Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Q: What is Trump’s plan for antifa? A: He will create the organization, and then destroy it.

Do people realize that Trump and Miller are creating so many valid civil causes of action that taxpayers will be paying billions of dollars—if not tens of billions—to their innocent victims and their families over the next 25 years? America will be digging itself out of a hole for decades to come.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

I just went to the Portland 🧊 facility. Here's what's happening:

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

American businesses will idle in neutral until he is gone.

Every day now, something new makes me question reality.

Here is video taken by an employee, caught outdoors when the shooting started, crouching behind a stone retaining wall Content warning: gun shots, obviously

I'm giving up on the mainstream media they're not reporting the important news anymore! 🤨💙👇🏼

(🧵) I wanted to briefly post about the delay in publishing PROOF OF DEVILRY, the 7th book in the bestselling Proof Series. Most importantly, I want to underscore that the book is indeed coming out, and coming out this month. And it will be longer, deeper, and more damning than I originally thought.

@raskin.house.gov on why Biden didn't release the Epstein files: "The DOJ under Biden brought the prosecution against Maxwell, so obviously Biden wasn't trying to suppress anything. The GOP stories make no sense. They say Biden & Obama made this stuff up about Trump but then they never released it?"

This one's important. Debunk their BS!

I don't quote post much, but this is bad.

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

This photo hits hard.

So, rapid inflation is the game, then?

Trump backed down. This is a win. It's what happens when we fight back.

"All the Dachaus must remain standing—the Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes—all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled their reason, their logic ... (1/3)

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Check. Check. Check. Right down the list.

Excellent post

One week to raise grocery prices. 🤷‍♂️

So how’s it going so far?

How they won.

The best metaphor is of two parents competing for the affection of a child and one does the right thing for the child's health, the other lies to the child, lets them eat like sht, doesn't make them attend school, or do anything the kid doesn't want to do.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Tie this with October 2023, when Trump said on multiple occasions to his followers that they wouldn't have to vote, that "we already have the votes".

WOW.

Someone please explain MAGA women to me. And this is how I’m going to feel the next 4 years:

It’s so bad. My friends...it’s so bad. What these men—we know their names—have planned for us is a nightmare come to life. As ever, I have recorded its known contours with exhaustive sourcing. The simple version is that Musk says he wants to save humanity, but he’s plunging us into utter darkness.

Facts.

It’s amazing to me that politicians don’t commit to post first on @bsky.app and to engage with constituents here THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be. You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion. Which is more powerful?

Welcome to the worst-case scenario. Truth is now meaningless, owned by MAGA.

"The tragic irony is that Trump will inherit a thriving economy, which he’ll claim he restored to its pre-2020 greatness through sheer force of will, and neither the media nor even his fellow Dems are likely to spend much time defending Biden’s record."

THIS. Spot on, God!

Everything is dumb and terrible, and it's gonna be dumb and terrible for a while. It’s important to do what you can to make it less dumb and terrible, and it's important to find a way make some contentment for yourself in spite of everything being dumb and terrible.

Republicans have been shamelessly polluting the planet for 60 years and still have the lying asshole energy to blame wildfires on Black people having jobs.

Amazing to see the truth spelled out so clearly by NYT after elex: "no American troops at war...murders are way down, illegal immigration...has fallen...unemployment is near its historic best. Domestic energy production is higher..." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u... Confirms these broader points:

"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed...The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…"

I’m sorry, Panama

This is the vibe I've been trying to shake since election day.

This is... actually a fairly reasonable takeaway from this year.