Two people very much worth listening to, in an important conversation. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This story — every word, every photo — is absolutely STUNNING. You'll want to write to every European leader and apologize after reading this, and you'll wonder, anew, how the HELL we could have put this man in office ... TWICE.

Trump claims the most recent Venezuelan motorboat he blew up was “loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 TO 50 THOUSAND PEOPLE.” The absurdity borders on insanity: four men were going to cross 1,000+ miles of ocean in a tiny, open boat overloaded with drugs, with ZERO room for food, water, fuel, etc.

In one of her final interviews before she died, Jane Goodall emphasized that we know what’s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels. She also reminded us that we don't have much time to save our planet.

Morris was a spiritual adviser to Donald Trump during the first Trump presidency and campaigned to mobilize evangelical voters for him in last year’s presidential campaign. Trump visited Gateway church in 2020, praising Morris and his senior team as “great people with a great reputation.”

In 2024, the Supreme Court changed the presidency from a co-equal government branch with limited authority into a monarchy — an absolute monarchy, with unrestricted power. We can cry all we want about our current, fascist regime, but SCOTUS legalized this, so there is literally nothing we can do.

The #TrumpShutdown in 36 seconds 👏🏼

Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent." “Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.” From our friends at @vox.com:

They’re kicking Black men out of the military over beards. Three out of five Black servicemen have pseudofolliculitis barbae which is a painful skin condition caused by shaving. This is blatant discrimination.

Palast: “Male” spirit, Pete? Excuse me, Pete. My mother, Gladys Palast, was honored by President Bill Clinton as the very first woman who volunteered for the US Coast Guard after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Let me tell you, Little Petie, Mom was a WARRIOR.

Priorities.

So now the Trump regime is calling it the "Schumer Shutdown." They have no qualms about wielding the weapon of propaganda, and they are MASTERS thereof. We who cherish democracy naturally shun propaganda. Sadly, this admirable trait leaves us wielding a butter knife in the midst of a gunfight.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Heather Cox Richardson points to Trump's Sep 29 signing of an executive order giving Qatar NATO-like security guarantees as a likely quid pro quo: Qatar gave Trump a $400 million luxury jet (in need of $2B worth of repairs and upgrades) in exchange for US military commitments.

From Robert Reich: "The United States government has shut down. But in reality, it has been shut down ever since Trump took office the second time. For over eight months he has been funding programs he likes and defunding programs he doesn’t like. That’s effectively a shutdown."

"We don’t need AI generated images to show Trump for the vile traitor that he is!" — Dean Obeidallah open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

Priorities, don't you know...

Pete Hegseth: "It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon.” Jeff Tiedrich: "I would posit that it’s more unacceptable to see a christofascist-tattoo-festooned Fox News dunk-tank clown in the halls of the Pentagon."

The Bulwark is asking a VERY important question: Will Hegseth's requirement of a physical fitness test for military leadership include the Commander in Chief?

Trump wants to hold the government hostage until Democrats agree to raise health care costs for millions of Americans and give him more unchecked power. But health care is a human right. And in America, we have no kings.

This should be plastered all over the media:

Tiedrich: “tell me, is it bad when a demented president’s party keeps him in a fairy-tale bubble so that they can manipulate him into assisting them with their evil fuckery?“

"You kill people and break things for a living." — Pete Hegseth to all of our military generals and admirals

this shit is so cringe. Pete Hegseth took us from “speak softly and carry a big stick” to “boast drunkenly and hit your wife”

U.S. consumers are paying enormous, EXTRA sales taxes (Trump's tariffs) on items produced in other countries. Now they will also be handing over BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to U.S. farmers who no longer have a market for their produce because of these same tariffs.

Our kids are growing up in a world in which playground bullying is the norm from the highest political office on the planet.

Erasing history.

William Kristol wisely advises the generals "if they feel they have to applaud, to do so for uncontroversial statements ... and not for political rallying cries." The problem is that if they applaud at ALL, that footage will be copied and pasted THROUGHOUT the video that gets released to the media.

It makes me so fucking mad that there was a right wing conspiracy theory that Biden’s FEMA was denying funds to North Carolina and then Trump gets into office and actually does it and…mostly silence.

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

Just a reminder that the last two government shutdowns happened under President Trump, with Republicans in control of both chambers. These people cannot govern, and they need Democrats to bail them out.

"DEMENTED" DONNY DUMBFUCK, A FUMBLING FASCIST WHO NO ONE LIKES, GOT FOOLED BY A DEEPFAKE VIDEO OF HIMSELF DOING SHIT HE NEVER DID. HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THAT? I TAKE A POWERFUL LOOK AT DONNY'S "ADVANCED" DECREPITUDE IN A VERY STRONG POST THAT YOU CAN READ HERE: bit.ly/42WbpHk

"let’s stand up and cheer for this food delivery dude who managed to out-run and out-bicycle nine members of ICE’s elite Meal Team Six squad. and fuck you, Donny, for turning America into an authoritarian hell-hole where being faster than fascism is the new spectator sport." — Jeff Tiedrich

Jeff Tiedrich wins the internet today.

Look at this video. Take a long, hard look at this scene. Masked federal agents, armed like soldiers on a battlefield, a dozen of em, taking down & detaining one immigrant. On our streets. Take a long, hard look at this. And then pass it on to others. This is Trumpism. This must not be who we are.👇

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

Tupe Smith, a mother from American Samoa, faces five years in prison for agreeing to help out more at her childrens’ school. Her innocent mistake was exploited by the GOP to incite fear about voting. Read more about Smith’s story below 👇

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

As a US Atty, I prosecuted and oversaw police excessive force cases. We took them seriously because they were serious abuses of power. What we're seeing now is the outbreak of an epidemic & instead of being condemned by fed'l law enforcement leaders, it seems to be tolerated if not encouraged.

Presidents get too much credit when the American economy is strong & too much blame when it isn’t. But in the case of farmers who can’t sell crops, Trump clearly gets 100% of the blame. Rare when you can point to economic disaster in a sector directly attributable to a president.

Completely missed this. So did much of the lame-ass media. US added to Human Rights Watchlist due to sustained attacks on civil liberties. And the fucker thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. 😡😡😡 time.com/7306493/us-h...

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Excerpt: “I firmly believe that no one should be killed for their beliefs, no matter how harmful those beliefs might be ... but we are watching our rights being stripped away. We are having our friends’ lives cut short, and then we are told to stay quiet while those responsible are celebrated.”

"When you're president, they let you do it. Just grab 'em by the military." — Glenn Kirschner