If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump. Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com

It’s really atrocious how they threw the full force of the federal government at this one guy because he embarrassed them by being innocent of everything except trying to live his life. Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.

“Under the Republican plan, the big idea is essentially to hand people about $80 a month and wish them good luck.”

It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

"Monstrous" is the perfect word to describe ICE's treatment of ordinary people subjected to abusive detainment.

Wesleyan University and its president are putting it all out there in the fight against authoritarianism. They're not hiding from Trump while waiting for the storm to pass.

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.

Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it. Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.

I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.

Racism has always been the foundation of the Trump movement, and the press remains barely interested. They're far more inclined to ascribe everything to economic anxiety, concerns about crime, etc. Not willing to name the monster that's been standing right in front of them for the past 10 years.

Trump's vile comments yesterday about Somalis and Ilhan Omar are the newest exhibits in the Donald Trump is a Despicable Racist Museum. It's totally insane that the press isn't much interested in this.

When Trump raged that there were millions of fake votes in 2020, millions of people believed him because it was a lie about something they couldn't see. When he brags for the millionth time that the price of everything is going down fast, nobody believes him because everyone can see it's not true.

Dear Senator Cassidy, “We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name. Best, Your Former Congressional Colleague

This Guardian article documents how Appalachian communities are being crushed by Trump's cancellation of Biden programs that were designed specifically to help them. It also documents how MAGA residents in these communities have no idea whose fault this is. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.

Pete Hegseth claims that killing two men-clutching the debris of a boat the US had destroyed-was a lawful act No indictment. No arrest. No trial. No conviction. Not even any proof they were drug runners Just straight to execution of two people who were-at that point-absolutely no threat to the US

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

In a way, this simply seems an elite, legacy-media microcosm of my catchall explanation for 2024: “People were decadent and so bored by a dull, facilely annoying status quo that they decided ‘fuck it, let’s burn it all to the ground”, gambling they wouldn’t get scorched. “In retrospect, oops.” 😕

NYT jokesters: "The president also can press Congress to extend tax credits for Obamacare health insurance plans. He can work with Congress to expand legal immigration. He can nominate Fed officials who will resist political pressure to deliver short-term growth at the expense of inflation."

The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a heist, plain and simple. Just nonstop grift and corruption from this crooked President and his administration. They're doing nothing to make life more affordable for regular people, but they ARE working overtime to get rich using taxpayer dollars and resources.

Why would we believe anything this administration says today? I mean if they had told the truth like a COUPLE of times then we’d be like “well, maybe” But now? No

Fun igneous geology: here's a rigid xenolith of peridotite in gabbro, with a less rigid xenolith of anorthosite that was smushed on top of it as the mushy pile of partially molten gabbro compacted under its own weight. On Sgurr na Stri, Isle of Skye, in the Scottish Highlands.

They're really having fun with it on tiktok.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Meanwhile... Corporate America is being subsidized by taxpayers...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

“Would Americans be so accepting if, instead of observing the detached remoteness of a missile from the clouds, we watched our servicemen board the vessels and simply execute everyone on board without asking a single question? It is, in every way, the same thing.”

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Democrats are expected to provide think tank level policy proposals for every societal ill under the sun (fully paid for too, natch!!) while Republicans are just like "we'll figure something out" and the media nods along.🙃

(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb. Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell. Try standing for something. See how it feels.

100% agree! Whoever gets the most attention creates the agenda. That's why we get elections that hinge on things that nobody thought much about until Republicans started whining about them 24/7.

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

Mike Johnson describes Trump’s mental decline and unhinged behavior.

Before the election, my MAGA focus group said their top priorities were releasing the Epstein files and getting the US out of foreign entanglements. Today, they say their priorities are stabilizing Argentina’s economy and funding the White House State Ballroom construction project.

The decline isn’t subtle anymore.