I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

We’re putting food on the table in Argentina ($40 billion), yet MAGA Republicans are threatening to withhold SNAP funds already allocated by Congress. MAGA = Make Argentina Great Again.

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

Easy one: People don’t have pictures of relatives who were murdered by demons.

Please sir I am just a small soybean farmer and a common man

If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

This is correct. His cult keeps saying “well, he was elected president, he doesn’t have to follow the rules now” but the correct attitude is “well, he was elected president, and therefore he has to follow the rules.” He even swore an oath to do that. Honest!

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit. (Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

Gallego on what the next Democratic president should do about Trump's ballroom: "To really mess with him, just name it the Barack Obama Ballroom, and I think that will take care of half the problem."

Yes, typically asbestos filled structures are demolished in a few days with no mitigation measures and dumped by a golf course under a mesothelioma cloud.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

This won’t be popular, but if professional athletes would go on strike, it might help wake America up. They don’t listen to any group more than they listen to professional athletes. I mentioned this in January and got a lot of hate for it. I also support a national economic shutdown/strike

Rand Paul: "In the one instance you're killed on sight. On the other instance, if you're captured, we just say, 'Oh well, we're gonna send you back to your country.' It doesn't make any sense."

The founders were so wary of unilateral taxation the constitution requires all taxes originate in the people’s chamber. Does the constitution allow Congress to delegate to POTUS the power to unilaterally change income tax rates? If not, why tariffs? They were ~90% of revenue when it was written.

Kaine: "We can't do a deal with Trump then have him tear it up tmrw & start mass firings or canceling programs he doesn't like or ones that help blue states. We have to be sure that a deal is a deal ... thus far he's not been willing to even discuss a deal, much less guarantee he'll live by one."

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social. MAGA math.

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

Piling on Johnson is easy, but don’t forget if just a few Republicans would crossover and side with Democrats they could together stand up to Trump

Every day, it seems like we tick a little bit closer to midnight. Would be great if the GOP Congress would quit sleepwalking through this.

If he doesn’t bring them back, the government will eventually not be able to pay its bills and the global economy will collapse, so there’s that. The last I heard, they were targeting around November 1 to try and end the shutdown. Hoping for sooner, but we’ll see.

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

Democrats should hold a press conference and announce that if Mike Johnson has no interest in running the House they'd be happy to do it for him

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

MAGA can tell me to “cry harder” all day long, but they know damn well they didn’t vote for ballrooms and breadlines. They know. They’re just too damn stubborn, stupid and scared to admit it.

If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime. It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances. We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

Whoaaaaa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Whoa www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

I just finished the new book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social about "the attention age" (The Sirens' Call), and now I can't stop seeing things like this that ought to be bonus chapters. Given that he wrote it while Biden was still running for re-election it is amazingly spot-on

He murders people in intl waters w/o due process or evidence. He demolishes our East Wing because he feels like it w/o consultation. He fuels an abusive police state to grab people off the street w/o due process. Meanwhile, billionaires & corporations keep handing him millions. They are complicit.

And in that moment, standing in my kitchen, phone in hand, staring at the rubble, three words filled my body like fire. I hate him. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

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.

JUST IN: 9th Circuit temporarily reinstates Judge Immergut's 1st TRO blocking solely Trump's Oregon National Guard deployment. Both TROs now in effect (CA/TX too). 9th to decide on en banc by Tuesday. Move undercuts DOJ's bid to lift 2nd TRO but court says no msg on merits.

To be clear: These donations are bribes, made anonymously to conceal Trump’s corruption.

Will Trump voters choose to eat racism or food? Right now, MAGA is sustaining itself on the former, but for how long? I'm really curious how long they are willing to suffer for their white nationalist King. I know many will die for it as long as they can see us suffer, but let's see!

It's easy to be so distracted by all the things the President is doing, to miss one thing he's not doing: Rallies. After he first won election in 2016, he kept having rallies b/c he liked them so much. He did them all through his first term, even during COVID. (RIP Herman Cain.) Why not?

As Trump kills more civilians in international waters, and deploys an aircraft carrier group to Latin America amid rising tensions with Venezuela and Colombia, I have some bad news for voters who saw Trump as the candidate of isolationism and foreign policy “restraint.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For the record, $130 million is almost literally a tiny drop in the bucket. The U.S. military payroll biweekly is some $23 billion (the latest budget request is $600 billion). This ostensible gift amounts to a bit more than 0.5% of the biweekly payroll.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday pleaded not guilty to bank fraud and false statements charges brought by the Department of Justice amid President Donald Trump’s public push to get retribution on his perceived foes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I’m getting a lot of, “but maga just says the approval is proforma and everyone renovated the WH.” Put aside that you don’t listen to people in the throes of mind control, the point is that this admin won’t even PRETEND that oversight governs them. the lack of pretense is the huge flag to me.

I’m going to say again that the shutdown is the power consolidation. While Congress neuters itself, he’s simply taking control of what they can’t/won’t in their absence. And Democrats aren’t upping the ante in what it will take to reopen—namely demanding Article 1 powers be honored.

The correct response to this is not to attack Trump or his cronies (they know what they’re doing), but GOP Reps and Senators for being sniveling little cowards and pieces of shit who won’t do their goddamn jobs and love licking Trump’s feet and getting publicly degraded while looting the Treasury

Raise your hand if you think this is corrupt as fuck! ✋😡