This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
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This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.
The gaslighting on the signature is maybe their most embarrassing thing yet. Just an absolute disregard for the truth, or dignity. @reptimburchett
Robert Garcia on Republicans denying that Trump actually signed the Epstein letter: "The reality is that they are bold-faced lying. And they know that they are lying for Donald Trump ... what's happening right now is the White House coverup."
Bawdy is defined as “humorously indecent.” Pedophilia is not humorous. Do better.
Although the Trump admin has justified its use of force in the Caribbean by invoking Article 2 of the Constitution, it has still not offered any legal justification for the premeditated killing of apparent civilians. Nor have I seen anyone else offer a serious argument for why this isn’t murder.
I think media and many Dems are brainlocked into treating Trump as a politically strong figure because they mistake the consolidation of autocratic power for political invincibility. But we shouldn't do that. He's both an autocrat and a ludicrous, inept figure. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2000...
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.
The Trump admin has a new propaganda video claiming that DHS is "safeguarding our culture and shared values." Micah Bock, the Trump appointee in the video, was accused in college of rubbing his erection against a sleeping woman and claiming she was "asking for it." h/t @jasonpaladino.bsky.social.
One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.
Question: Why are many people under the impression that Trump and the awful things he’s doing are popular, even though they’re not? Answer: America is still a mostly free country where dissent against Trump’s dictatorial ambitions is widespread, but media keeps making it appear as if it’s not.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
The last two months in which American economy lost jobs were June 2025 and December 2020 -- both while Donald Trump was president. Never happened under Biden.
This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.
We didn’t change the name of the Department of War to Department of Defense. DOD was entirely new, combining Cabinet level Depts of War, Navy and the new Air Force into a brand new thing. Unless they’re also reviving Navy & AF and the rest as their own depts, this isn’t “restoring” a damn thing.
So the U.S. military just blew up 11 people on the open sea in an extrajudicial massacre, saying they were dangerous drug traffickers but offering no court prior evidence to claim such. And other military units are patrolling U.S. cities with guns and no training in criminal procedure. Cool, cool.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
We’re governed by morons. It just sucks that the rest of us have to live through the delusions of a malevolent Chauncey Gardiner while his supporters pretend he makes sense.
Let's remember to keep talking about the Trump-Epstein scandal next week when Congress returns from its Epstein recess. They want us to forget and move on. Let's not. Release the Epstein files – all of them.
He was 16. He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1...
This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
Eisenhower, who probably had more personal potential to govern as an authoritarian than any leader in modern U.S. history, ordered military personnel in Washington, DC to not where uniforms because he thought the site of so much uniformed military in the capital city was inconsistent with democracy.
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
Pretending Trump's blatant lies have a point is damaging enough that nothing good comes from it. Dems should've learned this lesson with their harsh immigration bill. Gained them nothing on policy or politics, just helped give the impression that more Americans are anti-immigrant than really are.
📌Republicans are to blame for the slaughter of our children in our schools. Repeat: 📌REPUBLICANS ARE TO BLAME FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF OUR CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS. Stop getting it twisted ...
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.
This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...
I'm thankful Don took the time to make this case in such a methodical fashion. I found it very convincing.
RFK is destroying America's public health institutions. He should be fired.
Because the thing is, this is real but also, it's not real. This image reflects the reality that Trump *wants* a total state in which he is the unquestioned leader, but we do not actually live in that state, at least not yet.
This conspiracy theory that George Soros is the hidden hand behind all anti-Trump protests is antisemitic, yes, but it's more than that. It's an entire conspiracist worldview that reduces all agency behind broad-based social change to a few shadowy Jewish financiers. It dismisses all social change.
"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...
I’m sure glad the fucking idiots who lost their shit over a Cracker Barrel sign are also driving our vaccine policies
Trump's cabinet live broadcast has dragged on for over three hours now. 22 people are attending. That’s 66 hours of collective time from the most senior officials in the US federal government. No work has been done - just delusional Trump rants and sycophantry. The administration ending "waste".
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
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.
It’s just so pathetic And the national press pretends that it’s normal What are we doing here, people?
As I keep saying. bsky.app/profile/inte...
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
Hiding his hands again today
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
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.
Burn an American flag, one year in jail, but beat cops with flag poles, trash the US Capitol or threaten to harm members of Congress, even when it’s to hang the VP, get a FULL PARDON. This is ridiculously un-American. MAGA: Make America Go Authoritarian apple.news/A0HRpE7I6TOO...
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
Garrett refuses to pull his punches or tiptoe around things. In this moment, that takes real bravery, and I respect him a great deal for it. You should read this, and really think about what he’s laying out so dispassionately and unnervingly.
On one level, I’m not shocked to see a portion of the country and the elite on board with American dictatorship. On the other hand, I am kind of surprised how many people are willing to loyally submit to a fat stupid old pedophile.
Police state.
Indeed. But in the end, few recall precisely the days January 30 (when Hitler became Chancellor), February 27 (Reichstag fire), March 22 (Dachau opened), March 23 (Enabling Act passed)—they just remember 1933. Likewise, everyone will remember 2025.
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
This is the essence of it to me. If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too
#FunFact: POTUS may only issue executive orders to instruct executive branch agencies on how to carry out the laws Congress has passed. That is the extent of the power POTUS has in issuing EOs; they cannot make law. EOs have no force or effect on anyone other than executive branch employees.
Alexander Hamilton once declared that the sacrifice of national honor is political suicide.
So, like, even if there hadn't been two Supreme Court decisons in living memory directly holding that flag burning is protected under the First Amendment, *new criminal laws cannot be created by executive order.*
The state decided it wants to crush just one guy who *didn't do anything wrong*. They picked Kilmar Abrego Garcia because they thought he'd be an unsympathetic target for their abuses. They put in little effort and it turns out he wasn't, that made them look bad, and they're taking it out on him.
let us be frank. The United States is under the martial law of a banana republic-- let us say a tangerine republic
Government by drunk Thanksgiving uncle
This man is being subjected to a real-life version of Kafka’s “The Trial” as punishment for being the embarrassing object of the regime’s own malicious and chaotic incompetence. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
The cruelty is the point
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
this isnt communism or socialism, its a sundowning egomaniacal lunatic, completely untethered from reality, accumulating power because he wants to and no one is going to stop him
When is the GOP going to admit the fact Trump is out of control, has lost all sense of decency for the office, with dementia in full swing, and is unable to function as POTUS? It is mindboggling what they have allowed. Hey, GOP, like Dorothy YOU HAVE HAD THE POWER ALL ALONG. USE IT!
"Trump puts armed troops in DC and you see people say, 'Well, is this really the best crime fighting remedy?' No, that is not the concern with putting armed troops in DC. The concern is that it is an authoritarian outrage that would have been inconceivable in American politics even six months ago."
It’s so hilarious and idiotic to describe a dictator’s efforts to end freedom for the citizens of the nation’s capital as a kind of theme park.
Biden authorized the funding for this bridge. In any case, the finer point here is that the president of the United States is THREATENING TO DEGRADE THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MAJOR CITIES IF THEIR LEADERS OFFEND HIM. This is front page news!
If you’re applauding the harassment, fining, and arrest of homeless human beings, and if you’re celebrating the elimination of reduced lunches, food stamp programs, and low-income housing, your religion is short one Jesus. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/when-conse...
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
It's heartbreaking to think that the Baltimore Orioles will be departing in about two weeks, and won't be back until early May. These flying jewels have had another very successful breeding season, with up to about 10 different individuals visiting my feeders #birds #birding #orioles
Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes. Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT. Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft. This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Trump looks like hammered dogshit these days. His ankles are horribly swollen, he's got a weird discoloration on his hand, his eyes are glazed over and he's not even wearing a necktie in the Oval Office anymore. He's rambling more than ever and seems deeply out of it. But Joe Biden, huh.
Every single day the head of a national publication or cable network looks at this batshit insanity and just shrugs.
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares"
Phew, the sex trafficker and perjurer exonerated the one man who can free her. I am totally persuaded.
This goes to the heart of what I've been saying for a decade. We're deep inside a chute hurtling steeply downhill, following an arc that's been traced before (both here and elsewhere). Our situation will continue to degrade unless and until more everyday people come together and take action.
This is getting very bad: *FBI raids top Trump critic's home *Trump loyalist gins up "mortgage fraud" pretexts for DOJ probes of Schiff, Letitia James, Lisa Cook *Bannon says ICE will monitor 2026 voting *DHS memo vows LA operations "for years to come" New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
The important thing to remember about John Bolton’s house being raided today is that the first wave of the Trump-Epstein files are being released in a couple hours.