Nuremberg Trial 2.0

The original Nuremberg Trial used the charge of conspiracy. It was therefore one singular trial intended to be a warning for the future as much as justice for the past. Some people did not get the message.

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A win! A federal judge in Washington issued a longer-term injunction, blocking the Trump administration from removing or damaging any more trees on the grounds of East Potomac Golf Links.

Understanding how people come to support cruel dictatorships "is all the more urgent as the West stares at an arc of authoritarian states now stretched across the Middle East and Eurasia, and the growth of a radical right-wing nearer to home."

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

In 2023, the Senate invited John Roberts to testify about Supreme Court ethics. He said no. Clarence Thomas spent years taking luxury trips paid for by a billionaire. Roberts sent a letter. Republicans call that independence. It’s a lifetime hall pass.

States run elections not the Feds. Throw the stupid suit out!

Greater MAGA is having a truly sh-t day, brothers and sisters. Praise be. Vucic gets routed in Serbia, and Lula prevails in Brazil. Not what Trump world wanted nine days out from our election here. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Hungary Serbia Brazil Please let us be next

This is the way.

It's the stupidity, stupid. Shut up and go away.

This is why it's dangerous to give rich people so much power over our lives. Sometimes, they are appallingly ignorant. The Nazis added the word "socialist" to their name purely as propaganda to appeal more to workers. But the party--and Hitler--hated real socialists and communists.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Justice Elena Kagan has sharply criticized the Supreme Court's conservative majority — saying it undermined democracy in a series of rulings, including several that prompted the wave of gerrymandering. "[T]he court has blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings."

🤷🏼 whoopsy atlantablackstar.com/2026/10/21/a...

We also need a new Congress to pass laws that limit money in politics and a new SCOTUS that accepts that money and speech are two different things.

@billbramhall.bsky.social

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

This is awful, but I appreciate how much the idiots in charge of CBS are doing to let the entire world know that they are no longer a legitimate news organization.

🚨BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ is considering suing more states in bid to control how ballots are counted before and after the midterms.

The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

We can rebuild our cities after natural disasters or we can have a White House Ballroom, a well-equipped Triumphal Arch, a petri dish reflecting pool, a championship golf course for the Prez to cheat on, a brothel version of the Kennedy Center and an upgraded Air Farce One. But not both. #MAGATrash

Alright Bluesky, you know what to do: Trump and Vance announce $25M whistleblower program to encourage public to report alleged fraud apnews.com/article/trum...

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.

Imagine this being spent on other things people need. time.com/article/2026...

Despite the Trump administration's best efforts, Alberta votes not to break up Canada

What a disgrace to have a traitorous U.S. president who blames democratic Ukraine for his problems while Ukraine is engaged in a life-and-death struggle for its sovereignty against the murderous invasion of Putin’s Russia. And worse, he is strengthening the enemy’s position.

Break them up.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

Quite the admission: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

Obviously, a person who has broken immigration laws should not be allowed to obtain government contracts, right?

I don’t know what Nuremberg 2.0 should look like but by the day I’m more and more anxious for it whatever it is.

"It was the government not me!"

I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.

Vote the Republicans out November 3... but be aware Trump and his minions might make their move on January 3. Read Michael Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/2151...

Unprecedented corruption

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

"Against these incentives to distort truth, we need a countermovement." --University of Idaho Prof Rebecca Scofield Indeed we do. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

Confirmed. Russian disinformation disrupted by Ukrainian drone strikes: Via Euronews: Did Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres cause Russian bot activity to plummet? www.euronews.com/2026/10/12/d...

NEW: "There is some pretty significant corruption at the deputy assistant secretary level....There should be a message across the government...if you committed an actual federal crime, that as long as the statute of limitations has not run, you should probably get a lawyer." – @schatz.bsky.social

The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller

OSCE observers don’t control our elections. They observe the process and publicly report what they find. If election integrity is the concern, why turn away the people who help assess it?