@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: How will you say ‘no’ to Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s cruelty? youtu.be/qC8tKxuR5Ig?...

“I do not wish to be understood, which no one seems to understand.” This is what’s missing from the book. It is a 300-page meandering navel-gaze. A Joan Didion impression from someone with nothing to say, vaguely offended that readers would *expect* her to have something to say.

Okay first of all. You have to pull off a *very particular* kind of style to write a 303-page book with zero chapters. And the unintentional subtext of this book is quite clearly, “Olivia, you are not pulling that off.”

Oh, I miss this president!

... HERE WE GO AGAIN ... NOT A WOMAN! NOT MEXICAN! NOT AN IMMIGRANT! NOT TRANSEXUAL! NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN! NOT CHINESE! NOT RUSSIAN! NOT IRANIAN! NOT ISIS NOT TALIBAN! ANOTHER BAD WHITE GUY! nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missing-virginia-high-school-football-coach-wanted-charges-child-porno-rcna245841

It’s disgusting that the criminal president eagerly awaits the next high-profile crime in Chicago so he can seize upon it as an excuse to punish a city that detests him.

"If a higher court were to resuscitate the Comey and James charges by reinstalling Halligan as some form of US attorney, she’s still stuck with the fact that these indictments are garbage. Getting Halligan back in only fixes the Halligan problem, not the indictment problem."

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

The president eats horribly, is obese and doesn’t work out. Can we jack up his rates now?

perfect encapsulation of the Trump era(s).

This is the argument for "pre-existing conditions." Like being a woman.

Trump's lawfare takes a big L "In theory, Trump could nominate someone actually qualified and bring new charges. In reality, the Venn diagram of confirmable candidates and people willing to pursue bogus indictments shows little if any overlap" www.publicnotice.co/p/trumps-law...

Trump ignores questions from reporters while leaving the White House for a long Thanksgiving weekend

If you're dead you don't pay anything.

Trump says Jared Kushner might be going to the Kremlin to meet with Putin

Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you? TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.

Q: Are you going to unveil a healthcare plan? TRUMP: I like my plan. Don't give money to the insurance companies, give it to people directly and let them go out and buy their own plan Q: Are you planning to extend ACA subsidies? T: I'd rather not but it may be necessary to get something else done

When your trial balloon gets shot down harder than Stephen Miller at a singles bar.

#GrumpyPolitics Telling troops that they must not follow unlawful orders is not sedition. It is not undermining the President. Unless the President is giving unlawful orders and knows it. In which case, he might throw a tantrum.

Utah officials say no matter what, they anticipate residents who rely on federal food stamps will receive some amount of help by the end of the month.

The Trump administration continued Monday to press the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn lower court decisions requiring the federal government pay for full benefits for a major food program, even as Congress appeared to approach an end to the record-breaking government shutdown.

Each new statement is dumber than the last.

“.. demonstrates how Mr. Trump’s handling of pardons and commutations has allowed some convicts to return to criminality.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...

Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Outside looking in…

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

‘Sign of weakness’: Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the GOP tactic of demonizing anti-Trump protests youtu.be/e4tAb2B4Fgg?...

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

Good. This will also serve as a warning to any other country looking to build/invest in the US. We are witnessing the collapse of a once great empire. Rome didn’t fall in one day…it was a series of things.

COLORADO—“someone just shot up the school mom… im so scared mom.” Text messages from a senior at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo., the site of yet another school shooting in America. #gunsicknation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Charlie Kirk emboldened hate by cloaking his beliefs as "Christian". Jesus embraced the marginalized. He was the opposite of Kirk. No Charlie should not have been murdered for his rhetoric. But he did embrace hate. And I won't martyr him.

and while i am on the subject, i don’t need to make big, plaintive bleats about how political violence isn’t the answer because i don’t call for political violence and i don’t support people who do. know who did? charlie kirk.

Trump orders flags to half mast for Charlie Kirk but wouldn't even call the Gov of Minnesota after Democratic elected officials were killed in Minnesota by a Trump supporter. Democratic lives do not matter to Trump

No, Charlie. Unregulated access to guns is NOT worth lives—not yours, not school children, not worshippers l, not concertgoers, not anyone’s. #ItsTheGuns www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

In April, Jesus Escalona Mujicas, a 48-year-old construction worker near Bryan, Texas, was grabbed, detained, and ultimately deported in shackles to Venezuela under false charges that he was a member of the Tren de Aragua gang.

#ResistanceRoots Althea Gibson was born on this day in 1927 in Clarendon Co., S.C. One of the greatest tennis players of all time, she overcame racism to rise to the pinnacle of her sport, becoming the first Black player to win a Grand Slam event, the Wimbledon women’s singles and the U.S. Open. /1

I can think of a reason or two why women might not be looking for men who spend all their time obsessing over the relative desirability of other men

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Stalin 2.0

Love Tim Walz.

In 35-page ruling, DColo judge grants class-wide (statewide) TRO against removing Venezuelans under Alien Enemy Act. Plaintiffs likely to win on argument that ACT DOES NOT APPLY. "Invasion," "predatory incursion," "foreign nation or govt" all absent here. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle. SLAVA UKRAINI🇺🇦

"The FDA is suspending a quality control program for testing milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division... Another disruption to food safety programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 HHS employees..." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The Channel Islands are one of California's greatest treasures. Yesterday, I got the chance to visit them. The exquisite beauty, the unique wildlife found only there, right off our coast. We must protect these lands for generations to come.