It has rebuffed America and rewritten the norms of global commerce

People who show up for protests will show up to vote. For people who have never attended a protest before. The movement is personal to them now, and that matters. For those who say the GOP won't allow a free election, understand that we've made it harder for them to carry that out.

I couldn't be prouder of Chicago today!

Two of the supposed drug smugglers whose boat our military blew up were rescued and now have been returned to their homes. No logic to it at all. Either they were dangerous terrorists or they weren't. The government just showed us that they weren't.

Trump's corrupt pardons aren't merely because he loves corruption, although he does. They're a tool of authoritarian control. Why are so many not seeing this. Pardons for his friends and pretextual prosecutions for his enemies work together to send a mafia like message.

Three cities in Texas each have a higher violent crime rate and murder rate than Chicago. The percentage of Texas' population that is undocumented is almost 50% higher than Illinois. Why isn't ICE ransacking texas? Why no military in Texas? Because it's not about immigration. It's about control!

Gonna express some frustration here.-- As someone who owns (part of) a small family farm, I'm astonished at the ignorance of the average Blueskyer about the business of farming. That's the internet for you. Not knowing what the fuck you're talking about is almost a requirement for some posters.

Mother of God! It's the tariffs!!!! The tariffs are responsible for for the inflation of farm inputs. What's there for the Justice department to investigate? Source: Reuters search.app/9tDSR

Source: Successful Farming search.app/m9h83 Farmers want to use tariff revenue to fund bailouts. Here's a better idea: get rid of the tariffs. Say no to having taxpayers finance bad policy!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w.... That's because they do.

Does Trump lie on purpose or does his mental illness impair him in such a way that he can't distinguish fact from fiction. In my opinion, the answer to these questions is "yes." Hear me out!

Here's what needs to happen, though it probably won't: Every big star who works in any Disney owned production needs to walk off set tomorrow. All of them!

And this is why The Onion is such a powerful thing. It disrupts this entire phenomena because as satire it can travel at the speed of lies, but carry truth. I'm grateful for it.

Brian Kilmeade's sick suggestion to euthanize the homeless is, rightly, being excoriated. His supporters say he was only talking about the mentally ill homeless, and offering them a choice: Institution or death. As if that's less horrific.

Very little shocks me anymore, particularly when it comes from the right. But Brian Kilmeades suggetion that we just murder the homeless really did. It was the casual, throwaway tone of it. As in, "of course we should murder them, who could object?" And it was the fact that nobody did.

I fucking hate it when someone looks me right in the eyes and makes an obvious lie that we all know is a lie. I know it, they know it, and they know I know it, but they go ahead and lie anyway. That's what drives me so insane about Trump. OF COURSE it's his signature!!!!

We can make this simple. Every single person who contributes to Epstein's birthday book should be shunned from all participation in public life. They all knew. It's obvious! But only one of them is the President. And only one is being protected by a cult. He has to go.

Trump once again has looked Americans right in the eye and lied. "There is no birthday letter." Obviously there is. And obviously he knew there was. And it won't matter a bit to his hardcore followers. But he's still a fucking liar.

When I moved to Chicago in 1990, the murder rate was twice what it is today. I lived in Uptown, a fairly sketchy neighborhood. Yet, I walked everywhere with no problems. I took the bus and the el with no problems. Today, it's much safer still. The Republicans are full of shit!

Think having a LGBTQ+ child means you failed as a parent? Actually, disowning that child means you failed as a parent!

Stop calling things Tump is doing "distractions." They aren't distractions, they're manifestations of his authoritarianism. They are all parts of a multi-pronged attack on America. Calling them distractions implies a single issue plan. The plan is Orbanization of America on all levels.

The most annoying people on this site are those that reply to any discussion about political tactics, "but you don't understand, the nation is too far gone to try anything. We're already an authoritarian state." Jesus! What a bunch of whiny losers. They get instant blocks from me.

Many authors wrote their first work because they saw some talentless hack get published and thought, "whatever I write can't possibly be worse than that." I think about this every time I read a column by Ross Douthat.

I doubt there are any smoking guns being hidden in the Epstein evidence. I do believe there are a lot of uncomfortable and embarrassing associations between him and powerful men that wouldn't be enough to charge, let alone convict someone. Trump is one of them, but we already knew that.

Please, please tell me there is a way to authenticate the Trump-Epstein letter.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

Was Bondi/Trump lying then, or are they lying now? Hmmm. I remember when Trump said he had investigators in Hawaii looking into Obama's birth certificate. They were fictional. He has a history of exploiting bullshit that he can't back up. That's probably the case here.

I just blocked JD Vance. So, it turned out to be a good day after all.

I played this prank as a kid in the 1970s. It was common. At no time was I remotely worried that I would be shot and killed, let alone chased down before being shot and killed. This is the insanity that gun fetishists and reactionary right wing lunatics have condemned us all to.

Since he's a Chicago Pope, his name must always be written in italics.

Trump's people tell us what a great deal maker he is. Yet I never hear any of them touting the great deals he made in his first administration. True to form, the media never presses them on it, either. The only one I can recall was the USMCA. And Trump himself insists the we got screwed on that.

The whole point of freedom is that we each get to decide for ourselves what we do or don't need. Now Trump is deciding that it's his role to decide that for us. The result: we get less freedom and he and his dumbass followers continue to pretend we're still a free country.

Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple. Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that. A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

Tesla quality seems to have been on a downhill slide for several years. But they got away with it because their market was self-satisfied, upper middle class types who wanted to be seen as cool while simultaneously believing they were saving the planet. Musk pissed them off. Now there's no market.

What I want from my Democratic politicians is someone who fights like America is at stake. Because it is.

Dylan sang, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." But apparently, we needed David Brooks. Didn't see that coming!

Ackman should be condemned to screwing those tiny screws all day. Then every night they would come loose, and every day he shows have to screw them back. The IPhone Sisyphus.

I've been told I need a profile picture if I'm going to be taken seriously on this platform. But I don't care if anyone here takes me seriously or not. I prefer to remain anonymous.

I expect the tariffs to cause a huge boom in domestic manufacturing of torches and pitchforks.

Corey Booker's fillibuster might not have much impact on the electorate writ large, but it will fire up a base that desperately needs to see leaders fight. And, hopefully, it will result in some changes in congressional leadership.

Trump did this stunt in his first term. The American taxpayer should be livid that he's doing it again. Not only do we have to pay his tax, because that's what a tariff is, we have to pay an additio nal tax to compensate a preferred group. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

At the center of this is Elon's fantasy/delusion that he, personally, is the savior of civilization. This is a common fantasy on the right.

Yet another corrupt pardon from Trump.

I don't want to imagine what things would be like if the authoritarians weren't also morons.

I could be wrong, but I think everything will come down to the Supreme Court. The regime is pushing just past constitutional barriers when it comes to following rulings of lower courts, and Republicans are letting them. If they set back by SCOTUS and still don't follow, will Repubs do anything?

There should be zero Democratic votes for cloture and zero for the CR. The administration is violating the law and the consequences. Don't cede any power to it.

Does anyone remember sitting around the break table at work talking about how “the whole country needs to be run just like this factory”?

Trump is not being coerced or blackmailed by Russia. He is an eager partner. He always was. You are being duped by the Krasnov nonsense. Ask yourself why that would ever be necessary? Has Trump ever shown loyalty to anyone but himself? Is he capable of shame? Of course not. He wants to be Putin.

"Trump is Putin's Puppet!" "Trump is Putin's Bitch." "Trump is a Russian Asset." These are true in the sense that Putin knows how to easily manipulate Trump and he does what benefits Putin. But it's crucial to understand his real motivation. Trump really believes his own bullshit. Never forget that.

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...