In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has: • Demolished a large section of the White House • Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people • Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…

> @newyorker.com

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

A masked federal police force accountable only to the president which can now readily smash into your car, shoot you, and call you a domestic terrorist because you are watching them time.com/7326794/ice-...

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Trump and Bessent are going to cost us billions, continuing to pour our money into the bottomless pit of Argentina’s economic woes. I guess we don’t need the money in the US.

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

“Frighteningly easy to sell new wars”

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout. www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

A new history of the circumstances leading to the Great Depression sheds light on the systemic dangers we face today—particularly how Donald Trump represents the ultimate capture of American finance, Evan Hughes argues.

Thinking bout this right now for no real reason— “When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter

Everything’s a cover up

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Hey, NYT: being in between a far right party and a centrist-left party is not the middle of the spectrum. The NYT is bad at political math. See my figure for the basic reality we face today and the false centrism that the NYT espouses

Even ardent protectionists would tell you that tariffing bananas and coffee is idiotic and yet it took the administration six months to get here

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

Well, at least I hope the fuck-face I argued with on Facebook about Elon Musk's Hitler salute sees these confirmations and understands that he lost our argument. 🙄 Jeebus.

40 million Americans may go hungry in November because their SNAP funding is at risk. 40 million people at a time when most are already struggling to put food on the table. Trump just gave 40 billion to Argentina. That could feed every American. That could easily fund SNAP. America first?

And here are a few more, from "Big crowds protest Trump across U.S." in the Washington Post to "REIGN CHECK" in the Chicago Sun-Times

If you haven't done it already, cancel your NYT subscription. I did it after the election and I don't miss it. If I want disinformation, I can watch Fox for free.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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

Russia, Russia, Russia, as they say

The most upsetting part of this story to me is the line where the Times says it is “unclear” where the money came from. Under our constitution, it is either extremely clear where money comes from - a congressional appropriation - or an illegal channel. So so, @nytimes.com

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Speaker Johnson has only had the House voting in NINETEEN of the last ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN days. He claims Republicans want to end this government shutdown. Prove it by showing up to work.

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

🧑‍🌾 As we talk about another Trump farmer bailout (because of his trade war), worth remembering the government has been subsidizing farms for 100 years. Yet they call @ZohranKMamdani a “communist” for wanting to help people with food & transportation? 🤔 usafacts.org/articles/fed...

Can you have fun while fighting for rule of law and our constitution? Well, WE DID! #NoKings #NoKingsFrankfurt

A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson. What does he mean by “they” are going to “descend” on “our” capital? WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

The founders assumed a guy like Trump would come along. They never assumed a congress would so willingly give up their power This arch thing is bat shit loonery

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

Predictable and alarming:

In retrospect, perhaps trusting all of the government's systems and data to Elon Musk and his band of 20-year-old cybercriminals was not the smartest move.

Probably worth noting that both Vance and Trump have been “joking” about murdering fishermen in these strikes.

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When given a level playing field, our farmers produce the most abundant food supply in the world. They shouldn’t be locked out of markets and thrust into chaos because the President decided to tweet.

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!