Trump "told so many lies about No Kings during a gaggle with reporters Sunday evening … that it was hard not to wonder if he’s confusing AI videos with reality.”

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

8/ If Halligan wasn't validly appointed, then everything she's done has been ultra vires and void ab initio. That means the stuff she's done gets unwound. Halligan was the only lawyer willing to sign the James Comey and Letitia James indictments. As far as we can tell, she & only she secured them.

This is great work, America but I know we can do better.

Interesting: Greenland picks French company Eutelsat over Elon Musk’s Starlink. Greenland's government-owned telecommunications company Tusass signed the agreement with Eutelsat to provide east and north Greenland with better and more reliable internet connectivity. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

When you feel political cartoonists have been working too hard and deserve something easy as a treat

The Republican shutdown means that nonessential federal employees like soldiers and TSA agents aren't being paid anymore, but rest assured that the truly vital work of this administration -- building a Dancing with the Stars ballroom for the dementia-addled president -- still goes on.

Compare Trump’s (unusual) level of empathy for Argentina — vs. Ukraine. @atrupar.com

Zelensky clearly annoyed with Steve Witkoff, who views the war as some sort of real estate transaction & pushes Kremlin talking points. Recently he pushed Kyiv to accept Putin's demand for the rest of the Donbas because "it was incorporated into [Russia's] constitution." Read Zelensky's comments:

"Let's put the Brexit guy in charge of everything" seems like a strange conclusion, but somehow Farage is still leading the polls to become the next Prime Minister.

After three years of reasoning, pleading and conceding, the EU has had enough. On Monday, the bloc’s 27 member countries are expected to back a new bill that will permanently cut Russian gas supplies to Hungary and Slovakia — whether they like it or not.

None of us should put pressure on Zelenskyy when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace.

It’s just incredible this isn’t the way everyone talks about him

“All my friends murdered and raped, sometimes they hung out at my house. Get over yourself.”

Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

We're calling him Diarrhea Don. He's owning the libs so hard with this, it's brilliant. Everyone talking about the president's uncontrollable bowels, how manly and cool his uncontrollably explosive shits are.

y’all keep making fun of trump’s shitting video but it takes a strong man to admit that he’s reached the stage of life where he has no control of his bowels

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

By "test" do you mean "break and see if anyone, especially Trump, will call them out on it"?

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

Property?

lol HER COMMENTS ABOUT IDENTIFYING THE LEAKS GOT LEAKED

Geography. Don’t skip it in school.

Xi 🇨🇳 is cleaning house Who has Xi purged from the CCP Central Committee? Attendance at next week's Fourth Plenum will reveal the extent of his recent "purge surge" If all rumors are true, only 168/205 members and 159/171 alternates will be there And only 17/44 of PLA members

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

You know what’s one of the great things about the No Kings protests today? No one is going to storm the U.S. Capitol.

“who cares” would be a titch more credible if they hadn’t spent all week whining about the rallies in advance.

Randall Munroe once noted that more Californians than Texans voted for Trump and more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Harris.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

#NoKings #YesOn50

just write “I’m mad at my parents”

A successful protest movement requires as broad a coalition as possible. If you’re recoiling from the support of mainstream privileged segments of society, you’re not trying to win the fight, you’re just trying to win personal praise.

The only explanation for this is that these people would disprove the administration’s narrative about the identity of the people we are murdering. I’m a little surprised they didn’t just straight-up murder these two in custody. That’s who the government is now.

the msnbc grandmas in southern indiana boasted signs that said “abolish ice” that was a fringe idea during the first trump administration

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

US President Trump rejected Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's request for Tomahawks at White House after call with Russian ruler Putin On night of their meeting, Russia continued terror campaign, raining missiles and 164 drones on Ukrainian civilians euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/18/t...

Russia’s goal is to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty. Ukraine’s goal is to keep it. These goals is mutually exclusive. If one doesn’t understand this, one can’t help solve this.

Hegseth wore a tie with Russian flags to meet with Zelensky. Is he trying to send a message or is he just an ignorant idiot? Or did his actual boss Elbridge Colby ask him to do it?

What a thug trash administration.

It's both depressing and funny Trump still doesn't realize that foreign leaders are treating him like a toddler easily manipulated by flattery. He still wags his tail like a puppy getting his belly rubbed every time.

Watching reruns of Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren. This is excellent!

I never again want to hear House Republicans disparage people they claim are too lazy to work