OPINION: "'In church, you’re taught to love your neighbor, but there’s always an asterisk when it comes to who you love,' one participant from Jackson told me. 'If you’re gay, you’re either ignored or silently judged,'" Brandon Nabors writes.

The East Wing, where first ladies created history, planned state dinners and promoted causes, is now history itself. The two-story structure of drawing rooms and offices, including workspace for first ladies and their staffs, has been turned into rubble.

here's today's post: "fuck these out-of-touch plutocrat fucks" — none of them gives a shit about the rest of us. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

The position of Congressional Republicans, who threatened to do permanent damage to the economy by forcing a default if they didn’t get enough of their policy demands met, is that it’s unacceptable hostage taking for Democrats to insist that the budget not allow the president to institute cuts.

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

don’t count out the Roddenberry estate. also never underestimate drunk-on-power Dave Ellison with knives out for (what he falsely believes is) “libtard entertainment” bsky.app/profile/will...

Very interesting.

The State Department’s intelligence bureau is almost always right. Gifted article: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

the “I did COVID response perfectly” mobster keeps repeating his destruction ops 🎩 @philipkofler.bsky.social

This 12-year-old New Orleanian's ongoing advocacy around organ transplantation landed her a spot this August on TIME's inaugural "Girls of the Year List."

Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

As expected, Acting US Atty McGuire moves to quash subpoenas for Dep AG Todd Blanche and two others in his office to testify at the hearing on Abrego's motion to dismiss for vindictive & selective prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

7 years since the horrific Tree of Life synagogue shooting, we have more work to do to honor the 11 lives lost that day. We must stand against the rising wave of anti-semitism and put an end to gun violence in our country.

NEW: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case, the Justice Department is moving to quash subpoenas for the testimony of senior DOJ officials, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend.

Tim Walz: "Everything coming out of DHS right now is about theatrics, is about a media hit or whatever. My guess is she's probably here on personal business and used it as a way to pay for it by having a press conference that had absolutely nothing factual and nothing new."

"The next presidency is going to have to embark on a sweeping de-Trump-ification of the entire federal government to purge it of the culture of abuse and lawlessness that has taken hold, and there are few more vivid examples than ICE." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Walmart both receives tens of millions of dollars of SNAP funds and creates millions of SNAP recipients with their unlivable wages. They spend millions in lobbying. It'll be fun to see how they react to the White House choosing to defund the program.

🤥 JUST NOW: Trump again lied about the Canada ad (using the @reaganfoundation as cover) PBS: “The overall message doesn’t misrepresent Reagan’s views on tariffs”

Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "

Thank you for including me, @hopeful66.bsky.social - followed all. 💙 go.bsky.app/VMePt6v

Just in case you havent seen the original… substack.com/@reallyameri...

“Trump is calling off, at least for now, plans to surge federal immigration agents into San Francisco this weekend. Mr. Trump said in Truth Social post that he had stopped the deployment at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area who vouched for the work of the city’s mayor.“ 10/23/25 … 1/

NEWS: Virginia Democrats announce surprise efforts to redistrict state, Trump says land action in Venezuela is coming, Bannon says Trump will win a third term, White House East Wing completely destroyed, and much more. A crazy day. Subscribe to support! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

Donny's potential involvement in sale of Dominion is **SPECTACULARLY CORRUPT** even for him list of impeachable offenses is long, that much is certain, but (as @jennycohn.bsky.social mentioned yesterday) the Eddie Martin connection is very 👀 www.wired.com/story/scott-... bsky.app/profile/jenn...

this will do wonders building trust in voting machines, the election terrorists having spectacularly criminal conduct erased by a sugar daddy 🎩 @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social

It's like a horror story written by... oh... wait...

Two far right propagandists have contested this--possibly based on Eagle Ed Martin's word.

Journalist Isaac Saul described Zhao as “comically corrupt” and said that his pardon would be “a monthslong scandal in any other normal administration,” given the role Binance has played in boosting the Trump family’s personal wealth.

Trump on Thursday pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges in 2023. Binance has been a major financial booster of World Liberty Financial, Trump's crypto venture that has added an estimated $5 billion to his wealth.

Trump will have the East Wing of the White House "within days" but NO PLANS have been submitted for the new ballroom to the federal agency that oversees federal building construction. He tore down our White House with no approved plans for restoration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

City Council names uptown intersection after Monk Boudreaux, beloved Big Chief of the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indian tribe.

Trump: "Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum I've ever dealt with in politics. He's a horrible human being."

Apartheid Clyde looted U.S. treasury, stole FEMA cash from New York, confessed to tipping 2024 election and caused untold millions in waste and abuse. but when one of Elmo's shitty companies is slightly harmed, them crocodile tears flow www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

Q: One of the J6 people you pardoned was charged w/ threatening to kill Jeffries. Do you worry your actions undermined safety? TRUMP: No. You have thousands of people that we're dealing with. And if one goes haywire ... I don't know of the incident ... sometimes Republicans are too nice

Q: How much money are you planning to donate to the ballroom? TRUMP: Millions of dollars. I also give a lot of money to the White House. As you know, I give my salary and I usually like to steer it to the White House.

MARGE: “Trump’s $40 BILLION bailout for Argentina is one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how that’s America first.”

love this journey for them bc I have it on good authority (meaning, voices in my head) that "[sic]" drives them absolutely batsh** craycray bsky.app/profile/will...

UPDATE: Rapid ascent from “nobody” to “distortionist” to “eltist [sic] distortionist” in 12 days

Trump on ICE arrests: "Obviously, every once in a while they may get one wrong, but they always correct it. They're able to correct it. But they are arresting really bad people. They're arresting people that kill, people that would cut your throat and not even care about it."

Boom! Only 132 away from 2,000! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Two votes at 5:30 p.m. on Monday: 1. Confirmation, Rebecca Taibleson to be US Circuit Judge, Seventh Circuit. 2. Confirmation, Bill Lewis to be US District Judge, Middle District of Alabama.

“The Mississippi River runs through every abstracted piece that I do,” artist Janelle Douglas said. “That’s kind of what I start with. It is an abstracted version of the Mississippi River, but it is in every single piece that I do, so home is in all of those pieces for me."

The American people are suffering. But all Trump cares about is destroying the East Wing for his ballroom.

Trump: "Mexico is run by the cartels and we have to defend ourselves from that"

vibes between you and @jvl.bsky.social are real... and I'm high-fiving you from Atlanta (that featured image, hoo boy) www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

I pray that a future president if we still have a democracy will erase every trace of Trump's existence. Raze every edifice he's built; strip his name from everything, restore the White House as if he never lived there & turn Mar-a-Lago into a Black, LGBTQ, women's, AAPI & immigrant history museum.