Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
7th October 2025
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
WH Slams Chicago Mayor for Creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’
Illinois sues Trump over National Guard deployment (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
It’s Time for Soft Secession (Clara Jeffery/Mother Jones) The Left Coast shall rise again!
Solar Groups Sue Trump Administration over Cancellation of $7B in Grants
Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)
Chris Hayes, Alex Wagner Fret Unbiased CBS Will Become STATE TV Under Bari Weiss
MAGA calls for Trump to overrule judges on National Guard deployments (Tal Axelrod/Axios) There’s that MAGA guy again.
White House: Trump is not talking to Democrats (Irie Sentner/Politico)
Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities (Chris Edelson/The UnPopulist) Pretty heavy lifting for a guy in his 80s.
Trump Says He’d Invoke Insurrection Act If Necessary
Speaker to Rep. Jeffries: Trump Obsession Makes It Worse
Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing (Josephine Walker/Axios)
Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, to Mixed Reactions (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire’ Before Judge’s Home Exploded (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)
Trump Tells the Navy to View Half the Country as the Enemy (Edith Olmsted/New Republic) Perhaps because they are.
Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He’s not happy about it. (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
Trump’s Plan — The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war. (Robert Reich) Robert Reich loses his shit.
MAGA Turns on Trump’s Top Lawyer (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
Both CNN and MSNBC Cut Off Speaker Johnson As He Was Explaining Democrats and Illegals
The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake (Slate)
AP Assembles the ‘Experts’ to Diss Trump As Too Nasty for Nobel Peace Prize
Stephen Miller’s Uncle Agrees That He’s a ‘Depraved Fiend’ (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast) The Daily Beast is well named.
No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants (Stephen I. Vladeck/New York Times)
Democrats are winning the shutdown (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice) They hope.
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian) Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. (Presumably she includes ‘truth’, ‘justice’, and ‘the American way’.)
Trump Teases Legal Action Against ‘Sleazebag’ Jack Smith And I would encourage him to do so.
Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
Trump’s power to deploy National Guard, explained (NPR) Getcher Narrative, right here.
FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)
Legal Battles Rage Over National Guard Deployments To 5 States – What To Know
DHS: Illegal ‘Thug’ Arrested for $10K Hit on US Border Patrol Chief
Trump Plans to Stiff Federal Workers Furloughed During Shutdown (Robert McCoy/New Republic)
The Supreme Court’s Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
When in Doubt, Blame the Immigrants (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark)
Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities (Reuters)
The Comey Indictment and Selective or Vindictive Prosecution (Ema Rose Schumer/Lawfare) Oh, like what Democrats did to Trump for four years?
MSNBC, ‘Prosecuting Donald Trump’ Podcaster Baselessly Blame Trump for Fire at Judge’s Home
Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller. (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)