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After Trump's unhinged post saying "Open the Fuckin' Strait" and mocking Iran with "Praise be to Allah," I repeat what I've said for many months in my Stop the Presses newsletter: The media betray their duty by not loudly declaring that the president of the United States is out of his mind.

Trump is not spending $500 million on White House to leave it anytime soon. Again: Trump will not leave the White House alive. Either he will die before Jan 2029, or we will have to be removed by force after that.

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We need more voices that care like Bruce Listen to song

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has

It is vitally important that Democrats (and the media) frame this properly. If the government gets shutdown it is because the GOP insists on DHS, ICE and CBP continuing to occupy American cities and trample the rights of US citizens.

Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE. First no funding. Impeach Noem. Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN. Demand that Miller resign. Don’t let up.

They are illegally 40 days late

Corporate media is enabling and democracywashing the Trump admin, its fascism and continued war on the Constitutional rights of Americans. #Minnesota ++ A thread of excellent criticism of this manufactured assent and normalization - w/receipts. #1 @gregsargent.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/greg...

To all my fellow 2nd Amendment-loving former friends and supporters. Just wanted you to see this.👇

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Is any Democrat besides Jamie Raskin going to talk about Trump selling pardons for millions of dollars to some of the most disgusting fraudsters and drug dealers in history? Any one of these is an impeachable offense and there are new ones almost every day. He isn’t even hiding the quid-pro-quo.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things." Read @mjtoma.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/post/205379/...

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election? Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official. Be warned.

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Breaking News: The University of Virginia president, James E. Ryan, is said to have resigned under pressure from the Trump administration over DEI. nyti.ms/4npkLUK

Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

To mobilize the National Guard, Trump cited 10 U.S.C. 12406, which authorizes the president to do so when the U.S. faces foreign invasion or rebellion or when he cannot otherwise execute the laws. This is NOT such an occasion. So today’s coup is manifestly illegal and must be stopped judicially.

The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) bars federal armed forces from directly participating in law enforcement activities unless “expressly authorized” by statute or by the Constitution. It’s a critical protection for individual liberty and democracy. 2/16 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Instead of piling on and sharing that op-ed that, for some reason, tries to put a silver lining on Trump's slashing of NIH funding, I'm sharing this @propublica.org piece that more accurately demonstrates the vastness of the damage being done to health research.

Shut down the Senate.

Nothing like Kristi Noem dismissing Padilla as “political theater.”

Jim Cramer on CNBC said that the White House may think that "you can roll China like you rolled Paul Weiss." whelp.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Trump’s Clown Car Chaos™️ strikes again

NEW: A group of business groups and conservative lawyers are preparing a legal challenge to President Donald Trump's tariffs, arguing he does not have the legal authority to impose them.

Whew!

Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

This is quite a funny headline www.axios.com/2025/03/20/t...

When Donald Trump lawlessly went after ordinary Americans, Chief Justice John Roberts didn't care. But now that Trump is taking aim at Roberts' fellow judges, Roberts suddenly cares. It's always the same with conservatives, they don't care until something affects them.

Donald Trump has ended USSS protection for both Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden. Another clear signal that he himself never intends to be an ex-president, nor see his family be the family of an ex-president. The number of such signals is growing exponentially by the week.

I can’t think of anything that would hurt MAGA more. Especially their political pastors.

CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre. 🤣

Add Australia to the list of countries where Tesla sales are sliding www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sales-...

KEEP BOYCOTTING TESLA ... Don't Fund Nazism - Boycott Tesla - Keep Adding Pressure ...

A five-alarm fire for academic freedom.

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