Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔

Another one for the ‘actual, literal, Biblical Antichrist’ file

This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.) And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.

North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk. It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.

Last week: In response to WaPo’s story on the Sept. 2 boat strikes, the Pentagon says “This entire narrative is completely false.” Today: The White House confirms that a 2nd strike happened and that “Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes”

Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B. Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct. A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.

The Trump administration's corruption has extended to selling out Ukraine—and America's interests—to Russia so that the Trump family and their friends can make a few bucks. Must-read reporting from @wsj.com this weekend. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Great piece on Trump's 'Quiet, piggy' moment. This phrase could be the new shorthand way to explain how abusers silence their victims. Keep quiet or be punished cruelly. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...

No one deserves to be sabotaged by Dear Leader more than Elise Stefanik. She sold her soul to the devil, and he put it in a trash compactor.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Most Americans agree we need to get money out of politics. If that takes a constitutional amendment, then that's what we have to do. And if that's going to take years, then it's all the more reason to begin pushing now.

This. is why. you don't fucking capitulate to these people.

Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything." For once, I believe him.

Looking for the same from @reprileyny.bsky.social. Time to speak up & act. NY19

Morally repugnant. Just unspeakable. bsky.app/profile/chri...

In the MAGA version of the Bible, Jesus miraculously multiplies the loaves and the fishes, then refuses to share the food with a famished crowd and instead ships it all to Argentina.

Trump is on live TV saying he wants to rig elections so Democrats can’t return to power. The most corrupt, anti-American administration in our history.

Pundits say the problem is that Democrats fail to represent the people—but the real problem is that our political system fails to represent the people.

When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Corporate Media tells US that Republicans have no agency, that is always the Democrats responsibility to fix what Republicans are doing to US: I love how Neguse schools this reporter for the reporter's work in covering up reasonability for Republicans.

Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor. Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families. #shutdown2025

Rail trail sculpture in Accord, NY #HudsonValley

> @newyorker.com

Minnewaska State Park #HudsonValley #autumn

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

Hudson Valley autumn. #HudsonValley

Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it. As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico). In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control.” — Stephen King

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

@cbsnews.com is finished. Boycott it out of existence.

The GOP has done nothing on healthcare in the 21st century other than stop Dems from improving it. Literally nothing.

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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.

This was always the plan. Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940. The money is going to be used *against* you.

Democrats are fighting to preserve an Obamacare tax credit. Without it, a 55-year-old couple making $85K would see their premiums more than triple to $24,535.

".. something we've always wanted to do."