Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

ICE has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. You read that right — SEVEN HUNDRED PERCENT. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

Trump Family has aquired $10+ billion <1 year since Trump won: now he is going to wire $230 million from US Treasury to his personal bank account. This corruption is magnitudes larger than any political corruption in US history. This undermines our national security, economy, democracy.

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

Rand Paul: There is no fentanyl made in Venezuela. Not just a little bit, there's none being made... These are outboard boats that, in order for them to get to Miami, would have to stop and refuel 20 times... We don't just summarily execute people.

Erez Reuveni spent 15 years as an immigration lawyer for the DOJ. The Trump administration fired him when he refused to defend their lies about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions hit the streets this weekend in solidarity with each other and to affirm the foundations of the common good.

Far from making America great again, this utterly incompetent administration is leaving "America diminished: weaker in its alliances, less competitive in its economy, more vulnerable militarily, and less trusted abroad" open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...

How can blue states fight back against Trump? With fiscal disobedience | Eric Reinhart www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

"Because the far right is trying to create a bogeyman term in 'antifa' to equate protests with terrorism, I got caught up in the middle of this."

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."

Again, we are in a moment where the U.S. government appears to be claiming the authority to kill anyone involved with the drug trade, without any warning or due process. That potentially includes a LOT of Americans.

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Beacon NY #NO_KINGS #NO_TYRANTS

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Donald Trump's effort to deploy troops in American cities is not normal. There is no rational justification for such a deployment. It is a breach of the most fundamental values and customs that our armed forces operate on.

“Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. That includes four who were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.” www.propublica.org/article/immi...

No one is above the law, except for every single Republican politician and activist convicted of a crime over the last decade because Trump has pardoned all of them or commuted their sentences.

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Jeffries: "What's hateful is what happened on January 6. That was a Hate America Rally sponsored by Donald Trump and his sycophants who incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol. That is what hate looks like. What you will see this weekend is what patriotism looks like."

Jimmy Kimmel on AG Pam Bondi blaming Antifa for the chaos in our cities: “There's no chaos in Portland. None. There is no chaos in Chicago. There was no chaos in Los Angeles. They're pretending there's chaos as a pretense for a military takeover." ht: @mollyploofkins.bsky.social

“Courage is contagious and it’s spreading all over the country right now.” @ezralevin.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social discuss the growing backlash to Trump’s authoritarian agenda. We will see you in the streets again on Saturday to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Hey this is not a moment to stay silent. Oct 18th - No Kings Day - is our chance to show we won't accept the militarization of our citizens, the brazen corruption of the Trump family, and the destruction of our health care. Find your local protest at nokings.org.

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans? JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive overnight. It creeps in through silence, loyalty tests, and rituals that make the unthinkable seem normal. Trump’s tolerance of Nazi sympathizers shows how drift becomes culture. #AuthoritarianDrift #DemocracyUnderThreat #AnthropologyOfPower #FascismWithoutDoctrine

The Trump admin is preparing sweeping changes at the IRS that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily. A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors.

Instead of working to get the government open and pay our troops and air traffic controllers and helping his constituents keep their health plans, Mike Johnson has been tasked with helping Trump get the Nobel next year.

As Felon Trump calls Democrats “terrorists,” he has also unilaterally declared cartels “designated terrorist organizations.” @jahimes.bsky.social wants answers from the Admin about what’s going on & why Trump thinks he’s legally justified to do extrajudicial killings. youtu.be/ExdL4LQmg64?...

Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

A #FrogBloc isn't just a wacky idea. It's a proven tactic: "dilemma action" In Serbia, activists dressed as toy soldiers when the regime called them terrorists. In Thailand, they danced as ghosts. It makes repression look ridiculous. It's hard to justify soldiers vs a chicken suit. #DilemmaAction

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

He so badly wants to be a dictator.

Thugs. And we're paying for them.

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

Welker: "Are you seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act?" Vance: "Well, the president's looking at all of his options right now."

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.