ICYMI: September 30, 2025

Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds as long as they are not from some Fake News cesspool.

DUI Hire and The Fascist Felon Have a Bigly Meeting with Generals:

1) it’s all about lethality 2) no fatties

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— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM

The Fascist Felon Declares War on American Citizens and the First Amendment:

Trump to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM

Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Donald Trump is an anti-constitutional president who finds new ways every day to violate his oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" Here, he tells military leaders they will play a major role in fighting the "war from within" in American cities Unconscionable

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— David Ryan Miller (@davidryanmiller.com) September 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM

Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says — foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM

This precisely. 100%. 10/10. No notes. bsky.app/profile/atru…

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— Craig Harrington (@craigipedia.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM

Pudding Time!:

Trump to generals: "Canada called me a couple weeks ago. They want to be a part of it. To which I said, 'Well, why don't you just join our country. Become the 51st state. And you get it for free!' So I don't know if that made a big impact but it does make a lot of sense."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM

Trump: "I was watching during Biden, there were troops standing up, brave. They're spitting at them & screaming. That soldier is standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person but he's not allowed to do anything. So they just stand & get abused. I say, they spit, we hit. Is that okay?"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM

Newsom Trolls Trump’s Physique After Hegseth Demands No ‘Fat’ Generals Allowed

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken a brutal dig at the president’s physique after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the U.S. Military will no longer permit “fat” generals.

Hegseth told a crowd of top military brass on Tuesday that he is tired of seeing out-of-shape generals and admirals leading equally overweight soldiers.

IT'S COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE TO SEE A FAT COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN THE HALLS OF THE WHITE HOUSE!

Governor Newsom Press Office (@newsonpressoffice.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T11:51:08-05:00

From the MarKODA Files-Illiterate and Ignorant Racist Says, Wuuuuut?

Government Shutdown Approaches:

Donald Trump and his lapdog GOP Congress are so against lowering health care costs that they're instead shutting down the federal government.Food assistance thrown into jeopardy. Troops going without pay. Essential services shuttered.This is how MAGA treats our country.

Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) 2025-09-30T15:34:19.795Z

Updates:

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s power trip continues to stretch out of hand, inciting fear and chaos in cities that don't need military presence to occupy their streets. When does enough become enough? End this nonsense now.

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— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) September 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM

Jeffries: "The next time you have something to say about me, don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video. When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM

The Judicial Branch:

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T17:03:34.977Z

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…

Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-09-30T17:03:59.627Z