What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

This enrages me. Honestly, you should just roll up the paper, throw it in the trash can, and join the White House Office of Communications if this is what you’re going to do these days.

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.

Malignant narcissists often destroy what other people love. When they do, they’re acting out of pathological envy. They have a need for absolute control and a desire for sadistic pleasure. They intentionally engage in destruction to cause suffering in order to reinforce their sense of superiority.

80 year old former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested in March of this year, charged with crimes against humanity for dozens of murders during his 2011-2019 anti-drug campaign of extrajudicial killings. Duterte is currently awaiting trial at The Hague. bsky.app/profile/atru...

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

I feel like it would probably be a good idea to put Elon Musk in prison for life *before* he builds an enormous robot army under his personal control. Attempting to do it after seems like it could be somewhat harder. Due to the enormous robot army under his personal control.

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

Placing enormously corrupt violent morons in charge of the world's largest economy and second biggest nuclear weapons arsenal may prove in hindsight to've not been an entirely prudent decision on the part of the American electorate.

Ol' America does look like it's got itself lined up neat & square to get to plummetin' into a depression the likes of which ain't been seen for nigh on a century. bsky.app/profile/chuc...

These costs are sucking chest wounds to the average American, and will be impossible to weather. This, alongside the AI bubble, the housing market bubble, the loss of jobs, encroaching inflation, and every other batshit thing Trump does, will lend itself to a cataclysmic cascading failure.

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

Not to be cringe, but I'm surprised I am emotional seeing the East Wing demolition. My first job in DC was interning and going to meetings there regularly. I learned everything about it while giving guided tours. The beauty of the East Wing is that everyone can go there. It's America's house.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

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a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

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

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken. Story tk.

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

I keep seeing headlines about US MARSHAL SHOT BY ICE but this buries the lede. ICE shot multiple people including a witness filming them attempt to abduct someone AND all of this happened outside of a school

Americans voted - **willingly voted** - for a fascist dictator President. It's exceedingly unlikely they're going to be able to vote him / his successors out of office now, should they grow disenchanted with being ruled by neo-Nazis and decide they'd like to give democracy another try.

Seeing the destruction of the White House makes me emotional because Trump is so visibly flaunting the absence of constraints to his abuse of authority. He’s tearing down parts of the People’s House to construct a massive fascist temple where people will come to pay tribute to him. It’s grotesque.

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable. Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?

I’m going to say it again: members of Congress need to draft articles & talk publicly & loudly about the case for treason. Trump told generals on camera in person: the campaign in U.S. cities is a WAR. The military needs to hear it laid out for them, how serious this is. Write for them, not the GOP.

North Carolina already one of most gerrymandered states. Now GOP passing new gerrymander giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Dem Don Davis. This is preview of what post-Voting Rights Act America will look like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

$40 billion to Argentina’s right-wing government. The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

When the generals wanted to take over in Chile in 1973, they had jets bomb the presidential palace. Leave it to a third-rate American real-estate developer to use bulldozers instead.

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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

I'm all for suspending disbelief but mannnn there were multiple points in the new Frankenmovie where I was plain not able to.

Seems like kind of a problem if you have free and fair elections but the majority of your citizenry are so morally deranged they keep voting fascists into power.

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

The entire Republican Party is in thrall to a 79-year-old whose behavior, if you saw it in a teenager, would cause you to believe they were emotionally unwell and would prompt intervention.

the kind that has lost many inhibitions and sense of propriety, is prone to fits and tantrums, has great difficulty understanding new information and can’t process complexity

Welp.

No Republicans should ever be permitted to live down Trump. It should be a generational shame that haunts their descendants. The idea that we should move on from this open criminal who waged war against his own country and global democracy *while he is still waging it* is quantum complicity.

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the NYT decides on its narratives and really, really has a hard time adjusting coverage to reality. it was the biggest pusher of 'resistance is dead', reflecting the general desire among the US establishment for Trump to be a punitive force against their critics. #nokings doesn't fit its story

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

The New York Times is an aggressively pro-fascism media organization. bsky.app/profile/scho...

That AI slop is like a story a 3-year-old makes up when they get mad at another toddler: "Then I put on my crown and get into my airplane. It says on the side that I'm the king. I fly up so high over the stupid people. I throw poop down all over the mean people. They cry and cry, but I just laugh."

To call it 'the most corrupt administration in US history' does not do it justice; that so understates the degree of corruption as to be almost false. They have in fact instituted a new regime in which officeholders treat the public's thing—the republic—as their personal property...like kings do.

Great thread. 🙌🏻🫡 bsky.app/profile/drli...