A reclusive Gilded Age heir bankrolls the strongman. This is how oligarchy works. Mellon's fortune, built on exploitation, now buys a president. It's not philanthropy. It's a down payment on policy. The rich always fund their own protection.

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

New market manipulation scheme just dropped

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Along with the $20 billion U.S. taxpayer bailout to Argentina, the Trump admin announced another $20 billion for Argentina from private banks. But the banks won’t lend the money without a guarantee from the federal government. So it’s a $40B taxpayer bailout. www.wsj.com/finance/arge...

It's 2025 and The Jack Campaign opposes same-sex marriage.

ENDORSED! The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board knows that my candidacy is the best choice to move New Jersey forward, citing my “welcome willingness to take on big challenges” and “actionable plans” on housing, transportation, energy, and education.

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump is Putin's puppet

This year, the Jersey Shore, including in red counties, lost federal help from GOP Congress for beach restoration for the first time in 30 years. That’s millions gone that protected jobs, tourism, and homes. NJ beaches simply can't afford a GOP governor too. www.newsweek.com/jersey-shore... #votenj

Trump is all about normalizing corruption.

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

"That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable." www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

One feature or authoritarian movements: They get more extreme. "The highly unusual request appears to have originated from a letter sent from 25 Republican members of Congress asking [the EPA] to investigate how mifepristone might be contaminating the water supply." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

19 workers missing as an explosion rips through a Tennessee munitions plant. (Meanwhile, Trump is proposing to eliminate the Chemical Safety Board and most of NIOSH, while slashing OSHA's budget.) www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump’s war on dissent weaponizes government power: after Kirk’s killing, aides draft terror playbooks targeting antifa, ActBlue, Soros; FCC bullies ABC over Kimmel; orders recast liberal speech as terrorism to intimidate, prosecute, purge.

"An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to follow them." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed. 💯 you do NOT deserve this. Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice: ❌ Do not send a read receipt ❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response ✅ Forward notice to your personal email

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Trump got his COVID19 vaccine today. He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April)

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump “is going after clean energy, and Americans will face higher bills as a result,” the editorial board writes.

“Senior military leaders should have stepped in to prevent Trump from turning addresses at Fort Bragg and Norfolk into political rallies; the silence of the Army and Navy secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and some top generals and admirals is appalling…” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Once again Antifa is short for Anti-Fascist/Fascism if you aren't Antifa you are Profa which makes you Pro-Fascist/Fascism. Stephen Miller needs to fuck off. Fuck Fascists. Fuck Fascism.

Michigan Avenue right now.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

Two people very much worth listening to, in an important conversation. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The largest federal employees union filed a lawsuit accusing the Department of Education of violating the First Amendment by inserting partisan language into the out-of-office emails sent from accounts of furloughed workers during the government shutdown www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s day three of the government shutdown. Enough of the partisan games. Real lives are at stake.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.