Oh so everyone‘s an expert on how to rob the Louvre now

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

Just as you can not pick and choose when history starts to suit your own ends, once you set something big & awful in motion you cannot simply expect to halt it when it approaches your own moral limit of awfulness or ceases to serve your self-interest.

Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A

In exchange for getting to house migrants in El Salvador's notorious prison, the Trump administration agreed to give up top MS-13 cooperators, "a key step in hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation" into the Salvadoran government's relationship with the gang. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

What's up Bluesky, this is the Department of State and we're here to post some Hatch Act violations

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

President Trump's tariffs will cost businesses more than $1.2 trillion this year, with most of that cost being passed on to customers, according to a new study from S&P Global.

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

A state senator and people in their 30s or 40s aren’t kids. apnews.com/article/vanc...

A Crushing Year for Science in America (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/c...

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane. @acyn.bsky.social

I hope every team he enjoys loses from bad calls.

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

Great work comparing the journalistic mission statements from Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC: www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Never ceases to amaze me that living to or past 100 years of age is something an American adult would want. Or that reporters think they should spend time on. time.com/7322647/long...

As far as normalization efforts go, it’s hard to top Axios’ repeated framing of Trump’s actions as “accelerating a trend.”

2024: The Year of Uncritical American Election Stenography apnews.com/article/trum...

Others say the problem is that low-skilled immigrants are a drain on the public purse. But there is just as much xenophobia now in the US where the public safety net is minimal and people are most angry about illegal immigrants, who generally pay taxes but use almost no public services. 5/9

Fundamentalist Christians who are pro-life, but anti-humanist. WWJD? Imprison people for illegal residency. apnews.com/article/vati...

Rarely seen photos that painstakingly document the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 serve as a reminder of the limitations of authoritarian solutions.

News media faithfully reports how many people have been killed with firearms in the United States, while American voters and politicians faithfully do nothing in response. apnews.com/article/immi...

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

“[T]oday’s autocrats convert public institutions into political weapons, using law enforcement, tax and regulatory agencies to punish opponents and bully the media and civil society…the systematic abuse of an incumbent’s power tilts the playing field against the opposition.” archive.is/XetLz

Republicans run the White House, Congress and Supreme Court on the principle that the only role Dems can play is bailing the GOP out from facing the consequences of their own actions. They expect Dems to clean up after them and save them from voters’ blame, and sadly some Dems want to do just that.

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

#RuleOfLaw 🇺🇸

"nearly half of the early posts"

Is…the New York Times complaining about unprecedentedness? They were a company newspaper in October 2024. What did they think was going to happen with him in office, short of disaster? Turning on the siren far too late. Complacent assholes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

I held this post up to the light.

He fell short in the trait of "honest loyalty." Emphasis on the loyalty. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

That kind of thing must be illegal in countries with representative democracies. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/w...

The future is more stupid than I thought it would be.

The release of the video showing Tom Homan rejecting the $50k bribe from FBI agents has been scheduled alongside the release of Trump’s health care plan and news of all the successful trade deals, both of which will be released in two weeks.

I haven’t watched…ever? Except for YouTube & social media clips. Giving his show attention is an acknowledgment of my relief that comedians are not being censored over political comments. apnews.com/article/jimm...

Wie Antifa nach Europa kam

Cool who paid for the trip?

The US government and especially the State Dept are now fine with this kind of thing apnews.com/article/char...

Silly progressives, who thought a descent into authoritarianism would look a certain way. It's both more random & corrupt than you surmised. "It would be awful to live in interesting times, but, fortunately, we don’t." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Having spent last week in Ukraine, 2 impressions stand out: 1. The US is out, providing no assistance whatsoever, but Ukrainians are diplomatically not complaining. 2. Physically, Ukraine can produce all the arms they need, but to do so they need financing from Europe.

This American misses the normalcy of the Biden presidency. Too many voters took our system of government for granted.

After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger

Radio killed the newspaper star Video killed the radio star Livestreaming killed the video star youtu.be/W8r-tXRLazs?...

This American doesn't see the lessons of the Watergate political scandal, and the reforms enacted afterwards, the same way I did when I was younger. Do you?

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The discourse on here is about what it usually is. Not measured, not deliberative, which is why I prefer slowly-written news.

Cha-ching for the other offspring. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...