Thinking bout this right now for no real reason— “When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”

“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky

Yes just a reminder. It’s all illegal. I L L E G A L

Reporter: "There are reports that China is pressuring you to not support independence for Taiwan in exchange for a trade deal?" Trump: "Well, I'm not going to talk about that."

It’s now been a month since we learned Trump’s team shut down an investigation into Tom Homan taking a $50K bribe — and we haven't seen an ounce of transparency or accountability. Where did Tom stash the cash? What is he hiding? Americans deserve to know.

Hey Don the Con—you know who’s “fighting for their life?” Single parents struggling to feed their kids. Seniors whose healthcare costs are skyrocketing. Families who can’t afford to buy a home. And yet you spend $40B of OUR MONEY to bail out Argentina? Sick.

Remember what he did to the Rose Garden?

Do you realize Gold has shot up to record prices because the world has lost faith in the US dollar because of Trumpism, right?

Nominee to be the Office of Special Counsel, ie., the guy federal employees must appeal to if they think they have been treated unfairly

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

The current iteration of the Republican Party consists of two competing factions: Fuck Them Kids (figuratively) and Fuck Them Kids (literally). In this essay I will

He’s going to leave permanent scars on this country.

WTAF

Does Mike Johnosn *really* believe the protesters were all communists, socialists, and anarchists? To some extent, he’s just trying to attach a scary label to the protests that is intended to mark them as “Un-American.” But he’s also expressing something that is dogma on the Right.

One thing I try to unpack in the piece: The Trumpists launched an unhinged demonization campaign against “No Kings” – and then did nothing. So, they didn’t believe their own propaganda? Not the specifics, no. But they do believe that all protest is fundamentally illegitimate.

There is a founding belief on the modern Right that all versions of “leftism” and liberalism are merely variants of the same fundamentally illegitimate political project of leveling hierarchies of race, gender, religion, or wealth.

Finally, protesting Trump and “hating America” really are the same in the MAGA imagination: The Trumpist claim that Trump embodies the nation. Because he channels the will of “the people,” dissent is disloyal, protest is tantamount to treason and must not be tolerated.

That is why they derided Martin Luther King Jr as a Communist, why segregationists in the 1950s protested the integration of schools in the South holding signs that read “Race Mixing is Communism.”

Similarly, the idea that Democratic governance is fundamentally illegitimate because the Democratic coalition is made up of people who don’t qualify as “real Americans” and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to exercise meaningful political influence is consensus on the Right.

The WH steals people’s property constantly and never asks permission. Another example of Trump acting like a king.

Johnson tried to spin Trump posting a video of dropping poop bombs on protesters as "He is using satire to make a point" and that "You can argue he's probably the most effective person who's ever used social media for that." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Deplorable promotion of antisemitic trope. They get away with this crap with impunity.

"... the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion ..." A treaty begun by Washington, signed by Adams and ratified by a Senate filled with many of the same people who drafted the Constitution.

The President of the United States put up an AI-generated video of himself defectating, supposedly on the heads of fellow Americans. Is it perhaps time for major media to ask whether someone who acts this way is suffering mental instability or dementia?

"And as America enters Day 20 of the Republican shutdown, there is no sign of any breakthrough on the horizon. Speaker Mike Johnson is apparently willing to hold out forever in order to protect the pedophiles and sex traffickers in the Epstein Files. Now we turn to Jack with the week's weather"

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

It's clear that Putin's objective is expanding Russian territory and attempting to take as much of Ukraine as he can, and he doesn't see Trump as an obstacle; he sees him as an asset and just ignores the bloviations. #Kompromat #Putin #Trump @ec.europa.eu @democrats.senate.gov

ICYMI, on the Kaiser strike: "Kaiser concedes that the unions and management are just $300 million annually apart at most in negotiations, and the company is sitting on $67.4 billion in reserves, up from $40 billion just four years ago." prospect.org/2025/10/20/2...

Trump and his regime murdered innocent civilians in the Caribbean, one of which had a distress signal on expecting to be rescued, instead Trump ordered he be murdered and published the videos all over with MAGA sycophants using the snuff films to cheer & joke. Impeach & arrest.

We will not yield to Trump’s authoritarian actions. We will not yield to his assault on healthcare. We will not yield.

"The point is to reclaim and redefine what counts as 'normal' in America – to replace a repressive norm of white Christian patriarchal dominance with a promise that this should be a country where the expected norm is an acceptance of pluralism and diversity in all spheres of life."

Boycott Spotify, pass it on.

He murdered a Colombian citizen in violation of domestic and international law. He’s now promising to illegally impose tariffs on Colombia because its president had the temerity to publicly criticize him for murdering one of that country’s citizens. Yes, we are the baddies.

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

If you or someone you love is a federal worker, service member, contractor, or otherwise impacted by the government shutdown, please visit vindman.house.gov/resources-for-federal-workers for resources. My team is here to support you.

Truth. 👎

omg 👀 This both humiliating and terrifying.

IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/

By the way, the protests are completely gone from the New York Times home page, but there is a prominent follow up on George Santos and his second day of freedom.

The mayor of Chicago called for a general strike on 10/18/25. No Kings movement should throw down and support that.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, 'those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you.' Reuveni: It is the highest, most egregious violation of the lawyer's code of ethics.

“I took an oath to the Constitution,” Holsey told one colleague, “not to a TV brand in a uniform.”

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...