I keep having to be reminded that a core tenet of Trumpism is intentionally telling impossibly obvious lies, and enjoying making everyone else deal with them.

God, it rules so much that he skipped his son's wedding because he was so busy, only to sit around making posts about Hulk Hogan.

I keep having to be reminded that a core tenet of Trumpism is intentionally telling impossibly obvious lies, and enjoying making everyone else deal with them.

This is absolutely one of the worst rhetorical parts. The imprecision is maddening; the way it runs over decades of work is pure colonialism. Coding culture used to loathe “marketing words” and revere specificity; the bullshit nature of this framing is proof that these are money guys, not tech guys.

This might be the funniest phishing phailure of all time.

This was a social media post by the president of the United States 40 days ago. Unfortunately, no one did the right thing and retired him to a convalescent home. Instead, our country and the world remain at the mercy of a mentally unhinged criminal.

they 100% have no idea AI is hated. they're surprised every time. When I've told them, they think I'm lying, joking, making it up, or delusional.

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

This is how you deal with trash

Another one in this vein. Not sure who needs to hear this, but there is NO downside to messaging on Trump's terrorist slush fund. Either some right wingers defect, or you've got electoral gold.

Someday someone is going indict Pete Hegseth for the murders of dozens of people in boats and they are going to cite this as precedent.

I'm pretty sure his remaining competent military staff just facepalmed when they heard him blab these classified targeting details.

I'm old enough to remember this gem from George W. Bush. "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" The devolution of the GOP is accelerating.

Something people don't really remember but is true is that one of the *top* political issues the media covered in the runup to the 2014 midterms was the idea that Barack Obama had badly mismanaged an Ebola outbreak because 10 total Americans had gotten it

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

the fact that the author is like, yeah all the egregious errors prove the thesis of the book is WILD

Oh FFS.

Mainstream media should be covering Trump with fewer political reporters and more crime reporters.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Congressional districts are stupid and we should stop trying to rehabilitate them. Proportional representation by state. Done.

“The War of 1812 is over. Now we’re onto a new project: rebuilding the White House which somehow became damaged.”

Wow ..of course

Lies editors tell themselves: "I'm going to just read this once all the way through without correcting anything at all just to get a sense of the piece."

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

Impressive work by Friedman here, summarizing a handful of the countless reasons why Trump cannot be trusted as a partner, then demanding the rest of NATO trust him as a partner to reopen the Strait. Why would they, especially when Trump has said he wants to toll the Strait with Iran?

i was hibernating when jamelle posted this great thread but agree with it completely tbh

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ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...

Oh. Well then.

Once when I was a kid at camp, a boy who had been bothering me pushed me into a swimming pool with all my clothes on. I got out of the pool and slapped him. He seemed incredibly surprised by this. Anyhow just thinking about that dynamic recently

One thing I'm starting to wonder is whether auto loans are in fact the next subprime crisis: "Americans owe $1.68 trillion on car loans — more than credit card debt and as much as all federal student loans" fortune.com/2026/05/07/a...

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Elon is a genocidal demon and any Democrat who refuses to call him what he is a useless quisling. Any defense of that creature who has the blood of millions of children on his hands is flatly and totally intolerable among civilized people.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

A’ight.

Time for Virginia to do an Ohio and go with the maps voters approved. Voters should trump procedural objections.

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

Something I've been stressing over and thought was due today is actually due a week from today. Best feeling ever.

A sizeable group of voters simply want an asshole as President. There is no point in trying to cater to them, you can either ignore them or discourage them from voting. Every effort to get their vote by adopting asshole-ish policies is a waste, they want the real thing.

All those zeroes, though!

Putin “spends most of his time ensconced in bunkers and no longer trusts the people around him to have mobile phones that are connected to the internet.” If only he had a ballroom.

“Rhetorical leaps” is a real masterpiece that belongs at the top of the Times list of ways to avoid calling something a lie.

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

Siri, show me a man opening a can of whoop-ass on his own damn self.

Melanin and IQ have an inverse relationship in Trump's besotted brain.

They sold car wraps and decals depicting Biden kidnapped and tied up in the trunk.

Contractors filed 60 lawsuits against Trump for stiffing them. At least 200 liens were filed against his businesses by contractors or employees. The Department of Labor cited his businesses dozens of times for failing to pay minimum wage. So yes, he understands their pain because he caused it.

White supremacist thought has (once again) become mainstream, and those folks have been working diligently over decades to occupy enough of our legal/political systems to make this condition permanent.