Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
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 wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
terrific tradecraft here
Congrats again, everyone
These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.
Because of fear of being banned from the white house press office.
The White House insists Donald Trump’s visible bruises are nothing, but medical experts say the explanation doesn’t hold up. Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent? www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Shouldn't The Washington Post editorial board have more important things to weigh on? Watch the full episode of Power Lines here: youtu.be/CxH8o3h-8p0?... Or listen wherever you get your podcasts: link.chtbl.com/PowerLines_S...
A good example of how not to "protest." The red paint assaults on the homes of - frequently Jewish - targets have a real SA feel to them.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." She attacked our Capitol "to stop the peaceful transfer of power, one of the most sacred traditions of our Republic." @markhertling.bsky.social, soldier and patriot, on the abomination of military honors for Ashli Babbitt
Not a surprise. The same people who hate Obama with a passion and can never have a character like that of president Obama.
Astrologer: "I see a period of trouble and disruption in your future" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Trump’s age, his visible health problems, and the White House’s cagey answers raise real questions about transparency and capacity. Yet the institutions that pride themselves on holding power to account have largely looked away," @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/trump-heal...
Scary.
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
JD Vance: “I don’t believe Trump” will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
She was a traitor then, is a traitor now and she will always be in the future.
There's only one real reason to take such extreme steps and destroy the Department of Justice. It's as Shakespeare warned about "killing all the lawyers" because that's how authoritarians maintain power. We stand in their way.
I'm thankful Don took the time to make this case in such a methodical fashion. I found it very convincing.
Oh well.
He seems like someone who is confused anytime you see him. Why are democrats obsessed with MN? Unbelievable. Ben wickler would have done a fantastic job. This is an absolute disaster.
@citizencohn.bsky.social joins Morning Shots today to break down the unfolding purge at the CDC. Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/prayers-pe...
But it is really dangerous and scary to imagine American people have tolerated a menace like Trump to be president again.
Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city. It's time to speak out. Join us.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
somehow this article, published in August 2025, is *not* a parody
Unbelievable.
when your politics are fundamentally aesthetic (per walter benjamin on fascism), but you lack the necessary thread of connection with reality to produce anything *besides* the aesthetic
An understatement. This is so dangerous and evil.
Worth noting that Pritzker not only treated Trump's blatant lies as lies, properly cast it as a violent threat, and denounced any state sending troops for dereliction of duty. He also managed to do all that without telling Democrats they should throw part of their coalition under the bus.
JB Pritzker's speech about Trump's threats to Chicago was great. -Called out the lie, didn't treat the BS pretext with respect -Cast it as a threat to his state's people -Threatened prosecution of personnel who break the law @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social break it down here:
Critics raise concerns over Trump’s unconventional approach to the law
Love podcasting with Greg, even though he always phrases questions in a way that makes me have to gather thoughts on the spot.
* ITALY PM MELONI SAYS RUSSIA'S LATEST STRIKE ON KYIV SHOWS IT HAS NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING END TO WAR @reuters.com
It’s a little bit funny that so many people with influential platforms remain committed to the idea that Trumpism, as a political project, is mysterious and hard to pin down – while Trump himself constantly goes “Gotta protect the white real Americans from the black and brown hordes.”
Gone With the Wind Donald Trump is the sexiest Confederate bad boy since Rhett Butler, but now he wants to go General Sherman on the wind industry so he can prop up the lost cause of coal. It's going to spike our energy bills, but frankly, my dears, he won't give a damn. by Maureen Dowd
Serial killer.
The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
You know what else might be involved...guns, guns might play a role in all these senseless killings.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
As a teacher of politics, as i go into the new semester, I keep wrestling with the fact that so much of what I teach is premised on the fact that the USA is a democracy. And now this clearly can not be taken for granted.
Maybe Hegseth can use the clips of soldiers in uniform picking up trash around DC in a recruiting ad.
Moore: "The thing that gets me most about this is how deeply disrespectful this is to members of the National Guard who signed up for this job as I did when I deployed overseas & led paratroopers in combat where we signed up w/the expectation the commander in chief was actually taking it seriously"
"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.
Trump now has the “warfighters” picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
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.
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
if i were on this deployment i would be pissed. these people have actual jobs! and here they are, walking around picking upt rash.
Litter is definitely a massive emergency that warrants mobilizing units from several states’ National Guard, arming them heavily and sending them into the streets of the capital.
