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For the Americans the war is just an element of a grift; they are, sadly, not negotiators in any sense, just men seeking to make more money from the bloodshed their actions enable.

America First?

Important from @crampell.bsky.social: "That Trump would now choose to try to discredit a child sex-crime victim is unsurprising. He was a close friend of Epstein...He has no qualms about throwing abuse survivors under the bus if doing so helps him politically." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-crue...

Just talking like this as government officials should have you up on charges of treason.

Talarico now leaning directly into the Wisconsin 2025 playbook. It's Texas v. Musk.

NOBODY feels fear as acutely as a malignant narcissist facing an unraveling of their false and fraudulent constructs. They suffocate without their grandiosity. Diminishment. Paranoia. Enfeeblement. Mortality. He's in a narcissistic nightmare now.

Q: Witkoff called Putin 'a humanitarian' for agreeing to release Stephen Hubbard. Do you agree with that? JD VANCE: I agree with Steve Witkoff saying something nice to a person who just released an American hostage.

"Musk’s decision to change the course of a war ... with or without the complicity of White House officials, to reverse the foreign policy of [the US] for the benefit of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, is ... reminiscent" of Benedict Arnold. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-20...

An absolutely brutal supercut for Trump. On February 1, 2023: "If I were president, I'd be able to negotiate an end to this horrible and rapidly escalating war in 24 hours" Today: "I think it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine"

Oct. 19 is the first day of early voting for Texas’ midterm election. We’ve compiled a list of resources, including guides explaining each statewide office on the ballot, to help voters navigate one of the most competitive elections in years. 🧵

Trump doesn’t care about the general public. His only concern is walling off public lands into private enclaves and business opportunities for himself and wealthy cronies.

One of the golden sinks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club

Millions are marching while Trump hides in Palm Beach, waives his own Russia sanctions, threatens LA election workers with jail, and tries to boot the judge who caught him chopping 430 trees for a golf course. Today’s Saturday Update:

NEW: Republican Rep. Don Bacon says he and other GOP lawmakers will block Trump’s agenda in Congress over his support for Putin and abandonment of Ukraine: “Many of us won’t fund these things knowing he is propping up a dictator’s invasion and throwing an ally under the bus.”

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

I shouldn't have to say this. You shouldn't have to hear it. We forget it, because we are subjected to MAGA idiocy - and they bitch non-stop that Trump said "no new wars," and he'd "lower prices." Let's remember the thing we shouldn't have to say: He ran for President to stay out of jail. PERIOD.

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I’m glad to see the City of San Antonio taking ICE to court. ICE wants to hold up to 1,500 people a day in an East Side warehouse next to a floodplain, and it still hasn’t told the city how it will handle water, sewage, or emergencies.

(1/2) James Talarico looked and sounded great at the Austin City Limits fair today - healthy and rested and ready for the home stretch. On one hand, it's incredible how much this genuine guy gets demonized. But on the other hand, he's running against a candidate who was IMPEACHED BY HIS OWN PARTY.

Prohibition was legal! Jim Crow was legal! Anti-abortion laws are (sadly) currently legal! Slavery was legal! Apartheid was legal! The War on Drugs is legal! Laws banning sodomy were (until 2003) legal! Of *course* "enforcing this nation's laws" can be controversial.

🔥 @jumaane.bsky.social : “They’re going to try to make the gentleman they shot the worst human you’ve ever heard of… a father picking up his child was shot by a rogue agency controlled by Trump. That’s what occurred. He represents evil. He is doing the Devil’s work.” #AbolishICE

“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.

Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

I half-way joked about this the other day. I’m only surprised they aren’t charging for it.

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

We forget about the stories as the media glare moves to the latest outrage. I am in DC for the week, and the National Guard is still a presence on the streets. Especially jarring in the nations capital, like an occupying force.

Trump in Texas: "In this election I'm asking you to pretend, you just have to pretend that I'm on the ballot, because we get a lot more votes when I'm on the ballot. In a way we are on the ballot."

Who is that woman in red? She looks quite bizarre with her makeup and leaning rod-like stance. Look at the guy on the far right. He knows he’s in the company of insanity. Bessent? Just a grifter riding the tide. What arrogance. Trump needs to be institutionalized. www.rawstory.com/trump-impeac...

Donald Trump will be in San Antonio tomorrow. I invite him to visit the Dilley Trailer Prison, and see for himself the trauma he is inflicting on children and babies, some as young as two months old.

... Who is lacking in morality, conscience, empathy, remorse, and impulse control, and whose only concern if a city (in any country, including ours) were to be wiped off the face of the Earth, would be how it affects him.

One of the best/worst parts of my job is meeting people who love their country and are fans of our work that are terminally ill. It's the best because, well, they're amazing people. I don't need to tell you why it's the worst. Rest in Peace, Deb. www.thebulwark.com/i/213564850/...

One Trump voter's recent brush with tragedy perfectly encapsulated the horrors that Donald Trump's immigration agenda has inflicted on immigrants, analysts said Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.

Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.

a bad faith conspiracy nut blows himself up:

I am convinced that people who think immigrants are lazy and just draw welfare have not actually met many immigrants.

Tomorrow Eric Schmitt will present proof that Trump never met Jeffrey Epstein.

Yes, Republicans. The entire news cycle on your moronic Jack Smith hearing will now be dominated by Eric Schmitt’s basketball game buffoonery and John ‘Foghorn Leghorn’ Kennedy asking Smith about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. Brilliant job, once again by the feckless fools.

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

If you put Republicans in charge of the presidency, they blame Congress for their failures. If they also control Congress, they blame the courts. If they control the courts, they blame their state. If they control their state, they blame a secret shadowy deep state, NGOs & media.

I'm attending Bexar County Democrats's event, “March for Freedom and Justice” - sign up now to join me! #BCDP www.mobilize.us/bexardemocra...

He believes his arm is broken. He is receiving pain medication, but he needs a full medical exam today. ICE should release him immediately.

The Hard Lessons of Springfield www.thebulwark.com/p/the-hard-l...

Wake up. It’s happening here. youtu.be/i6ebK0l7qT8?...

I get that Trump craves attention but I actually think he craves his bubble more now. He wants only good news. But the real issue is Natalie Harp, who knows this better than anyone, mostly decides if he gets just that. He can turn on the TV but she probably even does that for him.