A fish rots from the head down. When the boss is corrupt, the employees take that as permission to be corrupt.

One of the things that's so remarkable about Trump is that even after he has ascended to raking in BILLIONS in bribes and graft, he still can't resist engaging in every penny-ante grift he can think of

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan can both go fuck themselves. I wish I could say this to their faces. Sitting on this incredibly newsworthy information and declining to inform the public until they could secure a book deal and enrich themselves. They're hacks, not journalists. Fuck them.

Demented grandpa doesn't know how to have a conversation anymore, he only knows how to ramble. The scary thing is how much worse Trump is late at night, after he sundowns but is still in sole control of the nuclear codes.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

This was yet another wildly illegal, immediately presidency-ending scandal if any Democrat since Truman had done it. And we just yawned & moved on as a society, along with all the other wildly illegal things. A total failure of all 535 members of Congress to uphold their oaths & do their damn jobs.

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

So... the government murdered someone for a suspected civil infraction.

Remember how actual, demonstrated Russian interference efforts were derided as a "hoax" by this guy? On Thursday, let's compare the evidence for 2016 interference relative to what's shown for 2020.

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

Reminds me of his flip on crypto: First he said "It's a scam," then he realized he was right, and if it was a scam he wanted to get in on it and be the biggest scammer of all. Now it's: How DARE Iran charge tolls in Hormuz! Wait a minute...what if *I* charged tolls in Hormuz? That'd be awesome!

Less than a week after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Portland Press Herald is reporting that ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old man from Colombia today:

“Are you doing bad shit that sucks? Then watch out for those big mean Democrats”

This framing, from one of the better-read political newsletters, reads like a parody of cronyism. But it isn’t.

this is “pete hegseth wants an all-white military”

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

Never met a war he didn't want to send your kids to.

This didn't have to be Graham's legacy, but he ensured that it would be. He forever ruined his own memory. What a terrible decision to make.

Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.

Is it Trump derangement syndrome without the irony??

Why do this if the reporting was false, as the WH has already claimed? Authoritarian idiots. Nuremberg 2.0 can't come quickly enough.

McConnell is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. This is obvious at this point. Pretending otherwise is a joke.

The voter fraud is coming from inside the house.

So with an extra dollop of illegality on top. (Proportionally is a key requirement of both jus ad bellum and jus in bello.)

Our media will of course learn no lessons from this, but the initial ICE narrative about the two murders it committed here in Minneapolis was 100% false, slanderously depicting the victims as aggressors attempting to kill federal agents. Literally zero reason to believe ICE here. Zilch. None.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

I remain optimistic that Hungary will provide good models for what America must do next.

On the first day of this unnecessary war, my country massacred 120 innocent little girls at school. That's equivalent to 6 Sandy Hook school shootings, but it wasn't some lone madman, this slaughter was perpetrated by the United States government.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

We don't hate these people enough.

Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.

"From day one, my administration has made it a top priority to ensure that America has among the very cleanest air and cleanest water on the planet. We want the cleanest air." – President Trump, on July 8, 2019

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

new metaphor just dropped

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Our Constitution bans foreign emoluments and names bribery as an impeachable offense. Another case where the problem isn’t the Constitution.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

260. Two hundred. And sixty. This is an indefensible misuse of government resources and, in any other administration, an impeachable offense. Even if Trump's claim wasn't complete fiction, the statute of limitations has run and the FBI has no business wasting time investigating this.

Maybe if the Dems throw trans folks even further under the bus, they'll finally reach these voters. I'm sure they've almost broken through. /s

Genuinely insane that Republicans hate the pride flag only slightly less than democrats hate the confederate flag

Legacy media never fails to ask politicians, “Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?” You’ll never hear: “Do you believe Palestine has a right to exist?” They scream antisemitism at criticism of Israel, while their goal is to prevent a Palestinian state. These receipts prove the hypocrisy.