The Meaning of Trump’s Presidential Pardons The President granted two hundred and thirty-eight pardons and commutations in his first term; less than a year into his second, he has issued nearly two thousand.

Donald Trump granted 238 pardons and commutations in his first term. In his second, he has issued nearly 2,000. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/RFIBJw

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

The relentlessly opportunistic Marjorie Taylor Greene hasn't had a change of heart, much less politics. She is just literate enough to read the writing on the wall. She knows that Trump is damaged goods now. So she may have taken to singing like a bird, but she's really just a canary in a coal mine.

A reminder that when Christian Nationalists in the Republican Party lecture you about the importance of "religious freedom," they are not talking about YOUR religion or YOUR freedom. They are talking about THEIR freedom to impose THEIR religion on you.

Please watch

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne

Hey folks:

This week on "What the Heck Just Happened With Heather & Joanne," we talked about why this moment feels different--politically--& invented the "MTG-o-meter"--watching Marjorie Taylor Greene's turns & twists as a way to measure how the tides are shifting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOy...

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...

“If you’re watching television and the words ‘woke and weaponized’ come out of a politician’s mouth, you can know that this is coming ... from the strategies we’re putting out,” Russ Vought boasted in a recording obtained by @propublica.org

Yikes — WP reports Rubio turned over gang informants to El Salvador to get that deal to let Trump send immigrants to their hard labor prison without due process.

A lawless regime.
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

NYT - A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a CHP vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President Vance's protective detail. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us...

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

Everyone is laughing at us. Everyone: Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Think about how far the Overton window has shifted in the past 9 months.

The 💩video below would have been front-page news just a few years ago and would have ended the career of any other politician. And yet today, not a peep from any of the so-called "serious" news outlets in America. 🙈🙉🙊

Tell me again, Donald, about the "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax."

We always get these huge Trump announcements with much media hype and fanfare with lots of big promises and assurances, effusively praising himself looking for awards & prizes, while experts say the details are scarce or nonexistent. Then a short time later we get the reality.

Just in case you wondered what Trump thinks of America

Young GOP leaders racist, fascist, anti-Semitic and sexist messages are vile--but perfectly sum up MAGA The future of the GOP on parade

Young Republican leaders from across nation were caught sharing openly racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and pro-fascist messages. Yet the corrupt corporate media all but ignores it. I'm not ignoring it! This deserves far more coverage. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/young-gop-...

WATCH: “Pure vengeance.”

Former Trump WH lawyer Ty Cobb tells @timmiller.bsky.social “narcissist” Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against NY AG Tish James (+ others) — and pointing to his own massive fraud crimes is no defense at all.

Full @thebulwark.com ep: youtu.be/M5mNb5JXYWQ?...

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

Imagine that

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Retribution Is Here The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

“It bears pausing on the starkness of these facts: The president of the United States demanded the jailing of two elected officials who belong to the opposing political party” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

BREAKING: MIT rejects federal compact | The Tech On Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

The Tech - MIT's president has formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact. thetech.com/2025/10/10/mit-re...

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. You may have the right to get a denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here’s how experts suggest you do it.

NEW: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider.

Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers' The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

The image they shared showed riot police and a crowd with flares and red smoke, designed to support Trump's claim that Portland's protests were out of control, but was actually a digital composite of two unrelated photographs from different South American countries.

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Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...