These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social: "All of them know what [Trump's] saying is ridiculous. Not one of them had the presence of mind to be like, dude you are one dumb motherfucker... Part of me is like, when do we say the emperor has no clothes?"

Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."

Fired for refusing to fabricate evidence to help get someone else fired. That’s where we are.

This will be called "evidence of consciousness of guilt" in subsequent criminal trials.

I talked on MSNBC today about the corruption playing out at the FCC. This isn't just about Jimmy Kimmel being silenced. The FCC is planning to change the rules to allow the company that shut down Kimmel to have a monopoly-like stake in local TV ownership.

The fight goes on to save health care for millions of people. Here's what just happened in the Senate.

The Trump effect

Donald Trump and his handpicked FCC chair, Brendan Carr, just made satire a crime. WATCH THIS 📺 : https://youtu.be/6i9jIQ4J2v8

Trump will come for all of us. He will bar organizations that criticize him. Intimidate critics for speaking negatively about the administration in public. He will turn the power of the Department of Justice to investigate any organization or person who opposes him and his administration.

He finally got his revenge against the man who asked him if he was up past his jail time. Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles. #StandWithTheSurvivors

Damn right!!

Hernan Escobar was on his way to work when ICE agents sideswiped his car, shattered his window, and refused to identify themselves.   Like so many in Malden, I am disgusted that this systematic terror has made its way into our community. We will get answers, and we will get justice.

ICE is targeting community members with no criminal record. Agents are sitting outside of churches and schools. Driving unmarked vans and breaking car windows. These violent ICE arrests don't make us safer — they intentionally stoke fear and tear communities apart.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Friday said he wants Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, removed because two Democratic Senators voted to confirm him to the position. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Republicans know that if they have to face voters on their record, they’ll lose. Proud to stand with Hoosier Democrats yesterday to say politics doesn’t have to be about these absurd games. It should be about you, and about making everyday life better.

NEW: Trump said he wants Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, removed because two Democrats voted to confirm him in Congress. Siebert is overseeing two high-profile investigations into two Trump foes: Letitia James and James Comey.

After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

📽️VIDEO EXPLAINER: Marc Elias breaks down everything you need to know about Trump and Republicans’ plan to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections. What can we do to stop them? Check out Marc’s latest video to learn more👇 youtu.be/7PXQfDHr9Aw

His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered. Matthew Boedy reveals Turning Point’s deep connections to a shadowy Christian nationalist movement.

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

Nancy Mace is sharing the text of a House resolution targeting Ilhan Omar in which her interview with me and Zeteo is cited by name but they can’t actually provide any quotes from Omar to support their case against her. The only other thing they have is a video she reposted. But nothing from her.

NEWS: Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, a few of their writers, and Penguin Random House, seemingly because they published things about him he didn’t like.

Even Donald Trump’s top IRS nominees can’t explain how his “Big Beautiful Bill” makes any sense.

NEW: Less than a week after conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Trump administration is exploiting the tragedy to escalate its anti-democratic crackdown on progressive activism — even vowing to “destroy” philanthropic groups. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

Yes, Mr. Trump. We should keep the government open. - Stop health care costs from soaring up to 75% - Save 15 million people from losing health care - Rescind $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top 1% Listen to the needs of the American people. Don't shut down the government.

NEW: Each year, roughly 27 million Americans become “inactive voters” due to an address or name changes, losing their voter registration. This makes prioritizing voter registration more important than ever. Here’s how we can fight back👇

Under Trump, FDA seeks to abandon expert reviews of new drugs www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

The great thing about Labor Day weekend when we didn't hear from him is we had a pleasant respite from hearing him say idiotic things.

"Unlike others, I will not pretend to offer solutions or even a proper diagnosis of how we arrived at this moment. Here’s what I can say with certainty: the threats of more violence and of more extreme responses increase with every passing day," writes @marcelias.bsky.social.

"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024 ( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )

For the past seven months, Trump has demonized those who fight for democracy and weaponized the government against them. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...

“It seems like a blessing from the highest levels of government and the highest positions of power for vigilantes or those who are extremely upset about what happened to Charlie Kirk to go out and take some sort of vengeance or retribution on those that they see as responsible..."

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The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.

Yes, quite.

When @fastlerner.bsky.social reported in April that the EPA was going to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data from most polluters, it wouldn't admit it was eliminating the requirements. Today it announced the change, saying it's "cutting unnecessary red tape" & "unleashing American energy."

1. Azerbaijan hasn't been at war with Albania. Trump confuses Albania with Armenia. But he wants credit, a Nobel Prize, for ending a war in which he can't identify the parties. 2. The Fox hosts are too ignorant or too sycophantic to correct him. 3. Imagine if Biden had said this.

NEWS: A court just told Trump he can DEFUND Planned Parenthood while they review their case. In the meantime, 200 Planned Parenthood centers could close. How many people will be denied cancer screenings, birth control, and STI testing? Millions. It's horrific.

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seems like—I know this sounds crazy, but let me just quickly throw it out there, on the remote chance there might be something to it—a pattern

“Patel’s handling of the Kirk investigation is a reminder that the skill set required to succeed as an influencer is not the same as what is required to effectively run the FBI. It’s not just amateur hour at the FBI, but influencer hour”

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.