My hunch is that it's rare to see someone with a personality as disordered as Trump's is outside of prison or a clinical setting; perhaps that's why people continue to refuse to believe their own eyes. @gtconway.bsky.social @ellenbraaten.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social

The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat. And Congress is letting it happen.

"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...

Trump demanding an enormous bribe from his own Justice Department is what Republicans call "thinking outside the box" @radiofreetom.bsky.social @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

"The president’s opponents can see, quite clearly, that Trump wants authoritarian power so that he can crush their dissent." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

This is from the Washington Times. The reason he is trying to arm up ICE and DHS is because the military won't do his bidding to take over cities

Do they need chemical weapons and guided missiles to catch the guy selling bedazzled phone cases on Canal Street?

Gotta be part of the 2028 party platform

Trump's policies are supercharging income inequality and creating a wide-open lane for old-fashioned "eat the rich" populism @jamellebouie.net @timmiller.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

"Trump and his allies seem to grasp what Saturday revealed: The protests are popular, and the president is not." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Have no fear, Meal Team Six has arrived www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If Trump were trying to break up the U.S. on purpose, would he be doing anything differently ? open.substack.com/pub/bryanfic...

There's a lot going on but the Trump government's rapidly deteriorating relations with Latin America are a big story that not enough people are paying attention to. @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social

Come on, make prices spike ahead of holiday gift shopping. Do it. It'll show how tough you are. Come on, do it.

Se habla espanol aqui !

Intelligence is serious business, and they can't afford to share information with foreign states that give it, or carelessly leak it, to their adversaries. If anything, it's amazing more intelligence agencies haven't cut sharing with the US. Well, they probably have, just haven't publicized it.

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Sharing this for one reason: I caught it without sound and it really hits home how all of this is a performance for right wing bigots. Watch it w/o sound. What would you think he’s talking about? Something serious? Something important? He looks like a used-car salesman trying to sell a mattress

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

Wait, if these men are "narco-terrorists" who are supposed to be killed on sight, why is the U.S. government repatriating them so they can attack us again ? @radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

I just paid as much for groceries as we used to when we still had kids in the house. Inflation is real ! It's weird that the media aren't interested in the subject now that Joe Biden is not president. @crampell.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

That’s a lot of people. Unignorably large.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Went to our local #NoKings rally and spotted zero Hamas terrorists, anarchists, or Marxists, but we did see an inflatable unicorn. @gtconway.bsky.social

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

"The protesters are coming with the Stars and Stripes in hand." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The regime's desire for authoritarian control is bottomless, but its capacity is not. In carrying out abuses, it reduces its own resources, and ties up some of what remains. It can be pushed beyond its limits. Then it breaks.

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.

Trump isn’t even trying to hide the fact that the DOJ is completely politicized and the rule of law no longer applies federally

Why the Republicans' inability to say the words 'No Kings' is a sign of weakness @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @aselrod.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4tA...

The guy who dismantled the government's 50-year war on cancer says he loves saving lives @radiofreetom.bsky.social @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Jesus Christ these people are so goddamn creepy

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

Trump claims the power to murder supposed “narcoterrorists” by fiat, without trial or evidence. In what is surely an unrelated matter, he is also calling his political opponents “terrorists”. We are nine months in.

I wrote this, about how this administration is trying to undo history on multiple fronts. And I must credit @jamellebouie.net, @adamserwer.bsky.social and many others for their work that inspired my own small contribution.

More Democrats need to be doing this ! @jamellebouie.net @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

“They’re the ones using tear gas and rubber bullets, and breaking windows,” she said. “They’re the ones bringing a war zone to Chicago.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Dumb move by regime propagandists; after all this demonizing of No Kings, the marches are going to happen anyway and the regime ends up looking weak @gregsargent.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social