People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

Given how unpopular he and his agenda have become, and how worse things are likely to get, Trump has two choices now:
- course correct, end the tariffs, fund health care, do things that make people's lives better
- do everything he can to prevent free and fair elections next year

in a new post, trump claims he has a 65% approval rating. he is trying to manufacture consent. don't let him: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Yup. And sure seems likely that the more he's the face of the administration, the less popular it's gonna be.

First Monday in October is back. A cartoon for the new Supreme Court term in @crooksandliars.bsky.social. #SCOTUS, #USSupremeCourt, #SupremeCourt, #FirstMondayInOctober, #TrumpCourt, #TrumpJudges, #MAGA, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @Rattoons1776)

@davewhamond.bsky.social

I think instead, I’ll get a PhD and teach and lecture around the world for 35 years and maybe write some books

@ellisjrosen.bsky.social

The election of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babiš in Czechia is yet another illustration of how the far right is now synonymous with kleptocracy - and why democracies need to do much more to keep big money out of politics.

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social for saying that the White House is blatantly violating the Constitution.

Yes. It is lawless. And the lawless Supreme Court just signed off on a big part of it.

NEW: Judge Immergut's says Trump's assessment of "war-ravaged" Portland was not made in "good faith" Even under a legal standard that gives the president "great deference," she said, there's no basis for "ignoring the facts on the ground."

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Exactly, hold the line and let him figure his life out. Force him to govern.

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

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My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Trump has found a job for his nazi supporters

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

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):

Donald Trump is plotting to cut Social Security benefits for older Americans — after he promised during the campaign that he wouldn’t touch Social Security.

We must call it out and stop these cuts.

Trump's CEA is circulating its estimate of the economic cost of the government shutdown.

But, BREAKING: It's wrong. It makes a simple arithmetic error. And it's dishonest.

Surprising, I know. 🧵

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

A mock newspaper headline reads "BREAKING NEWS" from "ReallyGreatSite.com," dated Sunday, December 20, 2055. The main headline states "PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPECTED TO RENAME SAN ANDREAS FAULT TO JOE BIDENS FAULT." Below the headline is an image of a visible fault line in a landscape, showing a rugged, cracked terrain.

What’s Trump on the Reich-ter scale?

🚨 GOP Targets Obama as Epstein Trump Files Resurface: Senators demand special counsel amid explosive new intel, but critics call it a diversion from damning Epstein revelations.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...