business owners and employees. A restaurant owner in Virginia could see his monthly premium double, shooting up to $1400 a month. Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities – and Republicans are shafting them. Hello?

If the regime can deny due process to someone else, they can deny it to you. The constitutional right to due process ensures that all levels of government must act within the law and provide fair procedures before depriving an individual of "life, liberty, or or property". See 5 & 14 Amendments.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

ICYMI here is a quick explainer on why the strikes in the Caribbean are illegal and why you should care (hint: you might be next) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

The scheme described by WSJ to weaponize the IRS is a criminal enterprise under US law. And Trump could care less, because Pam Bondi is attorney general.

Vice President JD Vance called them "a bunch of kids" and faulted "scumbag" reporters for leaking text messages from leaders of Young Republican groups that praised Adolf Hitler, used the N-word, joked about putting political opponents in gas chambers, and praised rape. Source: bit.ly/4nSBvU6.

>>Israelis and Palestinians may have danced in the streets when news broke overnight that a deal had been reached between Hamas and Israel over the first phase of a peace deal for Gaza. But the terms of the deal were in place more than a year ago, according to an independent.... bit.ly/4hiFl6I

Stand strong, Democrats! Insist the ACA subsidies are restored. Otherwise, millions will lose health care and the rest will face skyhigh rate hikes.

Donald Trump says that a shutdown is a tremendously negative mark on the president. But he’d rather shut the government down than protect your health care.

God, I hope this is true 🤣 “You have until Wednesday to swear her (Adelita Grijalva) in…or I will release your Grindr profile and your IP address. I bring receipts, bitch!” RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." — Franklin D. Roosevelt 🌱📷

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

More than ever, I want to know: WHO and WHAT are they covering up?

So anyone who opposes him is ANTIFA, which is an abbreviation for anti fascist. He is effectively declaring anyone who opposes him to be a terrorist and an enemy of the state. Fie!

Charlie Kirk called for Donald to #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles. What a great way to honor his memory!! Stop the #EpsteinCoverup and release the #EpsteinFiles in the name of #charliekirk. bit.ly/421wIXO

Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Glad Ted Cruz caught up with the Jimmy Kimmel narrative. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Why won't he open his mouth about releasing the files of the child rapist? Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein

DID Donald mean to publicly instruct AG Pam Bondi to prosecute his political foes? Sure looks like it. bit.ly/4mtppPU

Donald's policies are not attracting investors or manufacturing to the U.S. QTc. Thanks to the brainwashed idiot voters who couldn't see past the FOX or didn't do enough research to understand how Biden's policies were getting the job done.

FREE SPEECH FOR ME NOT THEE. ~ MAGA

Ornstein offers a roadmap to the Dems: impeach RFK. Jr, Noem, et al. Read the full plan: bit.ly/3UQKWqv.

No more #TDS. The New craze sweeping the nation: #NewsomDerangementSyndrome.

Unlike Texas, we're not following Donald Trump's orders to quietly try to redistrict our way out of losing the next election. In California, we're working transparently to respond if Texas enacts new maps — and we'll give the power to the people to make our final decision.

Gift shop tour? What an embarrassment. Zelenskyy and Macron "pictured with the president as he holds one of his signature '4 more years" red caps. Photo by WH aide Margo Martin. bit.ly/475F440

Yaaaaas!!!!!!! Trisha Calvarese has announced she’s running again to take the House seat in Colorado from Lauren Boebert. Let’s go!!!!

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

President "I-Don't-Know-How- Things-Work."

The Blindingly Obvious Goal of Trump’s Tariffs That Everyone Seems to be Missing: To get American Corporations completely under his control. A well thought out, well sourced essay by a Redditor. Worth reading: bit.ly/4lgiJFl.

Smart idea.