Nancy Dwyer Chapman

Retired trademark attorney, feminist, liberal, determined and curmudgeonly.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

What is going on with our president?

Calling people "THE ENEMY" for exercising their First Amendment rights is deeply disturbing.

That's what autocratic leaders do, not American leaders.

Doing so for such a trivial, vain matter is just nutty.

(PS, many AI models still make mistakes or are deliberately biased. No one should call their output "super intelligence" just yet anyway. See this paper: https://t.co/YYcNMljhSP )

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I can't stop talking about yesterday's Texas rally because I can't stop thinking how significant it was. In a very good way.
Trump - demented and delusional - shows up in San Antonio thinking he's on a rescue mission for a candidate. But it's a piss poor candidate. And it's the wrong candidate. And it's 100% his fault that this compromised criminal candidate is even a nominee. And the candidate is losing. AND -- Trump coming to ANY rescue right now, is like an arsonist coming to put out a fire.
The whole event was grievance, name calling, tired narratives, and cosplay. Eighteen separate people were tossed for heckling him - that's a lot of people who strode into a Trump rally in Texas unafraid and loud. So loud that Trump had to stop. He called them "paid." They weren't.
The Texas Governor stayed away. Fox didn't broadcast it. The whole upper deck was empty.
Trump's way of dealing with empty seats is to tell the audience not to go to the bathroom, because the fake news media will use that single empty seat to claim the place wasn't packed. It wasn't. Not even close.
Trump is defensive, tired, and diminished. Instead of propping people up, he's leaking.
Soon he'll start metaphorically making that whistling sound that a balloon makes when air escapes it and it loses altitude. I sort of heard the precursor of that sound yesterday. I didn't expect to hear it in Texas.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Oh good. Real-life Thought Police.

Exactly what I always wanted.

#MakeOrwellFictionAgain

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

FAUCI WAS FUNDING BIOLABS!!

THERE WERE LAB LEAKS!!

Oh. Wait. No.

It was actually RFK Jr.

And it's in Russia

And it's plague

Oops

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump has some sort of large contraption around his waist again today that makes him look vaguely like a centaur while he stands

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr

CUT monitoring of Vibrio - now a major outbreak
CUT screwworm research - screwworm returns
CUT salmonella surveillance - Big outbreak
CUT cyclospora surveillance - Huge outbreak
Cut CDC ship team - Hantavirus ship outbreak

FUNDED Plague lab in Russia - lab leak

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Of course the pro-Russian Robert Kennedy has been funneling money to a Russian state program now responsible for releasing plague into the world, as their is no aspect of the Trump admin that doesn't serve Moscow in some way.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Hahahhahahahahahahaahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah <breathe> hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaha.

This is RICH.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

The Palm Beach County Republican party kept Mike Caruso on the ballot, and he was endorsed by Donald Trump, despite the fact he raped his 5 year old grandson. 🤬

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Pay attention. An ambassador nominee needs $100,000.
Not a loan…a WIRE.
Not to her…to AmEx.
“It won't show up anywhere." "Please."
That's what Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly texted a Trump donor on Signal, per the WSJ.
She wasn't hiding a debt. She was hiding the paper trail.
Ask yourself why.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This should be fun.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

NEW - EXCLU - Trump has considered reigniting the war against Iran after the midterms

But now the White House told the Pentagon to draw up plans for a strike *before* Election Day

Trump allies hope it could provide GOP with a boost. No final call yet https://t.co/UAVDBXFLB1

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

This is pretzel logic only Trump and his team could come up with.

We’ve got war with a lower approval rate than prostate cancer and recent credible stories about how we completely failed our injured warriors?

What if we re-ignited it BEFORE people voted?

Brilliant.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has new legislation directing Smithsonian to preserve the huge Trump banners that adorn US Justice Dept & Labor Dept -- and the "propaganda" signage Team Trump has placed at Natl Museum of African American history:

Raskin: "Unlike Pres. Trump’s project of censoring, whitewashing and fictionalizing American history, my legislation will forever preserve his manifestations of authoritarian narcissism and his propagandistic assault on American history and American democracy”

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The grift never ends.

He just wants to be able to charge the government even when he’s out of office

[Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence]

Trump Tariffs don’t work.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

fun fact

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year.

Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs.

Shootings are down 11.6%. Shooting victims are down 14.4%. Murders are down 19.8%.

Mayor Mamdani credited both the NYPD and the city’s violence interrupters and crisis management teams as NYC expands its prevention-focused public safety approach.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Meanwhile in Russia's Sochi

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Holy shit. People are finally waking up.