To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

By our count, Donald Trump and his administration committed forty-nine more atrocities last month. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sep...

lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.” For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution. Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.

Keep this in mind. There is absolutely no pretense of knowing who they’re grabbing, so there’s no way they’re targeting criminals. ICE is just abducting people & if they can deporting them before their families even know what happened.

They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad -- that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."

I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.

Wanna see a dead body?

Again, the lessons from the US exist. Even down the insipid, genocide supporting centrist facing off against a media-made, nativist shill for plutogarchs. And yet nothing will change the course of the ship of state, ineluctably fated to become one with the iceberg. bsky.app/profile/avde...

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

I think it's because some actually love it, they want it to happen. Even if it harms them, they want it so they can watch the people they hate suffer more. These are some seriously sick motherfuckers.

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

🚨 Charles Pierce on the GOP gutting the VRA: “It dies at the hands of people who profane 🇺🇸’s best instincts by seeking to return to its worst impulses.” Ensuring minorities having voice is only seen as a threat by those who want to silence it. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

boys will be boys! sometimes kids say edgy things online! it's what kids do!

We waited 20 years for John Bolton to be punished for telling lies about Iraq. Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.

"they called the 75 million of you who voted for kamala terrorists? was it terrorism when you supported health care? terrorism when you supported abortion rights? terrorism when you opposed racism and sexism and the right of every kid to food and education?" shit writes itself.

So let me get this shit straight. Y'all are... (checks notes)... pro-fascism and pro-king?

this is the kind of statement highlighting why i criticize dems and say they need to adopt modern comms. this comment should be repeated on the social media for every congressional dem and denounced in press releases from them all. its not even ideological. blue dogs and super lefties can agree.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

What's the popularist answer to this point?

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

USAID annual budget in 2024: $44 billion

Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID? And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina. Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.

Just admitting the corruption out loud and in public. These fucks think they’re never leaving power.

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

We should hold Nuremberg-style trials in it first, then tear it down

Trampling the law and usurping the power of the purse and taking bribes to make the White House into a garish royal palace isn't an incidental triviality. It goes to the core of our republican national symbolism for what the presidency is. Repudiating his notion of it means tearing that trash down.

Yeah keep the shutdown going forever. Not paying for this

This man is a corpse that is still breathing and tweeting racist bile. It’s clear his cabinet and advisors are just lying to him constantly. Who is actually POTUS?

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

“One day very soon Reingold is going to wake up and have to confront the fact that one of the few friends she has left in the world is an elderly colleague who is really excited about AI actresses because they will allow him to finally "see a virgin on-screen." That's tough.”

It turns out that making things more expensive makes them more expensive.

"Everything they do is extremely violent." Greta Thunberg on Israel:

Democrats brains are broken “Should we rally behind these wildly popular candidates that are drawing huge crowds and speaking to the immediate concerns of their voters? Or should we go with the many-times-over failed strategy of “electability”?”

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

Look at these evil motherfucking Nazis

Of all the things that didn’t happen

My focus group disapproved of Donald Trump's language and behavior, but all agreed you vote for the policy, not the person. Here are the things they said a Democrat would have to do—from the way they dress to the way they talk—in order to inspire them to vote for them.

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death