As others have noted, it's good that Trump is normalizing the idea of adding new states with these insane posts, as it'll just soften the ground for Democrats to make DC and PR states.

Someone joked that being the single most hated man in the Senate was a *kind* of accomplishment, but we decided it wasn't worth the honor. He's a troll, who's done nothing with his life but strut on a stage and perform on podcasts. There's no there there. /x

JACOBS: Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be the commander in chief? HEGSETH: Did you ask the same question of Joe Biden? JACOBS: Joe Biden is not the president HEGSETH: I won't even engage with the level of disparagement you're putting on the commander in chief

This is what maga voted for. Suckers

South Carolina US Representative induced bill on 4/22/26 to allow federal government to incarcerate people who dislike the current regime 4/23/26 www.threads.com/@total.hypoc...

Reporter: You said that that second strike was in full accordance with the law of armed conflict but the Navy's own manual of law of war says that specifically firing on survivors from a wrecked vessel is an example of a war crime that's forbidden under U.S. Law and the law of armed conflict…

11/29/25 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief...

FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump

Most Americans who voted for Trump did not understand he would do this.

www.threads.com/@clair30/pos... Great song!

Who’s this? Lookin’ very strange!

The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page. No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

FYI: tons of replies here telling me why Trump is doing this, which I just want to point out I already know. bsky.app/profile/muel...

All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.

Today’s I Ching 11122025 Sunrise Universe, please show us what is most needed at this time to help heal our planet? 3 Water over Thunder, 屯 Difficult Beginnings aimtohealearth.blogspot.com/2025/11/ew-i...

None of this trump and Epstein stuff is surprising and yet seeing it in print still feels jarring. it’s easy to be cynical but we absolutely don’t know what will break through until it does.

I participated in building Biden’s Official White House website, and given that it was an official government resource, the restrictions on political messaging were considered deeply important and severe. This is a joke. It of course breaks the law, but deeper, it breaks the very spirit of the law

“[G]etting these justices thinkingabout the extraordinary power grab by the Trump White House over tariffs could carry over to other important challenges to his excessive claims of authority.” 11/6/25 open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Today’s I Ching 11012025 Sunrise Universe, please show us what is most needed at this time to help heal our planet? 43 Lake over The Creative, Heaven, 夬 Resolution Changing to 44 The Creative, Heaven over Wind, 姤 Temptation (Coming to Meet) aimtohealearth.blogspot.com/2025/11/ew-i...

A bipartisan coalition of state officials, including North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, sued the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), partially funded through November. www.theassemblync.com/politics/jef...

Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates. www.wired.com/story/donald...

JD Vance was fed by the government as a child, and now he wants to pull that ladder up behind him.

On Oct 30

Trump says he is both the President and the Speaker of the House. Congressional Republicans are nothing more than a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda. You deserve better.

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel. His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

“Make every politician wake up every morning wondering if today is the day their career ends because they ignored what their constituents actually want.” 10/23/25 open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

BREAKING: In a 26-20 vote, the North Carolina Senate passes a Trump-approved congressional gerrymander that aims to dismantle one of the state’s Black Democratic seats. The House redistricting committee is set to take up the measure this afternoon.

The lawyer representing Rep. Bost argued electoral candidates have standing to challenge such laws. Justice Brown Jackson countered that elections are for the people to decide who governs them. “It’s not the candidates who are the object, it is the voters.”

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...