For every fascist authoritarian, there was a Chamberlain who tried appeasement, or a Schumer who opted for stern letters over dogged resistance. Fascism thrives in the face of timid opposition. This is why voters are desperate for candidates who will truly challenge Trump and the oligarchs.

Apparently Blackhawk pajamas guy is the Cook County Prosecutor. There’s a good lesson here. He says he imagined ahead of time how he would respond. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

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.

So what would stop Trump from waking up in the middle of the night, saying "fuck it," and ordering that the rest of the White House be torn down and replaced with a tall golden tower in the shape of a T? abcnews.go.com/Politics/his...

"The irreversible gravity of killing, coupled with the lack of a substantive legal justification, is bringing into sharper view a structural weakness of law as a check on the American presidency." { gift link } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

it's important to remember the people doing this aren't "just following orders," they signed up to do this, they're excited to do it, it's what they want to be doing, and each one of them is personally culpable for the entirety of ICE's conduct

Another full Reagan radio address on tariffs and destructivism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKR...

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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

The president doesn’t have a constitutional right to impose a tariff because he doesn’t like a foreign country’s TV ad. I know this doesn’t matter to the dictator in the White House, but I thought I’d point it out in case we ever start following the Constitution again.

This isn't chaos. It's a plan. The defunding of the NEA, the gutting of the NEH, and the capture of the Kennedy Center are straight from the Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025' playbook. Read my latest TIME article to see why this cultural attack demands our attention.

The Pentagon is pissed about "A House of Dynamite," and claims its missile interceptors have a 100 percent accuracy rate. There's no such thing as a "100% accuracy." That's aimed squarely at Trump, so that he'll go ahead and dump money into "Golden Dome." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yep, it’s the food stamps.

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Imagine what would have happened if Biden or Obama sent masked goons into deep red neighborhoods in Texas or Florida and they started grabbing people off the street and teargassing anyone who objected

A panel of US judges has rejected an effort by the Trump administration to delay court rulings on claims by veterans who say they have been unfairly denied disability benefits and other compensation @fpwellman.bsky.social @rogerzenaf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The actor, whose career spanned films, TV dramas and soap operas, was beloved for her roles in "Lassie" and "Lost In Space." She died on Thursday of natural causes, a family friend said.

"I feel like ICE is targeting Black and Brown people, breaking up families, and creating fear in our neighborhoods. Instead of protecting us, they criminalize us."

Thank you, Chicago.

Perhaps there’s a reason that the Constitution doesn’t leave the powers over taxation and foreign commerce to the whims of one man. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

The Art of the Steal by a brilliant artist.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sorry, but it *is* unnerving. I agree with @rieckhoff.bsky.social that this idea that the military is Trump's personal muscle, and should kill anyone he points at, should be among the biggest stories in America right now.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Trump’s 2028 Power Grab Steve Bannon says the quiet part out loud! MAGA is revealing the supervillain plot, telling the world Trump isn't leaving. What is the majority prepared to do to save our democracy? thelefthook.substack.com/p/trumps-202...

This man was part of a coalition of Reagan-era apartheid apologists who opposed U.S. opening talks with the African National Congress which he called a terrorist org. He has been a right wing activist for decades. His son was part of the Jan 6th mob and was convicted (later pardoned by Trump). 1/

This really was one of my main takeaways

Threatening to arrest governors for seditious conspiracy. Getting dark fast.

It's official: Trump is insane All these events he claims happened in 2020 - when none of these people were in any position of power and when Trump, not Biden, was president There are no documents, just the things Crazy Trump hallucinates

look i'm going to be real with you, i do not think deploying into chicago suburbs is going to end up working out well for the admin in the court of public opinion www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...

CBS been cooked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Enough with the passive constructions. When authorities shoot people, say so. This New York Times headline could have easily said, “Coast Guard Police Shoot 2 People at Protest Site Outside Base in California.”

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Watch this. Open your eyes to this brutality. ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man. Now share this. Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back. You have power. Even sharing this video exerts that power.

I am looking forward to this hearing. It will provide an excellent opportunity to remind people of all the reasons why Donald Trump should he serving a long federal prison term.

“Although I spent many of my formative years living in the White House, I always knew it wasn’t my house. It was my home, absolutely, but not my house. The White House belongs to the American people, and that’s why we call it the People’s House.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

This stone is actually at the FDR Memorial. Even so, I hope the next lawfully elected president, should we ever have another, pursuant to and in accordance with a statute duly enacted by a functioning Congress, should we ever have another, will have it permanently displayed in the Oval Office.

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.

There he goes again

Also, could someone provide me some evidence he's not just printing money? Or writing checks he can't otherwise cash? This reminds me of this www.businessinsider.com/fec-trump-20...

Just so I'm understanding correctly Trump has, again, taken power of the purse from Congress to somehow fund the military with money from....who? Why would Trump ever want Congress to come back? With Congress essentially ruling itself out he's getting his authoritarianism on autopilot.

Yup. Trump is NOT consolidating all this power so he and the MAGA faction can give it up in 2028. That is not how authoritarians work. They consolidate power to crack down on their opponents and then KEEP themselves in power. www.mediaite.com/media/podcas...