Trump has destroyed all credibility in government departments. The latest one: the Justice Department classifying fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify murdering civilians in small boats. Words mean nothing any more. Neither does authority. We do what we want. Take or leave our excuse.

Karoline Leavitt takes her cross off when the lie is really bad.

House Republicans take another day off today after briefly returning to work for a couple days after their two-month vacation, ready to enjoy another long weekend at taxpayer expense.

“The projected rise in fossil CO2 emissions in 2025 is driven by all fuel types: coal +0.8%, oil +1%, natural gas +1.3%.“ phys.org/news/2025-11...

Everything is Connected.

Door Dash report?!?!

The total US force off Venezuela is now 15,000 troops. (NYT)

Think about it, MAGA. Take all the time you need.

"Nobody is better at turning victory into defeat than Chuck Schumer," said the NIH staffer. "After Tuesday I started to have hope again for... the first time since Schumer caved the first time. So much for that, I got nearly a week of not being hideously depressed."

This is the Surrender Caucus:

Tonight was a very bad night.

“U.S. national debt reached a new record high of $38.019 trillion. It took only 71 days to add an additional $1 trillion to our national debt, with $382.260 billion added during the government shutdown." www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

To those experts who said a Democratic socialist could never be elected mayor of NYC, a reminder that one was elected president of the USA four times

Trump Denies Appearing on 60 Minutes

"Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there."

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Let me put this as simply as possible: If the 60 Minutes editorial team cuts out most of their interview with Trump to make him look his best, and he still comes across as completely demented, then it is extremely likely that Trump actually is completely demented.

New plan to turn the US vegan just dropped.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people? Who could have foreseen this?

Talking Heads’ David Byrne.

They’re obsessed with control. But what they don’t see is that one special election at a time, we are taking this country back. Progress may feel slow, but it’s faster than you think. Don’t forget: 10/18 Nationwide Protest. No Kings.

This is sick and a war crime.

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

Israel bombs once-bustling Gaza City neighbourhood Zeitoun to rubble flip.it/SK04Ob

Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village residents and make them “pay a heavy price.” mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra...

We’re waiting, Jake.

The incredible feat has landed the former socialite in the Guinness Book of World Records.

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

FEMA employees have warned Congress that Trump has rolled back all the advances made in disaster response since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the NYT reports. Almost like he wants to make the US vulnerable.

It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.

In case anyone has forgotten, or wonders why Putin was smiling in Alaska as Trump acted like a subservient fan... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

"In 40 years, Republicans went from opposing Democrats’ policies, to insisting that Democrats were socialists who had no right to govern, to the idea that Republicans have a right to rig the system to keep voters from being able to elect Democrats to office...

“We’re afraid that the Russian will trick him into signing something away,” an associate of the geriatric man said.

Frances Perkins (1962): “Of course, the Act had to be amended, and has been amended, and amended, and amended, and amended, until it has now grown into a large and important project, for which, by the way, I think the people of the United States are deeply thankful. One thing I know...

Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are still promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections. And imperiling Democrats’ chances in 2026. trib.al/sjP8Yrm

“Get a bunch of those squeaky old tanks rolling down the streets and you won’t see anyone for miles.”

Marjorie is beginning to awaken... "While I can’t stress enough that MTG is no ally, that doesn’t mean she’s not an accidental asset when it comes to destroying the Republican party. I’ve lost any hope that the Democrats, a party that largely consists of self-interested careerists...

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

It's really funny learning Trump has had exactly one friend in his whole life. And even funnier to learn who it was.

Striking stuff from @pkrugman.bsky.social, who dismantles Trump's Europe deal from top to bottom. It will actually undermine US manufacturing, the "concessions" Trump won are fake, and Trump voters will be hit hard by the tariffs. All on the pod. Don't miss this one: newrepublic.com/article/1985...