Q: What prompted you to announce you're resuming nuclear testing right before the meeting with Xi?

TRUMP: They seem to all be nuclear testing. We have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don't do testing. We halted it many years ago, but w/ others doing testing I think it's appropriate we do also

No industry has gone further, faster to promote the Trump agenda than Big Tech. I lay out how and why in this new article for Tech Policy Press. Please read, share, and ACT. Signal to these spineless moguls and greedy companies that you do NOT approve. www.techpolicy.press/techs-love-a...

Trump Lied and Will Now Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Finally: If Trump is hinting or outright demanding that DOJ give him $230 million in claims, how can any official who might be needing a pardon later say no to him? Reinforces the picture of all this as a kind of criminal syndicate. Raskin is strong on this here:

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As Raskin says, by ordering his cronies to commit crimes, Trump makes them dependent on him to obtain pardons. Because the price of losing favor with the dictator in the Oval Office could well be a prison sentence, there's a huge incentive to do anything Trump wants, however repugnant it may be.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

NEW: Jack Smith has responded to Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary, and it's 🔥🔥🔥

Jack Smith reminds Chuck Grassley:

1. Toll records aren't wiretaps
2. Trump's DOJ got toll records on Schiff and Swallwell and 43 congressional staffers
3. Hur got toll records in the Biden investigation 1/

“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” the judge said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

MAGA's March to Martial Law

Republicans are dehumanizing Americans as "terrorists" ahead of the NO KINGS rally, normalizing the use of state-sanctioned violence to crack down on Trump's growing critics.

With @milestaylor.bsky.social and @oliviaoftroye.com

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