A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

‘In the coming days, the Court will either grant Trump powers that he could use—without exaggeration—to bring down constitutional rule, or it will stand up for the principle that the courts needn’t roll over in response to patently false claims from a would-be tyrant.’

L.A. TACO rolled deep all around the greater Los Angeles area. Here are our favorite shots, scenes, moments, and more. The full story: lataco.com/no-kings-oct... By L.A. TACO STAFF, Mike Ojo, and Jonas March

Despite not having sign off!

‘it’s a bid to win before the far right Supreme Court.’

‘The unethical dickisness makes much more sense now.’

‘officials from the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice and Defense Departments, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Communications Commission

'The person said he came forward because he wants “the government to be staffed with experienced people who are taken seriously.” '

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Useful.

Austria’s push to protect Raiffeisen Bank from Russian penalties stalled EU sanctions for weeks. It has finally backed down — and cleared the way for the 19th sanctions package against Moscow. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/19/a...

‘There was little chance of holding individual agents accountable for alleged abuses because, among other hurdles, there was no way to reliably learn their identities.’

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Authoritarianism doesn't happen in a vacuum. It requires enablers. When a leader posts fantasies of monarchical rule, and his entire party looks the other way, they become complicit. The issue isn't just Trump's posts; it's the institutional decay of a party that refuses to be a check on his power.

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Myrtle Beach, SC No Kings Protest. Trump supporter brandishes gun from vehicle at peaceful protestors and is arrested.

‘The same story is unfolding across the country: more AI begetting more gas and oil. In the United States, power demand is growing for the first time in over a decade.’

same as it ever was — Trump does Putin’s bidding

‘Even Maggie Cleary, the MAGA loyalist that Attorney General Pam Bondi tapped to serve as Halligan’s deputy [read: do the real work] wouldn’t put her name on this indictment.’

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days. Epstein Shutdown.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform? Is it...requesting content moderation?

'it is impossible to overstate how important it is for a political prisoner to feel solidarity from the outside world and to know that they are not forgotten.'

Yes! Do not obey in advance!

Just amazing!

Look at this! #Resist

‘Their destinations included Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Laos, Nigeria, Romania, St. Kitt, Sierra Leone and Vietnam, according to Thomas Cartwright, who tracks deportations with the immigrant rights group Witness at the Border.’

‘Griffin-Gracy’s work as an activist ranged from her work on behalf of people suffering with HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s, to launching San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange, to her championing of the abolitionist movement, often prioritizing trans women.’

‘But when individuals claim their African-, Italian-, Japanese- or other heritage as a part of their identity, they aren’t disavowing their American-ness. Rather, they are invoking a unique cultural narrative that has shaped their path and relationship to this country.”

WHCA Joint Statement on Press Restrictions at the Pentagon

Billionaire corporations are already seeing the money roll in from the giant tax giveaways Donald Trump and the Republicans stuffed into their Big, Beautiful Bill. What about working Americans? They're losing their health care, and their costs just keep going up. It's shameful.

‘Witnessing such events means journalists don’t have to accept Homeland Security’s version of them.’

‘Governors Pritzker (and) Newsom…grasp Miller’s theory of the case, and they are responding in kind, with their own war for attention, on the intuition that voters will side with the rule of law over authoritarian dictatorship—if they are presented with this as a clear choice.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

'Scammers will use AI-generated photos or videos to make it appear Elon is promoting a given cryptocurrency or online platform where someone can supposedly get rich.'

The coal industry has been shrinking for a reason: Coal is no longer cost-competitive. There are more students enrolled at say Penn State than there are workers left in the coal industry (about 40k).

Infuriating. ‘ICE is not allowed to arrest people who are going to or coming from a courthouse, under a 2020 Colorado law. ICE did not immediately respond to questions about the arrest.’

Soft succession,baby.

‘Czechia was Ukraine's per-capita champion, ranking in the top 10 globally for aid as percentage of GDP.’

Brown Jackson. ‘“yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,“ Jackson wrote that the majority had failed by “privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them.’ Damned shadow docket…

He's lying. If Bessent actually HAD asked this question, the Chinese answer would have been "Huh?? Are you crazy?? We bought half the US harvest last year - under Biden!" See: www.forbes.com/sites/kenrob...

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 'I've never walked into a room so small lent before.' Good.