Trump averages around 14 guests at each SOTU. Other modern presidents average 4. smotus.substack.com/p/the-state-...

Thank you, @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

American Gestapo

The rapid Stormfront-ification of Fox News and GOP media in general reveals the extent to which "palingenetic right wing ultra-nationalist populism" (i.e., fascism) has been the telos toward which much of the "American conservative movement" has been oriented since the 1940s.

The Trump administration this week delivers a 1-2 punch to science. This is the triumph of irrationality and conspiracy mongering.

damn, what did this cost, about 10 minutes of Trump's grifting? It really was a great collection of data.

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

Pretty incredible the Nobel committee didn't give Trump the Peace Prize.

They are kidnapping people off the streets, work & from their homes. They are leaving behind bullet ridden cars & telling people they don’t need warrants, they are attacking people they have no right to approach in their cars, and they’re arresting journalists. This is America

When you look at Noem, RFK Jr, Hegseth, Bovino, Bessent, it's pretty striking. Trump picked an entire cabinet whose only qualification is to be able to tell outlandish lies with a straight face.

Nice try, but we remember who put these vaccine deniers in positions of power… and who, once they proved utterly unfaithful to their promises, are still keeping them there.

Pick. A. Side. If you turn away from what's happening and have ANY political power, you've made your choice. You're supporting the killing and kidnapping of innocent people. And people around the US -- and the world -- are bearing witness.

It is like a knife in my heart when I see what these thugs are doing to decent and loving people. He was trying to help a woman who had been violently pushed to the ground. And paid for that with his life, murdered by violent and vicious criminals masquerading as law-enforcement.

Good. Take these racist a**holes to court and make them defend this.

Holy fucking wow.

Trump said he was going after the worst of the worst. Instead he gave them a badge and a gun and signed them up for ICE.

Emanuel: We are not going to invade Greenland, and you shouldn’t pay full price for something Denmark would give you for free. They want a closer relationship. This is, again, a glaring example of why Donald Trump’s companies all went bankrupt—because he’s a rotten businessman.

The #NuclearTrade 💵

I have been wondering, myself if pundits were right in thinking that when Trump referred to the psychological importance of owning Greenland, he was referring to his own psychology. Well, he was!

Does Trump know Spain and parts of Africa are in this hemisphere? Please hide this map!

Trump Declares Emergency to Shield Venezuela Oil Cash Suggestion for the next Democratic Congress: All national emergencies declared by POTUS must be confirmed by Congress within 30 days or are nullified. Perhaps by 2/3rds vote. politicalwire.com/2026/01/11/t...

RIP Dan Howe, a great historian of the antebellum United States 🗃️

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves. Once again, no. The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

"it will be conformable to the modern Maxim that is now generally adopted by our worthy Constituents, that it is better that ten innocent Persons should suffer than that one guilty should escape"

Refreshingly clear headlines from the WaPo, NYT

New 60 Minutes logo just dropped

One hot topic of debate at TPUSA this weekend has been the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. If you’re like most normal Americans, you’ve probably never heard of this event. If you are or have ever been a neo-Nazi, then this is an event you know A WHOLE LOT about.

Insane that these antivax horrors, which bring avoidable suffering onto millions of people, including a lot of children, follow the biggest, fastest, most successful vaccine roll out in history. RFK Jr., Trump, the GOP Senate, and “MAHA” evidently think the problem with COVID was not enough death.

Just a reminder: if there was a Democrat in the White House and it was three and half days after a mass shooting at a college, and there was still no suspect in custody, Fox News and every Republican in Congress would be screaming bloody murder.

YES INDEED

Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.

This is so perfect. In 2012 CPAC banned the John Birch Society. In 2023 they were welcomed back into the fold. And now here they are working together with TPUSA.

Is Pence (former Indiana governor) behind Trump’s defeat in Indiana? Sweet revenge, if true.

A big part of the immigrant influx in Europe arose from the US destabilizing the Middle East. Now Trump plans to exacerbate instability in Latin America?

Three Shirts McGee’s entire MAGA schtick was about draining the swamp, exposing the deep state cabal blah blah… Here he is palling around with Jeffrey Epstein. They are the monsters they were warning us about.

🎯 @monacharen.bsky.social on Bannon’s cozy relationship with Epstein: “Where is TP USA, the White House, Speaker Johnson? MAGA faithful who claim to believe in a conspiracy among elites to abuse kids? Where’s Bannon’s acknowledgment of wrongdoing? his shame?” www.thebulwark.com/p/steve-bann...

Republicans had a very bad day yesterday: -Trump fell asleep during his cabinet meeting. -Republicans continue to lose critical cases in court. -They vastly underperformed in a Tennessee congressional special election. They are panicking and will become much worse. Pay attention.

it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The DC shooter is a man whose work *for the United States* drove him crazy from guilt. That work, conducted at the direction of *our* CIA, allegedly involved murdering civilians. So for Trump to now say that the DC shooting confirms that *Afghans* categorically have shitty values is.... beyond vile.

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

This is like demanding that someone jump out of a plane before they’re given a parachute. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…

That's why political scientists use a term called "illiberal democracy." I'm thinking that last Tuesday suggested that yes, in fact, people can vote bad guys out of power.

New College is a good metaphor for the whole MAGA project

This is beautiful -- Xi was apparently not impressed by Trump x.com/BraddrofliT/...

Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.

Must Reading www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Trump's move "is a pure attack on Congress & consequently, on the rule of law. It reduces Congress to a single, negative power: the right to not appropriate any money. Anything they do grant the executive might end up being spent on anything. Welcome to England, circa 1615." *Way* beyond impoundment