‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered a third of the wall space with gold.

‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

from political Wire:
Sept 2, 2025 at 8:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 99 Comments

“Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up,” the Financial Times reports.

Sofa King Sad

Conservative Wisconsin Justice Won't Run Again "A conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Friday that she will not seek reelection, creating an open race for a seat on the court that’s controlled 4-3 by liberals," the AP reports. ...

Conservative Wisconsin Justice Won't Run Again politicalwire.com/2025/08/29/c...

Looking for your help.
Please feel free to give us a better moniker
Until we have a better name to address Trump
I am addressing Trump as Dic Trump!
For Dictator Trump

James Dobson was the reason I began this journey of speaking out against the Evangelical Church and the GOP.

In the immediate wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, he and Mike Huckabee declared it happened because God had been "taken out of schools.

thank you, you made my day
going to sleep with a smile

Sofa KING Sad. Today at the White House, Putin is not even there. The American President is doing Putin's bidding

Resurfaced Clips Show Trump Downplaying Sexual Abuse of Minor Trump suggested a teacher’s statutory rape of a 14-year-old was confidence boosting

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The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

DOGE-flation: DOGE’s actual savings are a fraction of what it claims — POLITICO A POLITICO analysis of DOGE data reveals the organization saved less than 5 percent of its claimed savings from nearly 10,100 contract terminations.

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Great article, but your closing line, "that Trump should endorse this" gives me hope that when Trump is gone we can make even more progress

Two significant anniversaries today. Eighty years ago, we bombed Hiroshima. That is history. Sixty years ago today, we passed the Voting Rights Act. That is not history, but an ongoing struggle that Trump is finally reversing

imagine that

Rachel Maddow delivered a scathing monologue last night, noting: “We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.”

politicalwire.com/2025/08/05/a...

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Job Growth Under Trump Lags Far Behind Biden's President Trump built his political brand on being a master businessman — even though it was mostly on a reality television show. But his first six months back in office have produced fewer than half

Imagine that!
Job Growth Under Trump Lags Far Behind Biden's politicalwire.com/2025/08/01/j...

President Trump is breaking or ignoring all sorts of presidential norms President Trump's critics accuse him of breaking or ignoring norms. But, others say he may just be treating them differently than past presidents.

Here is the link to a five-minute listen if you don't want to read: www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

President Trump is breaking or ignoring all sorts of presidential norms President Trump's critics accuse him of breaking or ignoring norms. But, others say he may just be treating them differently than past presidents.

Yesterday, 29 July, there was an excellent piece on All Things Considered on how Trump is trashing norms
www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Cory Booker Accuses Democrats of Being ‘Complicit’

July 29, 2025 at 8:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) went nuclear on his fellow Democrats on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, accusing them of being “complicit” in President Donald Trump’s actions, Punchbowl News reports.

On Planet Earth, Obama Can’t Be Indicted. But We Live on Planet Trump. The attempted persecution of a former president is both a dangerous line to cross and an expression of this failed administration.

newrepublic.com/article/1984...

Quote of the Day "You are fat, you are a joke, you are stupid, you are not funny, you are not as smart as you think you are... This entire thing has been a scam. When we look back

Quote of the Day politicalwire.com/2025/07/24/q...

An American Elected Pope

May 8, 2025 at 1:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 404 Comments

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was born in Chicago, was elected Pope.

He’ll be known as Pope Leo XIV.

He’s the first American Pope in history.

The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why do Dems always want to lose?

Opinion | King Donald’s courtiers struggle to keep up From Gaza to tariffs to gutting USAID, Trump’s team is struggling to explain away bad policies.

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

In Canada & Australia, the most left factions were sacrificed to give the center left the ability to defeat the extreme right.

Had that happened here, we wouldn’t be in this nightmare.

I guess the rest of the world learned from breathtaking folly of the “uncommitted” and Stein voters.