Zachary Pleat

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins fourth term, according to electoral court.

Trump Accounts would allow corporations or their owners to make donations by zip code. So, for example, a company trying to set up a data center could give money to families in that region. This is the logic of the bribe state which Trump has enabled and supports. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Founders would have plainly understood numerous Trump scandals as outright treason. Honestly, pre-1980 the public would have just thought of a president who behaved like Trump as a traitor.

Restoring constitutional democracy after we fix the Supreme Court should entail invalidating Trump’s entire term because the 14th Amendment plainly disqualifies insurrectionists from public office. The rule of law can’t survive when a tyrant can immunize all of his minions from federal prosecution

For fuck’s sake

More than 40 farmers and agricultural industry groups are warning Washington leaders that the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is affecting the nation’s food supply, hurting farmers and risking higher grocery prices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Executive Branch has no authority to regulate states’ election decisions as to candidate qualifications, and the choice to file a lawsuit like this just days before an election speaks volumes about the political corruption festering at the top levels of the DOJ.

A reminder that when we’re told real estate dudes are “working for free” as US negotiators — aka not official US employees accountable to the USG — they’re working for someone else, and not in US interests In a normal country, Kushner would go to jail. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

As diesel prices continue to climb, local Iowa TV stations are largely failing to connect rising diesel prices to Trump’s actions — including the war in Iran.

College students make up a larger share of the population in New Hampshire than in any other state. Republicans have spent years trying to make it a practically impossible for them to vote if they are originally from out of state

It's like every day there is a headline "Techbro Creates Terrifying New Product that No-One Asked For, Valued at $1.2B"

Republicans: You must use photo IDs to vote. Also Republicans: Not those photo IDs!

New: Trump and Vance attack Republicans “whining” about Vivek Ramaswamy's ad against Amy Acton. Here are the conservative media personalities who criticized it. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru... Right-wing media figures have called the ad “just stupid,” “really nasty,” and “yucky”

This hurts

New: Here are the right-wing media figures endorsing “despicable” ad from Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

My latest: Fox predicted Trump’s economy would be “amazing” in 2026. His policies have driven inflation to its highest rate in years.

And completely ignoring the tax cuts, cuts to the IRS, etc.

Definitely want to buy a flying car from the “it still counts as a success even if it explodes upon landing” company. 

As I first reported on Monday, Katie Zacharia is not a lawyer and has never been licensed to practice law. The WSJ reports that she took the California Bar Exam but failed. Nevertheless, Zacharia appeared on media programs for YEARS and repeatedly called herself a lawyer. Here's a super cut:

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation is spreading even beyond the surge in fuel prices driven by Trump’s war with Iran. But if you only get your news from Fox, you'd never know.

Still can't believe that Trump and Republicans enacted a law that made the poor poorer while making the rich richer. Taken as a whole, the Big Beautiful Bill was the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in all of US history.

our immigration “debate” has become a pandering contest between the two political parties to win the votes of racist assholes that see immigrants as an invasive species instead of people coming to us for help

My latest: Fox News buries new consumer price report showing inflation surging under Trump www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox... CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post all had the inflation report as their top story today

Americans’ inflation-adjusted pay is back down to where it was when Trump took office. Legislatively, he kicked millions off their health insurance & took food assistance away from millions, including over a million kids. But the only thing he’s truly focused on is building a ballroom for himself.

"Starting on Day One of my new administration, we will end inflation, and we will make America affordable again." -Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The independence of the Federal Reserve is at stake. This is serious business. I have no idea why economists are whistling past this. This is a five alarm fire for American monetary policy. “Trump’s Latest Effort to Fire a Fed Official Underscores Political Motives” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/b...

Americans' pay is getting trounced by inflation

Trump's policies are stealing your wages

I always assumed they wanted him to be a dictator and that’s why they like him. If MAGA voters actually care that he is a power hungry dictator wannabe then, wow, they really are the blindest of the blind.

Consequences in this regime are for women.

this is a big reason i call bs on people who try to rehab mitt romney. trump's biggest path to political legitimacy came when romney went to him begging for an endorsement at the height of birtherism.

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

Trump’s plan to save the midterms is…help Russia. The Trump-Vance-Kushner-Witkoff approach to the war has always been weaken Ukraine so they bow down to Putin. It hasn’t worked. With nearly two years of this, Ukraine has shown it can thwart ground offensives and strike Russian oil without US help.

I doubt Russia has tons of diesel to export. They're in a fuel shortage crisis. It'd be illegal, violating sanctions. And awful strategy while Russia is attacking Ukraine, menacing NATO allies, and helping Iran target Americans. But looks like Trump trying to jawbone markets before the midterms.

Stop writing headlines as if Trump's DOJ is remotely credible! www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/1...

War crimes administration sanctions court that investigates war crimes

It's because she's Black, that's it, it's naked racism.

“Shoot ‘em, stick ‘em, or fry ‘em” www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

New from me: New York Fed research found that if not for Trump's tariffs, goods prices would have declined. Many news outlets haven't yet covered it. www.mediamatters.org/tariffs-trad... Fox continues to blame affordability problems on Democrats

these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942

The Big Beautiful Bill cut corporate income taxes pretty substantially. Corporate tax revenues came in even lower than expected.