Trump just issued an Executive Order to begin an authoritarian crackdown on "organized political violence." What is this so-called political violence, you ask? Well, it just so happens I've written a new essay this week on precisely this question. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

The move appears targeted at left-leaning progressive nonprofit groups, which Trump days ago vowed to dismantle, falsely claiming they fund and support political violence and terrorism in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, Smith said he's sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered.

The “to” in Trump’s terror memo is doing terrifying work. Grammatically, it makes murder the intention of critique. So if I taught in my “educational institution” that Trump’s attack on rule-of-law is unprecedented—aka “isolated”—by this memo I could be accused of justifying murder.

every time they ask whether I'm getting married soon I just wonder...

Ben-Ghiat: If we look at Brazil’s history, there’s a good reason why they took a different path from the US. They had a military coup in 1964 that led to over 20 years of horrible dictatorship. The political class in charge now were alive during that period.

For sure, definitely bad Just highlighting that this Government can't even do the bad things competently bsky.app/profile/gacy...

Undersold in the dialogue: USDOJ still ate shit and got no-billed on a third of the charges they sought

If the grand jury doesn’t buy part of your case you go back to the drawing board - unless you have a statute of limitations problem (they do) or unless you don’t care about the merits (they don’t).

So Jack Ciattarelli’s just fine with Trump axing the Dept of Education 😡 Well, New Jersey isn’t. Our students, parents & teachers know what’s at stake. We believe in strong schools, not MAGA power grabs. The choice is clear: vote Mikie Sherrill. #VoteNJ

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I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

his approvals on prices/cost of living are now sub 30, i think, and that’s a significantly more salient issue than a lot of others

if we can get him down into the 20s, we can start to really shatter MAGA into pieces.

people do not really understand that once a movement's popularity starts falling towards the 30% mark, it begins shedding even core supporters. this is because you can no longer maintain the information environment inside that core. there are just too many leaks.

Big thank you to @brandonwolf.bsky.social and everyone who came out to support the DFL and our LGBTQ+ community here in Minnesota! 🏳️‍🌈🏳

Perhaps ~*~they already have~*~

You know at a certain point they’re just going to run out of competent people at the DOJ to do anything

The desperate search for an enemy that Trump can conquer continues. No factual basis needed, just a story to tell where Trump is the hero who took down the "radical leftist terrorists." Please clap. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Disney Shareholder Groups Demand Documents Related to ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Suspension - Rolling Stone apple.news/An4tH0Z3aSki...

They really indicted a former FBI director because Trump hates him, after firing a previous Trumpy prosecutor for saying there was no case. Even after everything, this is breathtaking.

If Hanniety’s lips are moving, he’s lying.

OMG.

I'm starting to think that our saving grace, other than their sheer stupidity, may be just how fast they are moving to piss everyone off. Orban, Erdogan, Hitler, Mussolini, they all took years dismantling opposition, backstabbing, and purging the ranks. Trump is going after everyone all at once.

Which is EXACTLY why Congress has exclusive constitutional authority to impose tariffs. But Trump wants to be an autocrat, and unilateral tariff authority forces CEOs to come to him begging, then he can extort what he wants from them personally. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/k...

Comey bears no small responsibility for where we have ended up, so my sympathy here is limited

Not many figures in Epstein’s legal circle have been more closely linked to him than Dershowitz, a central member of his legal team for years. The emails show the depth of the support he gave Epstein.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

He's right, and the worst of all are the ones bitter about their mortality and determined to cause pain on their way out.

We know that most scientists, doctors, nurses, and other professionals nationwide do not support RFK Jr., his policies, or his job performance. He should resign or be fired.

Comey helped trump be president in the first place smh no gratitude

Lmao just saw The News™ and we’re all doing so great. SO great.

Only $14bn? Doesn't really matter I guess, they lose billions a year www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...

Quite the progressive idea. 20th century, here we come!

Put this together with the efforts to get voter registration data which could include info on party affiliation, and what do you have?

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

you're telling me there's another battle after this one

Just in: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438.217.0.pdf

Probably no man bears more individual responsibility for electing Trump the first time, and this is also transparent bullshit bsky.app/profile/phil...

Really seems like the admin's strategy here is to use the word "terrorism" a lot so that people shut their brains off

BREAKING NYT: A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney's offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.

If I have this right, one of the central claims that Soros is funding terrorism is that Open Society gave money to al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, which Israel designated as a terrorist group in 2022. At the time the CIA looked at Israel's evidence and was "nah, don't see."

Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center. The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them. The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day. www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...

The teams should back out of playing in the US. Foreigners really *aren't* safe --- from the US government.

ABC News says James Comey has been indicted in a transparently political case, shortly after other prosecutors who couldn’t justify a charge against him were fired by President Trump. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

The regime moved to prosecute one of its political opponents today after forcing out a lawyer who would not agree to their demands

The truest thing I have read all day. @timhannan.bsky.social

It was nice of Pete Hegseth to allow this to be reported. What a guy.

I’m no military strategist (pacifist in fact) so I just genuinely ask: Is it a good idea to broadcast to every other military in the world that not only will all of the U.S. military’s top brass be physically together in the same location, but also that every base around the world is vulnerable?