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How thin-skinned is the uber-touchy Donald Trump? As you may have heard: A single Canadian ad triggered an extraordinary presidential snit and new trade war. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Taking food from hungry American children to send to Argentina to prop up the regime there. Seems like that might not be super popular.

Nothing is in the bag but this is a funny headline after early voting has already begun. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US-China trade is super important, obviously. But these trade deals keep getting announced and falling apart two minutes later. So why give this latest announcement the A1, top-of-the-site treatment?

On what planet is he living? The tariffs affect Ontario and all of Canada. That is a Canadian matter.

Johnson has subordinated himself to the president so much that even Trump in private jokes that "I'm the speaker and the president," @anniekarni.bsky.social reports. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

From Hopium: - Why voting early matters, and helps us win - We have sturdy leads in CA, NJ, and VA in the home stretch - A series of reminders of the damage Trump is doing to the country and why we must do everything we can to win the fall elections 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hop...

“How fluently you can speak Grok” Mecha Hitler. The name is Mecha Hitler.

This @nytimes.com piece by @poojasalhotra.bsky.social synthesizes the 3 ways Trump is undermining Iowa's economy: tariffs, deportations, and attacks on renewable energy. All of this affects everyone. Hope to see similar stories every day w different datelines. Gifted🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

Strong turnout in Day 1 of early voting in New York City, with 79,409 votes cast. Compared to the first day of early voting in *BOTH* 2021 and 2024, a higher share of the vote came from Manhattan & Queens; a lower share of the vote came in Staten Island and the Bronx.

Author @bradmeltzer.com's books are banned for uplifting the stories of pioneering figures like Billie Jean King, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. Today and every day, we pledge to continue the fight against censorship.

"I would like to speak about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership" www.senate.gov/artandhistor...

Are you on Instagram? Please follow me there too! www.instagram.com/juliezebrak_...

Any good articles explaining why? As in, the specifics on how this shifted. I'm inclined to believe most admissions offices don't *feel* like they're doing things differently; I'm curious whether there are detailed analyses for why some are negligible (or are Smith!) while others are huge.

"Trump’s trade war runs on optics alone, not economics. Loud tariffs with quiet unwinding. That mix stabilizes the short run. But it likely seeds a decade of productivity drag. The real supply‑side costs to U.S. growth are likely to be substantial." open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...

Trump team defends demolition of the East Wing to make room for a massive ballroom by noting that past presidents made changes to the White House. But Truman consulted first and got bipartisan buy-in from Congress. @lukebroadwater.bsky.social @ashleyahn88.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

🧵 Pop quiz: Who said these things about Trump? 🧵 1. “America’s Hitler.” 2. “Lacks the character and moral center we desperately need.” 3. “A race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” 4. “Con artist.” 5. “Insulting to women.” 6. “Inexcusable.” 7. “Pathological liar.”

I don't believe in the antichrist, but if I did, I'd think advising the world's richest man not to give money to charity would be a kind of antichristy thing to do.

Reminder: Congress created the DOJ in 1870 after the American Civil War. blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/12/...

It took a pedophile to abolish Congress, well done, dead man

Counterpoint: Teaching history is inherently and always political.

"If Mansfield Park is about slavery (and I believe it is) that is because Austen was a powerful writer of conservative values and Enlightenment ideas. This maps poorly onto our own preoccupations." open.substack.com/pub/commonre...

Scott Bessent is the best of the Trump Cabinet. And he is an idiot and an utter embarrassment

NBC wants you to trust its coverage of the East Wing demolition even though NBC's parent company helped pay for the destruction.

RJ O’BRIEN: “.. I will say this. This looks like a clear loss for the United States. China's control of rare earths is and will continue to be significant .. This is a loss.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Established facts are unfair to the Trump regime.

Interesting @gregolear.bsky.social on Shelley's 'England in 1819' inter alia: "An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know..." open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

The NBA isn't some neighborhood soccer club. It's a business. They knew if they embraced gambling there would be betting scandals. Every fan with a brain knew that. The NBA concluded that the extra income would be greater than the amount they'd lose by compromising the integrity of their sport.

ICYMI: This week, I published my story about text messages I exchanged with Lindsey Halligan — the prosecutor now pursuing criminal cases against Letitia James and James Comey. It’s a wild ride, and I’m still trying to make sense of it all. Your Sunday read: ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Song of the day: youtu.be/Z2oPYJpcDqw?...

"Personality cults...create an image of the autocrat as indispensable, unique, and the only man who can save the nation. The more such leaders are associated with brutality and corruption, the more their propaganda depicts them as in office by divine dispensation." open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

About 60% of U.S. workers are not white men. Wouldn't know it from Trump's Department of Labor. Are we still supposed to pretend that neither bigotry nor misogyny are key to Trumpism?

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

For live updates and some great video of today’s teach-in in defense of history and museums on the National Mall, follow @thisdaypod.com on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thisdaypod?i...

Plenty of candidates for Buckingham, but who's Clarendon in this analogy?

Scott Bessent, estimated by Forbes to be worth $600 million, is but a smol bean who farms same.

Again I ask - Sunday shows why?

VFX pioneer Daniel Langlois and his partner Dominique Marchand were found dead in a burned-out car two years ago in Dominica. Now, the island — and the man arrested for their deaths — is in limbo. Story: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

If—and this is a huge "if"—it allows the unilateral presidential imposition of tariffs at all, IEEPA does so only in the context of an "unusual and extraordinary threat ... to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States." Which of those is "Trump got his feelings hurt"?

It is kind of wild how titanically a deal it was Reminds me: youtu.be/nVRjcMwvd3o?...

President Trump has committed various acts of corruption at the expense of the American people. We're calling it out. Our CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joined @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social to discuss President Trump's abuses of power, including an unlawful proposal for a third presidential term.

Tried to introduce my kid to Hannah Montana and the first episode is in letterbox. The bush years were weird

This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.

what www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Whenever an opponent of Mamdani tries to make him sound scary or al qaeda, if u see him once, the talking points just come off as grandpa simpsons yelling and that’s why your no good kids are running wild, while pointing at Lisa simpson

My tiny child is negotiating with me about staying home alone

He never lets anything go. He still is bitter about Maggie Haberman accusing him in print of having Parkinson’s, a thing she never did

Can’t lie: Sabrina carpenter was really good on SNL lol

Also, they should’ve just kept the guy with the awesome dog.

Bessent: I laugh so hard when I think how I’m screwing over little people it hurts

Prodding everyone to look up Scott Bessent’s wealth. 🤡 www.forbes.com/sites/kylemu...

Piling on Johnson is easy, but don’t forget if just a few Republicans would crossover and side with Democrats they could together stand up to Trump

The view from 2039 “America remains vast, inventive, and rich in resources. It will most likely endure in some form. But the era in which it underwrote the world’s peace, prosperity, and ideals is over. The ‘indispensable nation’ has become dispensable.” michaelwood627.substack.com/p/debt-and-t...

The evidence is now in. The explosive growth in sports gambling is bad for sports, and it has proved to be bad for the millions of Americans who gamble past the point of prudence and directly to the point of pain. The sports gambling revolution needs more regulation. It may even need termination.

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The Washington Post editorial endorsing the destruction of the White House was a twisted and embarrassing attempt at justifying the indefensible. It dressed up Trump’s insanity as a “NIMBY” issue, and tried to make it all seem not just normal, but necessary. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/pathetic-men

I came across this from that other place, written 12 days after J6 and two days before Trump was evicted and Biden took over. We are in the trouble we’re in because Trump was not held accountable for his crimes, particularly inciting a ldeadly insurrection. Accountability is key for our future.

Amazing he’s called a “libertarian” when he has hand out at the IMF and the US “Argentina could also struggle to secure future financing under a Congress controlled by Milei’s opponents. The country is by far the largest borrower from the International Monetary Fund” www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Trump’s uncanny ability to never forget perceived slights raises questions about Biden’s health

It’s self-dealing all the way down www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Arguments already getting re-written. 🤡

The Ukrainians have proved themselves to be brave, persistent and unwilling to forsake their independence to a murderous dictator. A good model for Americans.

Blue jay with a tasty nut. #birdsky

This type of consultant brain behavior from Democrats disgusts me share.inquirer.com/wt2NgH

This is the point in the movie where ICE impersonators take the thieves into their custody and drive away

Angry that Canada aired an ad using Reagan's own words about tariffs, Trump said: "I can play dirtier than they can." Sounds like something a mob boss would say, doesn't it?

After seeing a Burger King advertisement Trump announced a 1000% tariff on burgers, declaring there can only be one King

Do not forget that this happened and that Trump should be in prison for it right now.

Good morning, says Mabel! PLUS: some of my commentaries from the past week if you need to catch up on all things US politics: steveschmidt.substack.com/p/this-past-...

Mike Johnson has chosen to render himself irrelevant through constant subservience to Trump, who he said 10 years ago didn't have "the demeanor to be president." “I’m the speaker and the president,” Trump has joked www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u... @anniekarni.bsky.social

I agree. ICE is losing.

Breaking - suspects arrested in Louvre heist: wapo.st/3WXbpU6

Ah, so she's not a racist, she just thinks there too many non-white people on TV and she finds it upsetting.

It was a wild thing to do given the very question of his tariff power is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. 🤑⚖️ #tariff

Mamdani is just killing the #BrokenTimes. Its coverage is like a five-year-old's temper tantrum over trying asparagus.

I think there's consensus that we all should call it the Epstein Ballroom. And I propose renaming the rest the Gold House.

Of course, the #BrokenPost editorial board would.... In defense of the White House ballroom www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Read this! I did not know that St. Ronnie was really in favor of open borders --- for people. Fascinating. Where are the Reagan Legacy Project people? Anybody heard from Grover?

So jealous of anyone who gets to work on this story. Every paragraphic in this piece is a blast www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/w...

Really spicing up the case before the Supreme Court

It will be an amazing footnote if Trump’s goon squad really increases Brandon Johnson’s popularity

Simon Godwin, wow. The Wild Duck at Shakespeare Theatre Company right now is so well done (once you get past the awkward opening, which, well, that’s on Ibsen). Westrate, Hurt, Field, and Laanstra-Corn are all outstanding. I am so glad we have Godwin here as artistic director at STC.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Is the answer just: cocaine?

A very thought-provoking “dispatch from the future.” I’ll be discuss this interesting piece with its author, Michael Wood, on Bulwark on Sunday live at noon (or you can watch the recording later). michaelwood627.substack.com/p/debt-and-t...

…. Firstly: even if true, holy shit trump is not the guy to do it Second: stfu

First recommendation is not “horror” per se but boyyy is it. Also: I constantly say it’s the best movie about the trump era, but it came out when Bush was president youtu.be/QMRljLE8gQA?...

From my Friday newsletter: “Meanwhile, I trust we’ll be treated to an exciting World Series. My prediction, since you ask? The Dodgers in six. Yamamoto wins the clincher and takes home the MVP.” www.thebulwark.com/p/time-to-sh...

Important and correct analysis of our present situation. We have to keep seeing the big picture and not be distracted by the differences in the pretexts. The pretexts all lead to a common goal.

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I honestly think Yamamoto could reach the Koufax/Kershaw tier for us by the time he calls it quits. He is a magician on the mound.

We wondered 6 months ago whether Cuarteto LatinoAmericano, "Mexico’s flagship chamber ensemble," would bring their farewell tour to DC as planned, given the risk of who knows what at the hands of ICE. I can now report that they came, they performed, and it was wonderful. 1/2

Thankful to be in a party where an SS tattoo can still move the primary numbers. 🙏

Not actually helping. #caturday

“.. Crypto was supposed to free us from the chains of government control, but now it is finally revealing what that freedom really means: removing all checks on the power of the wealthy to do what they want, discharged at last from law .. and civic obligation ..” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

Thought the Springsteen movie was really good

Ah yes, the way to protect women and children is to protest a pumpkin carving contest. TERFs are so deeply misguided

I like your aw just fuck it attitude towards being a news organization

The anti-Jay Jones ads spend a ton of time telling viewers to check mainstream news outlets’ reporting on his texts. Never seen attack ads that tacitly acknowledge that they aren’t trustworthy on their own.