Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.

Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while. The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII). Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.

Hey! That is me asking Mike Johnson about Trump pooping on No Kings protesters

"Regardless of what you think of the messages contained therein, No Kings offered visual evidence that huge numbers of people oppose President Trump. This was one vivid expression of a vital truth of our political moment: Most Americans don’t like Trump and don’t like what he’s doing."

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

They don't let me in the White House press pool because my question every day for the next week would be, "Does the president still want to take a shit on Americans?"

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

From the No Kings rally in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. My new friend.

#NoKings Miami!

Great turnout at the Princeton #NoKings rally

Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags

BREAKING: Our crowd count estimate from the No Kings coalition responsible for planning today’s event is 7 MILLION nationwide. 7 MILLION of you gathered across the country to peacefully protest today. 2 million more than the first No Kings action in June.

Democracy in action, Illinois. Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump’s takeover of our democracy.

No Kings in Santa Clarita, CA.

it has to be backed with action but this is proper leader of the opposition-coded behavior of the kind we generally don't see in the US

Again, every time a Democrat gets in front of a microphone they need to bring this up.

the amount of time conservatives spend thinking about childrens genitals is legit crazy

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection "I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Portland has fallen!

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

"there are fires all over the place" ~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption. My full statement:

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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"In a normal political moment, Dems would be right to focus on policies that make people’s lives better. But this isn’t an ordinary moment. For the love of God, it was days ago that Trump put every officer in the armed forces in a room & told them he plans to use soldiers against American citizens."

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Lol

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326. A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

University presidents it’s time for a united front. I mean, it’s past time. What are you going to do.

As someone who wrote a book literally titled WHITE FLIGHT, I’d just like to say that the argument that *whites* were the victims of violence in neighborhood transitions is so laughably racist it’s almost insane.

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Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

ONCE AGAIN: Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress. They have the power to keep the government open.

My statement on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s meeting with military officers at Quantico: