Thank god he is so stupid. Alienating the military will hurt his coup chances.
Thank god he is so stupid. Alienating the military will hurt his coup chances.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Republicans are doing the same kind of “papers please” authoritarian garbage that made the Soviet Union lose the Cold War. They’re putting big government bureaucracy over human lives.
Unfortunately you lost Republicans at “data”. Facts will never get in the way of their beliefs.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Another, “oh, right, the Reagan revolution” chart.
Fool? Or co-conspirators?
Another reminder that what would make us say, “Wow, what’s happening here? Is this administration dysfunctional? Is the president mentally impaired?”in normal times, is so routine in this administration that most people won’t even hear about it.
Was it not clear to her when she took the job that she would be asked to put a political agenda before protecting the public? Does she follow the news?
Despite backsliding in the US, global investment in renewable energy stayed strong in the first half of 2025. This is the energy of the future, and the GOP is letting the rest of the world develop it.
I sure hope none of those financial people voted for him!
Ok. Well we can attack Biden for this or, hear me out, we can go after the known sexual predator and alleged pedophile in the White House.
Hi is right. Obviously this won't / can't happen w/o Dems in control. But Dems should make clear that it *will* happen if they have a chance. (To underscore: Per-capita, people of DC pay *more* federal tax than people in any state, incl NY CA. And have zero representation. Or a governor!
I’m trying to imagine someone finding this inspiring. I really can’t.
This is basically an American version of the Al Qaeda monkey bars videos.
I like presidents who know Slavery is bad, not "WOKE."
Don’t we have to be careful with statements like this since it may only be HISTORICALLY true? Republicans are making a full-fledged effort to corrupt our elections. Are we confident they won’t succeed? Have we had our last clean election?
This is POLITICAL violence.
“Liberals already ruined it.” Confirming this is an armed POLITICAL force.
Why would Putin make a deal “for you”? How f’ing dense are you?!
Surely, surely this president wouldn’t do anything that violates the spirit or letter of our sacred Constitution!! /s
I don't know why we act like the Constitution is an actor in politics, as if it's going to step in on its own to reestablish order. It is a tool of politics that can and must be used by political actors in defense of the Constitution and its values.
Only if you’re an adult.
Which offense is more hazardous to society?: crossing an imaginary line or shooting someone? Is this a hard question?
It’s fairly simple. Republicans allow corruption to run rampant. Democrats do not. Vote Democrat.
Europe's leaders showing up in force at the White House tomorrow is not a display of solidarity with the US. It's the opposite. A sign of their profound distrust of Trump and of his relationship with Putin and his commitment to our NATO allies and Ukraine.
Our way of life wasn’t immediately affected when fascist Germany annexed the Sudetenland, so we appeased the dictator. I guess we can’t expect America’s own fascist party to have learned the right lesson from that.
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences? RUBIO: That's not the aim RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
You can’t possibly believe Trump will push Putin to accept ceasefire terms. So why write your headline that way? Because he wants you to.
ICE recruiting tweets from Homeland Security this summer: 🎩 IMAGES: 1860s-1940s nostalgia ⬜ MESSAGING: white supremacist dog whistles 👀 MEANING: our recruiting efforts are failing, let's target the white nationalists Our screenshots from verified DHS Twitter account:
I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.
Scenario: TX Republicans negotiate some kind of deal with California Democrats. California Democrats honor the deal. Republicans simply do not. There is no way Republicans are giving up authoritarian single-party rule. They love it!
In other words, “order” is used by fascists to mean doing things the way the regime wants, not necessarily by what the law or math commands.
They use law and “order” in a contorted way, to mean a hierarchical order with rich, White men in top. Here, having data in “order” means data contorted to show their failed policies are actually working.
Finally. I've been wanting MSM would have graphics like this at the ready every time they covered trump, especially leading up to the election and during debates. You KNOW what he's gonna lie about. Have that shit ready to go!
After a remarkable stretch when wage inequality fell substantially, wage growth at the bottom is now once again falling behind growth at the top. This is bad news for working class Americans. t.co/1hp5EE9up5
Holy CRAP. Gavin Newsom is good at this game!
Republicans are only co sister about one principle: A MORE HIERARCHICAL SOCIETY. They have abandoned every other stated principle - fiscal responsibility, national security, law and order - when it came into conflict with that one true principle.
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
The whole idea of a "Heritage American" is revisionist BS, and I say that as someone who can trace my own "heritage" in this land back to the 1640s. This country has always been a mish-mosh of peoples coming together to make a better future. "E Pluribus Unum"; out of many, one.
Yeah but MAGA needs a clearly smoking gun. Then they need to see the bullet enter the body in 4k slow motion. Then they need to put their hand in the wound. Then they themselves have to have been the victim. No, never mind, that won’t do. It’s Democrats’ fault!
The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
“Religious authoritarians who start wars and support terrorism” USED TO describe Israel’s enemies. It’s hard to see much difference now, or much reason for the US to unconditionally back one side.
“Religious authoritarians who start wars and support terrorism” USED TO describe Israel’s enemies. It’s hard to see much difference now, or much reason for the US to unconditionally back one side.
Did someone warn the Argentinians to lock up their pets?!
It's assumed now, with good evidence, that Republicans are not decent human beings.
Exactly. Once they admit he’s done one bad thing, there can be no stopping point, as he’s a bottomless pit of moral depravity. And once they step on that slippery slope, they can’t escape their own culpability. So instead they look away, and lie to others—and to themselves.
