🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Reporters who fact-check Trump to his face are not “stupid”, they are not “piggies”, and they are not “ugly”. They are doing their jobs, and doing it under pressure most of us will never experience. We should be grateful for their service. I appreciate their courage now more than ever.

Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine. Cartoon by Michael de Adder

We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)

In his second term President Donald Trump posted, “Long live the king,” and circulated an image of himself wearing a crown. For the White House, he has shattered Jefferson’s republican vision of the people’s house by transforming it into a model of the French kings’ Palace of Versailles.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Insanity

Trump's plan to spread educational services across multiple departments is the federal government shirking its responsibility to all kids. That is unacceptable. Tell Congress: Reclaim authority over education & protect public education for all! actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...

At least 30 individual or corporations who have given over $116M to Trump and his super PAC have received regulatory favors from the Trump White House. That includes Big Tobacco companies, Pharma giants, and crypto moguls like the Winklevoss twins. Pay-to-play corruption.

This “tough guy” rebrand is about to cost taxpayers $2 billion. But somehow, cancer research is what they call wasteful spending. Absurd.

Ghislaine Maxwell is an unrepentant child sex predator. So why would an American President even consider commuting her sentence? This would be a national disgrace. @democrats-judiciary.house.gov want answers.

In case some may, like me, have initially confused CHD with the Children’s Defense Fund, CHD is just RFKjr’s front org. No mystery about her whack views.

The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.

The “Home Goods” White House: @governor.ca.gov

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan. I never made it out of the House.

What cartoonist made this? 😊

These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban. It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.

The President just announced he is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Argentina. That’s outrageous. If he was willing to spend that money in America - to keep American health premiums from skyrocketing, the shutdown would be over tomorrow.

A president imposing tariffs (on us) because he’s annoyed (by a real ad not fake) is not how the law works. We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

this is like the inflatable frogs of comments threads.

A right-wing press corps is not a press corps — it's a propaganda machine for an authoritarian president. Grateful for the journalists who refused to bend the knee to this lawless regime. Our democracy depends on them continuing to speak truth to power.

My comment to the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs about today's Pentagon announcement. —>

“In a very meaningful way, Donald Trump is erasing the work and the space that has been painstakingly carved out for women both at the White House, and throughout this country.” (continued in Substack 👇) open.substack.com/pub/mamasiss...

MAGA likes to brag that Trump collected more than $2 billion in tariffs. Dude, that's YOUR money he took. And he just gave $40 billion to bail out Argentina!

A lot is on the line — North Carolina’s next senator will help decide whether people have access to affordable health care, quality schools, clean water and more.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

1. Washington DC #NoKings 👑

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

Me!

Karoline Leavitt is a complete disgrace. Her violent and unhinged rhetoric is going to get someone killed. These extremists are sick people.

My favorite wall Trump never built remains the one between his administration(s) and his business

This is weirdly heartening. He comes off as scared and desperate.

I bet the mainstream media will be all over this outrageous and dangerous comment, right? Ha — just kidding!! 🤣 The media will IGNORE it, just like they ignore ALL the batshit crazy comments from Trump and his minions.

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.

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

The amazing thing about the SNL sketch last night was not that Ashley Padilla wore a scarf nearly identical to mine.  It’s that I trust Amy Poehler as AG more than Pam Bondi.

There are no serious people in this administration. Whether you are DHS secretary, the Secretary of Defense or the president's physician, your main job is to create propaganda.

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?

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.