Trump’s immigration raids are destroying our agricultural workforce — inflating costs, creating worker shortages, and destroying communities. On California Farmworker Day, we honor the hardworking men and women who power our economy. We will not stop defending your rights.
I can't believe Al freaking Sharpton is on Morning Joe again today. What is the purpose of him on the show.
“on Tuesday, for the second time this year, a Democrat appeared to flip a conservative-leaning district in the Iowa Senate…” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
I analyzed and did interviews on Trump’s Putin and European meetings. Discussed all the details and manipulations. Then realized there was a deeper truth: Trump has absolutely no clue what he is doing. joecirincione.substack.com/p/the-idioti...
Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader
"Everybody else in the entire world ... (is) watching out there, because they understand history, and they're seeing what happened with Franco ... they're seeing what happened with Hitler — this is how it's done. ... It's time for Americans to wake up. This is serious."
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
I’m not sure what “in various forms and political entities” means.
Ernst Röhm would like a word: Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...
Iowa special election: "She named high costs and education funding "that keeps pace with or exceeds inflation" as her top issues. "Overwhelmingly the main frustration point that I am hearing is that we have an affordability crisis, whether that’s housing, child care or health care."
Of course www.wsj.com/business/ene...
"In a roundabout way, many of the fundraising consultants will genuinely get money out of politics, siphoning political contributions from small donors, but never spending it on campaigns." Good God what a mess. This scam PAC cancer inside the party has been known about for a decade.
Iowa Democrats win massive upset to break GOP supermajority www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...
From October, 2024: Everything that has happened was predictable, and indeed predicted youtu.be/pHDVpBLMiFI?...
He'll likely try this, but I think the real danger comes after the 2026 midterms. Sure, they'll try to sway them with gerrymandering and "emergencies" that shut down polling places in key Democratic areas. But if Dems make real gains the current GOP majority can cry fraud and refuse to seat them.
"The CBO report Trump is so proud of makes a never-gonna-happen projection about tariff revenues in 2035, but issues all sorts of warnings about the effects we’re seeing *right f*cking now*."
Trump Mobile social media account encouraged followers to place their Trump Phone preorder, promising “the wait is almost over.” This was joined by an image that looks nothing like the one of the T1 phone currently on Trump Mobile website. Instead looks rather suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
With Lisa Cook suing to challenge Trump's firing of her, experts in mortgage law tell me her lawyer can now use discovery to dig into the role Trump loyalist William Pulte played in singling out mortgages of her, Schiff and Letitia James for scrutiny: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/irans-d...
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Classic Trump admin, getting caught conducting a covert influence op on ally's territory with a population <60k.
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Trump’s about to sign an EO to “punish” flag desecration… but let’s not forget: on Jan 6, a rioter beat a Capitol police officer with an American flag. That man got a pardon. Spare us the fake patriotism.
the “be warned, we are taking names” part is what has been missing from most major politicians’ responses
I just managed to mangle the quote "the arc of history bends towards justice" live, on MSNBC @nicollewallace.bsky.social, quoting Governor Pritzker. But I liked what he said next: "it doesn't bend on its own."
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
This is an effective message from the governor, especially with both senators and the mayor of Chicago standing behind him in a unified show of defiance. DC, of course, doesn't have most of those officials, which is why the lack of congressional pushback there matters so much these days.
No Kings, No Occupations — Toward a Democratic Opposition Politics talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-ki...
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Feel bad that I assumed that most Trump appointees were rage case degenerates
Hey look. It’s the worst economy since the last time Trump was in office. Probably just a coincidence
Yep. Cops dressing and acting like thugs, and thugs dressing and acting like cops dressing and acting like thugs, are a prescription for tragedy.
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Call in the National Guard to help the residents of Charleston. Oh, wait. South Carolina’s governor sent them to DC for Trump’s occupation.
Hey, I am so happy my adult toddler analysis had some impact on Nick Clegg’s thinking FINALLY! Now if he will only return our request to come on the pod.
A person who is used to covering for and enabling pedophiles would say this
Hi All, Happy Ukrainian Independence Day. As Ukraine's future will determine much of Europe's, all Europeans should be celebrating today and doing their damndest to see a free, democratic and strong Ukraine emerge from this war. For my weekend update, a few stories. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Tell me that’s not fascism.
An understatement.
Why Haven’t Sanctions on Russia Stopped the War? The Money Is Still Flowing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/b...
Consider the irony: "The president"—unquestionably the biggest blowhard on the planet—"is not a fan of wind."
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
