Alan Snyder

At a campaign rally on Sunday, President Trump disparaged Norway to express his irritation over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian government officials have repeatedly said that they do not have influence over who is awarded the Peace Prize. nyti.ms/4zfrGFA

He is so close to getting it

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

If we love the abuser, we will know that true repentance is slow and hard, and their words and promises cannot be trusted. Keep in mind that one of the most powerful weapons of deception is the use of spiritual language.

"Anyone committed to Ukraine’s freedom and sovereignty must be committed to stopping Trump. And professed Ukraine supporters who have acted as his enablers could start by admitting that they were wrong instead of lecturing Zelensky on manners."

Trump claims Biden "was sleeping most of the time" (Trump sleeps daily on camera during White House events)

I’m glad Congress isn’t alive to see this.

I don't think people fully appreciate what a sociopath JD Vance is. He's "disgusted" by R's distancing themselves from Amy Acton's mother. He's *not* disgusted by Acton's mother offering her children up to a pedophile. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-i...

Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social on Trump telling Camp Lejeune victims there’s “no money” unless Republicans win the midterms: “For the president to say, ‘If I don’t get elected, we’re just not going to pay it’ — that’s extortion… I just find it despicable.”

"[T]hey are the focus of evil in the modern world." - Ronald Reagan (calling out the Soviet Union during his "Evil Empire" speech) "You are a humanitarian..." - Steve Witkoff (to Vladimir Putin) "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil..." - Isaiah 5:20

Fidelity to the Administration, not the statutes or the Constitution: and again, the problem is that like all censorship regimes, it places pressure on the advice people are willing to give in dangerous or sensitive circumstances.

literally illegal

The Trump Administration, both the first and second, has spent YEARS chasing this phantom fraud. Remember the Pence voter fraud commission that fizzled in Trump 1.0? All the failed court cases after the 2020 election?

"Despite the destruction of their cities, the wanton and purposeful killing of their civilians, the displacement of millions, the kidnapping of tens of thousands of children...their will remains, because they believe their country belongs to them."

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Elon Musk is a threat to democracy both here at home and abroad. He ordered the slowdown of the military version of Starlink, which the Ukrainians need in their war of survival against the Russian invaders. And then Musk lied about it on his X, the extremist sewer that was once known as Twitter.

"Trump’s actual purpose was plainly not to increase US diesel supplies, or otherwise lower prices, but rather to make clear his intention to definitively change sides & become Russia’s wartime ally — & to undermine the sanctions regime against Russia the US worked so hard to implement over 5 years."

They both did it, it was a joint effort, it’s one of the crazier things to happen in the national security space (which is really saying something) and every government should be scrambling to reduce dependence on—and as soon as possible get off—Starlink/shield or any Musk product, including the US.

That could just as easily describe the White House ballroom.

He means we got an affirmation of the military basing agreement we already had in Greenland, before he started threatening them for no good reason.

What absolute madness is this?

@davidrlurie.com @PN: "The false notion that Trump was not fully committed to Putin also allowed many R supporters of Ukraine to justify looking the other way...Now that the Trump/Putin alliance has been indelibly formalized, denial is no longer a remotely reasonable option." 🧾 t2m.co/5XNjuHq

Add this to the long list of Trump business failures and scams. But his endless grifts profiting off the presidency over the past decade has still increased his net worth exponentially, and he’s already made tons of cash off people who invested in this.

BREAKING WaPo: The Trump admin has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian missile and drone attacks — a delay that comes as Trump embraces Russia and slams Ukraine.

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

No one ever told me that vindication would feel so much like nausea. Donald Trump’s treachery was predictable and predicted. Even so, watching him throwing a financial lifeline to Putin as the monstrous mob boss murders Ukrainians is sick-making stuff. charliesykes.substack.com/p/russia-rus...

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Imagine if, four years after invading Iraq, we controlled only 20% of it and had suffered 1.3 million casualties. Would anyone call that “winning”? Of course not. But when it’s Russia, we’re supposed to believe Putin holds all the cards.

Worth mentioning that "No Kings" have never been tied to any violence or lawbreaking whatsoever. Remarkably peaceful protests, given the number of people and the passions involved.

Trump’s worldview is that it is good for evil to prevail and wrong for the righteous to resist.

Feb 19, 2025. One month into Trump’s term.

The Telegraph reports that Elon Musk himself approached Trump with the idea of restricting Starlink in Ukraine, and Trump agreed. Despite publicly blaming the Trump administration, Musk was reportedly the one who initiated the move, which hampered Ukraine’s military operations against Russia.

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

There is something particularly fitting about the woman Trump chose to be his government mouthpiece having the audacity to repeatedly lie about being a lawyer, a profession supposed to be grounded in facts, evidence, and truth.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

Reuters: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials Defense Department leaders were told that SpaceX’s Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed

You know the expression "above my pay grade"? I don't think I can explain the wacky sexual politics of MAGA. But I can provide examples, as many as you want. I devote my column today to this subject. See what you think. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/the-wacky-...

Dear rest of the world, If you want to know why the US elected Trump given all the things you know about him, the reason is that America has tens of millions of people as ignorant as this. We just aren't a very smart country as a whole. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Russia continues to bomb Ukraine and kill civilians every single night. Meanwhile, the FBI director is in Russia tweeting “From Russia, with Love.” Absolutely disgraceful.

In 2017, Charles Krauthammer, alarmed at what he was seeing on the right, wrote his last extended essay: "The Authoritarian Temptation." I thought of it last week when President Trump called for the arrest of reporters. From me, a column today. www.thenextmove.org/p/charles-kr...

"Trump has made clear he admires dictators and probably envies them. Trump reserves special warmth for a big three: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un. In 2023 Trump said that Putin was 'top of the line.' So were Xi and Kim. 'They're all top of the line.'” open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

“when placed under mild authoritarian pressure, an extraordinary number of powerful Americans, ostensibly honorable and right-thinking, quickly revealed themselves to be cowardly and unprincipled and made of the wrong stuff.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...

“So if Russia is funding Iran. And Trump is paying Russia for diesel. Is Trump funding Iran's war against America ?” “And Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff are taking a cut of funding.”