Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.

Last year, a once-in-a-generation flood of funding was poised to create new city parks & expand access to green space nationwide. Cuts & policy shifts by the Trump administration have sidelined park funding and put financial pressure on park budgets www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

More great work from Propublica.

Articles like this are why I support ProPublica.

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Every single Trump trade negotiation:

Brian Beutler spelled this out here— www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem... —and it's been haunting me ever since. This shady shit from the Roberts crew will handcuff the next Dem administration unless Dems start laying the groundwork now for serious SCOTUS reform—and follow through on it.

Same. Wipe everything he's built off the landscape.

I reeaaallly hope some patriots in the SEC and DOJ are quietly, privately keeping track of all the crimes that will need to be investigated.

Area developer finally gets his wish: the ability to fire all the inspectors. 🤡 @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

What an appalling abdication of principle. There's no such thing as a clean CR in this environment—Trump and Vought have arbitrarily ended programs and gutted agencies. And Kelley wants the Dems to agree to continue that? How does that help his members? www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

If Democrats shy away from progressive positions to please Fox News, Fox News just says they’re left wing radicals anyway. So the voters they’re chasing turn away and the younger progressive voters are turned off too. The consultants make a lot of money though!

Great point in this short 🧵. Accountability for these criminals is vital for many reasons.

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

"A criminal madman who is ineligible to be president is literally and symbolically ripping out the core of American democracy, and replacing it with a hideously gaudy monstrosity, where he will collect billions in bribes."

If all these public figures who whisper anonymously about how they are very upset would stand up together, Trump wouldn't have enough people to punish them all. (Baitball theory!) Meanwhile, federal employees with way fewer resources than these people are risking their livelihoods by speaking out.

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

A not insignificant number of people knew the demolition was coming, including people at the White House Historical Association, and did nothing to stop it.

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

as society collapses into a dystopian hell, think of the satisfaction you'll derive from looking back at the cartoons that predicted a lot of it. Time is running out to reserve your copy though. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Every word of this. Miller, Trump, and Hegseth need to be charged with murder, here or in Colombia or at the ICC.

What are red flags to normal people are green lights to Trumpists. I'm honestly shocked that they sent home the ones who failed the open-book exam on "when officers can and can’t conduct searches and seizures"—following the law sure doesn't seem like a top concern for ICE.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

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!!!!!

Yes yes yes yes! It infuriates me to think we'll have to spend taxpayer money fixing what Trump spent taxpayer money destroying—so, as much as possible, let's not! Make Trump and his whole grifting family pay for it!

Awful: Trump's $230 million shakedown from DOJ can be paid to him confidentially at first, without the public ever finding out about it until later, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Raskin will formally demand full communications between WH and DOJ on this. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2021...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

this is kind of peak incel. by day, race war and fascism; when nom gets in trouble, mom calls the principal

I keep wondering why this is quite so shocking and it really is the obvious that he’s visibly desecrating our history in a horribly irreversible way, on top of all the other less visible ways

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

this fucking son of a bitch

Right: he's treating Treasury accounts like slush funds to pay military personnel, he's buying luxury jets for cabinet members with our $$, he's using state power to extort bribes to fund his stupid ballroom, and now he wants to help himself to a 9-figure sum while fed workers aren't getting paid.

No one has stopped him yet, so sure, why not demand almost a quarter-billion taxpayer dollars go into his pocket? As long as the cowards in Congress keep letting him, he'll keep grabbing power and money and making wilder and wilder demands.

Also note how Rep Adam Smith connects bombings to troops in cities: "How far are we away from Trump deciding to use the US military to do a kinetic strike on people within the US because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?" newrepublic.com/article/2019...

New in PN: No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response. "Calling this movement 'No Kings' turns out to have been a stroke of genius, because Trump’s response was to essentially say *Yeah, I’m the king — and because I’m the king, I can poop on people!*"

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

Yep. At my local protest in a smaller city, the vast majority of signs were about fascism, ICE, and generally how we love this country and do not want a king and especially not this particular wannabe king.

Absolutely vile. And another of their actions that, intentionally or not, will make it harder to govern the country and keep us all safe once these psychos are kicked out. What person anywhere in the world would trust the US gov't to protect them in exchange for vital information?

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Hell yeah

One reason your electricity bills will go up: simple laws of supply and demand, as data centers dump huge demand obligations onto local utilities without bringing their own supply to the grid. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hilarious that Republicans are calling “No Kings” anti-America when the whole point of the United States of America is literally NO KINGS.

Heat waves, droughts, floods, and extreme weather affect the economy and the financial system. Ignoring the risks doesn't make them go away.

utterly depressing that Nixon-level scandals are now a normal Friday night news drop, barely remarked upon, just another day in Trump’s America