MTG & Trump: at war.
Mamdani & Trump: chummy.
"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius

🚨TRUMP THREATENS MORE SNAP DELAYS:
- He’s asking “the Court” to instruct how the admin should proceed, in light of the rulings.
- NOT THE JUDGES’ JOBS. Trump is in charge of exec branch, and running agencies. He has the Orders. His job to make it f’n happen. This is wanton cruelty for those in need:

Putin keeps testing...America shrinks back (and doesn't even inform our ally #Poland). Hegseth's "warrior ethos" is a punchline in the Kremlin:
#Romania #Estonia

Rand Paul isn’t wrong. 😱 Remember the Clinton-Gingrich budget deal? What’s required for unexpected agreements isn’t the expected personalities. What is required: simple intent. Intent to meet, and work, and to keep working, until you achieve compromise. Trump: MIA. Spkr Johnson: AWOL.

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

🚨“shackled and restrained while they’re actively miscarrying”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Someone make it make sense

One of the most conservative Editorial Boards:
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Sen. Ernst isn’t in DC to fix the healthcare premiums crisis, and reopen govt. No, she’s in DC to do cable hits, and to “get to the bottom” of First Amendment events—ones that even police depts across the country thanked for peaceful conduct and cooperation.

Trump is eager to help Argentina's ranchers…While U.S. soybean farmers wait…While Argentina takes advantage of our soybean farmers:

Quiz: Name Putin’s favorite dog.
www.ft.com/content/7960...

Hmmm you don’t see supposed scary violent ANTIFA protests getting these nice police dept statements🤔 #NoKings

‘America the Beautiful’ breaks out, at what Trump & Spkr Johnson called a “hate America” gathering.
#NoKings Washington DC:

Chants of “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC. (Clip by me)
#NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

“one of the U.S. officials…said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal - emptywheel After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.

“This is a case that DOJ should have given up when they were no-billed. But because Jeanine Pirro is a stubborn bully, she persisted”
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...

GOP excuses for the Nazi chats now invoke, without irony, “safe spaces”:
www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...

Remember all that talk about opioids and fentanyl, esp in rural America?
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

Next week in “America First”!

But Argentina is special! For some reason!

MTG as polished bipartisan stateswoman? She’s making a serious play for stature vis-a-vis the current GOP leadership (note the barbs reserved for them). She’s taking the oppty to build national political capital, plain and simple. Shrewd.

Stunning numbers: Americans overwhelmingly believe one thing…but because a bloc of extremist Republicans believe the opposite, THAT’S the crackpot agenda shoved down our throats:
www.kff.org/public-opini...

Totally normal days at DoJ:

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

TWO Releases ‘Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America’ - Truth Wins Out Report is a ‘Who’s Who Guide’ to Knowing Your Enemy

“It’s difficult to believe, but Project 2025 is a relatively sanitized document,” said Truth Wins Out’s Besen...It is in the musty corners of their web pages and conferences where the extent of their discriminatory and authoritarian nature can come into focus.”
truthwinsout.org/two-releases...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

“exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: ‘No one has died’ because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.”
apnews.com/article/myan...

Ghost of John Mitchell watching this Pam Bondi hearing:

Yes, the Speaker actually said it:

Spkr Mike Johnson has time for media hits, while he keeps his Republicans OFF the job. Any time for a real debate, while ordering your colleagues back to work?

Who’s gonna alert Kash Patel that the FBI’s own website undermines Trump’s claims he gave an early heads up re: Osama bin Laden? Trump’s book came out in 2000. Meanwhile, in 1998 and 1999…

This is completely bonkers: