If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
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If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
But no matter what they say, pocket rescissions are illegal - and the exact part of the law that they claim *grants* the power actually directly prohibits it instead. However, even if the law did grant them the power, it would be unconstitutional under the LIVA decision. bsky.app/profile/bbko...
Enormous impoundment-related changes in Trump/Vought's Circular A-11 update from Friday, which is OMB's guidance to agencies They: -removed the definition of impoundment -said GAO's impoundment determinations don't matter -claimed pocket rescission authority -claimed profound deferral authority š§µ
I love this guy
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"How Silicon Valley Groomed JD Vance to Replace Trump and Usher in the Broligarchy" Vance has been groomed by Silicon Valley oligarchs to replace Trump and establish a techo-fascist utopia for the world's wealthiest men who want to conquer space and live forever. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
With with Bessentās most optimistic projections, that would take about 27 years.
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. Youāre going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health ā pushing false narratives like, āwe need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.ā That is a lie.
When Woody Allen is your character witness
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Trump family amasses $6 billion fortune fter World Liberty crypto trading launch - at least on paper The Trump family's inflated crypto assets now surpass the value of their inflated portfolio assets The grift is astronomical www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUSā presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
This is what happens when a power-drunk con man needs the votes of a block of anti-scientific crackpots that have been manipulated by internet algorithms to believe they actually are correct when they are in fact incredibly and completely wrong.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationās public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This is starting to feel even more suspicious www.aol.com/jd-vance-fle...
Meanwhile, did you see? A federal judge on Friday allowed the Trump admin and the Oklahoma AG to use his court to subvert democracy through a sham lawsuit manufactured to get rid of a pro-immigrant state law they donāt like without needing to go through the trouble of actually repealing the law.
Signed,
He safely brought the woman to Womenās Shelter Total Landscaping
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS POST THAT IS INTENDED TO CREATE THE IMPRESSION THAT IāM IN GOOD HEALTH AND MADE A GOOD DECISION TO GO TO BED AT A REASONABLE HOUR
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Heās providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
University of Michiganās consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Boardās consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldnāt go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
As I said to Wolf Blitzer ā¦ {checks notes} ā¦ *9 days* after the election: "Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trumpās most controversial Cabinet picks were ones youād make 'if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.' ...
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening todayābeyond that it's happeningāis that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
Actually, he thinks that he is the state, and that everything should be controlled by the state, as long as he's the state.
More name changes afootā¦ Department of Defense = Department of War Department of Education = Department of Keeping You Stupid Center for Disease Control = Center for Crackpot Conspiracies Department of Agriculture = Department of Subsidies for Farmers going broke from tariffs
šØBREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
The Trump administration is undertaking an unprecedented strategy to try to undermine our elections. They are doing so by rewriting election rules, targeting election officials, supporting election deniers, and retreating from protecting voting rights. bit.ly/4l1lUPP
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and šššššš
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldnāt go along with the lie. (Seriously, thatās the answer)
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When your body shape is best described as ālump,ā youāre not doing well.
GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe just called a special session of the Missouri legislature to start on Wednesday. He also released a new congressional map aimed at gerrymandering the Dem-held #MO05 so that Republicans can flip it. Press release: governor.mo.gov/press-releas... Via: x.com/RedistrictNe...
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnāt normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
RFK Jr looks like heās been sampling the diseases at the CDC
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, that's pretty weird, right? I wonder how many days he'll go without being in public until an intrepid journalist asks why. Might even be a book in it. Do you know anyone?
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
We dead.
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
Big ruling against Trump's blatantly illegal imposition of tariffs, which are taxes on every American. Working my way through the 127 pages of opinion, so more later. THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL, WITH NO LESS THAN THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AT ISSUE! See: share.google/0v8nPm966u0H...
Isnāt it something how every one of his failures becomes a matter of national existentialism?
This was a power grab. Pure and simple. Normally, Congress would step in and complain. But now the Republicans are a cult, not a political party. This is an important front in the fight against authoritarianism.
Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom
If he thinks a few transgender people out of several thousand murderers is "a common denominator," wait until he hears how many of them were using automatic weapons.
I guess they should have called it the Trump Taj Mahal
Mark this day as the death of expertise at the CDC. All we have between us and the next pandemic are a bunch of horse paste eating conspiracy loons.
Donald Trump didnāt write āThe Art of the Dealā (he probably didnāt even read it) and he sure as hell isnāt writing any of these executive orders. Heās just The Heritage Foundationās useful idiot.
Idk man maybe the reason for all the antidepressants is that weāre forced to live in a hellscape where know-nothing nepo babies get to set policy against all evidence & nothing is ever done to address the real things killing our children at schools, movie theaters, and malls? Just a theory.
ā.. I donāt know of any case, at least in my lifetime, of the government taking equity in a company simply because it could.ā @steverattner.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
He's gonna make kids go to work camps because he can atmospherically deduce chakra misalignment.
Iowa tonight is exactly why Republicans are redrawing their maps.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kidās āmitochondrial challengesā just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
There canāt be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
Apparently Trump just figured out that the Utah court struck down the gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms. If he subscribed to Democracy Docket he would have learned about this on Monday. Don't make the same mistake sign-up now. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
OMG, you mean there are societal consequences to being a smug propagandist asshole?
Never thought Iād see the day when the undermining of public health and cancellation of research into terminal or debilitating diseases could be accurately described as āfor political gainā
On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And itās barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others ā Congress, the courts, the American people ā from having a say or even knowing what heās going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
With the worst of hurricane season still ahead, Trump and his croniesā dismantling of FEMA has gutted the agencyās ability to respond to disasters and keep people safe. These brave FEMA employees tried to sound the alarm, so naturally Trump is punishing them. Beyond shameful.
This guy deleted his French tweet
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official ācopied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.ā The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowaās senate.
Youāre not dropping a single, asshole. If youāre actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
Itās all fun and games until someone loses a penis
"Specifically, DOGE officials made a live copy of the numerical identification system, a database known as the Numident, in June ā despite warnings that doing so violated security protocols and could expose Americansā personal identifying information." www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-m...
Reup: John Roberts gave Ed "Big Balls" Cositine live and unaudited access to every Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
The fact that the President of the United States is saying this is not ok. It will never be ok. This is not normal - and everyone in DC who is still harboring delusions that they can keep doing politics (and legislating) either in denial or pretending this is all normal - are enabling this.
I think he meant to say āklepto presidentā
We are very far off the cliff here folks. šŗšø
I think this is exactly right: Stephen Miller went on Fox News to go radio Rwanda on Dems. But I also think Miller can be made to look extreme. In reality, a huge number of right wingers hate him (and think his policies are doing real damage). They're just also terrified of him.
Most striking thing about this clip is not Trump floating the idea of being a dictator (again) and claiming some want that. The most striking thing is his sneering dismissal of the counter argument "freedom." Only modern US president to explicitly oppose freedom. Should be the basis of opposition.
Trump & Bondi versus the Rule of Law: This is why we Americans live in fear today The Honorable Thomas Cullen, the judge from the Federal District Court in Virginia who was brought in to decide Donald Trumpās and Pam Bondiās corrupt and unprecedented lawsuit against the Federal Court in Maryland,
Donald Trumpās and Pam Bondiās corruption of the Rule of Law in America will continue apace until the American People stand up and cry out āNo More. Weāve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.ā
Hadn't been on TruthSocial for a while. Didn't realize it's a website wholly subsidized by scamming seniors with Ivermectin ads, which Trump fans apparently still think cures all known illnesses.
The term for this is mirror propaganda. Accuse the opposition of what you yourself are doing as to cast your aggression as merely self-defense. It's how fascists work and incite genocidal violence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusat...
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
Theyāre making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where heās never lived. Theyāre simply fucking vile.
Just go all out and call it the Department of Big Beautiful War
wrote this back in may!
Kilmar Abrego's lawyers ridicule the govt's claim, after Trump and his cabinet members tarred Abrego repeatedly in the press, that a defense filing was supposedly "incendiary." "Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important. Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.