“Trump’s Louis XIV Moment: He is refashioning his White House residence into a palace. Our democracy is now a members-only club.” Debbie Millman Everything he does is disgusting & anti-democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

US Treasury Plans to Mint a $1 Commemorative Trump Coin. The coin, bearing Trump’s face, would honor the 250th birthday of the US. No coin has ever been minted for a living US president. Further, one cannot honor the US’s 250th birthday with Trump’s face on anything.Trump’s is the face of fascism.

Judge Waverly Crenshaw, Jr. Finds ‘Likelihood’ That Charges Against Abrego Garcia Are Vindictive. The ruling was a rebuke of both the Justice Department & its top officials, including AG Pam Bondi & Deputy AG Todd Blanche. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

On orders from Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller & Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the US military killed 4 men in a 4th boat near Venezuela that the Trump admin said without evidence was smuggling drugs. These murders in international waters are illegal. We are ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Trump’s relentless Truth Social attacks calling Comey corrupt & demanding prosecution, combined with ousting prosecutors who disagreed, creates ironclad evidence of vindictiveness & malicious prosecution. Many predict the DOJ’s weak case will be quickly dismissed. Trump’s inability to stop publicly⬇️

There have been at least 8 major national polls recently released. By margins of 12-25 points, Americans blame Trump & Republicans for the government shutdown. With their trillion-dollar propaganda arm, Trump & MAGA are used to bending reality & flooding the zone with lies. Their lies aren’t ⬇️

The House of Representatives was supposed to be back in session on Monday, but House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) sent members home til October 14. Rep Chellie Pingree (D-ME) said Johnson is delaying the swearing-in of newly elected Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), because she said she will sign the ⬇️

Senator Peters’ “report concluded that DOGE has violated the law & created unprecedented privacy & cybersecurity risks, while the secrecy surrounding DOGE prevented congressional oversight & public accountability. The report called for shutting down the accessible database DOGE created, revoking ⬇️

The report from Senator Peters suggests “DOGE created databases that ‘contain highly sensitive personally identifiable information on every American’ & that ‘can be manipulated with little to no oversight.’ The report found even more concerning that administration officials ‘were unable or ⬇️

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

The Associated Press examined the effect of DOGE on the General Services Administration (GSA), an agency established in the 1940s to manage the thousands of workplaces used by federal employees. DOGE employees targeted the GSA as a prime example of waste, fraud & abuse. They abruptly canceled ⬇️

Trump, the demented sociopath that he is, continued to post racist & juvenile AI videos instead of doing the job of president. He posted that Democrats are “the party of hate, evil & Satan,” after claiming weeks ago Democrats use hate language. He also posted an AI video with Russell Vought, ⬇️

The government shutdown crisis was manufactured by Donald Trump & Republicans in Congress. They wrote & passed their “Big Ugly” tax law (OBBBA) that delivered $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, mostly to the rich & corporations. They gutted healthcare, food assistance & essential services to pay for it. ⬇️

Trump, “the man who swore during debates & campaign rallies that he had ‘nothing to do with Project 2025,’ that he hadn’t read it & didn’t want to read it, that it was the work of ‘the severe right,’ just proudly tied himself to it. And not in passing, but directly, gleefully, as if he couldn’t ⬇️

Trump is a F Up! “The Trump admin is planning to roll out the first tranche of bailout payments for farmers in the coming weeks, likely using $ billions in funding from an internal USDA account. But it won’t be enough: USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation fund, which Trump previously tapped to ⬇️

“Since the enhanced PTCs were introduced, the number of people who receive health coverage through the ACA Marketplaces has more than doubled. In 6 states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia & West Virginia), enrollment more than tripled in 5 years.” Emma Wagner Health care policy ⬇️

Trump’s former spiritual advisor & donor Robert Morris just pled guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl. “The Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church into one of the largest congregations in the country, pleaded guilty in Osage County District Court to charges that he sexually ⬇️

Russell Vought, main author of Project 2025, spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power. Now, as Trump’s budget director, he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode the Constitution’s system of checks & balances. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Defense Secretary Hegseth Had Military Attack 4th Boat Off Venezuela, Killing 4 Men, Without Evidence of Drugs. Trump’s murders in this legally disputed campaign likely involve fishing boats, not drug cartels. Most cocaine comes from Colombia, not Venezuela. Fentanyl comes into the US via Mexico. ⬇️

