Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
Even if it were a capital offense, execution of suspects by cop is antithetical to our justice system.
Maybe a true friend of Israel would want it to stop its descent into a lawless pariah nation led by psychopathic criminals.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
Is “truth” his new word for number two?
Literally everything he says is a lie.
“As you appear to understand them.” There is no question thatTrump is breaking the law every single day. Imitating Trump means doing the same. Once you give up the law, it’s gone. That’s coup and revolution territory. History shows how destructive that can get, so it’s strictly a last resort.
Democrats should stay within the bounds of the law, which would preclude wielding many of the “powers” Trump is trying to arrogate to himself. You don’t burn the village (nation of laws) to save it.
By her logic, why bother planting a garden? The sun won’t shine every day.
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a federal law that prohibits using the military as a domestic police force. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Personally, I’d rather read a text than watch a video. Much faster.
GOP responses to mass shootings: Step 1: Blame it on mental health, not guns Step 2: Vote to cut funding for mental health Repeat I live outside the US, and I can assure you: the rest of the world has people with mental health problems. What they don't have is easy access to unlimited guns.
This is an unconstitutional and authoritarian power grab. The constitution grants power over federal elections to the states and Congress - not the president.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
That’s quite a rabbit hole she’s trying to lead us into.
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
I miss the old brand #CDC
Done.
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Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Our President keeps insisting prices are going to drop by 1400%, 1000%, or some other number that’s mathematically impossible. That he can’t do simple math isn’t the problem, it’s that he’s lying to America while things are getting more expensive because of his bad choices.
This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...
Trump's allegations against Lisa Cook are not the story. The story is that a Trump loyalist is deeply corrupting agency processes for the express purpose of manufacturing pretexts for referring Trump's leading enemies for DOJ prosecution. Dug into this process here: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Trump is firing the competent people in the national security apparatus because they are competent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
There’s a research project to be conducted and a series of scientific papers to be written on the effect Donald Trump has on certain human brains, whereby behavior that from anyone else would result in reaction A from him results in reaction B.
Lincoln was not a revolutionary, so I guess she’s referring to the Confederacy, which failed in their rebellion. If Trump is leading a third revolution, then its goal is to impose the ideology of the Confederacy on the states who defeated it 150 years ago.
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
Can a giant meteor fall on these people please?
Translation: “You’re hallucinating again, but I’ll play along to keep you from firing me.”
When they start changing the name, that means they know it’s unpopular. They’re trying to put lipstick on a pig.
Let's take this moment to thank @atrupar.com for all he does, because if there's ever a brain-frying moment to be clipping Trump videos, it's this one. I cannot express how much I've come to rely on Aaron's work, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Subscribe!
Worth reading this www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Someone should ask him “and what does the innocent person say?”
Statement from Fed Gov Lisa Cook: “President Trump purported to fire me “for cause” when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”
I have literally never heard of three no bills. Even two on a case is incredibly unusual. Any former AUSAs ever hear of such a thing?
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
“Unprecedented” is going to be used a lot in future accounts of this era.
Fired based on mere allegations—another step on the slide towards a banana republic. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
This is 100% correct.
Here it is! I just cited it for someone else. It's damn good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qliV...
Happy Birthday to the National Park Service! 🏔️ National Parks were America's best idea – but this administration is threatening to undo it all by slashing funding, firing park workers, and denying climate change. We’ll keep standing strong for our public lands in Colorado.
He is so in love with Putin that he just can’t help showing it.
They need to stop using that word. It trivializes Trump’s abuses of power and even implies we should not focus on them at all.
It’s storybook time again. Fairy tales and fables.
Rendition?
He wants to tax the poor to subsidize the rich.
Abrego Garcia judge is critical of the gov’t’s position & prohibits his deportation to Uganda at this time. The gov’t’s, undoubtedly expecting this agrees not to deport.
Will the govt use his ICE detention to try to prevent him from communicating with his legal representatives?
That’s *alleged* gang member, trafficker etc & highly improper for the govt to say while a criminal case is in progress. DHS may yet have to eat its words, just like they did after THE Sec’y previously said he’d never return to the US.
Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/
Today I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The courts & public outcry forced Trump to return him to MD, but Trump’s cronies keep lying about his case & are engaged in a malicious abuse of power to try to deport him to Uganda. As I told Kilmar, I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all:
This shows he feels threatened by Wes Moore. Good.
Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most
Days after reuniting with his family, the Trump administration has once again detained Kilmar Ábrego García and now plans to deport him to Uganda — a country he has zero connection to — as retaliation for not accepting the government's plea deal. This vindictive cruelty must end.
