I wrote about Trump alienating all of our allies for my newsletter

Trump thinks he can tweet his way out of a market bloodbath.

This is despicable. Shame on you Netanyahu. Orban is a Putin puppet & an authoritarian thug. Orban is an enemy of freedom. Like Trump & Orban, you are siding with Putin, a fascist, over the free world. You further isolate Israel, you give Israel a bad name, and you increase hatred of Israel. Resign.

Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.

I actually think it’s more mind blowing that people keep choosing to vote for these clowns.

Jerome Powell confirmed today that the causes of inflation and net zero job growth are Trump’s immigration policy, Trump’s tariffs, and Trump’s war in Iran.

It was perfect

A corrupt, vainglorious madman is running America.

No notes.

Trump openly lies about the bombed girls school. As Americans we make mistakes in war but they are unintentional and we own them. Trump blaming Iran is no different than what Putin does when he blames Ukraine for attacks Russia clearly does. We’ve become accepting of pure lies

Fox News using the body of a service member who sacrificed his life for his country to scrub the image of an incoherent narcissist who lied to avoid his own service. Disgraceful.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

This is something you'd see from Russian media

Not beating the kompromat claims.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

As normal people with a sense of right and wrong, an understanding of actions and consequences, we continue to ask rational questions of a madman and his madness.

Trump has fully shattered the world we all grew up in. It’s a dramatic break from how things worked before, even compared to the Iraq War and other misadventures - the United States abruptly tumbling over a cliff and becoming literally more reckless and domineering than Putin’s Russia.

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

A decades-long right-wing campaign against reality, turbocharged by the internet. It worked. They won. Now a minority of people who live in an alternate reality get outsize electoral power and determine the fate of the country.

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Inflation is up, America LOST jobs in February, we’re in another war in the Middle East, and fuel costs are skyrocketing. In a little over 3 years from now Americans will once again begin complaining that the Democratic President hasn’t fixed the Republican F*ck ups fast enough.

“I’m a policy adviser” LMAOOOOOO

Proud to call her an incredible friend for 23 years and counting. What a boss.

The US govt mixing video of real violence in a war it started with a video game scene feels like crossing a(nother) line. I’m not sure what to say. I don’t think war is a game. And even when I think military action is necessary, there are real human beings on the other end, not pixels that respawn.

Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault. That is behavior that fits a pattern. He has also been convicted on 34 felony counts. If I were involved in this investigation, I would be looking for people who had prior conduct relevant to either money or crimes.

Ms. McQuade Made This Insightful Statement on Lawrence O'Donnell's Show,In 2020........

And what exactly he is being exonerated for?

This is what being contained by your own morality looks like.

LEFT: Someone who appears in the Epstein files over a million times. Epstein called him his "best friend." RIGHT: Someone never mentioned in the Epstein files—even once. And she never met him. So guess which one is being hauled before our corrupt, cover-upping Congress to testify about Epstein.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

Just out in TIME - Trump’s Dangerous Diversionary Device: Using Race to Erase Discourse time.com/7372895/trum...

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Morning #BlackHistoryMonth Powerful Message From Tyler Merritt My Wish They would air this clip during tomorrow's Superbowl

Millions of Republicans now see Canada and the EU as enemies. The rapid recent rise in negative sentiment recalls the big rise in Republicans’ opinion of Vladimir Putin in 2016. No consistency, no principle, no sense of national interest. Deeply cultish, ready to abandon anything on leader’s whim.

It’s almost like Putin is running our foreign policy.

Her job is to fabricate 2020 foreign election interference to justify trump seizing voting machines in upcoming elections, and justify the nationalization of elections so he can control them.

Straight up admitting he wants to take over the voting process that has lasted 250 years because he is upset he lost in 2020.

This would be akin to President Biden speaking to the FBI agents right before they searched Mar-a-Lago. I'm sure Republicans would have been totally fine with that.

Honestly, I long for the day again when I can wake in the morning and not have to brace myself from some new horror committed by a man and his regime who are feeding themselves on the ruins of public liberty.

The Surveillance State and You open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

When we learned last year that Bessent got in a shoving match with Elon Musk in the White House, I'm sure some people said "Huh, maybe he's an okay guy" but in actuality Bessent is a smug asshole, and he just happened to get in a fight with another smug asshole

You get no credit for NOW realizing the Trump crew has been running a disinformation campaign to justify its violent crusade.

Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.

"They are lying to us, and they have done it now in both these instances." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @weissmann.substack.com talk the government openly lying about the latest ICE shooting.

I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say "The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the fuck they want and make shit up as they go along."