🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

Trump illegally tore down the East Wing of the White House and we are no longer talking about it.

oh just straight up gutter racism!

what Democrats need to understand is that these are not judicial confirmations in the traditional sense—the only people Trump is sending to the bench are people who will further his corruption and backstop his anticonstitutionalism; voting to advance any Trump appointee is fucking madness

The Hunger Games Begin substack.com/@paulkrugman...

This is a short-sighted and stupid position by the American Federation of Government Employees. Trump is trying to destroy public workers' unions. Why side with him to gain very temporary relief?

Standing there insisting this is all somehow Democrats' fault because they won't support *your* budget -- a budget that explicitly wages war on Democratic constituencies and Democratic programs -- when you refuse to negotiate or compromise at all is just ludicrously laughably stupid.

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

Back in 2017, I joined 15 colleagues in resigning from the President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities. We warned that attacks on culture would escalate. Today, those warnings are reality: museums closed, history rewritten.

Ominous - threats of retaliation deterring challenges against the government is a key mechanism of democratic downfall

We are in the middle of a prolonged constitutional meltdown, where the president is seizing vast powers he should not have, eviscerating the existing constitutional system that has kept America stable and prosperous for most of 250 years. And our leading political outlets are doing… this

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs." Saved you a click.

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Just curious, how many units of housing are going to be in this ballroom?

So it takes 21 grafs before this analysis mentions the Epstein files, which is the main reason this shithead is keeping the House on permanent vacation. Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

This is spot-on. Trump’s Gilded Ballroom and the Fall of the American Republic substack.com/@paulkrugman...

With FBI, DEA, US Marshals, other federal agencies, state police, county police, and local police, most Americans who wanted to work in law enforcement and could pass basic qualifications could get a job. ICE’s recruiting pool is primarily people who couldn’t.

I hope the construction company and everyone who so much as picked up a sledgehammer is sued into oblivion.

By the way, if you think I’m overstating things, the U.S. once had to tear down the entire embassy chancery in Moscow, and rebuild it (for a cool quarter-billion or so) because the place was bugged to hell.

This headline should say that Zhao got a Trump pardon after supporting the Trump family’s crypto businesses. This is obvious corruption by the convicted felon in the White House.

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here. NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Good: Jamie Raskin tells me he's formally demanding any/all internal communications between WH and DOJ on Trump's $230 million payoff. More Dems should talk this way about Trump's criming. He's turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

Maybe this is obvious to everyone but…why does the White House need a ballroom? It has enough space for state dinners, no? Is this for dances? Weddings? Storing classified documents? Just confused so the reason would be helpful thx

🚨Trump’s team is plotting to declare a fake "national emergency" to hijack elections. One operative says they can “take steps without Congress” and mandate state election rules. Independent, state-run elections are the last firewall between democracy and authoritarian rule.

Republicans on the Supreme Court are poised to gut the law that finally ended Jim Crow, and Southern Republicans are eager to gerrymander Black voters out of representation like it’s 1925 again

The U.S. Economy is in Worse Shape Than it Looks substack.com/@paulkrugman...

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...

All good points. Not entirely confident of no. 7, but I certainly hope it's true, as those spines could use a lot of bolstering.

Trump’s Great, Self-Inflicted Soybean Debacle www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

You know that Mafia-like "compact" MAGA tried to force onto 9 universities? And that 7 (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC, Dartmouth, UVa, now UAriz) have rejected? Leaving Vandy and UT-Austin to reply? If you wonder how this could be framed in a pro-Trump way, wonder no more: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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There's also a severe selection on the dependent variable problem with these comparisons. The Times has looked at all the moderates who won elections, but doesn't include the ones who underperformed and lost. This exaggerates the effect size by roughly 2x. More www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data-over-...

Civil Resistance Confronts the Autocracy substack.com/@paulkrugman...

Republican Leaders are simultaneously saying that the Jews funded No Kings rallies AND No Kings rallies were promoting antisemitic h/t @atrupar.com

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Such an odd story It’s 2025, and Ds Are Still Running Against Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u... This is what opposition parties do - e.g., here's the NYT in 2014: "Rs up and down the ballot are rallying around common villains — Mr. Obama and the federal govt" www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/u...

So he is known for pooping himself and he posts this? Subtexting himself or one of his social staff is trolling him brutally www.thedailybeast.com//king-trump-...

It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

So this is what's above the fold in today's NYT, while the protests get two photos below the fold and a piece on A23. I know I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but damn.

Trump is hallucinating about "beautiful Black women wearing MAGA caps all over" Chicago. I live here. That’s not happening. He also says “the people love us. The people want us there.” If that were even remotely true, why did 100,000 Chicagoans protest yesterday, demanding that Trump leave us alone?

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities