Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome: A Bumper Crop
1st October 2025
In Court Filings, Oregon Police Slam Trump’s Portland Takeover (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
Dallas Fed Respondents Turn Apocalyptic Amid Trump Push To Hammer Oil Prices
Trump Is Lying About Antifa to Justify His Authoritarian Crackdown (Jeet Heer/The Nation)
How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting (MSNBC)
MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Is Named as Next Super Bowl Headliner (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast) The Daily Beast, as always, is concerned about this MAGA guy, whom only they apparently are able to see. (NFL chooses crossdressing leftwing activist from Puerto Rico to play Super Bowl LX Halftime Show)
Is Trump keeping all his promises? This MAGA couple doesn’t think so. (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post) Now there’s a MAGA ‘couple’. They’re breeding like flies.
Under Trump, US cedes its share of China’s beef market to Australia (Reuters)
With Portland, Trump’s Police State Is Getting Bigger and More Radical (Perry Bacon/New Republic)
Pentagon Pete’s ‘Manic’ Meltdowns Exposed by Aides (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)
Trump’s new tariffs will slam America’s already brutal housing crisis (Rachel Cohen/Vox) I wasn’t aware that we imported houses from foreign countries. Well, you learn something new every day.
YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump (Wall Street Journal) Still winning after al these years….
Trump Has Lost Credibility Worldwide, at Huge Cost (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)
Cutbacks at HUD come as Black homeownership falls (Emily Peck/Axios) Because, as we all know, black homeownership is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.
Elon Musk’s latest power grab points in a clear direction (Tom Tugendhat/Washington Post)
ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News) Evidently he had a good reason.
ICE Fires Chemical Weapon At TV Reporter In Broadview; ‘Unprovoked’ Attack Under Investigation (Mack Liederman/Block Club Chicago) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.
Why Trump’s Use of Military in US Is So Controversial (Bloomberg)
Fully MAGA-fied Christianity (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic) MAGA Is The New Nigger.
GAO: Trump Broke the Law by Withholding FEMA Funds
JB Pritzker Demands Americans Call Trump Exactly What He Is (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic) “Mr. President”
Trump Administration Opens New Front to Strip Harvard of Federal Funding (Wall Street Journal)
Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program (Katherine Hapgood/Politico) Because, as we all know, housing the homeless is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government–and the Federal taxpayer.
Judge Halts Trump Plan to Cut Hundreds of VOA Jobs
Oregon Governor Says There’s No Insurrection, Tells Trump To “Stand Down”
Trump’s Shortsighted Campaign of Vengeance (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds (New York Times)
Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library (Patricia Mazzei/New York Times) Like they did for Obama in Chicago?
Trump says he’ll fire generals “on the spot” if he dislikes them (Colin Demarest/Axios) Which he is entitled to do–he is, after all, the President.
Hakeem Jeffries slams ‘racist and fake’ video posted by Trump (Nicholas Wu/Politico)
Trump Refers to Racial Slur During Address to the Military (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
Targeting Tylenol Is Just Another Excuse to Blame Women for Everything (Katha Pollitt/The Nation)
CNN Whines About Kimmel Suspension but Ignored Years of Biden Censorship
Trump, 79, Admits He Struggles Descending Stairs (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
Trump Press Sec’s Vile New Effort to Exploit Mormon Shooting Backfires (New Republic)
Hegseth to generals: Embrace MAGA military or quit (Colin Demarest/Axios) Yeah, let’s put thtt MAGA guy in camo and see what he can do.
“It’s a war from within.” (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. (Washington Post) Because, as we all know, the health of the world’s children is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government–and the U.S. taxpayer.
The View Decries Hegseth’s ‘Bizarre’ ‘Retro Vision’ of Physically Fit Military
Climate Doomsayer Michael Mann Resigns After Smearing Charlie Kirk as Head of ‘Trump’s Hitler Youth’
Trump and Hegseth’s plan for a MAGA military reset, told in 11 quotes (Herb Scribner/Axios)
Trump is targeting the First Amendment rights of all Americans (The Contrarian) Just like a Democrat!
Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Behar Crash Out: ‘You’re Delusional’ to Think U.S. Will ‘Survive’ Trump
Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown (NPR) As NPR does with Republicans.
The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown (Ian Millhiser/Vox) No, it wouldn’t.
Trump’s MAGA-fied military prepares for “war from within” (Zachary Basu/Axios) MAGA–is there anything it can’t do?
Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
Unions sue Trump admin over mass layoff plan during government shutdown (Avery Lotz/Axios)
Democrats Get Frantic Over Trump’s “Racist” Mexican Bandito Meme
The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew go full Democrat.
MAGA can’t expand its base — and Christian music tells us why (Amanda Marcotte/Salon) Amanda Marcotte seems to hav a crush on this MAGA guy.
The “Moral Monsters” Among Us (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew go full Democrat.
Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump (Cathy Young/The UnPopulist) Don’t hold it in, Cathy, tell us how you really feel.
White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities (Washington Post) Whose main job is passing out taxpayer money to Woke drones.