If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Just for the record, in 2020: - Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey - Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes - Garland was an appeals court judge - Monaco was in private practice in LA There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise. He crazy.

Fuck these people for being cowards

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Holy shit Blue Jays

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Here’s my beautiful girl Scully, who loves you even if she hasn’t met you yet

Timeline cleanse! Post a beautiful or adorable thing, please.

like, not to doom about it, but we're very quickly headed toward a unilateral tyrannical presidency whose power and control neither republicans in congress nor the supreme court care to check in any way whatsoever

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

This is precisely how the Trump Foundation worked. He raised money and then spent it on himself. Which got him banned from operating a charity.

im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are

They couldn’t highlight the protests because it was SUNDAY! That makes total sense. Everyone gets it now. Has nothing to do with them being all in on the fash. They just wanted to “highlight” Times specific stuff. Totally believable.

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

The Times lies. It lies every day and always in the same direction.

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

I can’t be the only one that wants him to run so he gets humiliated.

I realize they have to do it but I hate every non-platonic relationship in The Diplomat. Kate-Hal, Kate-Callum, Kate-Dennison, Eidra-Stuart. Love every other thing about the show but hate hate hate all of these.

The choice cannot be between "win every election from here until forever" or maga fascism. Liberalism will need to fight for structural permanence just as aggressively as fascism does.

also, how does Platner claim that he had no idea what a Totenkopf was or that his tattoo was one until a week ago when this Reddit conversation he was part of 6 years ago was all about a soldier with a Totenkopf where people discuss the difference between an SS Totenkopf vs. a Punisher skull etc.

This may seem like a weak statement but it actually seems like a pretty big deal to me. Sen. Warner has nothing to do with actual redistricting--that's up to the state legislature/governor. He also isn't known for being particularly radical. Him giving it his tacit blessing is a BFD.

Worked fine that time but Ladd has a very bad habit of being right at the sticks and moving backward.

NEW: Colorado AG and gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser (D) tells 9NEWS he supports Colorado redrawing House maps to create new Dem seats to offset Republican redistricting in red states. Weiser is the most prominent Colo. Democrat to sign on to the effort. #copolitics

Nothing to worry about, just dead bodies washing ashore in a region where the US is carrying out extrajudicial killings of boats at sea

I honestly think Gadsden might be a star.

Preventing health care costs from exploding? Reopening the government? Lowering the cost of groceries?   Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.

... severed economic aid to Colombia in a tantrum, threatened to crack down on NYC, announced drug prices would be coming down "500 percent," claimed Pete Buttigieg tried to fix the air traffic system with "glass wire," and committed probably a dozen other crimes we've already forgotten about.

... threatened to invade every state in the US, renewed his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and vowed his people would prevent it from happening "again," bragged about illegally slashing programs Democrats like, said he would send disaster relief to a state because it voted for him ...

... called several African American politicians "low IQ," called all Democrats terrorists, insisted the 7 million Americans who protested his regime were all paid, showed a video of him flying a jet and dropping shit all over them, sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up a fellow dipshit tyrant ...

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

this didn’t happen and if it did it is also impeachable

🧵Let's talk about the obvious: Where in the fuck did all the historic artwork and priceless furnishings go, including the gold leaf Steinway piano that was presented to FDR from the Steinway family? Did Trump steal all this when he demolished the East Wing? Why aren't Dems demanding to know?

they do, but most people I've brought it up to this week didn't know it was happening. It's kept off people's algorithmic feeds & local news broadcasts aren't talking about it. It's kind of like every other horrific thing they're doing! people are horrified when they find out! IF THEY FIND OUT

everyday i’m convinced this guy is a decoy deployed by m@g@ operatives. greg PLANTer

Listen: covert supply chain intervention concerns regarding implantation of listening devices in, say, new buildings in US military bases in Guam are considered really serious. And this is the WHITE HOUSE. Has there been vetting of vendors? Contractors and subcontractors? All labor? We don’t know!

BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.

“Nothing will be torn down.” — Karoline Leavitt “It won’t interfere with the current building. It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” — Donald Trump

The White House was three buildings connected by two walkways and Trump decided unilaterally to obliterate one of those buildings and one of those walkways to build a ballroom paid for by donations given by companies and people looking to curry favor.

This is murder :)

If & when federal courts (& SCOTUS) insist on deferring to the President's determination that deploying the Natl Guard is necessary for the enforcement of federal law, safety, etc. - please remember Trump says he's making such decisions based in part on what the CEOs of Salesforce & NVIDIA tell him.

The use of "surge" here is so fucking grotesque. Trump is using Iraq War language against the citizens of his own country.

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."

basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...

MAMDANI, on Bill Ackman: “.. He's spending more money against me than I would even tax him!" @casestudyqb.bsky.social #NYC

California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model. It will be announced today.