They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Trump is not America First. He is Russia First, Qatar Second, Argentina Third. Not sure if America even makes it into the top 10.

I love this image.

America’s children will be PROUD to sacrifice their Christmas toys in support of the GLORIOUS STRUGGLE to deport their own grandmas

“Mr. President, how are you feeling on your way to Walter Reed?” “That was a very nasty question. I’m angry—the Nobel Peace Prize was rigged and stollen. Yesterday, I was studying for my cognitive test, and Eric kept eating the heads off the animal crackers.”

ANTIFA:

Listen to Asha.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

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A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay. This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

Fuck this. This is nothing but red meat for Trump’s base. A federal law that *Trump* signed into law guarantees backpay to furloughed workers. There’s no disputing this.

I think people take for granted the ability to post freely on the internet. Our ability to do so is endangered. Social media isn't going away but the powers that be are hyper focused on making it an echo chamber

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

The more America sees and hears from Stephen Miller, the worse it is for Trump and MAGA. He's a total freak and loser, repulsive to the majority, and he's the shadow President and currently the most powerful, unelected person in the country.

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

My immediate next-door neighbor for eleven years, who attended SaMoHigh with Miller, will confirm. He's deeply disturbed.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Color me mad but hardly surprised.

This Trump administration policy of generating an artificial civil war on the basis of big lies is of course meant to be frightening but it is also anti-American, unlawful, stupid and pursued by wildly unpopular people.

The chaos and unrest is being instigated by Miller and Trump. They are the ones bringing violence and disorder to American cities, filming it, and then using those images of their creation to justify the need to send in more troops and assert total control.

This is from Stephen Millers cousin and this is also why as a quasi-expert on the Holocaust I give Miller 0 quarter for being Jewish.

Breaking: Trump-appointed federal judge issues temporary restraining order against Federalized deployment of National Guard in Oregon. Judge: “this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”

Vance’s is a white guy whose entire political career was handed to him by billionaires — a career also fueled by the grievance that U.S. institutions conspire against white guys.

Kash is having a meltdown on Xitter, I guess bc he promised SOMEONE a perp walk and got told that's going to on exacerbate his own problems.

The Horror. The Horror.

Tom is usually ahead of the rest of us ducks.

Mike Johnson agrees that Trump is “unhinged” and “unwell”

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

Take the good news seriously too

REP. DEAN: “The president is unhinged… That performance in front of the generals?” SPEAKER JOHNSON: “I didn’t see it.” 🤔🤥 @repdean.bsky.social: “Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing at us.”

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Perfect illustration of the Article I Crisis.

To be clear: most 2019 dem candidates supported extending healthcare covg options to undocumented immigrants, but those policies never became law. Today - there are no democratic proposals that include such coverage. Claiming Dems shut down the govt over healthcare covg for migrants is FALSE

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

Pete Hegseth says overweight military leaders should resign. Shouldn’t that include Fat Satan?

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

On the one hand, Trump is explicitly threatening to use the military to occupy Blue America. On the other, he's so clearly in mental and physical decline that he can barely choke out his "look at me I'm a fascist dictator" routine without slurring words and stumbling all over them

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Bloody f-ing insane.

In a stunning violation of OPSEC, we’ll be announcing to our adversaries when and where all of our top military leaders will be. Doesn’t seem Pete learned much from Signalgate. His incompetence is staggering.

"The Madness of King Donald"

Trump's assault on Portland is not just a fascist power grab, although it is certainly that. It is frothing at the mouth, howling at the moon, eating bugs and bats for breakfast lunacy. But it's also a sign of weakness, not of strength. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands

Pam Bondi’s chief of staff resigned unexpectedly, probably because he’s about to be implicated in a major corruption scandal. Accountability is rare these days, but Mizelle’s resignation shows it’s still possible. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/aZJHZE0

It is a sad day for the Department of Justice and the rule of law. www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...