#ProudBlue Trump’s ICE detained Kilmar Abrego García this morning—snatching him without cause. This isn’t law enforcement, it’s political terror. Deporting him to Uganda is cruel and unnecessary. Ripping him from his family is next level evil. His family needs him. We must fight for him.
Trump: "I did this over the weekend. I'm making a speech ... " (Trump delivered zero speeches over the weekend.)
Understanding newsworthiness: if POTUS were to take a dump in the middle of the Oval Office on national TV, that would be newsworthy. After he’s done it a few hundred times, it’s just the way things are now.
Newsom shapes everything around the brute fact that Trump is serially breaking the law and using government sponsored violence and intimidation to entrench authoritarian power. He accepts this as the core fact of our moment. Me and @whstancil.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
the thing I love about Zohran’s campaign is that instead of “this place fucking sucks and I alone can fix it” his message is “being a New Yorker rules, we live in the best city in the world, let’s make it even better together” show some damn pride in the places you want to govern
A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.
Vance is a quite bad Putin propagandist.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
If he wants it to end like WWII, that would mean the total defeat and unconditional surrender of Russia, the fall of the Russian government, the suicide of Putin, the outlawing of the United Russia party, and the occupation of Russia by Ukraine and its allies. Is that what he means?
Funny how every Republican who talks about venerating our history has such a terrible grasp of history.
We shouldn’t do this … unless Trump wants to do it. Then it’s OK.
Churchill demanded unconditional surrender and got it
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Sounds like he wants this issue to go away. Calls it a “distraction” rather than an abuse of power and threat to self-government. Doesn’t address the unprecedented use of military for domestic law enforcement. Doesn’t point out the reduction in crime undercutting Trump’s supposed rationale.
After making him suffer in an El Salvador torture prison, the Trump administration will stop at nothing to deport Kilmar Ábrego García. They're trying to take him from his family and home to a country he has zero connection to, a punishment for fighting for his rights. This is unjust and cruel.
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me. A few points about this, because there will be a lot of bullshit about it. 1/
@davidfrum.bsky.social on the "sick psychological dynamic of what President Trump is up to" with proceedings like the FBI raid on former national security advisor John Bolton. "This is unlike anything we've ever seen before." via @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
The One Ugly Distraction let ACA premium tax credits expire—jacking up health care costs for 22M Americans. In VA, a 55-year-old making $63K will pay $2,410 more just to keep their plan. Working families pay the price for GOP cruelty.
A carefully orchestrated, coordinated, and controlled propaganda operation by Trump, Bondi, Blanche, Patel, Bongino, Maxwell, and Fox. What a joke.
Of course the actual narrative has nothing to do with Maxwell’s interview and everything to do with the refusal by Trump to release the Epstein files. Turley knows this and is deliberately obfuscating.
I'm hoping the transparently disgusting deal made between Epstein's old best friend and his most notorious accomplice is obvious to everyone here.
As usual, making the important points. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
Everything we have seen regarding Trump tells us that he never surrenders anything he possesses without a fight. The presidency is the most valuable thing he has ever “owned.” Of course he’ll try to keep it.
One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war. www.newsweek.com/president-pu...
Anthony’s cornfield is getting pretty full apnews.com/article/pent...
Indeed. It's hard to see NYT describing this stuff as an "uneasy mix of retribution and law enforcement," or as a "power play," or any other of 100 different mealy-mouthed euphemisms they keep using.
On one level, it is embarrassing that a democratic leader facing down military aggression needed “protection” from a U.S. president, but that is the upside-down world we now inhabit—one in which the U.S. is a greater threat to Ukraine than it is to Russia.
Elizabeth Warren: "The one thing I want to remind everyone is when Democrats get in power again -- and we will -- we've got to change the rules. We've got to change the rules on the impact of money in politics and we've got to pass the voting rights act again and make sure there is true protection."
Warren: "We can't live in a world anymore where we pretend that everybody is playing by the same set of rules ... Republicans are determined to rig every rule they can, to break laws in order to seize power and to hang on to it. As Democrats, we have a responsibility to fight back & fight back hard"
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/happiness-...
OK patriots, by what legal authority was Nicole Collier detained in the Texas legislature and forced to sleep there? Try none whatsoever--a straight-up false & unlawful arrest. Who Is Dustin Burrows? Even by Texas Standards, He’s a Lawless Bully newrepublic.com/article/1993... via @newrepublic.com
Arrrrg! (Scott Jennings)
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
