President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him. Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

One year ago: 🇺🇸 @economist.com

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

this is accurate along multiple dimensions they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

Huh. Where did this “young“ Republican get the idea that racism was ok, or he didn’t have to pay bills? www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

The @nytimes.com decided last year what the story was; Trump II was the righteous punishment visited upon their interns and junior staffers and grandchildren for being so annoying about MeToo and BLM, and once they understood that and repented, they could have democracy back.

Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it

“Anyone who has ever read the Federalist Papers knows that anywhere between a third and a half of them are about Donald Trump.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The newspaper that mainstreamed Chris Rufo, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Charlie Kirk renews its calls to meet fascists halfway:

Good reminder that there is no “going back” from this, we only get out of it by going through.

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare. And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

"If you cannot trust the [NYT] to be honest about the president [of the US] posting a depiction of himself dropping a load of literal shit on the American people, you can never trust the [NYT] to fully detail Trump's misdeeds." @jamisonfoser.bsky.social www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

It’s just incredible this isn’t the way everyone talks about him

We are hundreds of miles on the interstate past Nixon's crimes that look like harmless school pranks by comparison. Presidency-ending for anyone else since WWII. At a minimum, an immediate SecState resignation. But we've decided nothing matters for this One Special Boy & his authoritarian playmates.

- Either mass protests are big news & a huge problem for the governing party or not - Either we care about the president's age/health or we don't - Either IT security matters or not - Either the lack of media access & detailed policies matter or not - Either executive overreach matters or not 🤷‍♂️

Again, the double standard on how 🇺🇸 politics & the two parties are covered has become so glaring that it's hard not to draw conclusions. An easy way to avoid these criticisms would be for this to not keep happening over & over & over again on every issue/topic/event. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

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.

This protest is a reminder that *there are more of us than there are of them*. They could never put this many people on the street. What they are trying to do is institute permanent minority rule, but our values, our culture and our solidarity will prevail.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is

My 14 year old niece came up with this one. So true. #NoKings

Someone needs to draft a Project 2029 agenda item of defunding anti-democratic government contractors. Trump would do it out of pure spite, but my guess there is a strong efficiency argument to reduce rent-seeking.

Some people are honored to help children learn, or help the sick heal, or help the dispossessed fight for justice. Others are honored to have played a small role in giving lying criminals a chance to prey on society again, so long as they are Republicans.

Again, this is a liquidation of the union in all but letter of the law. This is reverse secessionism engineered by a central government.

I think it is about time that Democrats started familiarizing themselves with Lincoln’s response to Dred Scott instead of accepting the tacit premise that whatever a bare majority of the Supreme Court decides, dictates our constitutional fate

Again, lovely to see that while I am furloughed because the government is shut down the executive shoveled $40bn into a furnace that has been stoked to red hot by ridiculous and discredited economic ideas. This of course just made thing worse for all involved.

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.” For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution. Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

Sidney Reid's statement with #AltText

The text messages of an “extremely confident” person who is “satisfied” with bailing out Argentina:

This is blatantly unconstitutional and why no Democrat should ever hedge on "well tariffs..." The President does not have the authority to impose taxes nor does he have the authority to distribute unconstitutionally collected revenue from those taxes.

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

In this video, Andrews points out something important. When people think of Christians, they tend to think of the Christian nationalists who cheer on Trump's evil. That makes non-evil Christians like Andrews furious. Others should feel that way too.

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

This. "Regardless of what you think about any individual person, food assistance should not be predicated on meeting your personal definition of deserving. People shouldn’t have to perform feats of social worth to get food; in our incredibly wealthy society, people should just get food."

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor. According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

Still the greatest and most relevant Onion headline theonion.com/recession-pl...

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Kagan is going back to the difference between Section 2 and Section 5. This would work if Roberts was an intellectually honest person. Unfortunately, Roberts hates Black people voting as much as any Klansman ever did.

Modern American journalism is a cocktail party for the well-heeled so they can rub elbows with the levers of power and slander the poors. They're court stereographers because they want to be, they like their policies, and they want them to win.

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

once again, anyone in media who believed republicans were offended by Charlie Kirk jokes or whatever is either a crypto conservative or incredibly stupid www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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