Seriously, who is running the country?

They're laughing in your face as they steal your money and make you suffer

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

From Hopium: - After an election blowout Trump doubles down on a destructive politics the country just loudly rejected - Some thoughts about building the next Democratic party, and how our diversity is perhaps our greatest strength 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/despite-el...

Trump has decided that DC's Northwest football stadium must be renamed the "Trump Stadium."

He’s gotten so fat.

This just into the newsroom WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.

On Tuesday the country said enough. They've doubled down, as if the elections never happened. A whole lot of crazy happening in the White House right now. It's completely unsustainable for the country.

The only real analog I can think of to Elise Stefanik's decision to run for governor of New York in 2026 is Thích Quảng Đức, the buddhist monk who lit himself on fire at an intersection Saigon in 1963.

Nero? Caligula? Chin Gigante? What are we now dealing with here? For Trump has just completely lost his shit..... bsky.app/profile/did:...

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

Wow: Trump is pardoning a convicted agent of the Chinese Communist Party

Time and again, Trump's agents are using excessive force that “shocks the conscience.” Just this week, they violently tore a teacher—with legal work authorization—from a preschool as children watched on in horror. I'm demanding investigations. Trump has gone too far.

Quick: when are Republicans going to commission multimillion dollar studies on winning Gen Z women? When will Republicans search for the “Taylor Swift of the right?”

Powerful words here from Gov Josh Shapiro…..

Grateful for the courageous reporters documenting the DHS assault on Chicago.....

Emerson drops an ass-covering natl poll showing Trump going from -3 job approval to -8. If these same red wave pollsters who showed Ciattarelli close start correcting their natl sample the false impression they've created of Trump being "OK" will evaporate. emersoncollegepolling.com/november-202...

One of the biggest upsets on Tuesday: Aurora, one of Colorado's largest and more conservative-leaning cities, has swung to progressives. The conservative mayor, Mike Coffman (who you may recall from his time in Congress), says he is 'stunned.' www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/11/05/c...

In his decades-long pantheon of bone-chilling statements, this one’s hard to top.

Listened to @npr.org's very good SCOTUS coverage on the IEEPA case, & it's unclear the Justices even are aware of the existence of the WTO, USMCA, etc. Talmudic parsing of IEEPA's original meaning in a vacuum, as if ratified treaties do not exist. Don't know what to do with this other than 🤷‍♂️

Trump's Government Has Failed, His Powers Are Ebbing, And For The Good Of The Country Democrats Must Become More Ambitious Now - some thoughts on what comes next 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...

Blue Wave, Enormous Margins, A Clear Repudiation Of Trump and Republicans - My 2025 Election Recap (video and written analysis). Enjoy! 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-2025-el...

Perhaps Dems need to make the placing cameras and human rights monitors in the ICE detention facilities part of our year end budget package.

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡 @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Friends, Trump is gone. Listen to this. It's incredible that there is no national discourse about whether he can continue to do the job.

These red wave pollsters are to polling what Fox News is to news. Final poll (Sherrill-Ciatarelli): Atlas 50-49 (+1) Emerson 50-48 (+2) co/efficient 48-47 (+1) Quantus 49-46 (+3) Trafalgar/Insider Advantage 45-44 (+1) Sherrill wins by +13.4 pts (56-43) 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-2025-el...

If Congress won't release the Epstein files, we will do our own investigation ... 2 #nmleg lawmakers outlined their "truth commission" proposal to investigate what took place at Epstein's ranch in Santa Fe County & the failure to hold people involved accountable By @thenewmexican.bsky.social

Incredible.

40 billion to Argentina. 40 billion.

Speaker Johnson kicked me out of his office. Here's why.

This judge ordered the Trump Administration to release all its SNAP funding by Friday because, in his own words, "Children are immediately at risk of going hungry." How sick do you have to be to appeal that order? Our President straight up wants kids to starve.

Friends, Trump is gone. Listen to this. It's incredible that there is no national discourse about whether he can continue to do the job.

Trump isn’t meeting with Democrats for we have no bribes for him. He can’t make any money from the meeting.

Simon was the first to call this garbage out and it has only gotten worse.

These red wave pollsters are to polling what Fox News is to news. Final poll (Sherrill-Ciatarelli): Atlas 50-49 (+1) Emerson 50-48 (+2) co/efficient 48-47 (+1) Quantus 49-46 (+3) Trafalgar/Insider Advantage 45-44 (+1) Sherrill wins by +13.4 pts (56-43) 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-2025-el...

Human slop every day from the White House.

Reporter: The US handles about 45,000 flights a day. A 10% reduction of that is worse than the worst cancellation day of the past year, every day until the shutdown ends. Never in modern US aviation history has the federal government done an across the board cut of flight capacity like this

I wouldn't be here today without the thousands of New Jerseyans who volunteered their time to knock doors, make phone calls, and send texts. In the final 18 days alone, you knocked over 400,000 doors and made over 3.2 million calls. I couldn't be more grateful for this team.

Thank you to Governor Youngkin and the First Lady for welcoming Adam and me to the Executive Mansion today. Our teams are working together closely to ensure a smooth transition and success for Virginia’s future.

and we can wrap this up now.

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

hero

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This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.

How can these two seemingly contradictory things about US politics both be true? 1. Partisanship is calcified. 2. Election outcomes are thermostatic. TURNOUT. It’s not the same people who vote every time. Mobilizing, organizing, educating, party infrastructure—it all matters.

This is terrific. Great work @kim.senate.gov. Trump's tariffs: - are raising prices on everything, hurting the economy, farmers, small business, our alliances - they are illegal, unconstitutional and the greatest abuse of power in our history - Dems should be fighting hard to repeal them.

Trump's allies in Germany betraying the country and helping Putin. Sound familiar?