The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

🌲🌳Michigan's 3 national forests make up ~3M acres in the UP & northern Lower. These USFS cuts will impact forest health (e.g. war on emerald ash borers & spotted lantern flies), jobs, fire prevention, wildlife habitats, & recreation. Contact your Congressfolk and raise hell. See my pinned post.

It’s really striking, the extent to which Marco Rubio is such a nonentity in negotiations with Iran. While everything rests upon the president’s son-in-law and his golf pal. It’s almost like we don’t have a State Department www.axios.com/2026/04/05/t...

Oh. Trump went to his golf club today? And they didn’t put it on his public schedule?

Wait a minute. Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams promised me that New York would descend into anarchy the second Mamdani was sworn in as mayor. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Every day I find it harder to file my taxes. Like, there's just war and famine on the receipt.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

Apparently the US is taking Iranians in this country hostage now:

Your federal government on Trumpism: "More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May 2025, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program... "Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure..." www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

If you support the troops, advocate for an end to this pointless, bungled war.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

The president's first post since an F-16 was shot down over Iran with one American still missing.

Pam Bondi’s portrait was taken down at DOJ and tossed in a trash bin soon after her firing. MS NOW obtained the photo. The move reflects how deeply unpopular she was among career officials. Ken Dilanian & Carol Leonnig scoop www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

Disgusting. The men and women who sacrificed for our country deserve better than this.

A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing. His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”

Bloomberg : The global oil benchmark,Dated Brent, has surged to $141.37 per barrel, the highest price since 2008. This spike poses a significant and immediate threat of economic disruption and heightened inflation for the United States,occurring amidst escalating military conflict in the Middle East

Pam Bondi will be remembered as the AG who watched videos and saw images of powerful men raping kids and decided to protect the men.

Pam Bondi and Donald Trump may think her firing gets her out of testifying to the Oversight Committee. They are wrong - and we look forward to hearing from her under oath.

It's so clear to me that Trump placed women high up in the most corrupt portions of his Cabinet - Noem with DHS, Tulsi as DNI, Bondi with DOJ, Leavitt as WH press sec - to take the fall for more powerful men. That they don't see they're pawns is fascinating.

Wonderful opportunity!

“I think it’s incredibly important to do whole genome sequencing for outbreaks,” Andersen said, “but we shouldn’t need to do this for measles in the first place, because we have an extremely effective and safe vaccine.”

Eternal shame on every journalist, pundit, politician, and business leader who failed to denounce this man as a miserable racist when it could have stopped him and STILL fail to denounce him now. You suck and you failed us all.

Donald Trump really isn't well in his address to the nation. "Negretion...Nuclear black belt?" Wut?

F-ck the Republicans for making this possible.

jesus christ

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Today’s Artemis II launch marks a major step forward in space exploration. I have had the privilege of spending time with this crew and seeing their discipline and commitment up close. As they begin this mission, I am wishing them a safe journey and a safe return home.

NEWS: MAGA Mike caves on DHS funding. After refusing to bring it to the floor amid pressure from Trump, Mike Johnson just announced, in a joint statement with Majority Leader Thune, he’ll move forward the SAME Senate DHS bill passed unanimously last week that excludes ICE and CBP funding.

BREAKING: We @democracydefendersfund.org & @lawyerscomm.bsky.social sued DHS & ICE They’re using facial recognition apps to surveil the public — including U.S. citizens & protesters 100,000+ times w/ zero records produced & w/ zero transparency -TN

Trump says he doesn't care about Iran's enriched uranium or the strait of hormuz. this allows him to justify a humiliating defeat. If neither of those things matter we went to war for nothing. In fact we are worse off now.

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

news to the enslaved!

Chief Justice John Roberts presses Trump Solicitor General John Sauer on how common "birth tourism" is. Sauer says "no one knows for sure" but cites some media reports. He adds, "It's a new world now." Roberts responds, "It's a new world; it's the same Constitution."

Pete Hegseth says the suspension of the Army pilots who flew near Kid Rock’s house has been lifted. “No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots. 🇺🇸”

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

Kid Rock posted videos of two AH 64 Apache helicopters flying over his Tennessee home last weekend.

It was called the Iran nuclear deal. You threw it out because it was negotiated by a black president.

Kuwaiti loaded oil tanker ablaze in Dubai Port after Iranian attack, no casualties reut.rs/4bVDhzg

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂He posts this hours after TMZ posted photos of him walking around Disney World with a Bubble Wand! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...