Being sent home is not really the kind of things that happen if you're a drug trafficker. But good to know this regime is not yet at the point where it kills or jails civilians to hide evidence. It's just at war with small fishing boats and west coast highways now.

"Gold for me, poop for thee" is a catchy campaign slogan. You are welcome.

So they always meant to zero out USAID. Hundreds of years of nation building and world building, dismantled by a faceless bureaucrat. This guy is the abuse of power he's talking about.

I trust this White House when it comes to drugs. I mean, just look at the quality of the stuff they are smoking.

Lenny Bruce made this joke about whether a man would marry a black woman or a white woman in 1961. In 2025, we've done it. We picked an illiterate, incompetent white mob boss. Because having a moral, thoughtful black constitutional lawyer run the country and give everyone healthcare was too much.

Shooting medics isn't allowed in actual war zones. At the rate things have been going, by next week, Americans will have a well-founded legal basis for applying for political asylum in other countries.

The word “terrorist” didn’t start the way you think. It wasn’t coined for rebels, bombers, or radicals. It first described the government itself. It began in France, in blood and revolution. 🧵

I'm shocked by the disparity in life expectancy within the US. To oversimplify, people in blue states live 10 years longer. A whole county of people in South Dakota are only expected to live to 66.8 years old. How will these numbers change if/after the regime goes through with gutting healthcare?

"the ghouls all came from their White House on high" 😂 #musicfortheresistance

All the dystopian fiction I've ever consumed didn't prepare me for the fierce competition for evil antagonist in our universe by, to put it mildly, just the lamest losers. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought, Steve Bannon, etc. Their mediocrity is exhausting.

We do have good leaders in our lifetime. That we don't listen to them enough or follow them is our failure.

I am from a farm 60 miles south of Hanoi. When I was five years old, I wandered into the garden one day and found my cousin unconscious. He had died from a seizure. He was 13 years old and what people called an "Agent Orange baby." 1/

MORE: Minutes after this happened, video emerged of ICE officers on the roof of a facility in Portland firing rubber bullets at protesters outside the facility—not on facility grounds—who were merely standing and looking at the building. No violence, no crimes, no disruptions. They were fired upon.

Here's my video of ICE goons trying to start a riot in Portland, Oregon, Saturday night. We didn't take the bait because we're law-abiding patriotic Americans.

It's a disgrace that any leader of any country downplays women's contribution in wars. American women stepped up to shoulder industrial work during WWII. The Hochiminh Trail, a military engineering marvel, was manned by teenage girls. If you don't see women, you're just fucking unqualified to lead.

Repeat after me: The Epstein Government Shutdown

Freedom of speech, did someone say?

Trump wants to rewrite history so that the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection, refused to peacefully transfer the power of the presidency after losing an election, stole classified documents and showed them to friends and guests at Mar-a-Lago, that he was a criminal.

Donald Trump is unstable and not partnership (or leadership) material. No deal signed with him is worth anything. He's more like your basement tenant who may or may not pay rent next month.

Stephen Miran represents the Trump regime and not economic data or science. He sounds polished but what he's saying is argument argument flawed argument data flawed data blah blah, that depends on people not having the time or knowledge to unpack what he says. He's dangerous.

Italians are on strike today in solidarity with Palestinians.

When I see Donald Trump or Stephen Miller gesturing wildly while making speeches, all I can think of is fish butthole. It doesn't help that their mouths also look like fish buttholes.

Trump finally has a banker. Apparently banks have refused to take his money all this time. Banks don't refuse money unless that money has unclear origin. Does Citibank think no watchdog will enforce that now, or also in four years? Why does everyone around Trump act like he will always be in power?

Why does Trump negotiate a like a child who gives away his lunch when given a little bit of flattery?

