The same forces breaking down democracy have succeeded in undermining key institutions: the judiciary, the integrity of religious institutions, and the guardrails of one of our two political parties. trib.al/zwHE2Jo If we want better outcomes, we must commit ourselves to restoring them.

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans. Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

(They should apparently tell the press corps, too…)

This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

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If they think having your troops be vicious killers who are encouraged to commit war crimes is what makes a military effective, they should really ask their buddy Putin how that's working out for him.

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

""Elected officials including Trump encouraged their constituents to “do their own research” into alternate therapeutics and cast doubt on expert medical advice. "" Read about what this has led to... The Medbed from a company named Tesla.

💔 Russia loses 970 soldiers and helicopter over past day

Trump visa curbs push U.S. firms to consider shifting more work to India reut.rs/3IyB3Lx

Gaza strip to be preserved for a Trump high-rise condo development?

I saw 👑🍊💩 say he would be in charge, like he doesn't already have a job. I loathe that Spawn of Satan.

Please read carefully, @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

Oh goody, Tony Blair is going to lead the development of the Gaza Mara Lago resort and gold xlub for our tRump Brand President. What could go wrong?

It's on our tRump Brand President.

Hard to blame Democrats for the shutdown when sources close to Trump say out loud that the president “welcomes the prospect of a shutdown.”

Obama on the coming shutdown. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

'If the MAHA movement truly wants a “cleaner” food supply, they should be fighting for a stronger FDA, not a weaker one. They should want more scientists assessing additives before they hit the market." drjessicaknurick.substack.com/p/food-addit...

Great list!! Thank you!

Prof Hrytsak is an important and creative thinker

Well said by Karl Jacoby, this has been much on my mind, need to think about the absurd meeting of generals in this light

Meh, it's all about the announcements. Like professional wrestling.

Farmers planted in April or May. They have to sell in the next couple months. There isn’t any way they can react to the Trump havoc. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

History repeats itself. "... those particular Medals of Honor, because they were awarded to cover up the incompetence of political appointees that led to the deaths of at least 230 peaceful Lakotas, as well as about twenty-five soldiers who were caught in their own crossfire."

In an interview with Tom Llamas, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that President Trump has embarked on a path that “will set fire to the entire region.” The interview was conducted with a government interpreter translating in real time, and NBC News reviewed the translation independently.

The Norwegians better give him his tRump Brand No el right away, before it all burns down.

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood will stop abortions—even though they’re legal. The move is an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid “defunding” under the GOP’s budget bill—potentially saving healthcare for 50,000 people.

"Also troubling is the degree to which so many televangelists in America have themselves become corrupted by money and power. Nothing illustrates this fact so well as their embrace of (so) corrupt a person as an agent ..., a quasi-religious figure himself." www.alternet.org/trump-maga-m...

Preach

Soon after Obama’s first election, a DHS analyst noticed an escalation in terrorist threats by the far right, but his reports were shut down. Why? Because conservative media outlets framed the findings as an attack on the right—and we're experiencing the ramifications of it today. trib.al/GXrqxK7

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Hint: It is not the Democrats.

Trump says he has settled a war between Aberbaijan and Albania. The problem is Aberbaijan does not exist and consequently Albania has never had any conflict with said country.

Megyn Kelly's separation from even pretending to be a journalist, instead of a mindless hack for MAGA, is now complete.

I absolutely love this.

No, some of the Left did no such thing, just as the Haitians were not "eating the dogs, eating the cats" in Springfield, Ohio, black women are not genetically inferior to white men, and all the other lies Charlie Kirk spread have been debunked. Where does the Economist get its headlines from?

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social for Senate Minority Leader, and @schumer.senate.gov can help make it happen.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Trump attempts to project a resistance-is-futile aura. trib.al/uRRuy2t His most deranged displays—claims about crowd sizes, dumb imagery of his face attached to cartoonishly steroidal bodies, ineffectual occupation of U.S. cities—have a quality seemingly designed to be overbearing.

The "Red Scare" echoes in Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.

THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS "ABOUT TO LOSE IT" for one reason or another; that too is Fascist strategy - to sow enough injustice/criminality/hate/fear/division/xenophobia/slander/false accusations/stochastic terrorism; thus inciting violence of various kinds, which is used to justify: Prison Police State.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social 1 tRump Brand legal team 0 bsky.app/profile/kyle...

She is reporting state sponsored mass murder being planned in plain sight.