Despite the fact that everything Trump does is designed to enrich himself and the billionaire cronies who paid hundreds of millions to get him elected, his greatest trick was convincing working class rural Christian white people that he’s one of them and on their side. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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...

October 25, 2025

North Carolina already one of most gerrymandered states. Now GOP passing new gerrymander giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Dem Don Davis. This is preview of what post-Voting Rights Act America will look like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Very nice overview of the Vera C Rubin Observatory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be8_...

"The Supreme Court Case That Could End Free and Fair Elections" As Trump pressures states to redraw electoral maps to favor Republicans, the nation's far-right justices appear poised to weaken the Voting Rights Act and silence American minority voters:

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record: Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

Some people are honored to help children learn, or help the sick heal, or help the dispossessed fight for justice. Others are honored to have played a small role in giving lying criminals a chance to prey on society again, so long as they are Republicans.

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

Vile GOP. Easy to connect the dots from trump’s rhetoric to Charlie Kirk’s to these young Republican ‘leaders’ … www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

oh. right. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

One Appeals Court Gave Us a Taste of the Deference Trumpified Courts Want to Give the President talkingpointsmemo.com/news/9th-cir...

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

“If you want to win the Nobel Peace Prize, you’ve got to fight like hell.”

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast. But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

I lived under a military dictatorship in Zaire/Congo in the 1980s. The exact same thing is happening in the USA now. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

One day you're living in a constitutional republic, the next day the president is calling for the arrest of governors and mayors

More focused wisdom from Greg Sargent.

Whitehouse: "It obviously makes a big difference when you have a professional DOJ and there's no alleged involvement of the president in a sex trafficking operation. This is different. This is a MAGA DOJ conducting an investigation into a trafficking operation in which POTUS may well be implicated"

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

Not unrelated: bsky.app/profile/sara...

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out. Every single one.

@pkrugman.bsky.social Trump is trying to provoke street protests (like BLM in 2020) so that he can intensify military attacks on Democratic cities. I think Democrats need to boycott corporations and slow down the economy. This was the Republican strategy... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terr...

One of the questions: Will the media step up and report as such? Yes, the conservative media owns the modes of mass comms. But ostensibly, large mainstream outlets who purport to speak truth to power etc have leaders who are watching things unfold and understand the stakes. Will they be as honest?

Whether he's lighting up the night sky with fake stars, polluting Memphis & the atmosphere, or torching our modest programs to improve global health & feed the starving, Musk does not pay a nickel for the impacts of his fever dreams: everyone else does. This is not how a healthy society functions.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

If ICE agents want to stop being compared to Nazis and the Gestapo, here are some tips for them: 1) Take off your masks 2) Identify yourselves 3) Stop disappearing innocent people off the street 4) Avoid shooting women, like you did today, you fucking Gestapo Nazis

Genuinely crazy how much we went from debates about body cams to "is the camera rolling? good. now watch me assault this dude."

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Kavanaugh raids. Welcome to 2025 in the USA.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

People may get tired of hearing this but this is what the Nazis did

Click on the image to hear Tom Fletcher's May 13 statement to the UN Security Council. news.un.org/en/story/202...

"Every good-faith questioner is now a dissenter. You either open yourself up to harassment or, like most people, you choose silence. And if silence is the only logical choice, then authoritarianism has arrived." Following @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

"After his release, the 79 year old U.S. citizen was treated at a local hospital for multiple broken ribs, a dislocated elbow..." ktla.com/news/79-year... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

'Trump was widely condemned during his first term when he called the white supremacists who rallied in Charlottesville, Va., “very fine people.” Now, Democrats and political centrists were lining up to honor a man who promoted the same Great Replacement Theory.' www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

Let’s hear the tape.