Mastodawn

NYC is so "out of control and crime ridden" that NYPD had to arrest (checks note) exactly zero people today.
100,000+ protestors. ZERO arrests.
ZERO.
This isn't only a major slap in Trump's face. It proves YET AGAIN that the only violence ICE fascists are facing, is violence ICE fascists incite. If you want to cut down on violence, cut ICE out of the equation and uphold the 5th Amendment instead. An actual President would do that. A wanna be king would never. And that's why we protest.

amalia 19m ago

emama 3h ago

Lorenzo Tosa

Quello che sta succedendo in queste ore negli Stati Uniti è semplicemente straordinario.

Un’onda - letteralmente un’onda - di massa e di protesta nei confronti di Donald Trump.

Parola d’ordine: “No Kings”

No a sovrani assoluti, giù le mani dalla democrazia! “Giù le mani dai nostri diritti”. “Non arretreremo”.

2700 raduni in tutto il Paese. Da New York a Washington, da San Francisco a Chicago, a Philadelphia, fino a Mar-a-Lago, davanti alla sua residenza privata, in cui si trova in questo momento.

Milioni e milioni di persone da est a ovest scese in piazza per far sentire la propria voce, a distanza di quattro mesi dall’ultima volta.

Ovunque fiumi di gente in piena e maree umane.

C’è un’altra America, viva, vivissima, che resiste, combatte e non si piega a chi ha confuso una democrazia per una cosa propria.

Ed è bellissima. ❤️

#UsaNoKings
#NoKings
#lorenzoTosa
@attualita@diggita.com

"'T.rump' piloting a fighter jet" ... beyond mental illness 🤢

amalia 22m ago

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸4h ago

I think this might be my favourite sign I’ve seen.

Well done America. Well done!!
#nokings

amalia 22m ago

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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 2h ago

@mcnado Media outlets resented Biden because he was boring; all he did was his job.

amalia 25m ago

Sean Casten 3d ago

Read this. Especially the final paragraph to understand what Mike Johnson, Trump, Bondi and damned near every elected Republican are afraid of. Who they refuse to stand up for, and who they bow down to. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-abuse-epstein-maxwell

amalia 2h ago

Professor_Stevens 3d ago

"For Vance to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of this group chat says a great deal about the vice president’s judgment."

Yes, it does. It says he has judged it to be in the best interests of his wish to be president that he pander to racist neo-Nazis. His judgment may be depressingly good about that.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vance-tries-downplay-leak-disgusting-young-republican-chats-rcna237752

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For JD Vance to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about the vice president's judgment.

MSNBC

amalia 2h ago

Professor_Stevens 1d ago

This is where it gets really bad. Most "Enemy Indictments" are obviously bullshit (like Comey and James). This one may be valid.

Except...

Any federal indictment of a Trump "enemy" is brought out of spite. So we don't have any way of knowing if Bolton would be charged if, say, Harris were president. But maybe he would.

We have entered the phase where even guilty people should have their indictments dismissed, simply because Trump wanted them indicted.

https://apnews.com/article/john-bolton-indictment-classified-information-1e21da0591d1195fbf58c0df28d57c9f

Ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton indicted

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has been charged with storing top secret records at home and sharing with relatives notes that contained classified information. The 18-count indictment Thursday also suggests classified information was exposed when operatives believed linked to the Iranian regime hacked Bolton’s email account in 2021 and gained access to sensitive material he had shared. The investigation into Bolton, who served for more than a year in President Donald Trump’s administration before being fired in 2019 and emerging as an outspoken critic of the Republican leader, burst into public view in August when the FBI searched his home in Maryland and his office in Washington.

AP News

amalia 2h ago

Professor_Stevens 20h ago

The consistent way to understand Donald Trump is that he always does what he thinks is best for Donald Trump.

In this case, though, I can't see what he has in mind.

Why did he do this?

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-17-2025#00000199-f438-d36f-a1fd-f53b74910000

Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in fraud case

President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.

AP News

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Professor_Stevens 12h ago

@crazyeddie @amalia22 @mcnado

That's not quite right. A pardon excuses criminal liability, but it doesn't excuse all civil liability, nor does it expunge the record. BATF regards a pardon as restoration of federal firearms rights, but states can have their own restrictions. Holding a job that requires no convictions might be possible with a pardon, but it's not guaranteed. And, absent expungement, both the conviction and the pardon are on the person's record.