"If rogue federal agents can shoot American citizens dead with total impunity, then it doesn't matter whether state and local authorities, the courts, the media, the political opposition, and a mobilized public object. "ICE > MN," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on social media"an assertion of raw force, not constitutional authority. When Trump and his loyalists call protesters terrorists and warn that disobeying orders will get you killed, they strip away any illusion that the federal government respects the lives, let alone the rights, of those who oppose it"potentially half the population or more."

George Packer

"The administration's automatic lies about the killings and slander of the victims are less a cover-up of facts than a display of utter contempt for them. Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top officials seem to invite incredulity as a way to flex their power: We say black is white. Agree or you're a criminal. When Stephen Miller recently claimed that geopolitics is ruled by the "iron laws" of "strength" and "force," he was expressing the administration's approach to domestic governance as well. Those words are iron laws on American streets."

George Packer

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"Trump is an ignorant man; unlike many other would-be or actual dictators, he does not read books and has difficulty writing more than a few badly spelled sentences on social media."

Eliot A. Cohen

What does Grindr do?

"Trump's crumbling administration is living proof that the best way to convince voters to elect Democrats is to let Republicans run things for a year. If anyone in Trump's White House is actually getting any work done, they've done a good job hiding it from the public."

Max Burns

"The administration's automatic lies about the killings and slander of the victims are less a cover-up of facts than a display of utter contempt for them. Trump, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other top officials seem to invite incredulity as a way to flex their power: We say black is white. Agree or you're a criminal. When Stephen Miller recently claimed that geopolitics is ruled by the "iron laws" of "strength" and "force," he was expressing the administration's approach to domestic governance as well. Those words are iron laws on American streets."

George Packer

"In addition to asserting that the British deployed military aircraft in the eighteenth century, Donald Trump has indicated that Andrew Jackson, who died in 1845, was angry about the Civil War, and that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, is still alive."

Andy Borowitz

"The entire Trump project - and to a larger extent the MAGA movement"is at its core an exercise in collective delusion. The whole enterprise rests on Americans rejecting the very facts staring them in the face."

Janna Brancolini

"To better understand the president's foreign policy, one must study the behavior of small children. ... Intellectual honesty does not seem to be the hallmark of this administration's foreign policy. A more helpful way of understanding the president's whims is to think of him as a small child who develops an obsessive fixation on a new toy before losing all interest. You can wait him out or try to appease him, but you can't talk him into a rational assessment of cost versus benefit, or assume his stated preference will hold true for very long."

Jonathan Chait

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"The entire Trump project - and to a larger extent the MAGA movement"is at its core an exercise in collective delusion. The whole enterprise rests on Americans rejecting the very facts staring them in the face."

Janna Brancolini

"Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as the truth' exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as Science' ... If the Leader says of such and such an event, It never happened'-well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five-well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs."

George Orwell

"In addition to asserting that the British deployed military aircraft in the eighteenth century, Donald Trump has indicated that Andrew Jackson, who died in 1845, was angry about the Civil War, and that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, is still alive."

Andy Borowitz

If they were very smart the wouldn't be trumplings.

"In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to
observe the law scrupulously . . . If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites
anarchy."

Justice Louis Brandeis Olmstead v. United States (1928)

"even the worst possible accident postulated by the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] would not require evacuation of the borough of Middletown. . . it can be seen that it is unnecessary to have specific evacuation routes identified. . .")

Letter to Middletown borough officials from Metropolitan Edison, owners of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, written 5 years before the core melted. Middletown is 3 miles from the reactor.

"In addition to asserting that the British deployed military aircraft in the eighteenth century, Donald Trump has indicated that Andrew Jackson, who died in 1845, was angry about the Civil War, and that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, is still alive."

Andy Borowitz

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"We have had half a century to find a good solution to the problem of nuclear waste, and we are no closer now than we were in the 1960s. That is because there is no "good solution." We will never be able to find a risk-free method of storing nuclear waste."

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich

"In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to
observe the law scrupulously . . . If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites
anarchy."

Justice Louis Brandeis Olmstead v. United States (1928)

"Long before COVID-19, America experienced cholera and flu pandemics with hundreds of thousands of associated deaths, as well as lesser outbreaks of illnesses such as diphtheria, polio, and pertussis, all three of which were notorious child-killers. Today, the rarity of those conditions has fostered a false sense of security, and a naive assessment of the natural world. Relinquishing the successes of general vaccine coverage, however, is guaranteed to belie the idea that untainted nature contains all the keys to health and wellness. Our historical moment has enough strife without revisiting past battles fought and won."

Elizabeth Bruenig

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

Hannah Arendt

"Trump has no use for the concept of 'service.' He doesn't care about active-duty troops, he doesn't care about veterans, he doesn't care about those who have fallen. The only thing that matters to Donald is money. Donald Trump knows nothing about service. In fact, he has contempt for it. He deferred his service in Vietnam five times using a fictional injury as an excuse because he is and always has been a coward."

Mary Trump