Remember in the summer of 24 when Trump was saying this about Project 2025: "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it… "I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”

Lincoln appealed to our better angels. Trump conjures the snakes from our hearts.

If you want to stay in power unlawfully, you may feel the need to try to buy the loyalty of the military and take some kind of credit for it even though it was you who put them in this position…

More true than ever, every hour of every day.

Happy 87th birthday to John Dean, who is living history. 52 years ago, he stood up to an out of control POTUS whose behavior seems quaint to what we are dealing with now. He admitted his own mistakes and did the right thing. Ever since he has spoken out loudly about authoritarianism & so much more.

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

At this exact hour 52 years ago today, 10/10/1973, Spiro Agnew resigned as Vice Pres. & immediately pled guilty to felony tax evasion, avoiding dozens of other counts of extortion & bribery. He accepted $150,000 in payoffs, far, far less than how much Trump grifts *every single hour of every day*.

Whatever the upside-down opposite of The Enlightenment is — that’s where we are now. Wouldn’t be surprised if this administration insists that gravity is leftist nonsense.

Who among us hasn’t been a Nazi sex pest? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

When The New York Times puts “civil war” in any kind of headline it is noteworthy. This is a remarkably well-researched, thorough yet tight assessment of our most precarious moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Considering this administration has blown up four boats, killing 21 people, claiming they were cartel drug-runners without presenting any evidence of such … we’re in a place where if they decide someone is a “bad guy” or “antifa” they feel no inhibition of just going ahead and killing them.

It has been clear since Term 1 that he will take it all down, destroy whatever he has to in order keep power, to not “lose,” to not face accountability. Big differences now: Surrounded by enabler-lackeys and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity.

ALSO: It was obvious when he posted it that by “our reputation and credibility” he didn’t mean the nation, he meant his own. ALSO: My god, all this man does is think about himself. If you were to pie-chart out how much time he spends thinking about himself v Americans it would be 100% him.

Guy who could launch nukes posts for all the world to see what he intends to be a private message to his AG. In doing so he makes the obvious…obvious: Bondi just does whatever the hell he tells her to do. She was upset because he made clear to the world that she has no integrity.

🙄 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

“IDIOCRACY” WAS NON-FICTION. These people really need to study the history of cults and how they all end. These people worship a mentally deteriorated man who is quite literally the most transparent conman alive. Its absolutely crazy and will be studied long after the cult has imploded.

Its probably bad that the President of the United States is acting like a dictator while spewing out *UTTERLY* delusional lies & exaggerated, insane nonsense about what’s going on in the states he’s trying to illegally invade by force to quell uprisings that DON’T FUCKING EXIST.

NOW: Starting a new thread on the Portland National Guard hearing happening now. We're in the hearing. 1/

Someone needs to tell MAGA the pedophilia calls are coming from inside the White House.

Judge Immergut is a woman.

NOT the Onion. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

It’s as if Joe McCarthy had been elected POTUS instead of only sniping from a distance. Fired Prosecutor Assails Justice Dept.’s Pursuit of Trump’s Enemies www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

He’s either knowingly lying or bonkers-delusional. Once again. This is a context that should be reported.

"How can you say, ‘They take no pleasure in this,’ and then the next minute say, ‘Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people?’” trib.al/XScJfpf

beyond what Steve says, I think the OP‘s argument is a trial balloon for just outright ignoring court orders and if that is not what he means he should clarify

It’s clear that Stephen Miller and team Trump are just ACHING for violence. They desperately want violence on our streets bcuz they desperately want the military on our streets. Miller & the rest of them are purposely inciting violence. It’s what authoritarians do. Hence the incendiary language.👇

Every single hour of every day, he is more unhinged and lives in a delusional fantasy world filled with made up numbers and complete nonsense that doesn’t exist. Despite this being the kind of rant an escape mental patient would spew out, its become normalized & it gets totally ignored by the MSM.

The nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants “Ten days after Trump won … the company hired top Trump advisor and former Florida state congressman, Carlos Trujillo as a lobbyist. Trujillo’s firm, Continental Strategy, employs the daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff.”

It’s hard to find much evidence of a true youth movement rallying behind Kirk beside the conservatives who were already fans. Instead, we see a top-down effort from powerful people to use a controversial man’s death to create a cult of personality where one didn't exist. trib.al/pAP5Egz

I’m not sure what the point of law is under Professor Wurman’s theory of American constitutionalism. My friend over from Minnesota often likes to talk about the history of the common law— whatever happened to equitable remedies? Tort law is not a shield against the impulses of a wananbe tyrant.

The Congressional Republican talking point that Democrats should give Trump what he wants now, end shut down, essentially give up the only leverage Dems have, and then Trump and his R’s will negotiate in good faith — discounts the reality that Trump and his GOP have pissed all over good faith.

"'That fucking dumbass,' one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo on Wednesday, after seeing a clip of Lutnick riffing on Epstein. 'I’ve worked with him ... He just talks and talks, and doesn’t care what unhelpful bullshit comes out.'"

"‘F***ing Dumbass’: Trump Officials Want Howard Lutnick Sidelined After Epstein Comments" Trump's commerce secretary called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever' & his colleagues are now super mad at him. Another scoop from Zeteo's newest reporter @swin24.bsky.social:

They think this is their country. They think a majority shares their twisted views and wants the same kind of world they want. They are woefully wrong on both counts, and their overconfidence and overstepping will backfire. Keep your heads up.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

THIS IS IN SAAAAaaaaaane. I mean, one of the enduring questions re Epstein is how did he make his money. And here isTrump’s Commerce Secretary saying BLACKMAIL. Blackmail from what? VIDEOS. As in videos of rich men engaging in (statutory) rape. On a podcast from a Murdoch media brand.

“A day after the closed-door briefing, Trump declared…in a confidential notice…that the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with the cartels”…and they are “designated terrorist organizations…” So kill boats of people based on nothing and after the fact he decides bad guys—no problem.

No president in modern history has done more to actively set back cancer research than Donald Trump. No president in modern history has done more to reduce the access to health care of kids (and grown ups) than Donald Trump. That's the record. The WH is offering lies.

HERE: Just now, Trump admits it: “A lot of good can come from a shutdown. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, and they’d be democrat things.”

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

BREAKING NEWS: Following a push by Ranking Member Robert Garcia, the independent watchdog at the National Archives is launching an investigation into the Trump Administration illegally meddling in the New Jersey governor's race.

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Getting your military to shoot American citizens by rambling insane nonsense at them for two hours is a bold strategy. I can't imagine it working out.

If all of the loathesome things I want to do with the military and to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve with you in the military…if you aren’t on board with all of that dishonorable scumbaggery, then get out and make room for morally bankrupt lunatics who will salute me.

“The enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. …” President Trump preparing the military to be unleashed on American citizens.

This is absolutely the most insane “speech” this man has ever given. And that’s saying something. This man is so clearly unfit and unworthy.

Lunacy. Dangerous lunacy.

Trump does not look well and he's mumbling his way through a speech that is just a bunch of rally-speech snippets.