I looked it up once. SNAP takes 2% of the US budget and 93% of the money goes to the actual poor people instead of to the bureaucracy. So it's kind of like if you paid $1000 in taxes, you spent $20 on the poor of which they got to keep $18.60, and you spent $166.66 on the military.

How thin-skinned is the uber-touchy Donald Trump? As you may have heard: A single Canadian ad triggered an extraordinary presidential snit and new trade war. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

This is the problem we need to solve before Nov 2026.

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

I've launched an investigation into the contracting and approval process for the demolition of the White House—and whether the corporate donors funding Trump's ballroom are seeking favors with the Administration. The American public deserves answers. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

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...

If you wonder when journalists will start showing more solidarity with each other, head to Indiana -- where the college students are showing us how it's done. My latest, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

First the The Rose Garden, then The East Wing... Add Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the list of beautiful things Trump is going to intentionally destroy.

Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

From @gregolear.bsky.social today. I strongly recommend reading the piece in its delightful entirety. Oh were the gods ready to smile upon us and bring it all to fruition.

Yes, he believes this. His “I settled 8 wars” shows the autocrat’s mindset. Tell a lie, repeat it until it feels true, then demand the world conform to it. In his reality, truth isn’t discovered. It’s declared. Once he says it, it becomes real, and everyone else is expected to obey the fiction.

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information. (Published July) With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

How does tearing down the White House to build a ballroom help the American people? Explain it to me like I’m 5.

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

The WH steals people’s property constantly and never asks permission. Another example of Trump acting like a king.

Farmers are struggling this fall despite a bountiful harvest. Production costs are high, crop prices are low and the trade war has closed off one of their biggest markets.

It’s just incredible this isn’t the way everyone talks about him

Our president is a child.

Mike Johnson’s Bible apparently has Jesus encouraging lying as often as possible as the pathway to heaven. Must be a Trump Bible.

Official count estimates are up - before it was "nearly 7m" then it was "roughly 7m" now it is officially "more than 7m." Trend is up!

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...

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

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25th Amendment time!

This is shameful (and ignorant).

Btw, there isn’t a ceasefire when there is fire.

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

The latest AP-NORC poll had Trump at 37% approval, but, sure, lean into Trump-is-King. Good idea. MAGA really doesn't know how to think about anything except to take the opposite position of their enemies, real or perceived.

"There's no shortage of reasons these days to be angry or afraid. But look around you right now and you'll see tens of thousands of reasons to keep the faith and keep going. This is the America we know to be possible." —Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston No Kings Rally 🚫👑 #NoKings

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Something feels creepy here...

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.

This is disgusting, goes against every principle this Republic has stood for since Washington by pushing political partisanship to active duty military on a weekly basis, & is what authoritarians do. It is why so many turned out today. Republicans in Congress are complicit. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Mom is 103 years old and at the No Kings rally in her home town in Michigan. She also protests every Tuesday at noon outside her Congressman's office. Need some inspiration? Let's get out there. @maddow.msnbc.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

The 105 House Republicans who condemned George Santos and voted to expel him from Congress are strangely silent about Trump springing him from prison after a very short stint. They are all terrified of King Donald.

No Kings day tomorrow. Please be there. x.com/ofthebraveus...

If Adelita Grijalva was a Republican, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago to the office she was elected to. If she wasn’t the deciding signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago. All his bs excuses are lies.

The Admiral in charge of military strikes in the Caribbean resigns as US forces are being built up in the region for possible attacks on Venezuela, at the same time Hegseth forces the Pentagon press out of the building with onerous censorship rules. Nothing to see here.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

If the Supreme Court just calls balls and strikes yesterday’s oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act was as if Louisiana threw a wild pitch into the stands and the conservative Justices called it a strike and the liberal Justices said you’ve got to be kidding

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

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This. This is what we need and should expect from journalists. No more fucking around with these liars.

There's no end to his lies.

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