Trump is definitely helping Make Europe Great Again (MEGA?) by encouraging countries around world to redirect their trade to the EU. "The agreement is expected to double bilateral trade within five years...Asian countries are strengthening ties with non-U.S. partners" www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

This is actually a great opportunity for reporters to investigate WHY every company getting a no-bid ICE contract got those contracts - and why competitive bidding was not done for them.

Thread makes an important point about political compromises - which is you make the compromises forced on you at the point of political negotiation, which FDR did with racist segregationists, but you don't throw people under the bus preemptively and only when forced to do so.

Pack this lawless court. And by lawless, I mean literally acting as if all prior law doesn't exist and they can rule at will. Any Dem running for office should be asked if they will they vote to expand the court - and primary any who say no.

I cancelled my Paramount subscription when they dumped Colbert. Hopefully, everyone restoring their Disney accounts drop their Paramount accounts at the same time.

Just to be clear to every jury and judge this has nothing to do with evidence but is just abuse of process for revenge.

Every Dem leader should shut down every interview with every ABC news outlet across the country. No interviews with any of them.

Just to be clear that RFK Jr.'s verbal diarrhea about autism is all junk science, every credible study shows no association between vaccines and autism.

Love this sales pitch- "Cole boasts that most of his players earn two, and sometimes even three, times what minor leaguers typically make despite playing almost 100 fewer games, and he aims to give them “significant raises” each year. " www.forbes.com/sites/justin...

So we are cutting off foreign aid for food and medicine, killing millions, but Trump is extending foreign aid to a corporate-nationalist ally in Argentina to bolster his regime. Our whole foreign policy is now in service to corporatist Trump stooges.

Yes Dems are socialists and prefer in theory socialist candidates. Question is whether they think particular socialists can win. Black voters are most socialist group and in 2020, decided in the primaries that Joe Biden was safest choice to defeat Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Vaccinating kids & taking painkillers makes you an evil mom, while dousing your kid in murderous gun culture make you "one of us" - and you don't understand why one of your own would murder your hero.

We face three-part threat to democracy: a president with shrinking approval, federal forces remodeled for personal loyalty, and local police forces with uncertain political sympathies- creating uncertainty if Trump tries to seize power in blue states. /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/blue-state...

Trying to desperately maintain the proper level of outrage that a corrupt criminal was given a get-out-of-jail free card so he could send innocent people to gulags all over the world. Just levels of corruption beyond imagination. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

We will end federal control of education and use federal power to control education Word salad to mean - no laws matter, just do what Dear Leader decrees.

Trump is a genocidal mass murderer on par with Hitler, Pol Pot and King Leopold

Mirriam Webster can shorten its entry for "crony capitalism" and just put in the words "see Trump administration"

Dems who wimpily honored Charlie Kirk - who called for Biden to be executed - also are wimpily unsure whether state murders without trial is something they should oppose publicly. If you can only oppose illegal executions for cute puppies, don't run for office. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany publicly canceled her Disney+ subscription and encouraged others to do the same" Given she was rumoured to be in Avengers: Doomsday, serious move by her (loved her since Orphan Black). Wonder when other big Marvel names will step up screenrant.com/disney-scram...

Fox can promote violence with zero repercussions from the FCC, just highlighting that the law is now just a partisan weapon.

AOC putting the responsibility for this disgraceful vote on the Charlie Kirk resolution squarely where it belongs, on Jeffries and the rest of the Dem leadership. If AOC doesn't run for President, we should build national movement demanding she replace Jeffries as Speaker if Dems win the House.

The cooking of the books may have started "The BLS...did not explain the reasoning for the delay or when it might ultimately be released." It may just be incompetence delaying this report, but point is nothing they put out can be trusted now. www.axios.com/2025/09/19/b...

This means every reporter who has official credentials going forward should be treated as state-owned media. Best route is stop covering and broadcasting any official press conference. Quote them from transcripts as necessary but stick to unofficial sources - and do actual reporting for once.

Another snuff film by Trump as he posts his political orgasms as he orders war crimes and the murders of civilians

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

What share of faculty during McCarthyism were adjuncts, I wonder. I feel what this is two bad effects multiplying each other: an authoritarian MAGA that is uniquely anti-speech, and an academy that has created a vast array of always-vulnerable faculty.

Dutch late night TV has its take

No euphemisms. Trump is going to cut Social Security benefits. Average yearly benefits are ~$24,000, so raising retirement age by two years means headlines should be: "Trump proposes $50,000 per retiree cut in Social Security benefits" fortune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Here are the Democrats who voted NO on the obscene Charlie Kirk resolution. When Dems take back the House, we should demand that only people on this list who had thw courage to vote NO should be Speaker or lead committees

Way things are going Netflix may end up being the only streaming service I don't cancel www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

Trump is consolidating power. And consolidating hatred for his authoritarian rule. Question is whether he can consolidate power enough to make the second part not matter.

Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do. And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.

This is truly, truly pathetic. Just a complete ideological capitulation.

On Thursday, “Sorry to Bother You” filmmaker Boots Riley suggested the Directors Guild of America should impose a strike against Disney-affiliated projects." Strike and consumer boycott against Disney would be message that Trump is not only threat institutions can face. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

The day Dems regain the White House and Congress, enough Supreme Court Justices should be approved that first day to immediately put MAGA into a minority on the Supreme Court. Shock and awe can go both directions.

This is what is known as a bubble: "Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the value of America’s stockmarket has risen by $21trn. Just ten firms—including Amazon, Broadcom and Nvidia—account for 55% of the rise. " www.economist.com/finance-and-...

What's true is I have never seen Jimmy Kimmel live on TV. For me, he is just one more video clip among many on social media. The attack on him is still fascist but there is a weirdly retro delusion to these fascist attacks.

Trump administration cops arresting local members of the opposition party by the dozen, as those opposition party leaders demand to see whether detainees are being abused. Nothing fascist to see here.

Comer making the case that the Epstein investigation was a coverup from end to end, that despite multiple victims testifying publicly that they were trafficked by Maxwell and Epstein, none of them were apprently interviewed for the record during the legal investigations.

This is the confident pushback we need from Dem leaders. Make it clear that every corrupt deal will be investigated and will be prosecuted.

Searchlight Institute is another new billionaire-funded centrist outfit telling Dems to trash their own voter base to win. Ignore them and look at what worked in 2020 when Biden turned out 81 million voters - the most in US history /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/ignore-the...

Trump takes comedy Trump takes history "the administration has ordered the removal of multiple signs and exhibits at national parks related to the history of slavery." Charlie Kirk can't be criticized. And neither can his slaveholding predecessors. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

The jury trial remains the greatest defense against tyranny in our Constitution. The Supreme Court can say whatever they want but they can't force 12 people in the privacy of the jury room to convict anyone.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Cancelled my Disney/Hulu subscription and attached a note explaining why. Love to see millions cancelling.

The simplicity of online streaming largely ended the era of mass piracy but with censorship descending, I suspect many people will decide avoiding handing their money over to corporate MAGA overlords is worth the small hassles of piracy

Trump takes comedy Trump claims two late night comedy scalps. If folks don't understand this is not very slow dictatorship being imposed, they are not paying attention. If Ellison takes over HBOMax, which includes Comedy Central, expect the Daily Show to be next. deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...