He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New York Times reports that it is unclear whether having a federal agency accept money in excess of congressional appropriations "violates a law prohibiting federal agencies from accepting money in excess of congressional appropriations." I guess we'll never know!

The senate has approved four of this guy’s federal court appointees in the past 3 days. One of them got more than a dozen Democratic votes that weren’t even needed for confirmation.

"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

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

I mean it’s already extremely on the nose but if their plans get repeatedly denied and we just go the remainder of the term with a crater where the East Wing used to be it will be the best visual metaphor for this administration imaginable

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place

Based on early numbers, there are easily more people participating in the second No Kings Day than in the first. Trump's strategy of constantly talking about this on TV and GOP govs sending in the national guard obviously energized the left. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth conspired to murder a fisherman named Chad Joseph (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

"The tables will turn one day," @govpritzker.illinois.gov said. "These people should recognize that maybe they’re not gonna get prosecuted today, although we’re looking at doing that, but they may get prosecuted after the Trump admin because the statute of limitations would not have run out.”

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

👀 they are really struggling with that $50,000 question.

MAGA and its agenda are *wildly* unpopular, and media are hugely out of touch for not saying so. Politicians who tap into this reality will thrive, and media outlets that reflect this truth will earn enormous audiences.

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

Andrew Cuomo keeps saying he’s the only candidate who can take on Trump once he’s in office. Yet in his statement about the indictment of Letitia James, the highest-ranking Black elected official in the state, he doesn’t even mention Trump by name….and, more importantly, he doesn’t mention James.

White House policy is increasingly driven by (and aimed at) an increasingly small echo chamber of terminally online right wingers, which includes far too many of the administration’s own top officials. No one else can make sense of what they’re talking about much of the time.

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up." But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

The percentage of Americans who say Trump has definitely or probably improperly used his office to punish those who say things he does not like, per new Pew Research Center survey: Overall: 66% Republican: 42% Independent: 66% Democrat: 90% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs. They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun. That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

It is very telling that the answer from Bondi here is not "yes, I do, and nothing like that was ever found" They know, and they're protecting a child rapist

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Hanging out with my Dad who's watching MSNBC. I just saw Hakeem Jeffries, my fellow law school alumm fail yet again to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for NYC Mayor. And then he shanked a direct question about whether he will *vote* for him. Incredible. This is unacceptable.

is anyone else struck by how bad of a writer she is

Nothing in the new CBS News poll should lead Dems to blink: www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

WSJ: “.. behind the scenes, his team is increasingly .. worried that the GOP will take the blame for allowing healthcare subsidies to expire, raising costs for millions of Americans ahead of next year’s midterm elections ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

WAPO: “.. Public opinion today is comparable to several past government shutdowns when Republicans have shouldered the bulk of the blame ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

If there was a poll about the shutdown that was like "60% of voters blame Democrats" we'd get wall to wall news "analysis" saying the Democrats must immediately capitulate or face electoral ruin, but when we have the opposite (like we do now) the media doubles down on efforts to blame Democrats

"I am the government, I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me" does not fit well with "The Democrats have shut down the government"

Seems important that the Speaker of the House does not even try to dispute that the president is unwell.

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Trump has fried all our brains. Too many people just don't believe he possibly can be this unpopular. The "realist" stance becomes: He's secretly strong! That taints media coverage and debilitates the Dem response. My exchange with @lakshya.splitticket.org on this: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Great point from @emptywheel.bsky.social: Trump's sliding approval on immigration is because millions of citizens are bearing witness. "All of it starts from the people—both private citizens and independent journalists—witnessing, filming, and posting ICE thugs." www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A sentient boomer chain email is president www.kgw.com/article/news...

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Sinclair & Nexstar giving up also, the ice guy who manhandled the wife & threw her to the ground getting pulled from duty b/c of video, owner of the carwash where ICE attacked owner suing Trump admin for 50K, etc. Some things starting to cause glitches for Trump will hopefully give courage to more.

People on here will see Trump ranting about deploying the military and go "that's the ballgame" like these people didn't lose a staring contest to Jimmy fucking Kimmel days ago

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.