MINERVA RISING

Trump’s DOJ just charged James Comey for the third time in a little over a year. They lost the first one. The second one is about seashells and isn’t going anywhere. So they went looking for a new one. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Judge Reyes says this started as a case about golf -- now it’s about whether a president follows court orders @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are staying in this fight well past Nov 15 I’ll get into it w/ @aliciamenendez.bsky.social on @ms.now at noon👇 -TN

New: Amid legal threats from Jared Kushner over explosive allegations published in a Vanity Fair excerpt, Simon & Schuster quietly expedited the release of Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

I see that…

Ill be reposting this until Leonard Leo, Catholic Integralism and Aquinas natural law become part of the conversation in the legal pundit class, explaining every incomprehensible Roberts Court ruling. verdict.justia.com/2026/10/21/t...

Empathy is foundational to being human. Without empathy, you're incomplete. Without empathy, a person is a psychopath-sociopath (ASPD). Empathy is *required* in order to experience love. In the absence of empathy, any behavior that at first glance, appears to be love – is merely parroted behavior.

Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now? I think it's three things. #HighStakes

clumsy, over-literal writing on this episode. sorry

Neil Bush says that he voted for Democrat James Talarico due to reservations about Republican candidate Ken Paxton.

Trump's son-in-law sits across from Putin for him. The White House just admitted it has no record of where his money comes from.

From yesterday: “Trump Media Stock Hits New All-Time Intraday Low” Fiona Reilly for @forbes.com

BREAKING: A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal. He got his pardon not long after. Full Story: nyti.ms/47vemAQ

Meta gave $1M to Trump's inauguration fund — and Mark Zuckerberg himsef has helped bankroll Trump's ballroom. Now Trump's DOJ has halted a years-long criminal investigation into allegedly enabling and profiting from illegal drug sales on its platforms. Funny how that works, huh?

Trump in the Oval Office today (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?

🚨BREAKING: Michael Bloomberg just dropped $80 MILLION into the midterms to help Democrats take back the House. The former NYC mayor is making a massive late push when it matters most. Now we have to finish the job. Vote BLUE. 💙

The Plot to Delete Democracy The Nerd Reich shows how Silicon Valley billionaires have pushed a fringe ideology—what is popularly called techno-fascism but is closer in aspiration to straight-up totalitarianism—into the affairs of state. 🎁 link www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

Empathy is a prerequisite for love. A person cannot love without first having empathy. If a person lacks empathy, any behavior they exhibit that may, at first glance, resemble love – is merely a choreography of parroted acts. Beware of people who parrot behavior, esp. love -they will manipulate you.

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.)

🚨THE SENATE JUST SHIFTED HARD: Nate Silver’s model now gives Democrats roughly a 75% chance of taking control. If current polling holds, Democrats could end up with a 54–46 majority. This is real. This is winnable. But only if turnout matches the moment. Vote. Volunteer. Donate. Organize.

AM MUST READ: The Plot Against Ukraine (and Europe) >>> "Trump has declared his desire to make the United States an ally in Russia’s ever more brutal effort to annihilate Ukraine" h/t Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Hey @nftametro.bsky.social why is the Buffalo Airport allowing ICE flights?

gradually, the US military is sucked into the regime's engine.

BBC Seeks Jack Smith's Testimony Against Trump in $10 Billion Lawsuit! youtu.be/WfK7SI8WZaE?...

🚨DIESEL IS UP AGAIN. The national average is now $6.32 a gallon — roughly $2.70 higher than a year ago. That means higher costs for trucking, shipping, farming, and ultimately the prices Americans pay at the store. More pain for working families. We can’t afford this. Vote out ALL Republicans.

Postliberal is MAGA Catholic Integralism. Dreher, JD, Pappin, Deneen, Kevin Roberts Vermeule, Rufo. Not one US Evangelical Orban supporter? Evangelicals - rapture, to be w Jesus. Catholics? control “on earth as it is in heaven.” Like Leonard Leo SCOTUS? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

BREAKING The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit. Smith didn't object to the subpoena. Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2

Reyes, before she wraps up golf course hearing, says her family has been texting her, "freaking out" over CNN report about death threats bc of this case. "A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course. I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned."

wild thread thus far

Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.

A federal judge has threatened to sanction Trump for failing to sit for a deposition in the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the BBC.

IMPORTANT‼️: Zelenskyy stated that there are Starlink speed limitations in Ukraine but not in the EU, and that this is a planned operation ‼️ Zelenskyy to journalists (full statement translated): Regarding the work of Starlink on the territory of Ukraine: whether everything has recovered,

In case you forgot what a U.S. president beloved by the world looks like. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Live in Manchester: An Evening with President Barack Obama. The arena holds up to 23,500 people with standing room, and the event was SOLD OUT.

Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.

When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com

🚨 72 retired senior military officers speak out "We ask the President, our Congressional representatives, and our fellow citizens to act to prevent this barbaric abuse of authority: Livestreaming an execution debases the... commitment to basic human dignity..." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

BREAKING on MS NOW: Judge Kelly just granted the preliminary injunction requested by the news orgs banned by the Trump White House. This ruling indefinitely reverses the ban against MS NOW, CNN, and Politico while their lawsuit continues.

Status Coup reporter @tinadesireeberg.com Desiree-Berg reported live from a Los Angeles rally where U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ro Khanna headlined support for California’s Proposition 40.

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

The key to understanding the Leonard Leo Catholic Supreme Court is Catholic Integralism. Born in opposition to the American & French Revolutions to reinstate Catholic crown. Separation of church and state is heresy, to be burned at the stake. Miss the faith and miss the story. wapo.st/4yJvK0n

As Kash Patel gets on a plane to visit his buddy Vladimir Putin this week, worth reminding that Kash is STILL trying to use a Russian attempt to frame Hillary Clinton from 7/26/16 to prosecute Jim Comey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSa...

My book starts in the 18th century. Trump is the first president in U.S. history to shamelessly embrace autocratic leaders and abandon democratic leaders around the world.