Trump earlier today when asked about the construction of the new ballroom: “It won’t interfere with current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” This is how it was left now overnight ⬇️

It’s so fucked up. substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today just decided to green-light this stated plan, granting Trump permission now to deploy National Guard troops into Portland.

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: As the Trump-Epstein Shutdown Wears On and Tens of Thousands of Public Servants Are Summarily Fired By Trump, "ICE Barbie" Kristi Noem and Her Extramarital Boy-Toy Corey Lewandowski Buy Themselves Matching, $86 Million-Apiece Luxury Jets With Your Tax Money

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…” ~Patrick Henry

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace. Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed. These extremists are sick people.

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

"Through the first months of Trump's new trade regime it is U.S. companies that are footing the bill for his tariffs, and passing on some of it to the consumer - with more price hikes likely..." www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

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While Trump blusters about "law & order," his regime has dropped or halted nearly 165 investigations into corporate wrongdoing. And Trump himself has pardoned dozens of his supporters, including Jan 6 rioters and others convicted of crimes like money laundering and bribery.

NEW: Trump meant to send a Truth Social DM to Pam Bondi about indicting his rivals. That sounds like official business, so I'm filing a FOIA for her DMs, plus those of five other cabinet members. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/my-latest-...

Trump is planning to use federal agencies against peaceful, democratic groups like Indivisible. Indivisible is being targeted because it stands for No Kings Day. Indivisible has always stood for grassroots democracy - organizing, not chaos; accountability, not extremism.👇

Even Loomer gets it.

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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lol it’s this guy

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

This you, Kristi?

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

Thanks, New Yorker

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... Oh. My. G*d. This is SO messed up. The only Heritage Americans are the Native Americans whose ancestors came to these lands TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE.

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

On Monday the Supreme Court rejected the appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell. Great news! Now, clemency from Trump is her only chance of an early release from prison. Here's a complimentary link to the full New York Times article (my treat) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

The 200 National Guard members would have been placed under federal control specifically to protect federal property.

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her. Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

Oh look, another White House Signal scandal. This time it was an aide to Stephen Miller who was using Signal so openly in a public space that a bystander captured images of the chat. Oh and the messages were about sending the *82nd Airborne* into Portland. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says the US is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels. Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels. Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy. This is a power grab.

What about “page 57 section 2141” noted by Mouthpiece Johnson? FIRST, if you search for it the MAJORITY of hits are RIGHT WING rags (ie Daily Caller). No surprise. Perhaps the real issue is discrepancy in who Republicans consider ‘legal’ irrespective of actual laws. www.nilc.org/resources/fa...

1. Yesterday Jared Kushner partnered with the Saudis on the $55 billion purchase of Electronic Arts AND attended the White House meeting between Bibi and Trump as a foreign policy advisor It's an insane conflict of interest

1. UPDATE: Billionaire Rob Citrone, whose hedge fund bet heavily on Argentina, pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, his longtime friend and former colleague, to rescue the country, according to Argentine media. Shortly thereafter, Bessent announced a $20 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.

UPDATE: Bessent asked on CNBC if he could justify the $20 billion bailout for Argentina, which benefits "wealthy Americans" with "interests down there" Bessent says it is "false" that he is helping wealthy Americans. FACT: The bailout benefits Bessent's friend, hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

This is why they voted for him. Everything in this post. They don't gaf about anything else, as long as he can convince them THEY'RE the victims. This is what passes for 'owning the libs' in maga world - blatantly unconstitutional bullshit. They have the emotional maturity of a stunted 8 year old.

"We are an authoritarian country with an autocratic leader who is acting in the ways that the heads of police states act. That's where we are. To suggest it's around the corner is to be as divorced from reality as a president who thinks there's a war going on in Portland." @djrothkopf.bsky.social

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

I could barely stand to listen to Trump address military brass yesterday. It was triggering. He sounded like an abuser. You can laugh if you want to. You can clap if you want to. You can leave if you want to, but you’ll lose your rank. I’m positive every woman recognized that language.

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour. I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.