Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome
10th October 2025
DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rant on Luigi Mangione (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue (Block Club Chicago) Strong as the temptation might be….
The authoritarian menace has arrived (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring) One guess as to who that might be….
Trump Deserves Nobel, Israel Says; But Norway Braces For Backlash Ahead Of Expected Snub
Man Accused of Starting LA Fire Wrote Anti-Trump Posts My, what a surprise.
Report: Black Chicagoans Welcome ICE, National Guard Presence
Trump: Obama Won Nobel Peace Prize for ‘Doing Nothing’ He was the Magic Negro. That’s all it takes.
Trump, the Self-Styled “President of PEACE” Abroad, Makes War at Home (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
The impossibly dumb reason for Trump’s invasion of Portland (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
Trump’s war on ‘antifa’ is both buffoonish and sinister (Paul Waldman/MSNBC)
Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic)
Trump Snubbed for 2024 Nobel, But Case Growing for 2025
The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare (William Kristol/The Bulwark) The Kristol Krew goes full Democrat.
Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark) Nixon gave us the EPA and OSHA, which are still going strong with Democrat support, so I suppose that’s true.
MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa (Tal Axelrod/Axios) MAGA is the New Nigger.
“People Are Not Fungible Commodities” – MAGA Spars With Peter Schiff On Immigration That MAGA guy gets around.
I’ve Seen Epstein’s Photos of Trump With Topless Girls: Author (Julia Ornedo/The Daily Beast) An unimpeachable source?
The Beauty Queens of MAGA World (Joshua Chaffin/Wall Street Journal) The WSJ seems to be striving to be the new Daily Beast. Not Trump’s fault Democrat women are pretty much all butt-ugly.
MAGA Fury Erupts After Trump Misses Nobel Peace Prize (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News) MAGA is the New Nigger.
Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump’s Admin Disappeared Them Anyway (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)
Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark) ‘Exclusive’ must mean ‘of the facts’.
The Justice Department’s Dangerously Weak Case Against Letitia James (Molly Roberts/Lawfare) Still stronger than James’ case against Trump.
Trump ICE Raids Take Unnerving Turn as Dem Gov Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic) I’m surprised Pritzker could even pick it up, much less drop it.
Cool! It Really Looks Like Greg Abbott is Taking Orders From Libs of TikTok (Brian Gaar/The Barbed Wire) I think it may be the other way around.
Why María Corina Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic) (1) She’s not Trump, (2) she’s female, (3) She’s ‘latinx’.
Comedian Passed Over for Daily Show: Trump Voters Are Inferior ‘C-Average Students’
The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade (Mark Lee Greenblatt/New York Times) But not as many, of course, as the New York Times.
Is This What ‘Late-Stage Democracy’ Looks Like? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) Yup–everything going to shit under Democrat policies. (See? It’s in their name.)
This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning (Alice Speri/The Guardian) For certain narrow values of ‘winning’.
As the public sours on his economic performance, Trump tries playing make-believe (Steve Benen/MSNBC) Welcome to your world, eh?
Donald Trump deserved the Nobel prize, says … Vladimir Putin (Seb Starcevic/Politico) Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….
‘They Gave Speeches’: MSNBC’s Sanders Credits France and Britain For Gaza Deal
Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition (Faiza Patel/Brennan Center for Justice) Too late–they’re already criminals.
Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low (Joan Walsh/The Nation)
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)
Trump’s Quest for Unchecked Power: A Video Roundup (Landry Ayres/The UnPopulist) Carefully edited, of course….
QUENCHED: Networks Ignore Alleged Palisades Fire Arsonist Was Anti-Trump Eco-Fanatic