“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” —Donald Trump, August 2024

I think it's crazy that some on the left see the right beginning to muse about ending the filibuster and thinking it's a good thing. They would consolidate power in such a way that makes Dems coming back unfeasible. Voter ID, mail in restrictions, end of same-day registration, voter roll purges.

Specific to my own beat, the only thing stopping a national ban on trans youth care right now is a filibuster. And so many of the other worst anti-LGBTQ+ laws waiting in the wings the moment it drops.

And this private militia will wage war on Americans and protect the interests of the oligarchs.

1. A groundbreaking new study published in Nature Medicine shows that feminizing hormone therapy shifts trans women's blood protein to resemble cis women after only 6 months. HRT really is effective and changes the human body heaivly. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Well, I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're gonna kill them. You know, they're gonna be, like, dead. Okay? Yeah." Trump has abandoned even the pretext of following the law.

Mark my words, the past year and the next 3 will focus entirely on making it impossible for Democrats to be effectively elected. Fascists do not leave willingly. Never.

“The people of Chicago are not acting like Democrats engaged in normal politics. They are acting like a dissident movement in an authoritarian system. Elected Democrats everywhere could learn from them.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

🧵Just keep asking why the US isn't boarding & arresting these alleged cartel narco-terrorists? Or using them as assets for covert intelligence operations to bring down the whole cartel? It's for the same reason Trump immediately got rid of the Colombian and Ecuadorian survivors.

The US is murdering foreign citizens in international waters, with no due process and no accountability. Just remember that extraordinary claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

ICE plans to hire private contractors for round-the-clock social media surveillance to track immigrants and activists. Nearly 30 contractors sift through posts, photos, and messages—to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. The police state is here.

It doesn’t “resemble” a Nazi symbol. It *is* a Nazi symbol (which he is reportedly to have acknowledged by telling people “This is my Totenkopf”). Worse, it isn’t just any Nazi symbol, it is the one used by the SS officers running the concentration camps.

I will take a $10,000,000 community-funded Fenway providing care in the model they were founded over, unafraid, over a $100,000,000 federally funded Fenway that will capitulate every time a fascist tries to bribe them to turn against us.

I'm receiving word from readers that Fenway Health has now cancelled a planned event teaching about transgender health for continuing education. Fenway has fallen too far and they are letting fear steer the wheel. And they can't face the community.

Everything ICE needs to wage actual war on the American people.

1. Protests at Fenway have erupted this week, and further ones are planned. The protests are in response to the capitulation of the institution to the Trump administration. They have ended trans youth care. The latest from writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Anyone whose Nazi tattoo and Reddit post explanations, however sincere, wind up sucking up this much time and energy should probably reflect privately about past choices instead of taking us along their personal growth journey. Look, I was hoping for someone cool, too, but this ain’t it.

The homophobic posts that Platner made were as recent as June of 2021, though he claims he stopped using such language "awhile ago." www.advocate.com/politics/gra...

It's a very easy "No." I don't understand why in the hell Bernie Sanders and some other dems are making excuses for and still supporting Graham Platner. It's a very easy "No."

I have comics to write, but I have one more thing to say about Platner: I think he's a liar. I am a grown adult with a normal grasp of human nature and reality and I think he's lying when he says he JUST found out it's a fucking NAZI tattoo. I think he's a liar.

We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV. The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children. We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.

The man should be in prison. But sure, let's pay him a quarter of a billion for being a criminal.

After securing $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid earlier this year, Trump is now demanding a $230 million payday from the government.

If you are a "leader" being quiet on this now, know it will not be getting better anytime soon. The $171 billion for the secret police force is only just now starting to flow. They are on a hiring spree for proud boys. Politicians, businesses, media - get on the right side of this ASAP.

Now Trump wants the DOJ to just hand him another $230 Million directly. A bottomless pit of greed and corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

1. A federal judge has just ruled in favor of 16 states and schools that refuse to comply with Trumps trans ban demand. The administration is threatening to pull tens of millions in federal sex ed funding. Now, they will be blocked. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Reminds me of the man standing resolutely in front of a tank. This is Trump's America. Keep marching. We are all next.

🧵Do not forget Maria Machado. Venezuelan opposition leader who just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Do not doubt for a second that by giving the award to her, the Nobel Committee didn't effectively crown Trump too. They are cut from the same right-wing authoritarian cloth. Please know this.

Meanwhile, for those with special needs kids. The Education Dept has wiped out the special ed office. They are absolutely evil. They want to ruin as many lives as possible, especially those who can't fight back. Fucking with the disabled is also a well-documented goal of eugenics

"Kristi Noem was already a controversial figure. Then her agency spent $174 million to buy two private jets for her, at taxpayer expense..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Separation of Church & State protects everyone's right to however they want to practice (or not) their faith.

POLITICO: Ingrassia “told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be ‘tossed into the seventh circle of hell’ and said he has ‘a Nazi streak,’ according to a text chat .. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump isn't leaving the White House. This fucker is tearing it apart and redoing it for himself. By the time he's done with his Nazi ballroom, it will be twice the size of the existing White House. Just remember, the French did the same just before the revolution, built lavish palaces & then...

This guy preaches at the church reportedly attended by Pete Hegseth.

The USA is basically becoming El Salvador in real-time. Sending another state's National Guard to beat down citizens in Portland. An invasion in all but name. The US is at war with itself now.

Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective. Some thoughts from my new piece:

But all (small-d) democrats in America must dispute this claim of “real American” normalcy and replace the repressive norm of white Christian patriarchal dominance with a promise that the expected norm is an acceptance of pluralism and diversity in all spheres of life.

Will it work? I don’t know. But it is certainly better than preemptively conceding ground to the Right’s claims that they deserve disproportionate power as representatives of “the people.” It is time for (small-d) democrats to assert their right to define what “real America” is going forward.

“I took an oath to the Constitution,” Holsey told one colleague, “not to a TV brand in a uniform.”

🧵Guarantee it's the Epstein money trail that's spooking Trump more than the child rape. As soon as Trump took office, he immediately blocked the 4-year congressional investigation into Epstein's assets. He also immediately revoked access to all sensitive docs.

Imagine being a Democrat in a position of leadership and not endorsing this dude

This is Mike’s legacy.

1. Yesterday, millions showed up to the No Kings Rally. Perhaps no one Rally was as full of subtext as Boston's, however. Senator Markey showed up wearing a trans pride flag. His challenger, anti-trans Dem Rep. Seth Moulton showed up to boos and jeers. Subscribe to support our journalism.

8. Some Dems are not just refusing to abandon their trans constituents—they’re leaning in. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez reaffirmed her commitment to her trans constituents in a video message posted to Instagram. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute campaign ad centered on trans history.