If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States." Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?

Bessent on Trump bailing out Argentina: "It is America first because we are supporting a US ally."

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit. (Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)

By proceeding with purchasing a jet ski before seeking approval from my spouse, I forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

My cab driver in Arkansas was a Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said he hadn't given much thought to the 2028 election, but that if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor of New York, the Democrats can kiss his vote goodbye.

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

"RFK Jr. to Personally Put Razor Blades in All Nation's Apples For Halloween"

Um. Comparing the complaints about the Epstein Ballroom to NIBMYism is obscene.

Both NYT and WaPo took the same dishonest approach: skip how it was done without Congress or public feedback, skip how it's funded illegally with private money, then also dodge the merits of the Epstein ballroom itself by framing the issue around the strawman 'can the White House ever be renovated?'

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cautionary poem returns to the facade of his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

I mean sure he’s bankrupting me and people like me, but he’s also making immigrants suffer. So as you can see, it’s a hard choice.

the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.

A Republican Congress is functionally the same as no Congress.

Did Trump add a mirror to the West Colonnade to stare at himself?

“law-breaking”

🚨We have reached the Even Peggy Noonan stage of Trump-induced fears for our Republic: "The photos of the tearing down of the East Wing were upsetting because they felt like a metaphor for the idea that history itself can be made to disappear." www.wsj.com/opinion/a-re...

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

BREAKING NON-NEWS: in the least surprising story of the day, NYT quotes two sources who've heard Trump 'joke' “I’m the speaker and the president." Not sure which makes Mike Tiny Flaccid Johnson look worse, the quote or the Kilroy-was-here photo www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

I don’t believe in uniforms for children, they should express themselves, but we need a dress code for behind home plate

I hope they explained to the Toronto fans that cancer charities are what the United States has in lieu of a functional healthcare system

He’s such a dipshit. And the idea of it is so stupid. Hey, those moving out of New York because you’re racist, don’t vote for Muslims in Utah! Yeah dude, they were never going to do that.

Lol no one has fled New York to Utah since Brigham Young

Man. First pitcher with back-to-back postseason complete games since Curt Schilling. And any time you're in a sentence with Curt Schilling and it doesn't involve threatening reporters, bullying people on social media or bankrupting Rhode Island, you've done something right. Go Yamamoto! Go Dodgers!

Yamamoto: you have to pitch a complete game tomorrow. Sorry. No real alternatives.

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

wow, which common vaccine was it?

If I may dril for a moment, you absolutely do not have to give Trump “credit” for anything, ever. The saying does not go “even a broken clock hires its own gestapo”

The H.H. Holmes Ballroom

Live footage from the White House Ballroom

Weirdo nepo baby buys army.

big tough guys deploying tear gas to protect us from inflatable dinosaur Halloween decorations

someday we're gonna go thru the internal documents of this federal brownshirt bureau & find out they were just a bunch of incompetent gearheads egging each other on with racist revenge fantasies based on too many viewings of Sicario 2

DHS social media gleefully has become a Nazi bar. It’s stomach-turningly repulsive that U.S. taxpayers are being forced to fund this revolting propaganda blitz.

This is nearly a weekly occurrence

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

dental insurance: we only exist to make regular health insurance seem better™

“the president’s unorthodox style”

Turned off the apocalyptic Dodger game and watched A House of Dynamite. Extremely tense and scary. Reminded me of the book. Nuclear War: A Scenario. Thought of this administration handling such a crisis and wanted to throw up.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel. His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime. It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances. We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

This ICE removal operated by Omni Air International is now making its second stop, in Sri Lanka. So far, migrants onboard have spent 34 hours in handcuffs, leg irons and a waist chain. There may be more stops. Omni and its parent company were purchased in April by private equity firm Stonepeak.

This is far from the most important issue here, but the Ontario govt was under no obligation to "seek...permission to use and edit" any recording of Ronald Reagan that is in the U.S. National Archives/Reagan Library, as is the case here. And the Reagan Foundation has *no* relevant role here.

They went to the mattresses to stop this document from coming out it must be absolutely fucking insane. As a CA taxpayer, fuck you UC for saying I shouldn't know what I'm paying for.

Trump's style will forever be "what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn," as @kenwhite.bsky.social described it, a cluttered mess of generic tacky designs covered in gold leaf, simultaneously piggish and cheap.

like a toy chihuahua barking at me from a tiny purse, that’s how much it hurts spotify.link/5CtPfZuWJXb

Chris Cillizza is one of the dumbest, most dishonest people on the planet