Don’t rely on Trump to ever tell the truth. He’s trying to start a war with Venezuela for regime change & for domestic political reasons. “Venezuela is far from the biggest player in the region. Colombia produces much more cocaine. Most of the cocaine entering the US comes through the Pacific, not ⬇️

Supreme Court Justice “Roberts & his fellow Republican appointees have used the Court to aid Trump while failing repeatedly to protect core principles, long-standing legal precedents & baseline procedures that other judges have been faithfully following to try to protect against irreparable harm to⬇️

“We are in the midst of an unprecedented set of constitutional crises. Of course Donald Trump’s belligerent & erratic orders & his appalling musings are shaking the foundations of our nation, but it is the US Supreme Court with John Roberts at the helm that is recklessly & aggressively emboldening ⬇️

“Incompetence Isn’t an Upgrade Over DEI. The Trump administration is a mockery of the idea of meritocracy.” David French www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

From top to bottom, the entire Trump admin is corrupt. Kennedy Fires NIH Scientist Who Filed a Whistle-Blower Complaint. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was on administrative leave, said the Trump admin had defied court orders & undermined vaccine research. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out. Todd Arrington, who led the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum, was fired by Trump after Trump wanted a sword from the museum’s collection as a gift for King Charles & Arrington turned down the request, ⬇️

Trump named the worst president in modern US history by the Wall Street Journal. www.threads.com/@tommyq60/po...

Veterans See Costs & Risks in Hegseth’s Military Rewind Back to 1990. By looking back 35 years for policy cues, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risks hurting, not helping, military readiness. He’s a clueless embarrassment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

“I have a good idea how this shutdown ends. Trump & Republicans will cave (he won’t admit he’s caving, but he will cave). Here’s why: Air traffic controllers. Like other federal workers, the controllers aren’t being paid now (they’ll get back-pay when the shutdown ends). But unlike most other ⬇️

Trump ordered strikes & murdered people on what was likely 4 fishing boats in the Caribbean, trying to provoke a war with Venezuela, & has declared war against drug cartels, allowing him to accuse anyone inside & outside of the US an enemy. The declaration means the admin is claiming the US is in⬇️

The Trump administration sent a 10-page “compact” to 9 universities, urging them to sign & pledge support for its political agenda to get priority access to federal funds. I guess we’re going to have state-run universities now? This is fascism! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump has decided the US is engaged in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels that his admin has labeled terrorist organizations, according to a confidential notice sent to Congress. Geoffrey Corn, a retired judge advocate general lawyer who was formerly the Army’s senior adviser for law-of-⬇️

“In an interview I conducted with Congressman Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, he confirmed what we have been reporting: Trump’s outlandish claim that he brought in $17 trillion from tariffs & foreign investments has no basis in fact & no trace in the US Treasury.” ⬇️

The shutdown: “Republicans want Democrats to rubber-stamp the nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act in Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, which will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket & strip health care from 15 million Americans. Not one Democrat voted for the Big Ugly Bill, & ⬇️

“It is not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not to swear in our new colleague Adelita Grijalva, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files. So it’s convenient for them to shut the govt down.” Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

Former Jeffrey Epstein neighbor & Trump advisor Howard Lutnick was interviewed on NY Post reporter Miranda Devine’s podcast. He said Epstein showed him his massage room while giving Lutnick a tour of his NYC townhouse in 2005: “What happened in that massage room, I assume, was on video. This guy ⬇️

The Trump admin is violating the Hatch Act: “Department of Education employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated to include partisan talking points that blamed the government shutdown on Democrats. 5 employees who provided copies of their out-of-office ⬇️

“Democrat things: universal healthcare, affordable childcare, accessible education, clean energy, & economic opportunity. Republican things: tax cuts for billionaires, handouts for big business, subsidies for dirty drillers & a free pass for corporate abuse & corruption. Which do you prefer?” ⬇️

Effect of DOGE cuts on 5 departments:

“Trump’s position is that Democrats must either support his plans to slash important public services in the budget or else he will slash important public services during the shutdown. He is confronting Congress & Americans with a pair of bad options & no alternatives.” NY Times Editorial Board

VP JD Vance Laughed Off Trump’s Fake AI Video of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries & Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer: ‘I Think It’s Funny.’ Jeffries called the video racist & bigoted, which it was. Vance said, “We’re having a good time,” at everyone else’s ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

The National Employment Report of payroll processing company ADP said the US under Trump lost 32,000 jobs in the private sector in September. ADP also revised August’s employment growth — It had been recorded as a gain of 54,000 jobs, but was actually a loss of 3,000 jobs.