I understand why Democratic consultant brain (the worst kind of brain!) says you should pick "health care" over "democracy." But a skilled politicians can do both -- make it clear that the destruction of the White House and the destruction of Obamacare are really the same thing!

I believe this is in retaliation for the No Kings protests; simply a temper tantrum writ very large from our infant king.

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”

Yup. It's really the perfect metaphor for all his crimes: Abuse of process Open corruption Destruction of the notion of "public" Bad taste All during a government shutdown necessitated by tax cut for some of the zillionaires who paid for the ball room.

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Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

You know, whatever else there is to say about DC comics firing me, I have to say it felt deeply satisfying to tell a suit, "I get it, it's important to keep the faceless mob of Nazis happy"

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Q: Has Speaker Johnson reached out to you since the January 6er made a threat on your life? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has accused Trump of murdering his citizens. I agree. This is criminal and it must stop now.

The only thing your defense of Nazis is gonna get you is people staying home in 2028.

food stamps are being cut off and people are being disappeared overall its just a bad time in the US but particularly for its usual targets

It is illegal to display his tattoo in public in Germany. It is not illegal to display the Jolly Roger. It is literally the joke in the "are we the baddies" clip. From the meme. youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY?...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

if his attitude from the jump has been "I did this as a kid and have been ashamed of it since, it was a terrible mistake" I don't think I'd mind. but he's just not being honest here and that's suspicious as hell.

i liked how Platner was campaigning and I am prepared to believe a young marine could make literally any stupid mistake. but I don't believe a guy could spend twenty years maturing politically the way he has and not know what a death's head means www.pressherald.com/2025/10/21/g...

ok i dont get affordable healthcare or even affordable food but at least i get a ballroom 3,000 miles away

I am a leftist! Who supported Platner up until recently! I am not a DNC schill. Just a few days ago DNC heads on here were blasting me for pointing out Mills' age. Enough of the tribalism, 2016 was 9 years ago!

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Whether you believe that today he’s a misogynist and rape apologist and Nazi or think maybe all that was in his past, what we’ve definitively learned is that he’s willing to lie to his constituents to try and get votes. If you’re doing that before day 1 even happens, you can’t be trusted.

It could actually make for an interesting candidate. One who is like, I know who those vile evil men are who run this country are because I used to be one and I have done the massive amounts of work required to change and grow and I know how to fight them now But instead he was like “Nazi whoopsie”

It would be hard to find a better metaphor for what he’s doing to the United States. That House is ours, not his.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

I can't even replace windows on my house without permission. This lunatic is tearing down the East Wing of the WHITE HOUSE without approval from the National Capital Planning Commission.

By this logic, Trump should be able to deploy the military today—in Portland and many other cities—to address conduct that occurred during the 2020 protests over the police killing of George Floyd. That’s clearly not the right reading of the law. 9/23

This makes me sick. That’s our House, our history. The fact that it happened today stinks of retribution for Saturday.

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

I keep pointing out that by lowering the bar for prosecuting former FBI Directors, Kash signed his own arrest warrant, but under Trump, not AOC or whoever.

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

It’s fun to be a Republican when you can just make shit up

i love "no kings" especially because its making the gop do a batshit crazy argument of "no actually we like kings"

Some news outlets played coy, calling it “brown liquid” or “sewage.” But let’s call it like it is, because it matters that the holder of an office that once required a bit of dignity thinks dropping shit on the heads of the people he’s supposed to represent is funny. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

A lot of wealthy and powerful people helped Epstein fund his sex trafficking operation. The American people deserve to know who they are. Secretary Bessent, like his boss, is covering it up. I’m going to keep following the money. Stay tuned.

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

The American people deserve to know what JPMC’s role is here. Instead, Jamie Dimon blew off my questions, claiming that one employee was singlehandedly responsible for maintaining the bank’s ties to Epstein:

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

speaking of the ACA, I'm so old I can remember when Joe Lieberman killed the public option, and Ezra Klein accused him of being "willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score," and the entire DC media fainted simultaneously

“what point was he trying to make” feels like a pretty obvious follow up question

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

So breaking all our institutions and norms, from the government to our economy to universities, is actually a great plan for them; it reduces the competition for their new, shaky parallel institutions.

America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves. If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens. Yes, we are the baddies.

this is Platner's apology video. He pretty unequivocally condemns and repudiates his past statements in general; he doesn't talk about any of them specifically. www.tiktok.com/@grahamforma...

I would ideally like to see him address each thing and explain why it's wrong and/or how he came to change his mind. I know why he doesn't want to do that...but still.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...