Funny. Not funny.
Funny. Not funny.
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Promises made. Promises kept.
QAnon memes were not a small part of what mobilized Trump’s January 6th mob. Ignoring this is a dangerous mistake and we are making it twice.
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
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.
Social programs fits squarely in any reasonable person's idea of law and order. Point is, Republicans don't mean it when they call for law and order. They just want to punish people they don't like. Democrats should call for law and order, because they mean equal treatment & equal justice.
Challenging years ahead. Prepare accordingly.
Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
SPEAKER MIKE “HOOKED ON PORN” JOHNSON SAID I, GAVIN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NEWSOM BUILDER OF THE BEST MAPS, SHOULD FOCUS ON GOVERNING MY STATE. LETS NOT FORGET “MAGIC MIKE” SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE AND WENT ON EARLY RECESS BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID OF THE VOTE ON RELEASING THE ESPTEIN FILES! - GCN
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
ICYMI — Republican Former State Senator just had his law license reinstated by the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee after getting pardoned by Trump for campaign finance crimes. He pled guilty, only did 2 weeks. www.fox13memphis.com/news/brian-k...
the Meidas Touch people having an actual good one. I'll be damned.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
Trump playing pocket (recession) pool with Congress’ funding makes Congress look neutered - unless they claim their rightful power.
Excellent question.
🧐hmmm, consider that.
Molly O'Toole: "On way 1st day teaching journalism course on covering immigration, met by ICE in Mt.Pleasant at Lamont - agents appear to take father driving young daughter, likely to school. Agents shoving bystanders, daughter sobs it’s her fault-she’d seen car parked for 2hrs. Trump’s America"
That won't happen because Leonard Leo says otherwise.
Ashli Babbitt died doing what she loved—being a domestic terrorist.
👇🏼 UnFoxMyCableBox And save lives in the process!
This is a *very* vindictive administration. They hate when their cruelty is thwarted. Just look at how they pettily refuse to admit error over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and keep trying to make his life miserable. They are truly awful people.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Page One in #NY21. www.nny360.com/news/it-s-be...
Me, waiting on Trump’s beautiful healthcare plan.
I’m sorry you need to report on this. I hope The New Yorker gives you the gig doing parade coverage after…well, you know what the parade comes after.
The constant question to ask with this administration is whether the action they’re taking actually works to keep people safe. The answer will always be no. For them it’s never about safety and always about power and control. But we have to keep asking the question and keep centering safety.
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
Of all the many many ways I imagined Trump would ruin this country, I have to admit “sealing us off from outside mail” wasn’t in the mix.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid. It's guns.”
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
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Jones responds to Ogles…
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/dear-leade...
11. Donald Trump, however, never met a bargaining partner he did not betray in the end. In his eyes, square deals are for suckers. There are winners. There are losers.
Repeat it for those at the back: Republicans on the Supreme Court gave the grandson of a Russian double-agent with ties to criminal hackers access to all of your social security data.
News: Violent crime hits 30-year low in D.C. Republicans: Send in the military. News: Schoolchildren murdered yet again. Republicans: Keep doing all the nothing we’re doing now.
Why haven't there been front page stories about the bizarre, North Korea-like 3 hour Trump "cabinet meeting"? The absence of such coverage of the conduct of Trump and his cronies explains why most people don't know how truly dangerously unhinged our government has become.
I call for the immediate firing of Donald J Trump because he fraudulently claimed that his condo was large on his loan application and small in his tax records.
Did he die today?
I can’t imagine how a person widely known as Orange Shitler could concoct that 💩 in his mind.
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
FFS 🤦♂️ totally a cult.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
"We're also linking the dollar to NFTs, starting off with an exchange rate of 1 USD for 1 Slurp Juice."
You made this monster, John Roberts
Trump: "Linda, how about it? We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don't negotiate, Linda. They've been very bad."
The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.
New in PN: "Trump's latest executive order makes clear that DC is just the beginning, an appetizer before the main course"
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens. Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1995...
According to Google AI: Louisiana, Mississippi, & Alaska are top of the list for crime. Do you see Trump sending troops there? No, because they’re red states. This is not about crime. This is about a fascist takeover of blue states to stop the midterms. Stand up. Stand strong. #ProudBlue #Pinks
Liberal city + Progressive state + Black mayor = Trump and Stephen Miller will invade.
Trump's cocktail of racism and spectacle: Shaken in L.A., stirred in D.C.: One thing neither city has is the country's most alarming crime statistics. One thing both cities do have — no coincidence — is a Black mayor. www.dailyherald.com/20250826/syn...
