When Trump announced 4 days ago randomly that India agreed to stop buying Russia oil, I was surprised because Russia is their largest supplier, we are still in a trade war with India, and their govt has said nothing about it. Turns out he just lied and made it up. Shocker.

What Trump has to say to American farmers is that they have to understand it is more important to save his friend Milei who has a big election coming up. Peasants. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump is treating American farmers like he knows that no matter how much he screws them over they are going to vote Republican anyway. And he’s probably right since he did it before and they took their govt bailout in 2018 & 2019 and are now back for more wearing red hats.

The Tea Party was a Koch party. www.theguardian.com/world/2010/o...

Yes. Tea Party was astroturfed, we heard about it non-stop because there was big money behind it to induce the coverage.

Came here to say this. We rallied people, the tea party was a front for rallying dollars

Tea Party was corporate sponsored from the first CNBC meltdown

Does that mean it's more *important*? To be determined. The Tea Party mattered mostly because of how it took over the GOP like a toxic virus, driving it to far-right extremism and laying the foundation for Trumpism. We don't yet know what effect No Kings will have on the Democratic Party. [3/3]

The Tea Party's biggest distributed event was on tax day 2009, with 750 modestly attended protests. No Kings had 2,600. Its biggest single gathering was on 9/12/09 in DC, with somewhere between 75K and a few 100K participants. No Kings had 5-7 million. So: No Kings dwarfs the Tea Party. [2/3]

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Trump says the government is going to investigate whether Soros paid for all the signs No Kings protesters were carrying. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump’s secret police in Chicago.

So, MAGA, you still think your King, Trump, deserves a Peace Prize for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire that didn't even last a week? For wanting a war with Venezuela? For helping Putin occupy Ukraine? For unleashing ICE against Americans? Cool, cool.

FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS: Republican Party: Project 2025. Democratic Party: The Constitution.

Trump, who posted an AI fantasy video of himself flying a fighter jet and dropping giant loads of shit on a crowd of Americans, thinks people peacefully protesting are “whacked out“ but he’s perfectly rational.

You may be living in an absolutely racist country when 13-year-old Black boys are tried and sentenced as adults, but white dudes who *are* adults are called "kids" by JD Vance to shield them from culpability.

Trump says if he invokes the Insurrection Act, ”there is no more court cases, there is no more anything.” By “no more anything” he means no more democracy.

Whether it's through the legalized gangs of ICE agents, betraying informants, arming pro-US militias abroad, or attempting to roll back gun safety laws, the Trump administration is pro-gang-violence. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

So this is what happened with JD’s San Diego stunt. Firing artillery over civilian areas not a hot idea. OTOH, everyone was focused on No Kings and hardly anyone noticed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

I'm not sure this is the reason. But it was a terrible lapse in editorial judgement whatever the reason.

Another contrast: the many, many stories the NYT ran on Tea Party protests and Canadian trucker protests, above the fold. The NYT also systematically downplayed protests against the first and second gulf wars. They think only conservative protests matter, even small ones, and have for decades.

New AP/NORC poll finds: - 47% of U.S. adults are “not very” or “not at all confident” they could find a good job if they wanted to - 36% say electricity bills are a "major" source of stress; 50% say the same about grocery prices apnews.com/article/poll...

"Those who study the law and are experts on the balance of power warn that unless Congress reasserts its authority soon, we may end up unable to repair the guardrails that have held our government together for centuries."

Trump and Vance wanted this highway to be filled with cars. Good on the California Department of Transportation for not being idiots, but this was still reckless endangerment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The courts have no job to do here other than read the plain language of the Constitution." And so far, with the exception of one very big, important court, they're doing it.

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Donald Trump has illegally blown up at least seven boats in the Caribbean without any reason that would stand up in court.

Trump’s Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism The GOP president is both a dire threat to democratic governance and a clownish mob boss. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

'Trump wants to 'Make America White Again' it was never about immigrants, it was always about hate and racism. www.miamitimesonline.com/opinion/trum...

They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

What exactly was the reason we needed to fire artillery shells over I-5? So JD Vance can feel like a real boy? Couldn’t he and Hegseth have just done some pushups together?

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

The Trump Doctrine: The US military blows up boats in the Caribbean to try and kill everyone on board claiming they are narco terrorists as the justification to dispense with interdiction and trial, but if the targets survive we let them go and fly them home. Makes sense.

Trump posted an AI video showing him DUMPING FECES on No Kings protesters. Here is how the media covered it: 1. NYT: Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters 2. Axios: Trump posts fake video in "KING TRUMP" jet as GOP dismisses No Kings marches

In 1933, Adolf Hitler was legitimately made Chancellor of Germany. That doesn't mean that everything he did while in that office, like giving himself absolute power like a king, was legitimate, Meghan.

Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not

When this story broke earlier today Republicans claimed it was probably fake news since it was reported by the NYT. Now multiple media outlets have confirmed it, including Fox. Hegseth and Vance are complete morons for pulling this dumb stunt.

Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis

This is why they had the Marines fire artillery rounds over I-5. For a JD Vance TikTok.

The whole thing as a vanity exercise to demonstrate a show of force before the No Kings events. DOD had said that firing bombs over a highway was safe; state officials disagreed and shut down the highway, used by about 80K people daily. Turns out the state officials were right.

Trump has escalated from murdering South American fishermen to now bombing California freeways

Here is a map showing the exact spot a CHP vehicle was struck by shrapnel after a shell detonated over I-5 during the Trump-Vance missile firings at Camp Pendleton:

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people? Who could have foreseen this?