“President Trump on Monday bragged about passing a dementia test.” Donny thinks that the cognitive tests he’s receiving to see how much damage his recent strokes have caused are “aptitude tests.” In this same exchange he said he currently has the highest poll numbers ever. Sad.

Coming this Halloween season—the most terrifying story ever told. Ask yourself what you will do when… THERE’S A MONSTER IN THE (WHITE) HOUSE

Reagan rebukes Trump

Trump’s tariff obsession isn’t conservative and it certainly isn’t smart. It’s the product of a childish, playground-level understanding of economics. Even Ronald Reagan knew better.

"Now, I can say with absolute certainty, Thomas Jefferson would absolutely go ballistically insane if he knew about this ballroom,” says conservative historian. Jefferson understood the role of the presidential residence as a symbol of our national values. Trump only understands shiny objects.

“An injury to one is an injury to all.” Global worker solidarity is the one tool we have to defeat oligarchy at home and around the world. Join together and dump the billionaires off our backs. One Big Union

Funny that MAGA has a collective conniption when Cracker Barrel wants to modernize their sign, but Trump knocking down half the White House to build a tacky McMansion “ballroom” raises no concerns.

“Trump is feeling very threatened thanks to recent polls — including a CNBC poll showing that only 34 percent of Americans approve of his handling of inflation.” Plus, Donald is feeling sad because his disregard for the Constitution has turned millions of Americans against him. Time to get louder!

Consumer prices have risen every month since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff stunt. And ordinary American families are paying the majority of costs imposed by his tariffs. Billionaires like Trump are lining their pockets while the rest of us struggle just to get by.

“The coal miners have supplied this country with electricity, and now they’re just cast aside to die.” Trump’s championing of coal was never about saving miners’ jobs, it was about enriching himself and industry tycoons. Again and again he screws workers and hands untaxed billions to their bosses.

Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others.

Shocking news from one of America’s “war ravaged” cities.

Charlie Angus: Canada is fed up. Not only will Canadians not return to visiting the US, they are willing to take serious economic hit to stand up for their sovereignty in the face of Trump’s gangster aggression. They’re not buying US products and they’re asking retailers not to even stock them.

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

Mr. President. Stop breaking the law.  The shutdown does not give you the right to fire thousands of hard working federal employees. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to your billionaire friends, show some respect for the struggling working families of our country.

Back when all America was radical Antifa. (circa 1942).

IBOAOM hereby reaffirms the membership’s love and respect for Norway. “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said [as it gave the Peace Prize to someone who is decidedly not Donald Trump].

Pope Leo quoted Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, warning that the ideal subject of totalitarian regimes is not someone ideologically committed, but rather someone for whom “the distinction between fact and fiction, and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” Yes, Leo!

#LiberationTheology In reminding Catholics of the preferential option for the poor, Leo makes a step toward countering Trump’s use of Christianity as cover for nationalist oligarchy.

Reuters/Ipsos survey released on Wednesday found that 58% of Americans believe that the president should only send in armed forces to areas with external threats. Meanwhile, 25% said that they believed the US military could be used for other purposes and 18% said that they were not sure.

Trump’s self-serving use of Christianity as a cover for white nationalism is both un-Christian and un-American. #LiberationTheology

“Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.”

French President Macron issues a warning to European democracies that applies equally to the United States: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.” Time to wake up!

“A Trump-led deployment of federalized Guard and active-duty troops to quell a fabricated insurrection inside American cities, should only be understood as war on the American people.”

IBOAOM supports Platner. Many workers wound up voting for Trump because they had been ignored. Their votes in the past had done nothing to change the growing wealth inequality in this country and Trump duped them into thinking he would work for them. The Left needs to welcome those workers back.

Language itself already knows things that some of us still have to learn:

Toddler Trump’s bottomless psychological neediness is the enemy we are fighting: “We are not simply debating policy. We are confronting a man whose every political act is an attempt to soothe his private wounds. Exposing that truth is not a sideshow. It is part of the strategy.”

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

Wenn das kein Terrorstaat ist, weiß ich halt auch nicht.

Pope Leo, the only sane American leader on the world stage, condemns Trump’s inhumane treatment of immigrants. #LiberationTheology

Pope Leo will be encouraged to see the display of backbone by Chicago clergy standing up against the cruelty of Trump’s fake “Christian” authoritarianism. #LiberationTheology

Farewell to one of the good ones.

I have never considered myself to be telepathic. Nevertheless, I feel 100% certain that this Marine Corps major general is thinking about how easy it would be to rip Hegseth’s head off with her bare hands.

As Trump Escalates Attacks on Dissent, Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ Protests Are Set to Be Even Bigger Than Those in June “We’re going to show up in the largest peaceful protest in modern American history. Millions will come together in more cities than ever to say collectively: No kings ever in America.”

IBOAOM’s Word of the Day

Too often, we talk about homelessness as if it's natural or inevitable. The truth is that it's a political choice. When then-Gov. Cuomo cut the Advantage program rather than tax his wealthy donors, his decision sent thousands of New York families into shelters.

The Plot Thickens… Musk, Thiel And Bannon… All In The Epstein Files!!

Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged. Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.

News Flash: The spray-tanned psychopath who spray painted the Oval Office thinks James Comey is the sick one.

A true journalist

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 As it should!!! The fastest I’ve seen government work! 🤣🤣🤣

Here are two minutes of lowlights from Trump’s rambling, hour-long address to the UN General Assembly that Twitter is calling one of the most embarrassing moments in recent US history. Subscribe to zeteo.com for more.

“Pessimism about the direction of the country is growing among Republicans” James Joyce believed that history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake. This new poll offers a glimmer of hope that the American people may wake up from the Trump nightmare. Let’s hope the alarm rings in time.

After World War II, Congress recognized a need to better understand the languages and cultures of countries around the world: for national security, trade and diplomacy. The US passed the National Defense Education Act to help train students to meet that need. Trump has now killed that program.

“Donald Trump’s administration gave the United Arab Emirates access to high-powered artificial intelligence chips just days after receiving a massive investment in Trump’s cryptocurrency startup.” Trump has never once put America first. His only aim is enriching himself at any cost to the nation.