Lisa Cook is right not to resign. Trump’s attempt to fire her without cause is flatly illegal. www.nysun.com/article/i-wi...
As Trump emulates Hitler - blathering about "crime in the streets" while it's at a 30-year low and unconstitutionally unleashing the military on civilians - our crack media remain too petrified to call it fascism.🙄
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
If you are still describing Trump's efforts as a crime crackdown, you are not doing journalism but Trump propaganda.
Meiselas: Stop both-sidesing it, media. Stop trying to sow division within the Democratic Party when we literally have military invasions into American cities, aided and abetted by red state governors, who, again, are the takers who wouldn't exist without the blue states
BREAKING: Trump has FIRED Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook — the first time in U.S. history a president has removed a sitting Fed governor. This unprecedented power grab shatters long-standing protections meant to keep the Fed independent from partisan politics.
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
How many people of color and women does Trump have to fire or otherwise target before the racism and systematic discrimination within his administration is condemned by anyone of power in Washington? In either party? He's so despicable. Yet it seems business as usual in the mainstream media.
The last sentence should be terrifying for everyone (L'État, c'est moi) & this is well beyond Nixon-level impeachment/resignation stuff. Unprecedented levels of unpunished authoritarianism.
In a couple years the Times will run a correction in tiny print noting that during Trump's second term he was a corrupt authoritarian fascist but they they neglected to note it during their coverage at the time. If he allows them to continue publish that is.
It's beyond outrageous what Trump has done to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And it's all because he became the most prominent illustration of how the amoral, sadistic, lawless, mendacious, and authoritarian thugs who today control our federal government seek to destroy our constitutional order. ...
On the left, my warning from September 2024 about what Trump 2.0 would look like. On the right, recent headlines. I wish I'd been wrong. But because Trump is following a classic authoritarian playbook, it’s up to state and local governments to push back on this tyranny while it’s still possible.
“Trump does not care what happens to Ukraine, just as long as his relationship with the Kremlin’s murderous boss remains intact. Note his empty threats and his obvious indifference. That’s where the truth lies.” www.americaamerica.news/p/standing-b...
Journalism dies in Jeff Bezos hands. Maybe a replacement tagline?
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
Funny closing line. Bring on his Dirt Nap ASAP.
Cable news keeps broadcasting Trump as he tells blatant lies, and only rarely do they correct him. Which means they're amplifying his lies. It's complicity with fascism.
Russia: “agent Krasnov, your next test of loyalty is to autograph a photo of Vlad while you are at the Resolute Desk. Fail and…you know what happens.” Trump: “Understood. I will insert that randomly in a World Cup promotion. Watch on TV and prepare RT to record it.”
Republicans had a choice: expose child s*x traffickers or protect Trump. They chose Trump. They chose traffickers. They are the party of child s*x trafficking.
What the Trump regime has done in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and is threatening to do in Chicago and New York City is not a “crackdown on crime.” It’s a military occupation. Throwing Trump in prison would be a crackdown on crime.
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
We always said the Department of Justice was the only cabinet agency named for a virtue. Revenge is just the opposite.
Rather than reveal the real evidence in the Epstein Files, the Trump administration manufactured "evidence" with the staged/edited Blanche/Maxwell theater. The release of that faux-evidence was to get us to stop thinking about the real evidence they continue to hide.
This nation has never been safer for white supremacists, pedophiles and white collar criminals.
Cartoon by DaveGranlund.com.
The issue isn’t that Maxwell lied throughout her entire proffer. She has been lying, deceiving and manipulating people her entire life. I expect it from her. The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
THIS!!! It was a grant from Biden Administration. But after badgering and threatening CEO, Trump grabs an equity stake as a bribe. I’m old enough to remember when free market Republicans and Libertarians would have been outraged by this government expropriation (hint - it was 6 months ago).
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
Trump administration seems like it’s just daring the courts to tell it no on this one.
I’m guessing USCG Commandant Linda Fagan got pushed out due to her principles and values. To make room for this kind of 💩.
All hail Chairman Trump! 🇨🇳
Israeli army database shows at least 83% of people killed by the IDF in Gaza are civilians. #3E #FreePalestine www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
I will pay for the opportunity to dance on the grave of each and every person who wears a “Trump was right about everything” hat.
Guess Fascism just doesn’t work, especially if you rely on (( checks notes )) foreigners to spend money inside the country while you’re in the middle of building concentration camps for all immigrants that aren’t Anglo/Aryan.
