Tim Fournier

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

WaPo deserves the grave it has dug itself

ICE violently detain U.S. citizen who is standing up for his employees—tackle his elderly mother in the process.

He looks right at Chicago Police just standing around and asks, "Officers, why are you letting this happen?"

Nate Griffin is the manager for the Laugh Factory comedy club in Chicago.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

If one of your Senators is one of the four (Thune, Scott, Lankford, and Johnson) who has come out v Ingrassia for his Nazi views, you might call and ask when they're going to call out Stephen Miller, who is also a white nationalist, but who also serves as a gatekeeper to what Trump thinks is true.

Your citizenship will not save you.

But definitely give him the Nobel Peace Prize

Apollo’s Marc Rowan says Europe ‘at war with itself’ over finance regulation Private capital group chief tells FT regulators have yet to catch up with political drive to boost competitiveness

America's oligarchs are firmly convinced that they can go to war with the very concept of regulation, and Trump will always have their back. It's the most astonishing example of state capture I've ever seen. www.ft.com/content/221e...

Jd Vance posted an AI video of trump as a king. Complete with crowned and sword. They fucking love their kings..

Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged. As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Yeah so this is breaking through. The 20b to Argentina and family farms are going under because they can't sell to their markets and the president closed USAID is not something that's just going to get shoved under the rug.

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Do you even hear yourselves?

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

So much Democrat and pundit handwringing about the shutdown as if they're in charge of the government.

They're not. The only possibilities are Trump makes things worse with Democratic approval or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic resistance. Don't bail him out.

My latest (on @msnbc.com):

I'm not worried: Once ICE rounds up all the illegals, they'll stop.

the mere mental image of a sundowning man, with control over a nuclear arsenal, being kept in this AI-generated reverie is immensely disturbing to me on a visceral level

Opinion | What Hegseth got right about the military Put aside the defense secretary’s bravura and focus on his message about muscular armed services

Another banger from the author of "Relax, we'll be fine no matter who wins [in 2016]" and "Calm down, Roe vs. Wade isn't going anywhere" (in 2018)

The US is under attack from drug traffickers in the same sense I am under attack from cookie dough.

Also frankly I think I would have been better off if I’d gotten raptured.

Freedom is 20 kitted up feds armed to breach the bin laden compound chasing a delivery worker bsky.app/profile/marm...

I just think we should not be sending American boys 2 or 3 thousand miles away from home to do what Portland boys ought to be doing for themselves.