a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Dems need to be thinking “how would Fox News have handled Obama bulldozing parts of the White House with only secret permission from a handful of lackeys”

Sort of an unexpectedly mournful energy to this ad today

live look at using an ai video maker and realizing just how cooked we are as a society

Here's @stevevladeck.bsky.social on the State of Play in all the National Guard cases. Extremely helpful. www.stevevladeck.com/p/185-the-st...

And now it’s the ENTIRE EAST WING. All of it. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

Trump just murdered some more people, this time on the Pacific side of South America

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

okay, why does building a white house ballroom with private funds not violate the anti deficiency act. what am I missing here

Feel strongly there are some GRU guys taping up the White House demolition photos on their cubicles

I know he’s kind of always like this, but since No Kings, Trump has released the King Diarrhea Poops On You AI video, started tearing down the White House, and demanded nearly a quarter billion dollars from DOJ. Is something up

In light of new information, I, uhh, withdraw my objection to the 77 year old white lady who does *not* have a Nazi tattoo on her chest. I will be submitting all relevant forms to the bureau of retractions and submit for my flogging.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

I keep saying “it’s almost impossible to explain how corrupt this is” but then something like this happens that’s even MORE corrupt:

Trump knows cheating is the only way to hold on to power in a country that is fed up with his authoritarianism.

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?” Me, via “One First”:

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

Taking my own advice to not be afraid of cringe, I think there’s something interesting about how Trump’s counter to millions of people marching in the streets against him was … AI generated videos. Images, stripped of humanity, isolated from and even hostile to the outside world

The White House messaging this evening is pretty uniformly "yes, Trump is a king." And tomorrow we'll be told "can't you take a joke?" but it is not a joke, and this is the first phase of getting Republicans to accept it. "King Trump" will poll well with a majority of Republicans within weeks.

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Long but excellent and super important thread over on Twitter explaining the Anti-Deficiency Act violations that happened this week and how really, really, really bad they are. Please read. x.com/BBKogan/stat...

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding. "When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says. This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

This administration’s policy of serial open murders on the high seas is starting to make some members of Congress mildly uncomfortable. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

FROGS OVER FASCISTS! 🐸 > 🧊 m.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

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

Your daily reminder that Republicans in Congress have gone on vacation while they force thousands of Americans to go without a paycheck this week.

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in. The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight. They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.