We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Quite the side-by-side

If we learn any lesson from the Biden years I hope it is that next time the criminals all need to go to jail

Trump is in a snit with Canada so he just announced an extra 10% tariff on Canadian goods. I seem to remember how these tariffs were all part of some national emergency. His feelings are now a national emergency?

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

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."

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

You know who else upgraded his bunker?

can someone please just run this as an ad?

I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.

Right out of the textbooks. Whether it will succeed or not remains to be seen, but there is nothing complicated about what's happening here.

That has been my exact thought in the last week or so. If he doesn’t have to swear her in, it is literally the nail in the coffin of democracy.

Fraud is legal

“Are we going to have presidents from here on in just shaking down DOJ or other parts of the US government for money to put in their pockets?” Raskin says. He also says he'll push this when Judiciary Committee meets next, challenging Rs on the $230 million payoff: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Critical angle: Trump's accomplices are surely counting on pardons, which only makes them more beholden to him. Todd Blanche must think hard about saying "no" to Trump's demand for the $230 million. Raskin and I discuss this here. It's something Dems could say more: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Trump is turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System, or BDS. He's creating many new avenues for media companies, law firms, universities, etc to channel tribute payments as he directs. Feeding the BDS is the cost of doing business in Trump's America. newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Dems should push a bill banning such administrative claim payments to presidents even if claims predated their service. Republicans will block vote on it. Let them. Then hammer away at that to voters. Push media to cover GOP complicity in Trump's theft of taxpayer $. newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Yup. It's really the perfect metaphor for all his crimes: Abuse of process Open corruption Destruction of the notion of "public" Bad taste All during a government shutdown necessitated by tax cut for some of the zillionaires who paid for the ball room.

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

The New York Times just reported he is destroying the entire East Wing this weekend. No permits, no approval from the National Capital Planning Commission. Nothing. Where is the outrage from Congress?

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.

🚨 NEW: Trump's biggest lesson from his first term? He left money on the table. He's returned to the White House with three new ways—all easier and faster than booking a hotel room—for allies, favor-seekers and foreigners to funnel money to the US president. me, for @forbes.com 1/

Release the unredacted Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 United States presidential election!

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

We will never know when he gets $200 million from taxpayers.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

And the renovation was carried out by a commission authorized by Congress and staffed with appointees of the president, House and Senate. The president didn't just ring up a contractor one morning to have them tear things down. Because it's not the president's goddamn house.

Donald Trump had two (2) state dinners in his first presidency but he really needs that ballroom. We all know its main use will be as a platinum level bribe reward.

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

Here’s EDVa Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in action, texting secretly with lawyer-journalist @annabower.bsky.social — not smart; flirting with violating grand jury secrecy; maybe violating DOJ policy; leaking. An ethical AG would discipline, maybe fire, Halligan for this. But Pam Bondi.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, 'those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you.' Reuveni: It is the highest, most egregious violation of the lawyer's code of ethics.

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.” Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

It is notable that the Times article did not mention this, which, in itself, should be a huge, ongoing scandal, particularly in light of all of the concern about condescension to ordinary Americans that the Democrats supposedly display. uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump...

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican

That's 38 days that Speaker Mike Johnson will have held the House out of session in service of obstructing the bipartisan investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. By contrast, Epstein himself was arrested on 7/6/19 and died in his cell at MCC on 8/10/19 (a mere 35 days).

And now he doesn't have to pay them back as ordered, either

President Donald Trump acknowledged a $20 billion bailout for Argentina would not primarily serve American interests, testing the patience of domestic farmers who have yet to receive their own relief from Trump’s trade war.

The Port Authority of NY and NJ manages Newark, LaGuardia, Kennedy, Stewart, and Teterboro airports. Call their public comment line at 212-435-7000 to tell them what you think of playing this likely-illegal political message.

“I figure it’s probably maybe the only way I’m going to get to heaven. So I better do a good job.” - Trump, 2016

The Trump Admin has portrayed Nick Sortor as mini-martyr to justify cracking down on anti-ICE protesters in Portland. Meanwhile, Sortor is filing legal junk with the same lawyer used by Joey Gibson: a far-right activist who collaborated w/ Proud Boys to stage violent protests in Portland years ago

That's one key function of having Sortor there. A trusted propagandist, telling Trump the most inflammatory things. Ditto Benny as Noem's cosplay sidekick. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/d...