Make no mistake: if this case goes the way many fear, it will ensure the minority party can rule the majority of Americans for a generation. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns... Subscribe on Substack to read the latest from @joetrippi.bsky.social for Lincoln Square

The answer is yes. Just like Trump’s Azerbaijan hotel was a money laundering front for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

News flash @cnn.com : we absolutely are interested in this putz destroying our house. Mark Thompson should be ashamed of his cowardice and resign.

And now a 5th person has died while running from ICE. abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs...

Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid. Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.

This is not “America First”

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Oh. Well what could go wrong?

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Meet Andrew “Mac” Warner, the former red-state chief election official who has falsely claimed the CIA stole the 2020 contest. Now, he’s playing a key role in the conspiracy theory-fueled effort by the DOJ to investigate the vote. https://bit.ly/4ogXcgI

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. What has happened since has been as bad, if not worse, than experts warned on Sept. 8.

Corporate media is in a bad place.

It only cost us $40 billion.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.

🧵Important East Wing story. A longtime contractor raised alarms on TikTok about the East Wing demolition. Sarah Boardman has been a licensed contractor & designer for nearly 3 decades. She researched Trump‘s project & found “no permits” for the work.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

"I'm the speaker and the president," Trump has joked, according to two people who heard the remark and relayed it on the condition of anonymity because of concern about sharing private conversations with him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Sounds like it’s the GOP that’s playing politics with people’s livelihoods. Hold the line, Dems.

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.

Established facts are unfair to the Trump regime.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

This year, Orbán visited Mar-a-Lago and spoke with Trump and head of the Heritage Foundation (org behind Project 2025). Trump consistently praises Orbán and said he's "like a twin." Watch the intro to this Alex Wagner segment. 👇 Full segment here: www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-...

Orbán dismantled Hungary's democracy: silencing media, rigging elections, taking over courts, attacking pro-democracy non-profits, stoking fear of immigrants, crushing academic freedom, and enriching cronies. Sound familiar? It's a chilling playbook — and Trump took notes.

Don't be distracted by the chaos. Trump’s 2nd term agenda will be more calculated than his 1st. He's following the playbook of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán to crush democracy, silence dissent & entrench his own power. Those who lived it say there’s a window to act now. Here’s how we fight back. ⬇️

FORGET about 2026 and 2028 for the next 10 days. Focus on elections in 2025. There are **52,000** of them, according to @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and they all matter.

"In July, three analysts who worked in INR’s Russia-Eurasia group were fired. Another analyst resigned." In my experience, State Department's INR is the best of US intelligence. Therefore, Trump had them sacked. Trump is an enemy of the US. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“...He likes the fact that the government is closed because he thinks he can exercise king like-powers... He can open up the parts of the government that he wants. He can pay the employees who are loyal to him.. This is part of what happens in totalitarian states.” Chris Murphy is spot on! #Pinks

Not mincing words.

Posted on Trump’s Dept of Labor website. Remind you of anything? (Click through)

Proof that the U.S. government social media accounts are in fact white nationalist propaganda accounts, funded by our tax dollars. You’ve got to see this…

How Trump has aggravated Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: 1. Trump stopped all financial & military assistance to Ukraine in January 2025. 2. He posed no conditions or sanctions on Russia until mid-October, effectively encouraging Putin's aggression. /1

Trump is underwater on everything. And massively so on a lot things:

Author Michael Wolff: “The fear is that Ghislaine Maxwell can tie Trump to the details of what Trump & Epstein called the pu**y Committee. The pu**y Committee consisted of Trump and Epstein in their efforts to get girls for Prince Andrew”

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"You've probably noticed that the administration is framing this as an 'armed conflict' to defend the country against 'narco-terrorism' - that's not an accident. The White House is also calling these suspected drug smugglers 'unlawful combatants,' in an attempt to stage the legal battlespace."

In court Donald Trump never put forth a single shred of credible evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him

Americans see record-high beef prices as cattle ranchers see Trump turn on them. Everything’s going great! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Very disturbing. Segment opens, Catherine Rampell: "You came home last night to blood all over your house. What happened?" Homeowner: After ICE jumped a fence, a 20 y.o woman, his tenant, let the workers into the house. 2 of 4 workers were taken. It took most of a day to clean up their blood.

As Oregon questions the truthfulness of the Trump administration’s representations in court, the 9th Circuit is deciding if it should reconsider a panel’s decision to permit the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard in Oregon while litigation is ongoing. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Competitive "D vs. R" elections I think most people are still unaware of: —Dems are defending 4 tough legislative seats in Washington (2 of them), New Hampshire, & New York. —Mississippi has a court-ordered legislative races. —Swing-y Pennsylvania counties are electing county executives.

Maine will vote in under two weeks on a measure that would make voting a lot harder for a lot of people, including disabled folks, older folks, and anyone who struggles to meet strict ID requirements. If passed, this would really reshape voting in 2026. My deep dive: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a protection against deportation — yet because of procedural quirks, there is a lag/limbo between SIJS and a green card, and a person can have both a removal order AND a SIJS grant. This admin is pushing forward with removal during this lag time.

A panel of US judges has rejected an effort by the Trump administration to delay court rulings on claims by veterans who say they have been unfairly denied disability benefits and other compensation @fpwellman.bsky.social @rogerzenaf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

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.

1. Here are some facts about the guy, Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million so Trump could pay the troops during the government shutdown. 🧵

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.