It all boils down to: Trump wants to harm as many Americans as possible, while plundering as much cash as possible, because that’s what his Kremlin whoremasters want.

Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 30ish mins, gogo!

I would pay big bucks to see @jvl.bsky.social interview the Portland Chicken on @thebulwark.com

Look, this is amazing. And it's also Nazi resistance shit. And it's very clear who the Nazis are in this scenario.

"The bird gained global fame Oct. 7, when right-wing influencer Benny Johnson posted video of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stepping onto the ICE facility’s roof and staring down a handful of hecklers—and one chicken." www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

I’m sure Russ Vought’s latest mass firings of federal workers will help Republican Winsome Earl-Sears in her race for VA governor in a few weeks.

Drew Ensign alert 👀 👀

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyer reacts to feds' plans to try sending him to Ghana "As someone who is actually from Ghana, I can tell you concretely that Kilmar is not from Ghana." From this morning's press conference in front of federal court

Bacon: "The president was demanding her indictment 2 weeks ago and I think it really muddies the water. Normally, the president says out of this discussion, they let the attorney general and the process work. When you have a president ordering & demanding indictments, it will be used by the defense"

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the beloved chaplain for the Loyola Chicago men's basketball team who became an international celebrity during their 2018 Final Four run, has died. n.pr/4h16TNw

Can’t get any more delicious than Trump losing the #NobelPeacePrize to an anti-fascist Venezuelan woman that’s fighting against people just like him….great choice by the committee! Congratulations María Corina Machado 💪

In or about 2017, Jack Posobiec told his followers that he “worked closely” w/ the Oath Keepers. (h/t @michaelehayden.bsky.social) More recently, he’s glorified Francisco Franco, Spain’s deceased murderous dictator. Naturally, Trump included him in his recent anti-“antifa” roundtable. Sound on. 1/

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

Get ready for a bigly Trump-didn't-win-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize tantrum.

With receipts! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

October 9, 2025

What a buffoon….

Read the piece: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case. The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim? Abrego's counsel says no. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution” THAT PART! Thank you, Judge Perry.

Same energy.

This story has everything: TikTok, Tylenol, Trump, Ivy League arrogance, and zero reality.

I knew something was afoot in Missouri: On 9/30/25, Judge Kacsmaryk transferred a long-standing suit re: the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone from TX to the eastern district of Missouri. “All but one of the current full-time district court judges in [that district] were appointed by…Trump.” 1/

We the people can save the United States. 1) Protests. He feels humiliated when we take to the streets. 2) Hit them in their wallets. When enough people wanted to send a real message about Jimmy Kimmel & canceled their subscriptions to Disney, Hulu & ESPN, it worked! What else has yielded results?

Kathy! youtu.be/UF2REkRgUZA?...

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Sigh. Once again, the idea that Biden “opened the border” is such nonsense. And the idea that the Trump admin is just focusing on “bad guys” is an even worse fiction.

"We have a WWE president...Kash Patel: He’s a performer. Hegseth: He’s a performer. People leading a lot of these agencies are performers. Everything we’re seeing is a performance, but with real guns and destroying real people’s lives.” www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

When Trump publicly admits his nefarious motives judges should not ignore his explicit animus. Judges have a choice: Allow Trump to take them as fools, or look at the facts including his own admissions when assessing his power grabs? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Kash Patel Praises Hit With Community Note Over Epstein Files Trump's FBI director bragged that his agency has the transparency promised meidasnews.com/news/kash-pa...

October 8, 2025

You’ve gotta be kidding me. This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump. Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies. Really embarrassing stuff.

"While ICE is invading immigrant neighborhoods and kidnapping people by the thousands, the fact that a hugely popular artist would sing in Spanish at the Super Bowl is a sign that America is still a polyglot nation. And that is unacceptable." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Reports have started appearing on IndianTV about Russia luring Indian citizens&forcing them to fight in its war against #Ukraine After the detention of an Indian student who had been sent to the front by Russians but surrendered to Ukrainian forces,the issue finally exploded into public attention

Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The governors of Illinois and California, as well as a number of members of Congress, are jumping up and down, warning that our democracy is in peril. As terrifying as that prospect is, it is heartening to see some opposition leaders get loud.

As @thelisagraves.bsky.social pointed out last night, ICE has a bigger budget than the US Marines. Which, if the footage I've seen is any indication, they're spending on burgers, fries, and shakes.

Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Russian State Duma's defense committee, basically confirms that Russia has plans for the participation of 25,000 Cubans in Russia's war against Ukraine: "...can’t forbid a true Cuban patriot from loving Russia. We’ve been to Cuba many times