Holy crap it was this completely insane freak who gave #Trump $$ supposedly for the #military.

#TimothyMellon, a reclusive #billionaire & a major financial backer of Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the #shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A while ago I posted a thread about him.
I’ll boost it.

He is scary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Holy crap it was this completely insane freak who gave #Trump $$ supposedly for the #military.

#TimothyMellon, a reclusive #billionaire & a major financial backer of Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the #shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A while ago I posted a thread about him.
I’ll boost it.

He is scary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Wait, what...?!!!

#Trump Is Exploiting the #Shutdown to Set Up Something Truly Terrifying

By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Oct 17, 2025

Excerpt: "I think that is a dangerous thing, and it’s pretty much undeniable that Trump has just crossed yet another Rubicon. He has already asserted presidential control over taxes through his tariff policy. He has asserted control over the Federal Reserve and interest rates and monetary policy. And now he’s asserting control over appropriations—and not just through pocket rescissions or canceling projects in blue states, which he had already done. Now he is actually asserting a constitutional imperative to spend money in a way that Congress has not approved. When you combine all of those things, it’s hard to see how the separation of powers still exists in this country."

Read more:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-shutdown-army-pay-2026.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7cYI5

#USPol #TrumpIsAFascist #SecretPolice #CapitolGuards #Panem #authoritarianism #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Wait, what...?!!!

#Trump Is Exploiting the #Shutdown to Set Up Something Truly Terrifying

By Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern
Oct 17, 2025

Excerpt: "I think that is a dangerous thing, and it’s pretty much undeniable that Trump has just crossed yet another Rubicon. He has already asserted presidential control over taxes through his tariff policy. He has asserted control over the Federal Reserve and interest rates and monetary policy. And now he’s asserting control over appropriations—and not just through pocket rescissions or canceling projects in blue states, which he had already done. Now he is actually asserting a constitutional imperative to spend money in a way that Congress has not approved. When you combine all of those things, it’s hard to see how the separation of powers still exists in this country."

Read more:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-shutdown-army-pay-2026.html

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7cYI5

#USPol #TrumpIsAFascist #SecretPolice #CapitolGuards #Panem #authoritarianism #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Historically, when people don't eat, they revolt.

What do you think will happen when you fund your personal extravagance while people watch with hunger in their stomachs and their children crying for food?

You don't even need to crack a history book. It happens constantly all over the place. It's happening right now and I don't even need to name the places because you already know them.

You think it can't happen here?

What do you think will happen?

#fascism #antifascist #SNAP #shutdown #resist

Do you think 42 million hungry adults and children will just accept the fact that they won't be able to afford food anymore because their #SNAP benefits are gone?

Emma Goldman said ask for work. Most people receiving these benefits already work, or they otherwise can't.

She said if they don't give you work, ask for food. That's what SNAP is. They just took it away.

Emma said if they don't give you work and they don't give you food, take the food.

#fascism #antifascist #anarchist #shutdown

This #fascist regime would rather force 42 million of their own citizens starve to death than allow a single #trans person to exist.

#SNAP #antifascist #shutdown

And don't let anyone tell you that 42 million people can just go to the food pantry.

No.

Food pantries are not designed for this and we all fucking know it. And even if they were, the federal government has *already* cut federal funding for food pantries. The money is already gone, and so is the food. They don't have the resources to feed 42 million additional mouths for even a day, let alone every meal indefinitely.

#snap #shutdown #resist #fascism #antifascism

Do you think 42 million hungry adults and children will just accept the fact that they won't be able to afford food anymore because their #SNAP benefits are gone?

Emma Goldman said ask for work. Most people receiving these benefits already work, or they otherwise can't.

She said if they don't give you work, ask for food. That's what SNAP is. They just took it away.

Emma said if they don't give you work and they don't give you food, take the food.

#fascism #antifascist #anarchist #shutdown

Historically, when people don't eat, they revolt.

What do you think will happen when you fund your personal extravagance while people watch with hunger in their stomachs and their children crying for food?

You don't even need to crack a history book. It happens constantly all over the place. It's happening right now and I don't even need to name the places because you already know them.

You think it can't happen here?

What do you think will happen?

#fascism #antifascist #SNAP #shutdown #resist

Historically, when people don't eat, they revolt.

What do you think will happen when you fund your personal extravagance while people watch with hunger in their stomachs and their children crying for food?

You don't even need to crack a history book. It happens constantly all over the place. It's happening right now and I don't even need to name the places because you already know them.

You think it can't happen here?

What do you think will happen?

#fascism #antifascist #SNAP #shutdown #resist

169,812 people in #Maine will not receive #SNAP benefits for November.

Let me say that again.

169,812 people won't be able to afford to buy food in November in Maine.

Maine has a population < 1.5M

Not just Maine, but 42 million people across *all* states will lose SNAP benefits during the #shutdown while they all watch the president building a personal ballroom.

#fascism #antifascist

[Edit: lowball estimate adjusted to the exact number of people who won't receive Maine SNAP benefits. Clarified that 42 million people will lose SNAP benefits in all states.]

On Day 19 of the Trump/Republican Shutdown

- The Republican controlled House of Representatives remains in hiding with most of the GOP skipping town.
- We woke up to 7 million freedom loving Americans having participated in the No Kings protest in all 50 states.
- The majority in this country are angry, and are fed up with Trump and the Trump administration.
- We’re at day 3 of Trump getting his marching orders from Vladimir Putin.

The Republicans know that they’ve lost the hearts and minds of the American people. They’re terrified. Their lies and blame shifting is no longer working. Their propaganda apparatus (Fox, Twitter, et. al.) is no longer working. The MAGA base, while dangerous, is fighting amongst itself.

#Politics #Trump #Republican #GOP #Shutdown #Shutdown2025 #NoKings

On Day 19 of the Trump/Republican Shutdown

- The Republican controlled House of Representatives remains in hiding with most of the GOP skipping town.
- We woke up to 7 million freedom loving Americans having participated in the No Kings protest in all 50 states.
- The majority in this country are angry, and are fed up with Trump and the Trump administration.
- We’re at day 3 of Trump getting his marching orders from Vladimir Putin.

The Republicans know that they’ve lost the hearts and minds of the American people. They’re terrified. Their lies and blame shifting is no longer working. Their propaganda apparatus (Fox, Twitter, et. al.) is no longer working. The MAGA base, while dangerous, is fighting amongst itself.

#Politics #Trump #Republican #GOP #Shutdown #Shutdown2025 #NoKings

"During the federal shutdown, in which hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, Trump announced that he would give Argentina $20 billion in 'aid' that would go to political and social elites in that country."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Argentina #bailout
/8

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/our-job-invite-disaffected-trump

"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."

~ The Bulwark

#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
/7

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-getting-worse-bondi-patel-political-prosecutions-comey-james-young-republican-group-chat

"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."

#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption #Venezuela
/6

"Today, Trump tried to pressure Democrats by telling reporters the slashing of government programs will hurt only Democrats. 'We’re not closing up Republican programs because we think they work,' he said. 'So the Democrats are getting killed, but they’re not telling the people about that…. So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #shutdown
/5

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-14-2025

"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #fascism #PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants #ICE #shutdown #military #MikeJohnson #corruption
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism