Trump says he’s canceling trade negotiations with Canada over anti-tariff ad President Donald Trump claimed Canada “fraudulently used” an advertisement that featured audio from a 1987 radio address by President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.

The Ontario ad is accurate. Heck it is Reagan’s own words. Reagan was a free trader. Very different from Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Live reactions to the demolition of the East Wing with my friend @warren.senate.gov

So who bought this guy and wants ROI

I understand why Democratic consultant brain (the worst kind of brain!) says you should pick "health care" over "democracy." But a skilled politicians can do both -- make it clear that the destruction of the White House and the destruction of Obamacare are really the same thing!

AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities.

A new study shows that feeding large language models low-quality, high-engagement content from social media lowers their cognitive abilities. #Duh www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...

Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

7-FINAL/ Trump himself is the ultimate personification of this. He at once represents Boomer rebellion of social norms out of power in the 60s and 70s followed by the unapologetic narcissism and institutional disregard they’ve held since the 80s. We are in for national narcissism for awhile.

I will vote for the Dem in 2028 who vows to put the WH back the way it was. Literally.

There is a crisis over higher education that exists outside of the culture wars: uneven access, ballooning costs, a demographic cliff, and uncertain outcomes.

This crisis and Trump's crackdown feed off each other, accelerate each other...

The Unitary Executive Theory and Originalism are both complete horseshit. History will judge the current court as the most corrupt in our history, and John Roberts will be cast as a major villain who subverted American Democracy. This will eventually be seen clearly, and that gives me some comfort.

Creation of independent agencies did make this explicit though. But it seems SCOTUS decided that the US constitution implicitly disallows Congress this power under UET. Apparently Congress can't direct via law how agencies function. What does SCOTUS think Congress _can_ legislate?

Periodic reminder that teargas is an abortifacient. I've been documenting the effects of teargas for five years by speaking to people directly impacted and exposed in the US. 🧵

The president should not be able to transfer millions of taxpayer dollars into his personal bank account. No government officials should be able to steal from the public like that.

Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

This is among the most corrupt things a president has ever suggested, and I hope the press treats it that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

Diversity of viewpoints cannot be an end, it is a means to an end. Some want a democratic society, open to honest and good-faith debate.

Others present diversity of viewpoints as their end in order to conceal their true purpose, their true project for society.

"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse.
#ScienceUnderSiege

Hey the house of reps has had all of Oct and most of September off because Speaker Johnson is desperate to not release the Epstein files.

Have they been filling the time with town halls? I mean they have a full month off… maybe a couple town halls each right?

I keep pointing out that by lowering the bar for prosecuting former FBI Directors, Kash signed his own arrest warrant, but under Trump, not AOC or whoever.

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency

A serious problem in the US is that it has become generally acceptable to lie.
This took quite some time, but Trump is the apogee of lying.
Fortunately, his crude lying is making it publicly acceptable to say that Trump (and others) lie.

Musk is the guy who took a chainsaw to the federal government in an effort to make sure supposedly “undeserving” people are unable to get any government benefits. Why would we believe that he wants everyone to get a guaranteed income for doing nothing while robots do all the real work?

billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society

also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind

This is so fucking wrong. He’s just ignored the entire process that must be followed to mess with the peoples’ house. Like he ignores every other rule, norm, & law. I’m so fucking pissed off at his Republican enablers who let him do this. The White House is OUR house. Not his.

"Winning the next election will be abt whether Ds will offer a vision that matches the scale of voters’ frustration with a system they increasingly see as corrupt and unresponsive. This requires a vision that does more than win on the margins with a strategy that is not clearly achieving even that."

But otherwise, voters who usually vote Republican won’t bother with Democrats who sometimes sound like Republicans. Moderate to win is yesterday’s tactic.