Presumably a legal immigrant is also a taxpayer?

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

One week after Trump pardoned Binance’s owner (for a stunning array of crimes related to terrorist and sex predator financing), Binance starts promoting Trump crypto. The White House is a full time, 24/7 corruption machine.

Elbows waaaay up in the polls.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

I probably shouldn't, but I take a measure of pride in this headline from the Guardian. They're used to folks just rolling over and that's what they expect.

The man should be in prison. But sure, let's pay him a quarter of a billion for being a criminal.

This is the most delightfully Canadian thing I've ever seen

This is Emmer before the rally, emphasizing that a small, vocal, and violent group was driving the Dems and the rallies. The fact that it was a millions of flag-waving Americans makes zero difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

They just fabricate this alternate universe and cling to it with all their might.

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

It's especially craven since he is well known to have originally described Trump as "a cynical a–hole like Nixon" or "America’s Hitler". Billionaire backing into a senate seat makes all the difference. He's 100% bought.

Absolutely no concept of principle, morality, fairness, or justice. 100% might is right, internationally and domestically.

The AI video Trump posted of himself dumping shit all over America from a plane was metaphorically the most accurate piece of propaganda he’s put out this year.

Good thing no one's dying because Trump ended USAID.

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens. Yes, we are the baddies.

One of the few arrests that I have read about today. This is near Myrtle Beach, SC and she was driving around pointing a gun at protesters. Note the shirt.

What in the actual fuck is this jackass talking about, and why, dear Jeebus, must every ounce of shit that spews from his mouth be reported as ‘news’, rather than as unassailable proof he is unfit to lead.

Young Republicans grow up to be regular Republicans and that’s about all you need to know.

3 weeks earlier

The Atlantic’s journalists will not sign the Pentagon’s press policy. Statement here from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg:

Has anyone ever asked this man to explain what the is wrong with being Palestinian? Seems like a simple follow up question. bsky.app/profile/atru...

One reason might be that you continue to oversee extrajudicial executions in the international waters of the Caribbean.

Yup. The people who should earn a fortune from the years I have devoted to training and research are people who run AI companies, not me.

Pity the poor, downtrodden billionaires! No way can they rake in enough money from defence contracts, government contracts, and AI porn to compensate people they steal from. Why should I profit from my own years of training and research? It's only fair that tech companies profit from it.

Wow 👇

The pragmatic "How to Handle Trump" manual has been passed around by all the world leaders. "Stroke the narcissist's ego vigorously" is in bold on page one.

Anyone who is against fascists and fascism is antifa. Presumably if you are against antifa, as this administration so rabidly is, you are for fascists and fascism.

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

This is a @brianbeutler.bsky.social point, I think, but Garland was careful to a fault not to coordinate w Biden, not to jump on Trump cases too fast, etc - even appointed special counsel to probe Hunter. His reward: Republicans just insisting Biden/Garland coordinated and targeted their enemies.

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants. About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point. About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education. As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes. Sources below

Of course they have gas masks! ICE has shown no compunction about gassing citizens and peaceful protesters. What excuse does ICE have for concealing their identities?

Their main evidence that Chicago and Portland and other cities are war zones worse than anything seen in Afghanistan or Iraq seems to be a few angry spitters.

"War from within" - a declaration of civil war. Can it be interpreted any differently? Will right-wing mouthpieces have anything to say about this rhetoric?

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

This is what the weaponization of government looks like. Every accusation is a confession. (Also, imagine if Joe Biden's DOJ had done this to Rupert Murdoch or Miriam Adelson or Elon Musk??)

I realize it was my own acceptance of a lazy stereotype but I used to put women on a bit of a pedestal. I used to think women in general could never sink to the same depths that men have from time immemorial. The old saw - if women ruled, the world would more egalitarian, peaceful, and just. 1/

A surreal aspect of Trump's news conf. was that he himself indicated several times that he has very little understanding of what he was talking about, but he still felt compelled to talk at length about it, offer his half-baked opinions, and make outlandish assertions. Extreme narcissism.