Patricia in Massachusetts (@Pat120 on Xitter)

👀 @WPLN asking the right questions!

@GovBillLee is playing hunger games with Tennessee families

It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv

Will no one point out to her or to him that it's not HIS house, and he's doing this without the input or consent of its actual owners???? And what are those donors getting in return? Cause those guys don't give money for nothing.

When Trump announces federal aid to a state and in the same breath notes that the state voted for him, he's signaling that states must vote for him if they want federal aid.
It's not a presidency, it's a Mafia-style protection racket.

Trump's Argentine Beef Plan Creates Rift with American Cattle Ranchers We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side.

Matt Hildreth from @ruralorganizing.bsky.social:

We’re seeing the very early stages of a political shift in rural America. People who never questioned Trump are starting to wonder if he’s really on their side
ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/trumps-arg...

It makes me so sick to know that they've just taken a wrecking ball to this beautiful space.

I thought the tariffs were paying for that.

Sure, Trump Tearing Down White House, But At Least Is Not Black Man With Feet On Resolute Desk It's about respecting America and We the People's House, and not being Barack Obama.

It always comes back to Obama.
www.wonkette.com/p/sure-trump...

How the Proud Boys invented antifa The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House

When Trump or his goons talk about "antifa," they might as well be talking about demons or leprechauns.

But this fake threat shows how the Trump administration has fully absorbed real organized criminal gangs.

Yep, echoes of Nazi history in this.

www.salon.com/2025/10/22/h...

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

Title 10, which gives the president limited authority to federalize the National Guard, does not provide the president with plenary (i.e. absolute and unchecked) authority.

Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trying to help get the word out

SCOTUS's Republican appointees let Trump ignore Congress, cut foreign aid Justice Kagan, dissenting for the Democratic appointees, noted the majority's "preliminary" order means $4 billion in aid allotted by Congress will be blocked "for all time.“

This morning's Portland post from Trump, finally, came less than 20 hours after the Supreme Court, yet again, gave Trump still more room to do what he pleases.

Telling a tyrant he can take lawless steps, unsurprisingly, will lead that tyrant to take more lawless steps.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social How about this for at least part of the reason he’s doing this?

Definitely "nah." Not that I'm a Jesus expert, but I'm familiar enough to answer this question.

If you want a fun, nerdy read, check out Judge Nathan's (six-judge) concurrence in Öztürk on why the Second Circuit *isn't* going en banc to review the denials of stays to DOJ in the Öztürk and Mahdawi immigration cases.

It's smart, thoughtful, and sharply critical of Judge Menashi's contrary take:

Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do.

And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.

Even under the most generous and lenient application of Rule 8, the complaint is decidedly improper and impermissible. The pleader initially alleges an electoral victory by President Trump “in historic fashion” — by “trouncing” the opponent — and alludes to “persistent election interference from the legacy media, led most notoriously by the New York Times.” The pleader alludes to “the halcyon days” of the newspaper but complains that the newspaper has become a “fullthroated mouthpiece of the Democrat party,” which allegedly resulted in the “deranged endorsement” of President Trump’s principal opponent in the most recent presidential election. The reader of the complaint must labor through allegations, such as “a new journalistic low for the hopelessly compromised and tarnished ‘Gray Lady.’” The reader must endure an allegation of “the desperate need to defame with a partisan spear rather than report with an authentic looking glass” and an allegation that “the false narrative about ‘The Apprentice’ was just the tip of Defendants’ melting iceberg of falsehoods.” Similarly, in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory (toward President Trump) but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, “‘The...

Do yourself a favor and read the judge's order tossing Trump's lawsuit against the @nytimes.com because it was so badly written.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even Leavitt can't spin the joke check to Epstein from "DJTrump" The press secretary's feeble deflection can't hide the experiences of multiple women

"It’s why her unblinking shamelessness is so unnerving.

"On some level, no matter what she tells herself at night, she is participating in the cover-up of details related to a reported sex trafficking ring."

www.salon.com/2025/09/12/e...

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

Exactly! He is unwatchable.

Scoop @puck.news: Carol Leonnig, a 25-year veteran of The Washington Post, is leaving the paper and joining MSNBC.

The latest in the long and extensive exodus of Washington Post journalists under CEO Will Lewis.

Senior Administration official re Maxwell transfer: “Any false assertion this individual was given preferential treatment is absurd. Prisoners are routinely moved in some instances due to death threats, and significant safety and danger concerns.”

Got it.

What about true assertions?

I apologize for swearing but--are you fucking kidding me???

The NYT thinks that judges refusing to give Trump's DOJ the benefit of the doubt is "eroding the healthy functioning of the courts."

For democracy to survive, judges need to be more skeptical and impose greater sanctions for DOJ's lies.

Mike Flood’s town hall erupts in boos after he claims that Republicans protected Medicaid

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

The official account of the United States Department of Defense. What a fucking joke we’ve become with these ass clowns running the government.

Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist."

More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

WTAF? WHY????

This was my favorite Twitter exchange of the week.