Here's the killer follow up question: Why?

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.) Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact: - White House - Senate - House - Scotus - OMB (to the hilt) - Every regulatory agency They're in command. It's on them.

Wow! This is a welcome surprise. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

(solemnly) You've had mail.

This is a huge win www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

Trump hits another record low in approvals.

A federal judge (Reagan appointee) scolds the sheer thuggishness of Trump's secret police, and talks about their desire for masks

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

You guys. No Do better

More reporting like this please.

If you missed Trump‘s speech to the military leadership, or have been snoozing since he resumed Office, it appears that he and roughly 30% of the voting population that support him, want the 70% that does not to give up our liberties and freedom. If we don’t, he will take them using our military.

Naturally Trump’s mouth gift wraps a perfect lawsuit for every government worker he fires after he makes it clear he is doing it solely for politics and is specifically targeting civil servants who are registered Democrats. He basically wrote their lawsuit for them today.

Hegseth & Trump ordered 800 of our top military commanders from all over the world to fly to a Marine Corps base outside of DC and all gather in one room today to listen to unserious, performative shit like this. What a fucking waste of money & time. What a stupid security risk.

Re this absurdity on the HUD homepage right now, a federal employee told me: "I'm fucking pissed that I still have to take annual ethics training and Hatch Act training."

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

Trump & Hegseth are prepping the military for orders to fire on American citizens. The only question at this point is whether those orders would be followed at the command level.

100%

Paul Krugman: Miller attempted the exact same "fix" on the Argentine economy that libertarian economists undertook in the late 70s... and it produced the exact same effect, namely an across the board crash. What a shock.

Breaking News: Ted Cruz suggests he’s on the Epstein List.

From the Editorial Board: We’ve heard the president demean Chicago. What we haven’t seen until now is Donald Trump describing our fellow citizens as “the enemy within” and adding our city to his list of potential “training grounds” for troops who enlist to defend America from foreign adversaries.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

This is on the HUD website

The English in 1685: ehhh Americans in 1776: absolutely not Katie Miller:

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SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

FT: Several people said they expected the transaction to go through fairly easily. “.. What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?" 🤡 @financialtimes.com $EA www.ft.com/content/61ce...

Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

If Trump would just release the damn Epstein files he wouldn’t have to shut down the government to distract from them.

Trump summoned the top American military officers stationed around the world to VA to tell them that the enemy they should be primarily concerned with now is American citizens.

Man, I can't believe the guy who inspired this event 4.5 years ago is declaring war on large swathes of his fellow Americans. I mean, who could have ever guessed it would come to this?

“Siri, zoom in.” @calltoactivism.bsky.social

* TRUMP TO U.S. MILITARY LEADERS: WE'RE UNDER INVASION FROM WITHIN @reuters.com

“.. a fivefold increase in U.S.-based applicants seeking to relocate to European institutions ..” 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Okay, funny bookstore category

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

The professionalism that our most senior military commanders exhibited with their silence today despite repeated attempts by Hegseth & Trump begging them to please clap was encouraging, & should be an example to all troops when they try to exploit them for partisan politics. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Whiskey Pete summoned the top military brass from around the world to call them fat.

This is true.

As Americans face rising grocery bills, rent hikes, and job insecurity, the Trump WH has delayed a critical inflation report—critics call it a dangerous “politics of erasure,” where facts vanish, trust erodes, and democracy falls into decay. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/us-delays-...

Chair of America First Women. Co-founder of Women for Trump.