Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia

There is not a single example in American history of a president doing something like this: having a secret agenda that's incredibly, unbelievably unpopular, spending the entire campaign pretending it's fake, and then, upon winning, going "psyche!" and not just embracing it, but expanding on it.

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The Justice Department eliminated 275 positions and shuttered its Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. The restructuring affects 140 federal employees through elimination or reassignment, marking the largest DOJ reorganization in two decades reut.rs/4nxYuUg

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Doesn’t seem like there was a problem when Biden was in office to me.

Trump is planning to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers. The USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund has just $4 billion left in the account, which is not enough. Enter: tariff receipts.

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do. It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate. Always punching down

The '24 election was the final battle of World Information War I (there'll be another). Failing to defend itself, the US lost to a coalition of oligarchs, neo-Confederates, Apartheiders and neo-Nazis, and is now under a malevolent occupation government. This framing has the most explanatory power.

28/ I wrote about William Wolfe last year for @buckscountybeacon.com.

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

A literal sociopath.

SEXUAL CHOCOLATE! 😂

Thread of writings about Vought before the election. It does help to know these sorts of specifics. Senate still chose to confirm him even after the told them he planned to ignore their appropriations bills. bsky.app/profile/donm...

KIMMEL: “That sonofabitch… I never imagined we’d have a president like this, and I hope we never have another president like this again… celebrating hundreds of Americans losing their jobs - he took pleasure in that. The opposite of what a leader is supposed to be.”

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Good Thursday morning and a new list of shakedowns by the Trump regime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

That slow marinade in Elon’s Twitter will really do things to your brain

Oh nothing just the president reposting “Qanon76”

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

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From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

Reincarnated

But also we’re terrified of the subway

They didn’t drain the swamp. They sold VIP tickets to it.

New York will see you in court, Russ.

A lot of us believed Pete Hegseth hated women even before he was confirmed. We weren’t wrong. Quotes on women in the military: • In a 2024 interview, Hegseth stated that "Women shouldn't be in combat at all. They're life-givers, not life-takers" 1/3

let the gourd times roll

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

A must read. @kschake.bsky.social is no alarmist and looks at questions analytically, and this is her take of Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Per message shared w/ me: The State Department just notified certain staff they are to work during the shutdown because their job is "necessary for emergencies involving the safety of human life" or "essential to national security" Except…some people who got this were laid off weeks ago in the RIF!

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

Funding for infrastructure projects is not a political pawn. New Yorkers reject this asinine, authoritarian move. And we will not back down.

This is the dumbest poll question ever. Try polling the question, "Should the Republicans shut down the government in order to make sure families' insurance premiums go up by 75%?"

'He was happy!' House Dem aghast at Mike Johnson's reaction to people losing health care www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

Oh this is good

Of course they did.

We won't have an official September jobs report number from BLS for a while (maybe ever), but this ADP private sector figure does not include the ~150,000 federal workers who took delayed layoffs at the end of September nor does it include any shutdown-related layoffs implemented by the White House.

Read this one sentence from Zohran Mamdani: “I will be a mayor who doesn’t bow down to corporate interests, doesn’t take his orders from billionaires, and sure as hell doesn’t let ICE steal our neighbors from their homes." It's the perfect rebuttal to "Trump's authoritarianism is a distraction."