MJ Carson

Oh for god's sake, bring that overgrown toddler home. Or leave him somewhere without a plane.

I love Substack and the passionate voices over there -- but there is no way I can afford to subscribe to each newsletter that I wish to follow. You gals and guys over on Substack -- could you please figure out a cool way to band together so we can afford your wisdom and you can afford to deliver it?

Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.

Today's press conference: We pulled of a risky rescue and we're going to tell the world exactly how we did it. Our administration leaked about the second airman, endangering his life. We're super good at endangering more lives to clean up messes of our own making.

Nobody can stop Trump's evil madness? Nobody? Nothing? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

Hey Bessent! Be a Powell! Smart-- honest--person of integrity-- come on, man, you can do it! Try harder!

Dear Europe: Do not deal with Trump. Above all, do not deal with Trump. For God's sake, do not deal with Trump. He is a toxic infected wart on humanity; he has sent armed thugs into US homes, has disappeared people, and he'll do the same to you.

We must have a post-Trump reckoning of the trial-conviction-prison kind. medium.com/@mjcarson/im...

First snow in Paris last night (Saturday)...ahhhh....

All right--the NY Times has seemingly beefed up its coverage of the outrages of this 'administration.' But at what cost? I invite you to find the incomplete sentence embedded in this article. (No, this is not a trick -- but if it gets you to read the article, great!) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

In a wonderful interview on the Daily Beast, Mary Trump just reminded us that her uncle is a nihilist -- and when he goes down he will take as many people with him as he can. We need to be prepared and aware. It ain't gonna be just his peeps. youtu.be/anLE28i2wr4?...

OK I'm slowly making up with the NY Times as it slowly makes its way back to real journalism. Meanwhile, these 'overlooked' obits are a great contribution. This one fudges on Jung's sexual exploitation of a young patient, but does highlight Spielrein's bold genius. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

I'm thinking that in her demand for a ridiculously outsized budget, Noem wisely foresaw the pile of lawsuits that ICE's illegal brutality would generate. Good going. Gonna need that cash.

Reality...

To paraphrase Madame Pomfrey (Harry Potter), regrowing a brain is a painful process. But maybe the NYT can manage it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/o...

The entire Republican party has reconfigured itself around the joy of inflicting pain, and today the Washington Post editorial board says that in this hour of the shutdown, the DEMOCRATS have to blink. What's that Biblical thing about the log in your own eye? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2

Me and my partner's "Bronze" health insurance plan with Florida Blue is increasing from $511.22 a month to $1,711.75 a month next year. Not quite sure how to fit "$20,541 a year in health insurance premiums" into the budget.

Yes. All you investors and traders, get ready. More wild ride ahead....and probably not the fun kind.

The Times at it again. The muted criticism only creeps in near the end of the article. The headline suggests that Trump's horrific tear-down of the White House is simply 'unrealistic' in promising that the process would not 'interfere' with the 'current building.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

The corrupt begat corruption

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

October 19, 2025 HCR is right, as usual. Trump and his people have moved beyond caring about due process or the Constitution. Does Trump assume he has the military? He will need the military to stay in office as he destroys the United States. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

From Annie Karni's NYT coverage of the health care debate: "Mr. Trump, who told Republicans in 2023 to 'never give up' in seeking to repeal the 2010 health law, has yet to clearly articulate what he favors instead." Ms. Karni, Trump cannot clearly articulate ANYTHING at this point.

You know, I think the useful (evil) idiots inside the US junta are so isolated that, sure, they don't care about the protests, but also, they don't get that their time is just about over.

So, granted I'm on Paris time and maybe the New York Times will change its front page before you all wake up (nah), but I'm once again deeply disappointed that their lead story today is about stupid George Santos rather than the HUGE global outpouring of peaceful resistance to the US fascist coup.

No Kings in Paris!

I'll be joining our No Kings Day in Paris -- at the Bastille, appropriately. Please know that our hearts are bleeding along with yours, and we think of you daily. (Photo from No Kings Day in June, Paris.) March on! March on!

I think the only thing Chief Justice John Roberts and I both enjoy is a gay dinner party on Martha's Vineyard. Glory!

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Make this go viral. Lead pastor in Chicago, Rev. David Black, is being pepper sprayed directly into his eyes by an ICE Agent. Keep fighting. 🔥

On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)

ARREST STEPHEN MILLER!!!!!

Yes! There must have been some other way to allow them to pursue their hobbies of racism and cruelty.

Arrest Stephen Miller.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

Those of you old enough to remember Kent State, remember how stunned MOST of us were, to our very civic and moral core? Will that happen again when some cluster of deployed National Guard members open fire on Americans? What the hell has happened to us? (Don't bother answering -- I know.)

Love to the US No Kings movement from your Paris cohorts. Onward! Stay safe!

I told my wife about the accommodations national guardsmen are getting in LA and she said it’s like the Fyre Festival of troop deployments

Senators must uphold their oath to the CONSTITUTION. www.senate.gov/about/origin...

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

ICE is the January 6 insurrectionists all over again. Only instead of attacking law enforcement, they are pretending to *be* law enforcement. And instead of just terrorizing at the Capitol, they are doing it EVERYWHERE.