Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is Seth at his best youtu.be/CUW2GmKtqO0?...

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

What he said: 💯 🎯

You know, apropos of nothing in particular, and although I haven't researched it yet, I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

She’s very good at this.

This is what is happening.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

A reminder that when Christian Nationalists in the Republican Party lecture you about the importance of "religious freedom," they are not talking about YOUR religion or YOUR freedom. They are talking about THEIR freedom to impose THEIR religion on you.

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I would say that he is a fool and a weakling but that would imply that his trade war was ever anything else but a scam to generate insider information so friends and family could get rich shorting stocks. (2/2)

"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse" "Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots." snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

This is gotta be the press photo of the year 2025

53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy. Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United. The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.

The daily abuse by Trump’s masked ICE agents are such an ugly and sour drumbeat of life in Trump’s America. But we can’t look away or grow accustomed to this lawless cruelty. We need to be resolved that it must be stopped and these men must be held criminally accountable along with their superiors.

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!

Donald Trump is telling his DOJ to prosecute people involved in defeating him in 2020. He will claim the 2025 California referendum was fraudulent. He is going to try to impose voter ID and ban mail-in and early voting for 2026. I will do everything I can in the courtroom and in public to stop him.

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.

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

This is the essence of the matter. In our interview, Jamie Raskin engages directly on this point -->

You're not gonna believe who is funding the destruction of the White House. Ok, ok, maybe you will...

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

I agree with @stevevladeck.bsky.social that if SCOTUS overturns Judge April Perry's injunction in Chicago, it will be a make-or-break moment for democracy. But over the weekend, Trump did several things to hurt his case. www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/20/s...

Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march. Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are. When it matters.

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

🧑‍🌾 “What do you say to farmers who feel the $40 BILLION BAILOUT is benefitting Argentina more than them?” TRUMP: *LASHES OUT AT THE REPORTER* (“you don’t know anything about it… nothing’s benefitting Argentina 🤔… I happen to like the president…”) So corrupt.

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

Shohei Ohtani just played perhaps the greatest game in the history of baseball, Peter Wehner argues. But Ohtani’s “performance shouldn’t be of interest just to sports fans. His triumph offers all of us a ray of hope at a troubled time.”

On his Truth Social platform on Saturday night, Trump posted a Top Gun-style AI video of himself wearing a crown and dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a military plane. (Yes, you read that right.)

how much stronger an indication do we need that Trump is indifferent to criminal conduct and attuned solely to loyalty to himself. George Friggin' Santos! just beyond belief...

“It’s unmoored to reality,” he said. “I expected there were documents like this, but seeing it in print is nevertheless shocking. Our government is being driven by nonsensical dreck from dark corners of social media.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A message and a Lesson from Norway 🇳🇴 💙💙

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

I feel like we're going to have to do this with all of Tricia's lies. www.thedailybeast.com/senior-ice-b...

A lot of people are rightly furious about this--but she and Stephen Miller say shit like this all the time. Few people are pointing out THEY ARE THE PARTY OF CRIME. Trump incited 1000s of people to attack the Capitol. 100s chanted Hang Mike Pence. He pardoned 100s of cop assailants.

Imagine if KJP or Psaki had said this about the Republican base: not just that half of them were “deplorables” but that the GOP’s “main constituency is made up of domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and violent criminals”? The media, not just Fox, would be in meltdown. GOP would be screaming!

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

The whole linear progress of time thing remains a challenge for MAGA.

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto. ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Yup. Now.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

She is not