Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

This pup was absolutely not digging in the dirt. Everybody knows that would require a permit. Thinks you have a whole lot of nerve accusing him of breaking municipal laws with no evidence. 12/10 (IG: san_francisco_rott)

Once upon a time Google was literally the most amazing information retrieval system I have seen in my life. It was quick and returned primary sources to read on almost any subject. It was better than magic. It makes me sick to see what they've done to that resource.

Weird how Trump went after one of the loudest America First members of Congress harder than he's ever gone after any pedophile or foreign dictator. Starting to think he's not actually America First guys...

I appreciate @natecohn.bsky.social & Eve Washington's NYT piece pointing out that random simulations of nonpartisan districting tend to produce many minority opportunity districts, perhaps as many as we have now. But although the subhead comes close, the authors do not ever quite say the key point—

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.....

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra

For 40 years, American foreign policy regarding Taiwan and NATO was defined by one word: deterrence. It was a quiet, bipartisan commitment designed to keep American troops out of avoidable wars. 1/3

Terrorist Slush Fund is exactly it.

"We find a sharp rise in non-existent references following widespread LLM adoption, with a conservative estimate of 146,932 hallucinated citations in 2025 alone....hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars." arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Sure he was, dude. What a pathetic loser.

Trump plans to steal $1.7B from taxpayers to pay off the terrorists he already freed from prison. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

one of the only things I miss from Twitter is being able to remind Brendan Carr what a corrupt hack he is based on my 20 years of writing about corrupt U.S. telecom policy hacks I've seen my Techdirt writing upset him several times

Many congressmen pretend to have been briefed about “inside information” regarding UFOs. They are always the weird ones too that no one hangs out with. They have NO special information . We don’t know any more than everyone else. If someone pretends they do, they don’t.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

He launched the war to distract from the Epstein files, he just dropped the UFO files to distract from his war. And he’ll keep on trying to distract you from 1) All the money he, his pals, & his family are making, and 2) This economy that he has singlehandedly fucked up.

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

The thing is, I can imagine the thinking here: jawboning the market buys time and if you can get the strait reopened before the pressure of physical barrel shortages hit, you can confine almost all of the pain to other countries and avoid the worst of the political blowback.

Do you Remember when Obama, Clinton and Bush tried to get a comedian fired for making fun of them??? Me neither … only whiny b!tches do that 🤷🏻‍♂️

Would the seven people on Bluesky who would answer "no" please raise their hands?

perfectly normal stuff at the #WHCD then… “Preznit Fuckwit used the occasion to whine about why he needs a vulgar Epstein Dance Hall” "They are to report accurately on what had just occurred right in front of their very eyes" Corporate Media FAILS US -again open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Trump, attends his first Correspondence Dinner as President, to stage another bad assassination attempt. Karoline Leavitt fucked up tho and said "shots will be fired" before the event starts. All an attempt to pitch his stupid ass ballroom. Fuck they're pathetic.

If you need something to lift the mood please enjoy 50 seconds of my dog Hank. He knows Sundays are beach days. The cloud of dust. The head butt at the end. The land speed record broken! Have a lovely Sunday ❤️

Fox host Kayleigh McEnany just lied that Iran violated the nuclear deal with Obama. She suggested that’s why Trump canceled it. In fact, Iran did not violate the deal. It was working. Fox is brain poison. The more you watch Fox, the less you know.

This is a terrific series, quite unlike anything else I've read.

With Trump's coalition collapsing, Trumpism is shrinking into a personalist cult that banishes all who dare question his power to say what MAGA is at all times. It's purging itself down to its molten MAGA core. New piece on the inner logic of MAGA authoritarianism: newrepublic.com/article/2094...

"WINTER WAS HERE . . . " AMERICAN SPRING MADE IN USA 2026 newrepublic.com/post/209453/...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

had to double check that this wasn't a parody account

An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including reviewing the U.S. position on Britain's claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/pentag...

When you come home from work after a shitty day, and you're greeted like this . 😍

There is a complete discord between US news and the rest of the world. 3 different international news agencies report that Iran will not entertain any negotiations until the blockade of Iranian ports is lifted. Do not believe anything the regime in the US is telling you.

There seems to be a dispute on this.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

A power grab by Democrats that was initiated and endorsed by Trump? Sure, WaPo, sure. That TOTALLY makes sense.

This is Jemma and Bean. Jemma likes to eat her cheese snacks. Bean prefers to eliminate hers. 13/10 for both (TT: bjkuhn)

We must use US taxpayer dollars to backstop the UAE Which is facing economic problems caused by the war Trump started and doesn't know how to win A war encouraged by leaders of the UAE Who have given hundreds of millions in bribes to Trump, his family, and associates

Trump has basically turned the presidency into a giant Bribe Delivery System. newrepublic.com/article/2092...

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Well, yes. Pregnant women and powerful men are two very different classes. I mean, I think it's backwards, but there is a much more powerful pull to exempt powerful men from consequences than there is to care for pregnant people.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

@thefarce.org asks and analyzes the disturbing question that's been on my mind for weeks now. It's why I tune out almost everything Trump says, I never expect any market rally to last more than a few days, and I don't see how this war ends anytime soon. thecause.substack.com/p/how-the-he...

What’s remarkable about almost every aspect of our current moment is how slipshod and half-assed everything seems to have become

And House and Senate Republicans are complicit in that corruption, even when they didn't personally benefit.

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The Javanese moray eel is one of the largest morays in the world, growing over 3 meters long. Despite their fierce look, they usually only attack if provoked. Because they have poor eyesight, they rely on a highly developed sense of smell to track prey at night. YT: ianhaggertytravel - Mauritius