Get a load of Trump’s one-armed clapping. Forget about drinking water normally, can this guy do ANYTHING normally?

Trump’s gold bling in the WH reminded me of a clip I posted 5 years ago of Charlie Sheen in the UK telling a story of the time Trump gave him a wedding gift.

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

He doesn't weigh options and risks. The #BrokenTimes normalizes, turning impulsive behavior into policy. Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

So did all the rich people move out of NYC yet?

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Legal experts agree that the indictment against me and five others is politically-motivated. Thank you @legaleagle.tv @lizdye.bsky.social for bringing attention to this case.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

This is an unprecedented historical moment that demands an unprecedented public response. I’m incredibly thankful for the solidarity shown by elected officials, public figures, constituents, and others over the past few days.

Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

The year Reagan was elected.

The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.

I didn't realize how often Mike Johnson says, almost verbatim, "well, I've been so busy with this, I haven't had a chance to dig into that" He seems to be busy only avoiding the news and pretending he's clueless

“I’m not here out of hate. I’m here out of love. I’m here because I love this country, I love America, I love the first amendment, I love our democracy, I love our diversity. Yes, our diversity.” My full ‘No Kings’ speech in DC yesterday.

I guess if I *had* to pick my favorite part of the video the president posted where he’s a big boy pilot and he pew pew pews his poop all over everyone, it would be the part where he shits on the American flag?

If you're running in a Dem primary for Senate, preemptively endorsing the filibuster is already a red flag. ... but not knowing the filibuster for lower court judges has been gone for more than a decade is even worse, it's indisputable evidence of incompetence.

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet. MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

One reason Trump 2.0 is so different from Trump 1.0 is SCOTUS immunity decision. Without fear of criminal prosecution, Trump’s full wrath has been unleashed.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Rep. Stacey Plaskett seen here giving preacher Mike his trash back, because she knows anything he has to say is a lie. Standing on business against the fascist republican regime. #SheShed

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

The Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress so there's a "way out" of a government shutdown if they can only get their shit together. This isn't on Democrats, at all.

trump constantly says black women in leadership positions have "low iq" but the mainstream media refuses to say trump is a racist

Read @pkrugman.bsky.social explain that Scott Bessent's bailout of Argentina is about ideology, not American interest. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...

The only way this could be more suspect would be if Tom Homan was wearing a little Hamburglar mask as the money was handed to him in a sack with $$$ signs on it.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

It's done to death, but man, imagine if Joe Biden had openly threatened to use the government to block Rupert Murdoch's business deals or strip away broadcast licenses from their stations unless Fox News fired Jesse Watters or something.

Well they were both people that said jaw-droppingly racist things in a twinkly way, and were polite to white moderates who found them oddly charming. One was “at least not as bad as the John Birch Society,” the other “at least not as bad as Nick Fuentes.” Buckley used bigger words, though.

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Once again, a quick post here led to an hour of writing it up as a full piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS. Here it is:

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

It's wild to watch the central tenets of white supremacy -- that this is a world for white people and no one else -- work their way from like racist sheriffs smashing Black people's taillights all the way up to 6 Ivy League grads codifying "it's okay to smash taillights" into law.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.

fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

Here, fixed it.

I am against gerrymandering, but I am also against unilateral disarmament. Gavin Newsom’s plan to redistrict in California, to get more seats in 2026, and stop Trump in his tracks, should be replicated by Democratic Governors across the country. We need to actually fight here.

Seriously if in fact they get gerrymandered together Doggett should just retire. He's been a good Member, but he'll be 80 on election day. Let it go, dude. (Hey, he could run for one of the downballot statewides. Why not? Dems could offer to try to clear the field for him).

An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

This is either a massive new tax or, like the U.S. Steel arrangement, socialism. Why are elite capitalists more worried about a NY mayoral candidate’s corner grocery proposal than this?!?!? U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...