It’s more than just bad priorities. It’s about lack of basic decency.

For Trump, the pardons are not a one-off. They are a central pillar of his emerging kakistocracy. They are his instruments of immunity and impunity. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

it's hard to Nazi what's going on here

“Trump’s talent is finding wormholes in the system that he can exploit for his own satisfaction or financial gain — things that are not specifically outlawed because it never occurred to the founders or anyone else that a lowlife could rise so high.” - Maureen Dowd www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

They are nothing more than a violent street gang - being financed by the government.

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Given what Miller’s threat to arrest Pritzker for seditious conspiracy, I ask again:

Just so I'm understanding correctly Trump has, again, taken power of the purse from Congress to somehow fund the military with money from....who? Why would Trump ever want Congress to come back? With Congress essentially ruling itself out he's getting his authoritarianism on autopilot.

Priorities.

If there’s one thing we *know* the median MAGA voter was animated by when they voted for Trump in November 2024, it was the creation of more spaces for rich people to do ballroom dancing

Trump is furious because Canada went over his head and just made their case with Americans directly. It’s what everyone should do.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Donald the Destroyer

Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.

Brought to you by the same voters who started losing faith in the government when government forces attacked the Branch Davidian complex in Waco in 1993 ....sigh

The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House. Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.

There never was any ceasefire. The whole thing was a scam to try to get Trump an international peace prize whose winner—as surely they should have known—had already been selected prior to the 48 hours during which the scam unfolded.

The legendary singer blasted Trump’s bulldozing of the White House for his ballroom renovations and described it as a symbol of democracy’s “destruction.”

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

NO. We are going to ENDURE living here. In New AmeriKKKa, you will only be free to agree.

Imagine what they'd be shouting if Biden - or any other Democrat - had done this. Gutless fucking cowards, indeed.

Buy 2 cryptos and call me in the morning…

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. There is no more "center" anymore, despite what pundits say. Watch.

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another." William Gibson #quote #qotd

Please spread this. The more people participate. The greater the impact.

This is a perfect visual metaphor for what he is doing to the country.

"Yes, yes, it *is* sad that you lost the family farm, but have you heard about the big beautiful ballroom that President Trump is building at the White House? It's going cost a quarter of a billion dollars! Yes, billion, with a b. ... What? ... No, you can't come see it. What a stupid question."

one of those east coast media bias stories. if new jersey shut down 95 after the military wanted to fire artillery over the highway despite safety concerns from the governor and then some of it accidentally blew up, i think it'd be a bigger story.

So I guess bragging about ending the war in Gaza was a bit premature...

Okay I cannot stop laughing at this one

Wait a minute...I thought they love old white people who can't dance.

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

You had me at grotesque.

@meidastouch.com One of the Meidas Mighty in Knoxville, TN.

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.

#NoKings All around the country, in fact the world, people are in the streets. I am one of them. I'm VERY proud to be an American today. @indivisible.org

My heart is full! Cary NC has turned out spectacularly for No Kings!!

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

Republicans said this was a “Hate America” rally but it looks like the participants were just not very good at hating America.

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

Murphy: We are not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. But Trump has not won.

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

Weingarten: There are so many people who want to fight for our democracy and say no kings. And what I have just been told, that in New York City, there are more people at Times Square than there are on New Year's Eve