This stuff really freaks me out. They see their future as one where the decisionmakers live in military installations, where the civil and military functions of government become merged.

Looks like the Trump/GOP shutdown plan was “Dems care about Americans, we don’t, so if we hurt people and lie, Dems will give us bipartisan cover for ending checks and balances.” And guess what? Way more of the American public blames the party in charge of govt, the one choosing to do the hurting.

Who cares what a judge says? DOJ Defying judges orders with impunity in Portland. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Ominous

The Trump administration is a fascist administration, but the United States is not yet a fascist state. Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process. Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.

Federal conspiracy charges because an ICE goon had to drive a little slower. What an absolute joke.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

When anti-Semites claim to be fighting anti-Semitism they trivialize a very real problem and thereby deliberately make it worse. Attacking universities was always about spreading anti-Semitism, not combatting it. forward.com/fast-forward...

The press asked Biden about the pardons constantly! He explained why he did them! It doesn't even make sense that someone *else* would want to pardon Hunter but Joe didn't! They just want to let Trump prosecute his enemies so he pats them on the head. It's insane.

A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

The author, Jeremy Peters, is arguably the single worst hack at the @nytimes.com. See, e.g., presswatchers.org/2021/11/so-m...

Trump wants key critics to face DOJ probes, but Biden, knowing what was coming, gave them pardons. So a Trump lackey ginned up a claim that the pardons were illegitimate, building on years of partisan hackery so obvious that even his own party balked. www.pbump.net/o/the-biden-...

The GOP has been extremely effective at shaping perceptions of the Democrats, claiming they support policy positions they don't actually support If your strategy, as a Dem, for winning in 2028 *STARTS* by buying their spin and lies, then you've already lost www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-strate...

Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."

The unspoken premises of these "media lost trust" laments: -conservatives' opinion of mainstream media matters most -some of the biggest media outlets don't count as the media -anyone left of center losing trust doesn't count as loss of trust So the obvious "solution" is reach out more to the right

“There’s no world where I could accept a loss of black representation—certainly not a voluntary gift of black representation—so that the Democratic party could win." — Senate chair of the IL Black Caucus told @lauren-egan.bsky.social. Yikes @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

ICE is using undocumented person's smartphones registered in their names against them, to identify and track them in a host of ways, including ... www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

In Chicago, an ICE Goon violently shoved a woman to the ground near a moving van.

ICE and CBP GOONS are patrolling Chicago in unmarked civilian cars, kidnapping and disappearing people for filming.

Having been one for 27 years, I can tell you that far-right people almost uniformly have a deep inferiority complex towards mainstream society. They know that their beliefs are either unprovable or disproven. But they want to believe anyway. Thus, they seek to destroy objective knowledge.

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

Test run for 2026. Here's what I wrote in the NY Times about the federal government potentially interfering with the 2026 elections and what we need to do about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Me, one year ago: If Trump wins, he will use the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to try and undermine the fairness of elections Justice Department, today:

What's happening in the courts Judge McElroy (Trump appointee): “Blatant disregard” of court’s order Judge Gallagher (Trump): “No attempt to offer any justification for their blatant lack of effort to comply” Judge Lamberth (Reagan): “More than support a trial on civil contempt”

Again, it's impossible to see this and not also see where it logically heads. Whether events follow that guiding logic remains to be seen.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Trump is furious because Canada went over his head and just made their case with Americans directly. It’s what everyone should do.

Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

The use of "surge" here is so fucking grotesque. Trump is using Iraq War language against the citizens of his own country.

"remove the criminals the law does not allow you to remove" is an extremely concerning phrase. flat out saying they'll ignore due process and any other law they find inconvenient.

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.” Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”? Or do they just sorta do it?

Over two dozen companies have donated or pledged funds, including: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, Google, Palantir, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, Comcast, T-Mobile, Altria, Reynolds American, Blackstone Group. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-w...

All of these companies should be forever associated with destroying the White House.

This paragraph effectively gives the game away. Loper Bright was decided just last year, and the GOP celebrated, because it effectively stripped the Executive Branch of basically any power not explicitly handed over by Congress. Which they wanted. When a Democrat was President. But suddenly...

I think Trump is aiming to eventually demo the entire White House, here’s why: (1) he’s already tearing down the *entire* East Wing per NBC News and others. Possibly as soon as this weekend. (2) the ballroom is going to be so massive that the rest of the WH will not look right next to it. The

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

The guileless, always poorly informed NYT thinks it's "changing course," but this was obviously the plan from the beginning.

Trump is plotting to loot the government for his personal gain and it’s going to be quite a thing to watch the msm clean up this version of pure gangster behavior www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/t...

Extremely ominous, once we realize that, by “what happened in the 2020 election”, he means “we lose an election”…

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Klobuchar and Schiff approving Republican judges while Rep Grijalva waits to be sworn in. Fucking asswipes, the lot of you

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

If a D is ever elected POTUS, razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable. You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.

The “Reverse Emails” - a complex move in which the Paper Of Record systematically erases the most important news about 🇺🇸’s descent into corrupt & criminal authoritarianism from the front pages - has been going on since 2016 & receives a 9.85 from the East German judge. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Over and over again, establishment journalists just refuse to describe Republican policies and beliefs in plain language to mislead the public. The GOP says it is purging liberals from academia and journalists reframe it as “rebuilding trust.” That is not journalism, it is regime propaganda.

He's no more a legally valid president of the United States than a 17 year-old Canadian would be even if they got the most votes.