The Paranoid Presidency: Inside Trump’s Government by Conspiracy From the “asbestos con” to vaccine rollbacks, paranoia drives White House decisions.

From asbestos to stolen elections, Trump has spent decades turning conspiracy theories into government policy—eroding trust and warping U.S. institutions. Here’s how the paranoid style became the Trump style.

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US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

A record number of Congressional lawmakers aren't running for reelection in 2026. Here's the list NPR is tracking the record number of lawmakers in Congress who have already announced they don't plan to run for reelection ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Here are the members of Congress not running for reelection in 2026

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"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face."
— Donald Trump, October 31, 2024

We warned you about Project 2025. Well, it’s here… Day by day, Project 2025 is being written into existence by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress. And there’s another plan in the works as conservatives prepare to “do it all over again,” says Angelo Carusone, chair and president of Media Matters for America.

“We’re living in the manifestation of Project 2025.” Just 8 months into Trump’s presidency, a significant amount of Project 2025’s policies are in effect. And now, “they’re gonna do it all over again” warns @goangelo.bsky.social in conversation with @davidpepperoh.bsky.social #Velshi

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ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

Need an idea to add to your resistance actions this weekend?👇🍃

cruelty is the point

Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984.

The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.

jingoism. The flag stand for nothing now.

cruelty is the point

the cruelty is the point

the cruelty is the point

ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.

"Jimenez Rosa’s time in custody ended with her alone, wet and begging for help at The Cheesecake Factory in the Burlington Mall, after ICE agents released her into the rainy street outside the detention facility Wednesday night."

I think Cuomo and Adams are too scared to go out on the streets because THEY are the criminals. Streets in my neighborhood (West Greenwich Village) this weekend were packed with folks out enjoying the city in beautiful summer weather. Fight the dis-information! Keep truth alive!

Ok this is bad. She had a marijuana possession charge from 3 years ago in Texas and they’re using that to declare her “illegal”.

Saying she can either self-deport at her own expense, or she can wait in a men’s prison to fight her case.

This fucking sucks. Free Alice.

Contributor: Get a manicure. Sing Monty Python. Be happy. You'll drive the Trumpists crazy We desperately need joy and laughter again. And who does absurdity better than the Ministry of Silly Walks?

"Bullies rule by fear. Humor is fearless, a bubbly form of hope."

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

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the world is a mess

but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead

this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think

The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism

"J Michael Luttig, who served on a federal appeals court for 15 years, put the criticism starkly. 'The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America,' Luttig told the Guardian."
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If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.

Not in Britain... in US Midwest but ... yeah.. redhead here who got the snot stomped out of me a couple of times by another girl with red hair. I never knew why... maybe paying it forward?

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center Japanese American groups criticized the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent.

"National Security" was the same argument our government used 80 years ago to justify the immoral internment of people of Japanese descent at this very military base.

It was wrong then, it’s wrong now.

Orlando officials denounce removal of rainbow crosswalk near Pulse nightclub mass shooting site Orlando officials have denounced the removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub.

The rainbow crosswalk at Pulse was never about politics. It was a memorial. 49 people died BECAUSE they were LGBTQ. Ron DeSantis calls it “surface art” with a political agenda, folding it into his culture war playbook. He erased it in the dark, but memories can't be washed away with black paint.

Scooby I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time 1d RookaTX This is the way Scooby • RookaTX Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures. 1d

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

In case you missed it, this is fucked

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

There is a special place in hell for these people.... and I don't mean injured Palestinian children. They are already in a hell they don't deserve.