Less than 1% of voters who identify themselves as "American First" would define it this way. And they are all Republican elected officials afraid of Trump or grifters who rely on him as their meal ticket. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Barron Trump's beverage brand unveils first flavors ahead of launch

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

Pope Leo: "I don't look at my role as being political, I don't want to get into a debate with Trump, I don't think that the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing. I will continue to speak out loudly against war."

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Swalwell's 2018 Kavanaugh stance haunts him as misconduct claims mount in key race

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Everything 🍊 touches dies. Not always a terrible thing.

President Donald Trump attacked Iran in a Saturday morning Truth Social post, just as negotiations begin between the United States and Iran in Pakistan.

Update on the peace negotiations.

Algorithms are the new borders. 🤖 The latest DC proposal on AI ethics is either too late or too vague. Who’s actually coding the guardrails?

Buttigieg: "The big thing that's different now is that in many periods in American history, you have inflation and then the administration does things to reduce it. Right now, we have the administration actively making prices higher."

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Cartoon from Europe...

BUTTIGIEG: The strait was open before they started this KERNEN: They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons! BUTTIGIEG: We had other ways of dealing with them KERNEN: Like what? Obama's way? BUTTIGIEG: That worked KERNEN: That didn't work! BUTTIGIEG: Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?

Because of course. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I have something very important to tell you, something I've discovered over my many years in the United States: Trump is someone who has been planning to attack and destroy America all along #BreakingNews#USA#Trump#War#Destruction

Day 1 of Trump’s ‘Golden Age of the Middle East’.

With just over two months until the World Cup begins, the hotel industry doesn’t see the promised economic boon on the horizon.

Trump warns 'whole civilization will die tonight,' as Iranian official urges human chains around power plants

A madman has control of the most powerful military in the history of the world and the leaders of his party are too afraid to say or do anything to stop him.

So...um... I can't be the only person thinking "He's threatening genocide" WTF??? Remove him before he kills more people!!!

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant. But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.

The US Department of War Crimes.

Forest Service gets booted from Washington as Trump shifts power west

Palantir exec warns US has just 8 days of weapons stockpiled for potential China fight

If you didn’t see it coming, you weren’t paying attention. And he doesn’t have to do it formally to defy Congress, he can do it with actions that they can’t stop.

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

"Even an elaborate cheating scheme won’t be enough to deliver Orbán victory if the polls are correct." This is a big deal:

Mountains paint a vast expanse with tranquility, while the sea speaks of its deepest feelings with profound depth

Right on time to manipulate the markets, along with a threat to commit war crimes and terrorize civilians and noncombatants.

Karoline Leavitt blasts NYT ballroom coverage, calls out critics who 'never built anything'

Iran’s parliamentary speaker blamed the U.S. for “secretly planning” a ground invasion while openly talking about peace negotiations.

The new White House App the Trump admin just rolled out got a Community Note.

Enerny Secretary Chris Wright on. volatile oil prices and strategic reserve release

Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."

Cartooning Politics Weekly issue no.1 open.substack.com/pub/cartooni...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report was based on “a single, unverified tip.”

Sen. Slotkin: “There's press reports that the Russians are helping target US ships and aircraft…If Russia is helping kill U.S. forces, we have crossed a Rubicon…We have to take decisive action on that, and instead, we're giving them breaks on oil.”

President Trump hails endorsees going 5-0 in Tuesday GOP elections

WAR, what is it good for? #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Just like 2020 when Trump downplayed over 100 service members with traumatic brain injuries as “headaches”, and downplaying covid deaths, Trump is never honest with the American people about this if he thinks it makes him look bad. Because Trump is all about Trump. www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...

Not really breaking any news here.

'Unclaimed' Navy veteran honored by standing room only funeral turnout

"In the America of 2016, we would assume that there was nothing a president could do to alter the progress of free and fair elections." A long, long time ago...