Perhaps there’s a reason that the Constitution doesn’t leave the powers over taxation and foreign commerce to the whims of one man. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The biggest reason for ongoing public protests is to convince politicians that siding with Trump is a losing position, and that opposition will earn them support.

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

“There is no baloney like Bannon baloney!” Michael Wolff spills some Steve Bannon tea regarding his claim about Pedo King seeking a 3rd term! Take a listen!👇🏼 #stevebannonbullshit #pinks

These are the boot licking companies sponsoring Trump’s 90,000 square foot ballroom.

Resistance is possible, and it’s happening right now.

Easy to implement, difficult to suppress. Communicates very clearly and nonviolently that ICE is here and they are not welcome.

Donald Trump's puppet DOJ has no business screwing around with next month's election. Sending the feds into California polling places is a deliberate attempt to scare off voters and undermine a fair election. We will not back down. Californians decide our future — no one else.

ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers. "What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder. "The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back. Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.

A Christianity that causes the hungry to go without food, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be mistreated, and God’s creation to be ravaged, all while the greedy and cruel satisfy their every desire, is a Christianity that can no longer claim to follow Christ.

We now have anonymous billionaires paying the wages of American troops. Does anyone see the problem?

As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.

note that sub-saharan african comment from grok

A look at the geographic boundaries of four major American religions. www.howtoreadthisch.art/r/444882ff?m...

I wish Ezra had provided the evidence that the Democratic Party has moved “sharply left” on this laundry list of issues. To take one example, they pitched the IRA as a climate bill but also as a way of rebooting manufacturing, particularly in red states. And how have they moved left on “guns”?

“If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.” — Paul Wellstone

This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.

Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.

I, the grandson of farmers who became autoworkers, the son of a hairdresser & a truck driver, the first in his family to graduate HS, thinks nobody is more in touch with the minds & souls of the working class (by which he means white working class) than Ezra Klein.

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Which of these people is a working-class voter? Which is an identity politics voter? The conventional wisdom's answers to those two questions is the root of much confusion about electoral politics in the US and Europe these days.

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

I'm sorry, why are the media giving cover to the president by saying that the escalation in the Caribbean vis-à-vis Venezuela is about drugs? It's clearly about the fact that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world and a regime change to privatize those benefits Trvmp and his donors.

I was pretty surprised to find myself agreeing with Glenn Beck. But what he finds fear-inducing brings me hope and joy. immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2025/10/is-n...

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

You may not remember this because your brain isn’t as poisoned as mine but during the first term there was reporting on how trump called the wh a “dump” to like his rich golf buddies or w/e and he angrily denied he’d said that and now he’s demolishing large parts of the WH because he thinks it sucks

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I'm starting to think that the government shutdown is part of their hostile government takeover. Go read Project 2025, again.

And it’s not even Friday.

John Brennan on Donald Trump: “Clearly he is a very, very sensitive and insecure individual. He’s still trying to refute what is clearly obvious to any right-minded individual that Russia interfered on behalf of Donald Trump in 2016”

If & when federal courts (& SCOTUS) insist on deferring to the President's determination that deploying the Natl Guard is necessary for the enforcement of federal law, safety, etc. - please remember Trump says he's making such decisions based in part on what the CEOs of Salesforce & NVIDIA tell him.

BREAKING: Jack Smith is insisting upon a public hearing if Congress wants to talk to him Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of? Let the American people see & hear for themselves!

So a starving child is automatically a Democrat?

Just in case anyone has forgotten, Sanders made Tulsi Gabbards a fellow at his institute. At best, he has exhibited terrible judgement.

the king blames his subjects for complaining about his policies hurting them

The use of "surge" here is so fucking grotesque. Trump is using Iraq War language against the citizens of his own country.

TRUMP: I'm replacing the East Wing of the White House with a lavish ballroom and I just pardoned the richest billionaire in crypto! Sorry you peasants are losing SNAP benefits and Obamacare subsidies! THE NEW YORK TIMES:

Burchett is Burchetting again.

In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet. https://to.pbs.org/3Wksib6

The media treated Biden's poll numbers, which were better than Trump's, as a major storyline that merited constant coverage and analysis.

The U.S. economy has grown by $20 trillion since 2000 … about $7.7 trillion of that (36% of all the growth in GDP) is spending related to recovering from or preparing for climate disasters per Bloomberg Intelligence #EconSky

This is a very, very big protest. Heroes Square alone is really big. Orban is really in trouble

It's egregiously racist of Andrew Cuomo to insinuate Zohran Mamdani would cheer for another 9/11-like attack on New York City, and I have to question the moral fiber of any elected official supporting Cuomo who stays silent in response to his remarks. Find your integrity.

No past administration has launched military operations at the same time it is conducting a vigorous, sustained, and broad based attack on the rule of law, the constitutional order, and the professional military like President Trump is. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.

If Trump deploys the military in San Francisco, it’ll have absolutely nothing to do with crime & public safety — crime is down here — & everything to do with control & punishment of perceived enemies.