Has President Trump congratulated this shero yet?

The whole thing is a Trump flex. That's all it is and he doesn't care how much it costs. He's not interested in reducing the deficit although he's not above using that as an excuse to bully countries around with ridiculous tariffs www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Scaramucci : “When the witch got hit with the water in The Wizard of Oz, what happened? The witch shrunk down, you were left with the witch’s hat, that’ll be the MAGA hat, the red hat” But what will be that "water?" Insurance premiums?

Healthcare in the US is no longer about the health and wellness of the people. It's an industry designed to make insurance companies rich.

One of the biggest harms SCOTUS has done to us is Presidential immunity

Hmmmm what a surprise! This has nothing to do with the jet, right? “The United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States,” ...

This is NOT traditional "small gov't" conservatism. Freeze tuition for 5yrs, cap # of int'l students, strictly define gender, and "prohibit anything that would 'punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.'" if they want fed funding.

With alt-text. This isn't the only terror funding they've cut. Not just for NYS. (next link). It seems like they WANT a terrorist attack.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

He was low-energy, his voice was weak and he rambled. But targeting "the enemy within" and "they spit, we hit" and using American cities as military training grounds is absolutely chilling.

This man has the opposite of imposter syndrome

This is in spite of "...historical records show that the U.S. Army, ...killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp."

We voters have to make sure we regain the power of checks and balances in the midterms

Remember when flip-flopping could derail a Presidential candidacy? This man flip-flops so often it's impossible to keep track

This is great!

What an embarrassment!

*Getting* the tattoo is only one part of the process. What I'd like to know is how the healing process went for those who got these very large, complex tattoos under anesthesia. The healing takes longer than the getting, and is not without pain or discomfort. #MedSky

30 years of tracking hunger in America—gone. The Trump admin says it’s ‘politicized.’ ✨ If you don’t count it, it doesn’t exist, right? shorturl.at/s6aDU #ablueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky

The fish stinks from the head down. The focus here is on Adams and the corruption surrounding him in NYC, but it's woven into the corruption in Trump's admin--the amount of which is astounding. And thanks to SCOTUS, what used to be a bribe can now be considered "gratuity." It all stinks!

So, these people, who defrauded people, won't have to pay those people back because Trump "brushed aside Justice Department guidelines that prioritize clemency petitioners who have served their time, shown remorse and paid restitution to their victims."

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Who commits more domestic terrorism: left-wing or right-wing extremists? I compiled a brief literature review using various sources including the FBI, DHS, GAO, and academic studies. The facts: far-right extremism is now the predominant domestic terrorist threat. 🧵 Thread with references:

Not a surprise

Tell a lie enough times and people start believing it. This is a Trump tactic, and now apparently Vance's as well. www.huffpost.com/entry/mehdi-...

Some winners were predictable, some surprises, and I'm very happy that Tramell Tillman won! His Milchick was underrated for a long time www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I'm sure they'll come up with a long list. This deportation quota is a number fabricated in Miller's head, and impossible to maintain. This is what you get with unrealistic goals and and an agency out of control. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why? Trump says abuse and waste and fraud but offered no alternative plan to keep the work going. That's not it. He simply doesn't value science. He's rather spend the money on ICE. And it he can hurt universities at the same time--even better. This is to the detriment of all of us.

Listen to TN State Rep Justin J Pearson talk about the relationship of wealth, education, services, etc (and lack of them) to crime. There are ways to lower crime, and they don't include sending in the National Guard.

"A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home." Shame on media outlets who had stenographed the regime's allegations in their headlines.

Who will finish building the battery plant? And another strategic alliance damaged. Is MAGA happy now?

Wonder if Robinson will explain his motivation for doing this open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

“It seems like we’re totally living in insanity,” he said, “every moment of every day.” Since 2016, breaking down institutions, truth, tolerance “Since the election of President Barack Obama, I feel like the country has gotten more and more divisive” And remember who started that with birtherism

Trump: They can't be rehabbed Guess he's speaking from his own sense of self. He's a criminal and he know's that's all he can be. But he doesn't realize not everyone is like him. in fact, most people aren't like him.

More self-dealing. Rich getting richer. Did MAGA vote for this?

The similarities are alarming

Take off that Cavalry hat, you draft dodger. You didn’t earn the right to wear it. Stolen valor at its worst.

Plastic is a marvelous material. But we overuse it, and that's a problem

"America is adrift. It has no coherent foreign policy, no team of senior professionals managing its national defense and diplomacy, and a president who has little interest in the world beyond what it can offer him." Not to mention the incompetence in every area of national governance

This should put a damper on his plans to invade Chicago and whichever other city they wanted to occupy apnews.com/live/donald-...

Smarter strategy. They've learned they can't count on the U.S.

This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4

Completely intentional (article unlocked)

" I got involved in politics since I was 15yrs old because I didn't want to get shot in school. Now I'm 28. And we're still dealing with the same thing over and over and over again." Mass shootings is an American sickness www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

"Erasing the history of a murder is a second death" "In Mississippi, for a day at least, memory is winning." Emmett Till. Our current President was 9yrs old when Emmett Till was murdered for being Black. It's not ancient history. We can't let the legacy of slavery be whitewashed over.

This puts in a nutshell the mentality behind all the decisions being made at this agency: "Academy training was shortened to 47 days, three officials told me, the number picked because Trump is the 47th president." It's become a performative show of force--the more violent and cruel, the better

They really don't get it? “Like the ChatGPT personality, he’s just borrowing now from President Trump, copying his style with X post, now he’s even going for his own MAGA-style merch.”

"The right question then is not whether but how we should use AI." Excellent article

"While the other 25 EU member states halted Russian oil purchases as part of the bloc’s sanctions after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Hungary and Slovakia have remained outliers." This happened before the Alaska summit, apparently www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Sergey Lavrov: "...his country is 'not ready at all' to discuss a peace deal with Ukraine—a blow to President Donald Trump, whose flashy meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have been a flop." They want all of Ukraine, not a peace treaty. No Nobel for Trump (sad trombone)

Topic starts at 03:00 Sounds like the vibe during the meeting was very different from the red carpet greeting. Trump is a disaster.