Priorities.

Trump's Homeland Security Department is diverting resources intended for fighting child abuse, sex trafficking, and terrorism toward deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

I don’t think we can rule out the porcu-president at this point.

If I ran a shadowy international cabal, I would simply not pull the strings to make the least subtle, most obnoxious and fame-addicted man alive the president after giving him all our secrets.

I think this is true but it’s also even worse than this: by doing this I think what elites have inadvertently selected for is malicious low cunning and the willingness to use it as a weapon.

Trump II is like if American elites handed robo-Hitler a crown but the Mecha-Furher tripped on his shoelaces walking over to pick it up, stumbled down three flights of stairs, and landed face first in a steaming pile of dogshit.

Like, I’m glad about the trippy-poop thing but also I’m a bit miffed about the trying to hand the crown over in the first place.

At some point, Europeans are going to need to grapple with the fact that they've allowed the United States to be their sineater.

my general theory is that the break is real, not kayfabe, and that she legitimately thinks trump's betrayed his supporters and that she's the true heir to them

A movement so impoverished it can be split by multiple leaders whose greatest talent is believing their own lies

reading him feels like witnessing an assault

Trump went all the way to the Supreme Court to withhold food from vulnerable Americans. Now, he’s firing a worker for laying out the facts: Republicans were using hunger as a political weapon. Democrats are going to fight back for Ellen, and all federal workers. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stops predatory, price gouging corporations from screwing you over even more. Trump & his cronies are literally making it easier for greedy businesses to pad the pockets of their wealthy shareholders & billionaire CEOs at your expense.

Do you know who is paying for Trump’s ballroom? Amazon Google Apple Meta And a bunch of other companies that coincidentally have business in front of the Trump Administration right now. So are these companies getting special favors in return? I’m pressing for answers.

Trump must work with Russia to stick with New START. This nuclear treaty—the only legal limit on Russian nuclear forces—expires in less than 100 days. No one wants a new nuclear arms race.

I'll add, when the reviewers are FBI agents who know damn well this review is being done to assess damage to Trump and for an eventual cover-up, they're probably going to take especial care to document what they've seen. bsky.app/profile/did:...

It’s a great essay by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, but more than great it’s important You can’t go around saying people are ignorant & won’t change. Some—maybe most—won’t change; they will resist listening & learning. But w Trump & MAGA collapsing we have an opportunity to change some minds /1

We have many opportunities bc of Trump. Here are 2 1. The brutality, cruelty, & disrespect of communities by Border Patrol/ICE will piss off a lot of people who weren’t very pro-immigration 2. Trump/Vought etc are decimating rural areas. If Dems lose by 35 instead of 50 they’ll demolish the GOP 2

I actually think it's funny they used "Operation Charlotte's Web." The smart female protecting her home wins. It's about solidarity. The vicious murderers are thwarted by creativity. Are none of these goons literate, even at a third grade level?

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

rape culture teaches men to lead empty lives where they believe they’re so fundamentally unlovable at their core that they can only simulate the experience of being sincerely desired by cultivating power and leveraging it to obtain simulated, insincere romance through manipulation and coercion

relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy

Live in a Trumpy area of California with a strong hemp industry. This could end up peeling younger voters, libertarianish Republicans, & hemp industry workers away from Trump-MAGA.

I confess I never saw a day where Trump would have to order his AG to protect him because the members of the MAGA GOP would begin to break ranks with him on ANY issue, but that just goes to show you how volatile The Epstein Files have become and how truly panicked Tang the Conqueror really is.

The real bathroom menace: Border Patrol agents.

Had 4 years of outrage media coverage of Hunter Biden having a board seat but not quite as much energy directed to what is basically legalized bribery. Need your tariffs cut? Just hand Trump a <checks notes> $130,000 solid gold bar and a bespoke Rolex desk clock. Media shrugs.

I think the swift destruction of the East Wing matters as well. It's a visceral thing. All our lives, we've understood the White House to be above party and a sort of sacred location that stands as a symbol of our country and he was just like "fuck it, I'm tearing it down."

1) Jonathan Martin is a bullshit artist hack who should never be paid attention to. 2) Prop 50 exit polling showed not even half of *Californians* would endorse Newsom running for President. If you can't clear 50% in the state you're Governor of, give up.

There's this attitude on bluesky where people will get mad at Schumer/Jeffries under the logic that "ugh that strategy is so facile that only a fucking idiot would fall for it! feckless! controlled opposition!" and then the GOP is the exact kind of fucking idiot to fall for it. Every time.

I forget who said it on here recently but it holds true: *every* strategy is 4D chess if your opponent is dumb

The problem for the White Nationalists is that "lazy bigotries without any united world view behind them" describes and appeals to a *lot* more American voters than their BS does. That was a feature, not a bug for Trump. Start getting too... specific... with things and watch the coalition fall away.

he has a three-vote margin in the House and declared war on three House members

Not enough people realizing we are in the lame duck years now.

I feel like the attitude of, we were fooled and we were wrong no harm no foul, was a worthwhile sentiment in Trump 1 and 2020 but isn't now that Trump's been re-elected. No one was fooled this time save fools

Unlike our very healthy and young president Trump

Don't underrate this moment. 50-100 votes breaking (enough for a veto proof majority) with a same party congress and the president actively lobbying against it is very, very lame duck and indicative of major fissures and breaks in the party.

Lemme tell you what’s diabolical about this clip: Essence took this footage right off Michelle’s podcast feed (small credit at the bottom) and proceeded to watermark it like it was original and post. Legacy media always on some bullshit.

Was this message directed at Trump or Speaker Mike Johnson

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon. 77 million people voted for this.

The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.

Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.

"Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the US on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said on Tuesday." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“New Hampshire”

Sad seeing someone who had reasonable & even insightful political views but Nov 2024 happened & they just snapped, & in good faith now blame Dems for the weather & bad officiating & a messed up carry out order, & doom that no Dem will ever again win an election.

President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’ grocery expenses despite his administration’s claims to the contrary. trib.al/VE5JAiZ

And not to put too fine a point on it but these are the people we WANT to be exiled back to the margins. Backing failed libertarian campaigns, utterly radioactive to the GOP establishment. If that happens because of Trump's ego?

"Black folks are a dry tit and I've burned through self-righteous white people... Who's left?"

Slave narratives reveal a lost antebellum South.

On the one hand, a criminal administration. On the other hand, a legal system that has not knuckled under. We see here their brutality, undoubtedly, but beneath it we see their weakness.