If there is one thing I know about maga it’s that they drop their conspiracy theories once they are told they’re wrong. /s
Donald Trump says he wants to keep Americans safe from fentanyl. Yet, he's once again putting lives at stake as he slashes and burns the very programs actually lowering overdose death rates and implementing recovery and health programs.
What happens when state leaders are more interested in single party rule than they are in secure and fair elections? I’m looking at you, Texas and North Carolina.
Witness tampering done right in the open.
Because Trump’s rural voter base really care about this issue. /s
I do not like living under an authoritarian regime.
What are the practical options for removing a lifetime appointee? Is impeaching them a thing? Can a future president do anything?
“Here, too, powerful people are responding to authoritarian advances just as their Hungarian counterparts have — not with defiance, but with capitulation, convinced that they can maintain their independence and stay above the fray.” They’re wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Republicans understand that the information ecosystem is so broken right now that they can lie with impunity. They’re not wrong about that. Immoral but not wrong.
Now imagine if we had a functioning Congress. We might be able to remove this menace to Americans’ security.
Of that list, guess which ones the regime is scrambling to redact right now, and which ones they’ll allow to go public.
"As the most recent U.S. ambassador to Orban’s Hungary, I’m often asked if the Trump administration’s tactics feel familiar. The short answer is yes. But the more important—and unsettling—question is this: Does the way Americans are responding feel familiar, too?" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Gosh if only someone had warned them he’d be so bad.
One troubling aspect I've seen in the discourse of even well-meaning people around Trump and Epstein is an assumption that there's a bright line between pedophiles and rapists who attack adult women. There is not. Most rapists prefer young victims, even if they prefer adult sex partners.
No be one is allowed to be surprised or “feel duped” at this late stage. If you trust Trump or any Republican you are an absolute moron.
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
Outdated laws give presidents far too much leeway to deploy military forces inside the United States. We’re working to reform those laws and establish new safeguards against abuse. bit.ly/43UHkI1
Another example where the public basically supports the Democratic Party’s position… unless they’re told it’s the Democratic Party’s position.
Sounds like Brazil is a functioning democracy.
The federal government is suing Los Angeles because the city is not helping with immigration enforcement. But under the American system of federalism, LA is under no obligation to do so. bit.ly/44l4kBu
I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.
Adding… I refuse to believe they’ve suddenly discovered ethics.
Is it safe to say Republicans see Trump as an old, unhealthy lame duck and that’s the main reason they’re finally turning up him? They want to get the next easily manipulated fascist candidate lined up?
Is this even a federal case or are Republicans trampling on state/local rights again?
Can we finally move on from the idea that ANY Republican is “a person of integrity”?
Further scandals around the sloppy and rushed construction and use of the Everglades detention camp — Florida officials sent a teenager there! Meanwhile, last night the @ACLU and partners had to file a lawsuit just to ensure that people detained there can talk to their lawyers.
Are R voters “too stupid”? Probably not. Are they addicted to propaganda? Yes, definitely.
Spoiler alert: they will.
I think about this a lot. Biden mental fitness vs Trump mental fitness is another example. I’ve concluded the media sees a story when they think someone might care about that story. Republican voters clearly DO NOT CARE about Trump’s mental fitness or about R authoritarianism. So it’s not a story.
I don’t know if it’s “phony” so much as it’s an open admission that he is willing to knowingly hurt his constituents to help billionaires. It might be the most honest thing Republicans have done.
Trust the government, y’all!
This issue will completely divide the crazies from the really crazies!!!
HOLY CRAP!! A QAnon account with 55k followers on TS posted this video. Dems can’t take their foot off the gas with this. This will tear his base apart.
It’s pretty clear: Trump does not want some of the documents—and some of the truth—about Epstein becoming public.
The early stages of MAGA finding their new prophet. He's old and on his second term. The rivals will smell blood in the water.
They're literally saying don't eat cake so billionaires can have another mega-yacht.
They're literally saying you should not have cake so that billionaires can have a second mega-yacht. There is plenty of wealth in Americ- scratch that. There would be even MORE wealth in America if we switched to universal health care. Medicare for All.
Deny yourself cake so billionaires don't have to deny themselves a second mega-yacht.
"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.
I sure hope no one who voted Republican likes to eat food!
This is going to wreck the lives of hard working folks in farm communities in Ventura County, Southern CA and beyond. This will also impact - checks notes - kitchen table issues like grocery prices for all of us. So hello Democrats - @governor.ca.gov get on it. This is not a distraction.
So, in what sense is it a "bulwark"?
Republicans don't avoid humiliating themselves.
Any employers of illegal labor arrested? /s
Sure, but did the Inuit Dome project syphon off a huge percentage of that money to bribes and to Donald Trump's pocket? Ha! Gotcha!
Republicans campaign on lowering energy costs. Then govern by protecting Big Oil and raising your bill. Campaign in false promises, govern in filthy profits. op: @cnn.com
Cops wearing masks ARE the most dangerous element of society.
"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason." – Edward R. Murrow
How do Democrats do that WHILE ALSO delivering the instant improvement to daily life that voters and the media circus demand?
My sense is that the 22 agencies that were combined into the new Department of Homeland Security in 2002 generally functioned better before the combination. Isn't it worth seriously considering whether it's time to do away with DHS and disperse its various functions back to DOJ, Treasury, etc?
Yes