Breaking news: The East Wing of the White House is gone. Wrecking crews completely removed the decades-old annex by midday Thursday, just three days after they started, to make way for a pet project of President Trump: a 90,000-square-foot ballroom.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

I fucking knew it.

The US government: Well, we might have zip-tied children and/or shot them with rubber bullets, but not the young ones! (not a joke or an exaggeration)

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons. And Lemon, it's Tuesday.

Trump says if he invokes the Insurrection Act, ”there is no more court cases, there is no more anything.” By “no more anything” he means no more democracy.

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

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-...

The numbers I am seeing, and the breadth of people and places with basically no arrests and so forth, seem to me an unqualified political loss for them. It is a show of strength rather than the fight itself, but you can’t downplay it.

No kid should ever have to protest or advocate for their friends’ basic humanity. But they’re standing up at No Kings anyway.

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

Mass, relentless public protest is all there is. Every other mechanism for stopping despotism has failed. There's a reason that so many state constitutions include the phrase "All political power is inherent in the people"

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.” The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

He's ignoring long-established norms, the rule of law, and our Constitution. And with the help of the Supreme Court, the newly unprincipled Republican Party, and his Project 2025 crew, he's playing hardball and aiming to end our democracy.

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

This is a great factcheck on the DHS sizzle videos of them rounding up immigrants: they are leaving a lot of context out.

Republicans are trying to use the government shut down to decimate programs helping people.

13. years. old.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

“Your Honor, this is no joking matter: they dig their key into the side of our pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive, carved their name into our leather seats, they took a Louisville Slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all four tires.”

Thread: A year ago yesterday was a very happy day for me. I had lost my prostate. It was good riddance, as it was riddled with cancer. I’m now cancer-free — and thankful for the tax-funded technology that saved my life.

I’m so damn spooked by this headline www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

After indiscriminately bombing boats out of the water to "fight cartels", this is a pretty horrifying prelude from the regime

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social I mean, come on

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

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

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

So say it, Hegseth. President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh? Say it.

Every retired general and admiral needs to be screaming their heads off about this

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.