Hegseth's and Trump's speeches yesterday are must watch. They mean to take over the military, kill people and destroy things. Trump mentioned nuclear weapons. Why are Democrats talking about only healthcare like it's a normal government shutdown? Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Summary of lies told by Republicans today: I will blame you for anything bad I do. I will claim credit for everything good you do. The government belongs to the American people, because I have redefined "the American people" as people who look like me. You and your contribution don't count.

German TV very matter-of-factly called Trump "the most powerful senile criminal in the world." This is how other countries are explaining what's happening in the US to their own citizens right now.

A strong military doesn't actually have to fight. China has taken large swaths of the South China Sea but does anyone actually know if the Chinese military is lethal? Nope, no one wants to find out. Russia was respecting NATO before. Now it's probing NATO airspace. What changed? Trump and Hegseth.

I'm hosting at Shutdown Party at my house.

Summary of Pete Hegseth's speech today: The US military wants white dudes with limited conscience and wants them to work out daily. Preferred generals were ones filtered out by double-blind psychological assessments. Sign up to the new paradigm, follow orders or resign. Ya, we should all be scared.

Hegseth: Military to return to "highest male standard only." And generals should resign if they don't agree with his approach. I don't subscribe to school of thought that says women are to be blamed for everything. But who raised this guy?

Today I learned how to do a peace treaty: * Kill the other side's negotiating team * Write the treaty without their input * Present it not to them, but to a third party in a PR stunt * Say it's an ultimatum * Count on it to fail and use that as an excuse for not-peace * Repeat until they are "gone"

Markets are betting that Senate Democrats will fold. The blackmail over firing federal workers, withholding economic data is working. Amazing that the party in power can render the opposition ineffective by pursuing the path of maximum destruction. Like the government is run by economic terrorists.

Trump is such a fraud. Gold leaves are thin and don't use much gold and are NOT expensive. Retail price for 500 24 karat gold leaves is only $1338 this morning. That's five hundred 3-1/8” squares. Can plate lots of stuff. The White House gold plating is not that big a deal. Just like Trump.

What never ceases to surprise me, is how Trump always tells the truth if you know to listen. For example, in declaring the antifa movement an enemy of the state, he openly let you know that he (and his "government") are now officially fascists. Don't read yesterday's news. Do tomorrow's preparation.

Friends, the rebuttal to Trump's invasion of Portland cannot be, "Portland is fine," because that shifts norms towards his narrative. If a city actually has high crime rates, then what? The rebuttal has to be, that the US military cannot be deployed on its own people. Illegal. Not allowed. Period.

Don't know who needs to hear this today: follow your conscience.

What the fuck is "finish the job"? Is Netanyahu going to kill every Palestinian on the ground that some of them were terrorists? Even Nazis got trials and that was a hundred years ago. We don't live in a world where we execute people by association. 1/

White privilege used to mean one white person being bad at their job without implicating their whole "race." Now there's a white Christian privilege, where one right-wing extremist shoots another, and they all turn around and point fingers at everyone else, including other white people. It's weird.

This is beyond petty. And dangerous.

That unhinged speech Trump gave yesterday, announcing to the world that the US no longer lives in reality or is a country of law and order, brought down inflation if 80% of your budget is international travel. I have never seen a DC-London flight for $200.

Stephen Miran (Trump's new appointee to the Federal Reserve Board) gave a speech on Monday that's best described as a child giving a book report. I wanted to go, "aww, you made some mistakes in your homework but good effort." Except he gets an FOMC vote and is politically motivated. We're fucked.

You are free when you are born. People can take away your rights but they cannot give them to you. You already have them. You don't need to get along with other people to have rights. You don't need to be in an organized group. You don't need to have a government to have rights. 1/

In front of the United Nations, Trump just accused other countries of sending polluted air to the United States.

Britain and its allies have only recognized Palestine because their citizenry are flooded with foreigners. As opposed to Marco Rubio, whose parents came over from England on the Mayflower.

Wes Streeting is the UK Secretary of Health and Social Care.