So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.

it's always women of color

"The next presidency is going to have to embark on a sweeping de-Trump-ification of the entire federal government to purge it of the culture of abuse and lawlessness that has taken hold, and there are few more vivid examples than ICE." www.publicnotice.co/p/abolish-ice

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

Fascism

Trumpism is all about a rapist’s mindset, which sees trickery and force as SUPERIOR to getting what it wants by mutual agreement, creepily eroticizing things that theoretically have nothing to do with sex

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes. that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry. but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

this is exactly what's happening

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy: "Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."

That's the authoritarian dream

Imagine what would have happened if Biden or Obama sent masked goons into deep red neighborhoods in Texas or Florida and they started grabbing people off the street and teargassing anyone who objected

MORE: Don Jr. is poised to profit from this Pentagon drone proposal. Unusual Machines gave Jr. 200,000 shares of its stock late last year in return for his help as an adviser. The shares are now worth about $2.6 million. tinyurl.com/3th7skud

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

My wife’s (in some cases three-time) trump voting relatives have started mentioning the ballroom to me, negatively; anecdata but I’d like to see some high quality polling. I think it’s a mistake by certain elite elected Dems to think this story isn’t breaking thru

For the Trumps, the presidency is a side gig.

Whoaaaaa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Voter suppression. Trump and MAGA are planning for permanent power. All in front of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get. Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

“I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country…We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead” - the antiwar president! Give him a Nobel!

"Tearing down the White House and replacing it with a facsimile of Mar-a-Lago isn’t any less appalling because Trump cajoled companies into paying for it. Indeed, it might be worse. Funding a pet project via the coercion of private donors creates a closed loop and complete lack of accountability."

But Trump gets a ballroom and Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout

Congratulations to Trump and the GOP Congress - they now own the two longest government shutdowns in history.

I can’t believe how everything in American politics gets stupider and stupider every week - Trump annihilates the east wing -says the government should pay him millions of dollars -decides to bail out Argentina for billions of dollars -

it's hard to Nazi what's going on here

Trump gets away with acting like a king because Republican officials and staff in all three branches of government, and in the states, and in big businesses, want Trump to get away with acting like a king.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Here's a fun little nugget from Trump's demand that DOJ pay him, personally, $250 million: In his memo, he argues that prosecutors "should have foreseen" that he has "immunity from prosecution for officials acts." Thank you John Roberts, great rule of law-ing, sir! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

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

Georgia Republican Tim Echols explains his decision to label Democrat Alicia Johnson, who is Black, as a "DEI specialist" by saying: "This is not a dog whistle. This is a whistle. I’m not being shy about it." Echols and Fitz Johnson are up next month for seats on state Public Service Commission.

Public. Domain.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Justice Sotomayor with a graphic dissent as the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with the execution of Anthony Boyd by lethal gas:

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

I will give him this, despite talking about running for president for decades, Trump was cunning enough to wait until a time in American history when big percentage of the population couldn’t care less about naked, blatant and obscene corruption and criminality on a daily basis.

They don’t even bother denying the corruption and grift.

The architects have used the grand ballroom of the Romanovs' winter palace in St Petersburg as a model. Nothing explodes with "autocrat with unchecked power" quite like this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Ever hear of health care, Trump?

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

The Epstein Ballroom comes down in 2029

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Watching this fool knock down the White House and feeling pretty solid about all the times people called me crazy.

Also illustrates the importance of state and local elections! This wouldn't be possible if Dems hadn't engineered a flip of control in the state House to claim a one-seat majority in 2023.

“Restoring the White House is easy. It requires of a Democratic president willpower and purpose. If they aren’t willing to restore the White House, then there is no reason to believe they’ll have the stomach, or vision, for the hard work of reasserting liberalism.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

It's all projection. Trump is accusing all of us of being criminals and terrorists and violent but he is pardoning criminals who helped terrorists.