Real banana republic vibes, here

Trump tearing down the People’s House to build a ballroom for his rich donors…just about sums it all up, doesn’t it?

Next time someone tells you democrats are responsible for the shutdown, say the following in a calm, collected tone: - Democrats are fighting for millions of Americans to not lose their healthcare - Republicans are threatening to hurt more Americans if Democrats don’t cave Enunciate the big words

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Regardless of your faith, wishing all of you and your loved ones the blessings of Diwali, the majestic and luminescent Festival of Lights! This year its meaning — the prevailing of goodness and humanity over its opposite — is even more poignant. Happiest Diwali!

He was so butthurt by millions protesting his authoritarian regime, he posted an AI clip of him in a fighter jet dumping crap on people exercising their constitutional rights. It’s the kind of reaction you would expect from a mentally unhinged lunatic or a petulant child. Not a President.

Yes yes yes

“There are no kings in America. Only gilded men we can topple Again and again” #NoKingsinAmerica

I am ANTIFA, just like my father in WWII. I took an oath to support and defend the CONSTITUTION against all enemies foreign and domestic--- and I have never been relieved of that oath 🇺🇲

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss. You’re caught up. Ps: Welcome back.

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

A government that targets citizens against fascism and dictatorships, isn’t a government worth keeping.

Trump bailed out Argentina, who then undercut US farmers by selling their soybeans to China, who used be our biggest customer for soybeans before Trump drove them away with his tariffs. This is Trump 3D chess in action. Arrogance, Ignorance and Idiocy.

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do. …getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired. …betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator. The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

When it comes to rice and pasta, dietitians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Swear-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva! Release the Epstein files!

Donald Trump was president on January 6

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

Boom there it is! untethered to the facts no credible evidence if that's a judge's view, no degree of deference should dictate the opposite result. This is a really important principle

Crucial from former prosecutor @kristyparker.bsky.social: Trump might have immunity, but those who commit corrupt or illegal orders for him do not. That's why DOJ insiders are leaking word that cases against Comey and Letitia James are collapsing. All on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Canada vs. America

I love @meredithshiner.com she’s so smart

Number of days since Donald Trump and the GOP shut down the government so they can protect the rich and powerful pedophiles within their ranks: 8

Rep. Dan Goldman: "Every single Cabinet member, when they go in the Cabinet room, it's like Kim Jong Un is there—everybody claps and has to go around and give praise to the king, Donald Trump...And all he cares about is revenge and retribution."

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him. Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

It’s only a matter of time before Shadow President Stephen “Pee Wee German” Miller declares Pope Leo a domestic terrorist.

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

DEMs *must* require all the Epstein videos before they approve the Budget/CFR!!

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans. Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies. Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

It’s a rank first amendment violation unless they also fire any trainee who displays any “political signage,”including MAGA messages. Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag

Read the Martin Niemöller poem. We are living it.

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Gov’t shutdown alert: Washington Post - 65% of DHS’s CISA has been furloughed. That’s in contrast to 5% across DHS. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency successfully battles foreign and domestic cyber threats to our elections. Pay attention:

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Once again I’m reminded, trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets.

Happening now: Trump and Bibi are speaking to the press about the Gaza ceasefire proposal. The real story here is Trump’s mental decline. It’s getting worse. Much worse. He’s been rambling incoherently since it began. It’s jarring. Somehow the press will find a way to dance around it.

My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/what-to-ex...

I feel very strongly that we must use the next three years to build a new opposition movement. I tried to lay out my reasons and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

On this day in 1918, US troops launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The final push to end WWI cost 120,000 American casualties. Over 14,000 lie buried in France, where Donald Trump called them "suckers" & "losers."

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina... "That's just how it is."

Irony died yesterday

Comedy always leads, but when Jimmy Kimmel said, Donald Trump can't take a joke, I thought he offered a seminal insight into how the country got here. We're here because a petty but (inexplicably to me) charismatic man seized control of government to exercise his personal need for revenge.

Last week, the Trump administration strong-armed ABC and Disney into suspending Jimmy Kimmel. Thousands spoke out to protest this blatant attack on free speech, and now Kimmel will return to television tonight. Never doubt the power of collective action. https://youtu.be/wCuOx5yXeQU?feature=shared

Patrons at a restaurant acted selflessly to stop a gunman who opened fire while a wedding was taking place at a New Hampshire country club, averting a worse tragedy, authorities said Sunday. n.pr/4pv1Tot

To deny one’s hate is to deny one’s true nature, was the insidious theme to many of his rants. You don’t have to scream fire in a crowded theater. Whispering it can have the same effect. That’s why it’s important we don’t let them canonize him. There was nothing civil about Charlie Kirk. 2/2