Another week of RFK lunacy, DOJ corruption, and rising authoritarianism ahead. Keep up the fighting spirit.

I think I’ll stick to the original.

“I gotta think of a lie, fast!”

I know everything is stupid, but a day later and I'm still impressed at the gleeful public willingness to scream out "WE DON'T CARE IF OUR SIDE IS CRIMINALLY CORRUPT!"

Yes, “the worst of the worst.” Drug traffickers. Predators. 73 year old Sikh grandmas who sew saris and pay taxes www.bbc.com/news/article...

that doesn’t sound like him

The US attorney in Maryland, Kelly Hayes, is now telling people she's bracing for pressure to bring charges against Adam Schiff. But she also won't do so if the facts don't warrant it, NYT reports. More evidence that Trump's corruption is running into deep institutional resistance (see below).

Grimly amusing that FBI thought that it would retain even an illusion of independence in a new Trump administration after John Roberts and the others declared Trump unprosecutable.

Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial service: "He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponents."

If it was a DM, it would be quite the insight into the man. “Shifty,” is bananas in public, but as the way he genuinely talks in private and not mere performance? 25A fodder.

If Trump ends up being the last GOP President (which I think is possible because I think there is a possible scenario in which the GOP collapses after Trump), Lincoln and Trump would be quite the bookends for the party’s presidents.

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

“Donald, Sorry I told everyone about the Epstein files thing”

One thing many people taking shots at Bluesky have in common is posting little and following few people. Is there a prominent critic who follows at least 150 people or who has 150 posts?

The drone incursion was the first time since World War II that the Polish armed forces had been mobilized to fight off a threat to their homeland, and the first time since NATO’s creation that allied forces had engaged an enemy in its airspace. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/w...

Remembering Spencer Cox’s endorsement of Donald Trump saying how he could bring Americans together

Trump: "He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best of them. But I disagree with Charlie. 
I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best of them...I am sorry. Erika can talk to me and they hope that maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent."

Trump has now diverted from his remarks at Charlie Kirk's memorial to talk about autism, promoting an announcement at the White House tomorrow. Namely, this: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

I felt pretty confident that in a DM Trump would just get to the point and not include all that performative bullshit but uh

It matters that Dems say these are impeachable offenses to the public, whether or not they immediately pursue them.

It’s like with how he didn’t want COVID testing so that he could pretend that it didn’t exist.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

Put this photo up next to the one of the veteran holding the flag in the cloud of tear gas.

I have always loved this part of the Narnia stories

“The target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.”

This continues to go around, but Trump reposted it with an edit. I think it is more likely than not that Trump intended this to be a public post.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

And by Trump. The buck stops there.

We in the West don't see them, but REAL PEOPLE in drought and conflict zones have been killed by Musk. It's not over. DOGE is a death machine, still rolling.

(Even if it was about hate speech it would be unconstitutional)

Fantastic, sober, realistic thread. The James Baldwin quote deep in the thread is on point.

The Golden Age of Trump

Seriously take a moment with these words of the President. This is chilling.

They have no lines. The only thing that might turn them is if the bottom falls out in polling.

The Admin and a bunch of the influencers at least. Sadism really does describe these types of “jokes,” the CECOT videos/photo ops, and various posts about immigrants.

If Mordor doesn’t give Osgiliath back to those that built it, the Kingdom of Gondor, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!! Lord Denethor

Sen Chris Murphy, "You will be prosecuted for free political speech but let off for criminality if you're a supporter of President Trump" "That is Cuba, that is Iran, that is Russia, that is not the United States"

Rep. Jim Himes: "Having the Defense Department kill alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is illegal...These folks are committing murder — murder defined as killing without a legal basis. I am mystified over why the rest of the chain of command is quite comfortable with it."

Probably a coincidence that Hegseth puts out a new edict restricting Pentagon reporters from gathering military info and reporting it right as the Trump admin launches their campaign to start blowing up boats.

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit

This is the Trump thug who wants to deny due process rights to everyone else. Turns out he was being investigated for taking $50k cash in an illegal scheme, but Trump’s DOJ dropped it. This double standard and corruption is infecting our justice system.

the real people they joke about murdering apnews.com/photo-galler...

Thinking about how several of the disciples were fishermen and how Jesus said follow me and I’ll make you fishers of men - quite the irony that so many American Christians are following a man now who jokes about murdering fishermen….

Third time (at least) Trump has made a joke or light of killing fishermen, and Vance did it too. They’ve made joking about killing fishermen an effing talking point.