everybody keeps saying "the dems should go shoot press conferences by the east wing destruction" but i sort of doubt that would help the case--any spots in public areas where you could do this without white house permission won't have a very good view. There have been a lot of fences up for awhile

Updating my LEGO White House

The destruction of the White House makes me feel a lot like I did on January 6th. Watching helplessly as an enduring symbol of our democracy is wantonly desecrated by the worst people on the planet

I’m glad he’s removing it but sorry dude you don’t get to play the “insinuating that I knew what my tattoo meant is disgusting” card ever, even if other people weren’t telling reporters the opposite

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

let's all remember that one of the more important benefits of these protests is for your mental health. Yes showing solidarity and standing up and sending a message is important. But so is just being around people who see things the same way as you.

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild #NoKings #Minnesota

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

Bluesky is real life. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

Seriously, though - people keep asking "what are the protesters asking for, and what's their strategic plan to get it?" I think what they're asking for is for America to be restored and Trump to subjected to the law. And I think the plan to get it is to demonstrate that there are so, so many of us.

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

I know this ship has sailed so far it's halfway around the world at this point, but White House press secretary is not exempt from the Hatch Act. This is not within the legitimate scope of her taxpayer-funded job.

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

really interesting what does and doesn’t get the view from nowhere treatment

I really need these people to find names for their evil companies outside middle earth

only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

Truly abhorrent and a mockery of the rule of law that Emil Bove is a federal judge.

Yes this. Mainers deserve to choose their nominee. Mills has won statewide elections there twice. If voters want to nominate an upstart over her, great! Let it play out. And if there’s milkshake ducking in Platner’s future, better to find out during a primary than the general

Sunday morning I found a bagged WaPo thrown over my fence with a note in it begging me to resubscribe at a reduced rate. Went straight into the recycle bin

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

It is absolutely thrilling (genuinely!) to see Republicans bumble directly into a messaging strategy telling the public they are explicitly opposed to the Declaration of Independence

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

“In a 6-3 decision,”

This exchange is a great example of the window of opportunity that will open when Vance becomes president. Nobody fears him like they fear Trump. He has no charisma, no juice, no mettle. Institutions will speak truth to power when the power is JD Vance.

This whole movement is one of the greatest activities in the information domain that I have seen from Americans over the past 9 months. Bravo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

I got that frog in me

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Paul Revere for the modern era

Glad they’re having so much fun while tens of thousands of furloughed feds try to figure out what they’re going to do without their next paycheck

This framing - which I’m seeing everywhere - is so irresponsible. Guaranteed back pay for furloughed feds was signed into law BY THE LAST TRUMP ADMIN. A memo means nothing except signaling that they intend to break the law, and that’s how it should be reported.

There is no sense in which the Enabling Act of 1933 would have become an acceptable piece of legislation if it had included a carve-out requiring Hitler to stabilize out-of-pocket health care costs. Same goes for the Enabling Act of 2025. www.offmessage.net/p/the-end-of...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

tfw you are consolidating your regime