As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.

Up to this point, Governor Pritzker has said all the right things. If they're not backed up with action — specifically, control of your own law enforcement organization — then they were wasted breath.

Jared Leto so weird and bad at his job they're gonna make him Secretary of Agriculture

Trump wants his name on their paychecks so when he wants them to come after us he can say "The Dems shut down the government but I made sure you were paid. Even Congress couldn't get it done! It's me and you vs them, soldiers" Anyway, probably fine

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this* They don't give their opinion to the media They don't criticize how SCOTUS works This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

well, that's terrifying

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

we would all be much better off if the crimes committed by the rich for their own amusement were treated more seriously than the crimes of desperation and necessity committed by the less fortunate

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it

Weird how the Hatch Act never actually existed

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

America needs, at some point, to start prosecuting white collar crime.

Acting President admits he is, in fact, acting as President

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Part of the reason the right aggressively demonizes George Soros is to dissuade any other left-of-center wealthy guys from doing actual politics the way every right wing billionaire happily does.

They’re really in a full press moment with this nonsense.

The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

America, 2025: Government lawyers tell judges that the President can declare any protest he dislikes to be a rebellion, and the courts must agree.

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

"PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with eight companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago." And yet, the report is stuck in limbo, still not released to the public.

I used to be able to keep these DAILY MEMOs to under 3 minutes, the last couple videos have been impossible to. ICE is escalating in Los Angeles, just look at the article version with every incident highlighted. This is only what we could confirm, only what we know of. @lataco.bsky.social

This article seems to completely overlook a key, alarming factor. Trump apparently communicates w people in his admin via DMs on Truth Social — which, on top of being a site he owns, also likely has shitty security. I assume it def. violates the Records Act. Zero respect for national security.

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

neo-confederacy files amici in support of dissolving the republic

quick question, who were the antifascists in 1930s Germany against

The nation is ours, and the Nazis know this, and they don't even exactly want to take it from us, they just want to destroy it

I have never ever ever understood why TV/pool reporters let people get away with this. Why is not there a follow of: you haven't followed the biggest story of the day, really? WTF are you doing? and...I'm going to interview your CoS/press people to see if they talked to you about it?

In Lieu of Flowers, send 9 voting districts

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

feels like it should be a big deal that the president is directing the invasion of american cities based on what are almost certainly AI videos shown to him by his staff maybe one of our ostensible news organizations could track down exactly what it is that he's seeing

The President of the United States is living in an alternate reality and it's long past time for media outlets to start talking about it. We're beyond "Trump said without evidence." Trump is governing a world that only exists in his warped mind.

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Come and get me.

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.