This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most

“The department declined to answer questions about whether the donor is an American citizen or a foreign national.” Jesus Fucking Christ

WATCH: “A MASTER PLAN” Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔 (But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃) PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.

People keep saying it's privately funded. That's misleading. "Privately funded" is when foundations and wealthy individuals pay for it. At least half a dozen of these donors are major federal contractors dependent on U.S. taxpayers. This is money laundering.

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

Trump pardons crypto billionaire whose company struck a business deal with the Trump family’s crypto start-up that could generate tens of millions of dollars a year for the Trumps and Witkoff's family. David Yaffe-Bellany @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/t...

In Abrego criminal case, govt will not object to defense subpoenaing former AUSA Ben Schrader, who apparently quit over the decision to indict Abrego, to testify at the vindictive prosecution hearing. Govt *is* fighting production of emails & memos about why Schrader declined to charge the case.

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

Next week, the Fed is meeting to decide interest rates, but they'll have to do it without the most recent jobs data. The data is ready to go, but the Trump Admin is just sitting on it. What do they have to hide? Release the data.

Be fair. We're all looking for the guy who did this

God damn, Zohran just destroyed Cuomo regarding his sexual harassment of women.

Our leader has gone completely fucking mad.

Folks have been warning about this for at least 3 years that I have seen. Now with less people able to find even basic employment, the tower is going to collapse.

Signal boosting in the hope one of the journalists who follows me or @whstancil.bsky.social will read the thread and reach out to him. What Will is experiencing goes far beyond just “trolling” and is quite dangerous.

Fellow Americans! I’m happy to announce that, thanks to you, I’m sending $100,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union (@aclu.org) to help them defend something that truly Makes America Great: our civil liberties. 🧵

“When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement,” DHS’ Tricia McLaughlin asserted, “while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs.” By @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

"What’s rotten at the top filters its way down. Which is why ICE agents feel emboldened to shoot pastors in the head. They know no action they take is too extreme for their boss, dog murderer Kristi Noem, or her boss, Jeffrey Epstein murderer Donald Trump." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/pardon-moi

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Dear God. “Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: 'This Is The Way'” 10/14/25 … 1/ finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-an...

Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'” by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets? Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Fort Worth, Texas. #WeAreEverywhere

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

they like Trump and want to help him

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.' And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

Your daily reminder that Indigenous people predated Columbus in the “new world” by — wait for it — 23,000 years. #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🪶🪶

If you're the person* who reached out to ask if it's worth it to keep going — my view is this: if you can get out to a country with a healthcare system that will work for you? do it. otherwise? make them kill you. (*I wish you'd sign a name, even pseudonym)

Don't talk to cops includes putting your federal criming into flyer format.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems: infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations. She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly! Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

“This immigration issue is a remnant of Subu’s original case. Since that wrongful conviction has now been officially vacated and all charges against Subu have been dismissed, we have asked the immigration court to reopen the case and consider the fact that Subu has been exonerated.”

If you wanted to get rid the DC office to weaken CDC's presence inside the beltway, to weaken support for CDC in Congress, this is what you would do — fire a shit ton of highly trained professionals who stop infectious diseases due to "coding errors" and then re-hire them, but not the DC office

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire. If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

Yes well those of us who would got fired first and no one said shit so

The majority of hardworking families hurt by cuts to Affordable Care live in Red Districts/States Once again for those in the back... 🗣️ THE MAJORITY OF HARD WORKING FAMILIES HURT BY CUTS TO AFFORDABLE CARE LIVE IN RED DISTRICTS/STATES

It seems they also got rid of the organization that monitors how many Americans die, when, and of what. Convenient.

1,000 TROOPS: TN National Guard vet, who is protesting the Trump-@GovBillLee military/police takeover in Memphis, says deployment order is for a year. Takes us to the November election… Commercial Appeal reported the same troop number. www.tiktok.com/@itsrachelda...

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo believes his "spirit animal" is a tiger, and that an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru unleashed it by walking on the backs of his thighs. This is medicine's Florida man. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.