“News outlets: please do not publish heroic portraits of Hegseth or of others in connections with articles about this and related subjects. Doing so undermines reporting and naturalizes the transition to authoritarianism.”

Wow! This is quite alarming 🔥🔥🔥 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

This is where Trumps supporters should draw the line, those that haven’t already snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...

“This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?”

This is not just how authoritarianism happens. This is authoritarianism happening.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... “In his life, Kirk was anunapologetic bigot and promoter of hate and conspiracies. The right is trying to criminalize people who tell the truth about one of their beloved figures, but it will not change the reality of what he stood for.”

Whether this plan works depends upon how we see it, or rather, whether we choose not to see it.

He actually said this

They complain about waste but then are stopping so many great projects where so much was already invested. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The left hasn’t embraced political violence. Leaders of the Democratic Party do not regularly call for violence or praise violent rhetoric. That has been the domain of leaders like Trump, right-wing officials and activists, and conservative media outlets like Fox.

“Let’s rename all Department of HHS ➡️ Department of Hepatitis and Human Suffering Department of VA ➡️ Department of Veteran Abandonment Department of Education ➡️ Department of Erasure of History Department of Commerce ➡️ Department of Corruption” -Tammy Duckworth

For Trump, it doesn’t matter that crime is down in Chicago, Baltimore, and Washington DC, or that the most violent cities are in fact in red states.

Even as Trump makes up fake emergencies, he blows off real ones!

VERY IMPORTANT READ!!! open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

“Ken Paxton, Texas’s Attorney General, claimed three houses as his primary residence, ….Somehow, however, Pulte hasn’t highlighted his case, let alone threatened him with a 30-year prison sentence.

“It is wild to see Republicans cheering on a president who publicly threatened a CEO and stated openly that he shook the man down for a major share in his company.

Do we get to call it fascism yet?

The president of the United States is openly admitting that his party cannot win a free and fair election.

“Trump paused his negotiation with European leaders to call Vladimir Putin….. European leaders were not present for the conversation……the call was forty minutes long.” 😳 -Heather Cox Richardson

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... “Trump has made extraordinary concessions to Russia in exchange for nothing at all. Russia has repaid him by continuing the war and seeking to win it -- and by laughing at Trump on state-controlled television.”

“This is the architecture of a domestic forever war.”

Inflation once again spiked in June, with prices rising at an annualized 2.6%—a 0.3% rise from a month prior and the largest spike since February, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday.

“In a real democracy, you win elections with popular ideas and strong follow-through. Instead, Trump told Texas to cheat. And Abbott folded like a cheap lawn chair. Verbal gymnastics. Power grabs dressed up as policy.” -Common Cause

“Trump’s big, ugly budget megabill will give ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than the militaries of most countries. Once the bill is fully implemented, nowhere in America will be safe from Trump’s secret police state.” -Robert Reich

“This isn't normal political deflection. This is the President of the United States using the full weight of his office to threaten people with prosecution for things that literally didn't happen….” - PARKER MOLLOY JUL 28

Seems crime is way down since trump left office last time, in Chicago and the entire nation.

“On June 20, (Nicole Acevedo of NBC News) reported, the U.S. was holding more than 56,000 people in detention centers, the highest number in U.S. history. Nearly 72% of those held had no criminal history….” 😳 -Heather Cox Richardson

These rollbacks aren't just policy changes -- they're a betrayal of our government's promise to protect us from environmental harms. No parent should have to worry that the air their child breathes or the water they drink could make them sick.

“Just to be clear: The director of national intelligence for the United States of America is making allegations against a former U.S. presidential candidate based on material from Russia’s intelligence services.” -Heather Cox Richardson

First amendment rights? Make sure everyone sees this.

"Trump appears to be touching all his greatest hits in an attempt to regain control of the narrative. But the more he protests that he is not connected to the Epstein files, the more he reinforces the idea that he is." -Heather Cox Richardson

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o... Race to the bottom

"So, somehow having trangender people serve in the military affects readiness, but refashioning military facilities as internment camps doesn’t? In the case of both policies, the Trump administration is carrying out a wildly radical agenda that will only result in more human suffering. "

open.substack.com/pub/briantyl... “Whatever he’s trying to keep under wraps must be bad enough to warrant his insistence that he would rather lose the support of his own voters than humor their demands for the information (that he himself promised them) to be released.”

It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.

Hypocrites! I couldn’t have said it better.

“What makes this latest maneuver so dangerous is that it aims not just to relitigate 2024 but to pre-rig 2028. If Trump can scare off honest poll workers and install loyalists, he won’t need to overturn the results. He can subvert the process from the inside.”

“In Trump’s world, it only matters how something looks, not how it actually is. And despite Noem’s sweeping powers, her primary job has always been simply to appear on television..”

Regulations protect you and me – from being harmed, fleeced, shafted, injured, or sickened by corporate products and services. youtu.be/pqr1tVVOnBA?...

To get back on a sustainable fiscal path, what we need to do is (reduce the) ratio of our debt to our economy. “Unfortunately, this legislation does the opposite. A responsible Congress would reject it.”

“Tens of millions will lose health insurance, but at least all those struggling Americans in the top 1 percent will get a big tax break.” - Jonathan Cohn

"Notably absent is any mention of who is attacking the rule of law. Notably absent is any mention that the rule of law went out the window when the conservative majority granted Trump immunity. Notably absent is any mention of who is saying yes to tyranny and no to truth."

“President Donald Trump’s tariff war and weaker consumer spending translated to a contraction of 0.5% in the U.S. economy in the first quarter, even more of a drop than the 0.2% economists expected. The economy Trump inherited from President Joe Biden led the world in productivity.” -HC Richardson

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Talking Points Memo’s Marshall noted Tuesday that “there is really, literally no one in the inner discussion of U.S. foreign policy today who has any level of foreign policy or military crisis experience at all.”