this is exactly what's happening

Yep, it’s the food stamps.

The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

This is the kind of clip that will have legs in our current economy.

I was in Portland a week ago and there’s just literally nothing happening. It’s not a matter of opinion, it’s not a perspective thing, it’s reality versus a world Trump is inventing in his head so he can seize dictatorial authority

COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that? TRUMP: Which one was that? COLLINS: The founder of Binance TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.

"He's allowed to be corrupt because Alito and Thomas said so."

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

NYT Confirms: Trump will DEMOLISH the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House. The Times says the East Wing is expected to be fully torn down by the weekend to make room for Trump's ballroom for billionaires — despite the fact that Trump pledged the White House would not be touched.

They fucked up the demolition by not doing the proper due diligence and to cover that up, they are tearing it all down.

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

> @newyorker.com

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.” Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

“The demonstrations were very small.”

Lookout! It’s Hamas!

Who thinks this shit is cute? We’re being governed via meme, and it’s embarrassing.

Lots of questions for Mamdani on his views on Gaza and Palestine. Zero so far for Cuomo who volunteered to be a lawyer for an ICC-indicted war criminal.

Great question!

Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert. And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

There's a fun little colliquay where Alito is flatly mischaracterizing what happened at the lower court and Nelson and now Sotomayor or trying to correct him. But Sam is resistant to facts that show he's wrong so, for the second time this morning, he's just ignoring the facts.

The list of things the Speaker says he "doesn't know about" or "hasn't seen" is huge. Either he believes he has no responsibility to be informed on politics, or could it be, that he's being disingenuous to avoid any difficult question? Every reporter should ask every question until its answered.

OK. why are you disenfranchising the state of Arizona by refusing to swear in their elected representative? Something you could do today.

🤯 you won't even put up the GD plaque. (let alone stand with them against J6 attackers)

MAGA Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "The economy was weaker in the first half of the year versus where it was last year ... the labor market has clearly weakened somewhat over the course of the year."

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat. But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

Honest question. Isn’t every day more time for loyalists to destroy any evidence of certain names in the files? Johnson knows the vote will happen eventually so what’s to gain by stalling if not this?

Folks: There are going to be a LOT of inflatable animal costumes marching on Saturday. 🙃

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

Today’s “One First” looks at how #SCOTUS and its defenders have responded to criticisms of the Court’s behavior in Trump cases either by knocking down straw men or by attacking the critics—without meaningfully defending what the Court is actually *doing*: www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

Tariff money is not a Trump Regime slush fund. It is tax money deposited into the US treasury and Congress has sole authority over the appropriation of tax dollars.

So washed guy gonna play songs from 30 years ago, give way to guy playing songs from 50 years ago will give way to guy playing songs from 30 years ago, etc etc.. cool.

The US Constitution has no innate defense against lying by public officials and complete shamelessness.

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that. Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

“YOU hit HER.” CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States