"One year into his second term, how has Trump performed on the economy? The answer is: not good. Not good at all. Other than the depths of the Great Recession and the covid pandemic, job growth in the first year of Trump’s second term was the worst in *over two decades*" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

ICE & CBP have become a masked, armed, unidentified and unaccountable paramilitary force serving the authoritarian goals of Trump and the GOP. Immigration enforcement and border control are now secondary functions to their role of using violence to intimidate American citizens.

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🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers. A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers. The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025. 1/ me, for @forbes.com

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

"Under the 'Compromise Scenario', Denmark would agree to give Trump full military access to Greenland and deny access to Russia and China." This is the status quo. We've had it since before Trump was born. It's the most open-ended "put whatever you want here" deal we have for any foreign territory.

And senior Republican leaders who are not impeaching him now. The unprovoked invasion of our NATO allies is as cut-and-dried "impeach & remove immediately" as anything since WWII, aside from "incite an insurrection at the Capitol to steal an election." Total failure of Article I of the Constitution

So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA

Official Republican statement regarding the health of America’s children: “We want many more American children to die unnecessarily from completely preventable diseases.”

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

The President is Losing his Marbles open.substack.com/pub/clairebe...

This is a long in-depth article and that is exactly what makes it so profound. Worth the time!!

Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.

Lutnick is just following the example of Trump, Miller, and Goebbels: just keep lying, the bigger the lie the better, the key is persistent lying.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @repricklarsen.bsky.social @shasti.bsky.social

median asking rent in the US per the Census Bureau (data is through 9/30) JD Vance lies as he breathes

The Trump gold card

As Claire Berlinski wrote: "You never know when someone who has been a coward all their life will suddenly discover the unexpected pleasure of courage." @claireberlinski.bsky.social

If the US can seize a Venezuelan tanker carrying sanctioned oil, then can other tankers in other places, say the Baltic or the Black Sea, also be seized?

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

This.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

“RFK Jr Wants to kill your kids” = The Republican Party wants to kill your kids. RFK Jr has no capacity to threaten America’s children without the active enabling of the GOP.

The great dealmaker, not surprisingly, is a total failure at making a deal. open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...

President Trump is pardoning a convicted Honduran drug lord who openly boasted that he would "stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos," and push drugs into America. This is the most pro-crime, pro-corruption administration in our country's history.

2018: Stephen Miller sought information on attacking boats in the Caribbean. 2025: the USA is committing war crimes in the Caribbean, cementing the policy that Trump can declare anyone a terrorist & use the military without any due process. 2026: ??? open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

no different to a U boat sinking a ship then surfacing to machine gun survivors in the water no different

When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors. But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.

All decent Americans must resist the criminal regime in the White House. Do it for patriotism, or do it because it's getting worse and everyone you love will suffer. You can try to avoid politics, but politics will not avoid you.

How many thousands of Americans will die from the Trump/RFK/GOP regime? How many American children?

Trump’s MAGA plans will do the same to the USA

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Dear Ukraine, I apologize. I’m sorry my country elected someone who works for Putin. Someone who’s on Putin’s side. As long as he is President, America won’t stand with you. Just know tho, that most Americans DO stand with you. Best, A Ukraine-Supporting American Citizen 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.

The Republican Party continues to show full obedience to Trump. A few doubtful voices are being heard. Talk is cheap. I’ll start being hopeful when they take real and meaningful actions to bring his dictatorship to a halt.

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

Roberts has earned a prime spot in the future hall of shame. Traitor to the Constitution he swore to protect.

Inflation isn’t all the same. When prices rise because demand is strong, firms earn more and can raise wages. With tariff-driven inflation, firms face higher costs, not higher revenues—so prices go up but paychecks don’t. Same pain, less gain.

Now that Trump has told the Republicans in Congress to approve release of the Epstein files, there is one thing we know for certain: the shredders at DOJ are overheating.

The attack on democracy is a Republican Party effort. Trump serves their goal for the time being, but the GOP is committed to replacing democracy with an authoritarian regime. So, not at all surprising to see GOP Senators attacking the judiciary.

Every day ICE reconfirms their purpose to terror and nothing else. A key step in the Republican authoritarian takeover.

No crypto! Just old-fashioned corruption www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Anne Applebaum as usual on the mark. I would add: most elected Republicans quietly fold the millisecond this happens to them. So in speaking up MTG is GOP unusual.

Let’s start calling each of these bribery transactions John Roberts approved corruption.

Dear MTG, This is called: reap what you sow.

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