Tariffs were paid by consumers and are being refunded to corporations and their shareholders. Yet another way this regime steals from the poor to give to the rich.

Watch this video. This man is unwell. Invoke the 25th.

Donald Trump has been a loser and a failure his whole damn life. But losing a war, then failing at the surrender? Priceless.

NYT top story: Most powerful military in the world, spending billions of dollars on war of choice with Iran, manages to take out $100k worth of Shahed drones in one day! 4 drones. Wow. Iran wins by depleting US resources and NYT cheers. 🤷

Trump has to plaster his own name all over the US because Luxembourg will never honor him like they did FDR.

Seen on a wall near Sacre-Couer in Paris. Noem is infamous around the world.

55+ oldsters get 5% off at all Kroger stores today. To sell groceries to seniors at a loss, Kroger has to charge everyone else more. Collectively, seniors are far more financially comfortable than younger Americans. I would rather support a business offering a "struggling 20-something" discount.

50% increase in the price of gas. Iran was more than a decade away from being able to attack the United States with a nuclear weapon. This economic war that we're losing was never about defending the US. Release the Trump-Epstein files so the insane distractions can end.

Trump: We're deporting the worst of the worst, gang members, murders, rapists. CNN: Trump moves to accelerate deportations of migrant children in US custody "Many of these children are at risk of trafficking and exploitation, and in some cases are brought across the border by cartels"

The hotel was not secure. The secure area was the ballroom. The shooter didn't even make it onto the floor of the ballroom, much less into the ballroom. Trump will use this to distract from the war he lost, which he started to distract from the Trump-Epstein files. Don't help him.

Totally predictable that Trump TACOed on the negotiations. He doesn't have the cards. Insulting Iran by sending amateurs would not have helped his position.

This one's a banger. 🔥 🎵🎵 United States of Israel That's your resume Killin' children every day While you look away United States of Israel Netanyahu's pet Trump is a pedophile Don't you forget 🎵🎵

For stock market buffs... The Avis/Budget car rental company, ticker CAR, has had quite a ride. March 23: Low of $101.65 April 22 (yesterday): High of $847.70 April 23 (now): $213.45 Limited float, with a high proportion of that float shorted, led to an epic short squeeze.

Trump: "We've taken out their navy, we've taken out their air force, we've taken out their leaders." Hegseth: "Epic Fury decimated Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come." Iran: Any ship that dares enter the Strait of Hormuz is OURS!!

Oh, the Afghans and Somalis are why 2.5 million people lost their SNAP benefits in the last half of 2025. And I thought it was the billionaires. Silly me.

Not a bad epitaph if he ever dies...

"As you can see, the more you f*ck around, the more you're gonna find out." Oh, we're definitely finding out.

"just another bitch-boy, bastard, psyop martyr complex, retarded complicit zionistic neocon with tiny hands and even smaller fists insisting that we take him serious as he flails and fits while stealing Venezuelan presidents and planning for Iran and Greenland next. It's all for Bibi's benefit..." 🔥

As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person. Corner store? What the hell's a corner store? Groceries. I invented that word. Did you know that? I won the election because ... groceries.

Wall Street sure loves its TACOs!

"What comes next for us...? To the people and relationships that we have lost to this movement, to this cult, to whatever it is that took people we knew and turned them into people we no longer recognize. How do we rebuild, what does forgiveness look like..." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

Today in health care capitalism: Arbitrators made $885 million deciding disputes between insurance companies and medical providers like this: "Highmark offered its standard payment of $2,660 for a diagnostic procedure to measure blood flow to the brain. An arbitrator awarded ... $333,000 instead"

Happy TACO Tuesday! Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely. He'll wait as long as it takes for Iran to come up with a proposal. Trump doesn't have the cards. 😂

New poll: Is Iran's leadership better or worse than before the war? Despite the Trump/Hegseth propaganda machine's claim of Iranian regime change, only 13% of Trump voters say Iran's leadership is better. 17% say it's worse! The war propaganda machine is starting to lose even the Trump voters!

Lina Khan, smart hard-working fighter against monopoly power as FTC chair. Now a guru to be consulted by Dem presidential candidates seeking affordability / anti-oligarchy creds. And she's only 37. 🔥

Example of the drivel Trump posts to his quantitatively illiterate followers. Repeat after me: Correlation does not equal causation www.newsmax.com/mclaughlin/m...

I just spent a half hour watching some of Iran's AI-generated Lego-themed anti-Trump propaganda videos. Conclusion: The Cyberbully in Chief is getting his ass handed to him in the meme war too. My favorite so far:

*Now* CNN claims to finally realize that Trump is a liar.

Why is the headline "Trump says..." and then some fantasy that he dreamed up? Why not "Iran says 'enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere'"? Isn't Iran a more reliable source than the Liar in Chief?

The US spends about $6 trillion a year, around 20% of GDP, on healthcare. Medicare for All would: 1. Provide coverage for 30 million people who have none. 2. Provide *real* coverage for the millions with high deductibles who have to choose: Should I spend $200 to get this cough checked out? 1/

You don't approach auto makers to convert civilian manufacturing capacity to building weapons, if your war is winding down. You do this if you plan to escalate and expand the warmongering, to Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, ...

Blue MAGA: Progressives doing the MAGA regime's bidding for them, imagining an equivalence between the D and R parties. Often single-issue voters (Gaza, trans rights) ignoring immense MAGA-caused suffering outside their chosen group. Their socials are indistinguishable from Russian or Chinese bots

I'm poring over the excellent Stanford AI Index Report. Great data set on everything AI: technical capabilities, economic impacts, adoption and usage, regulation, etc. Top countries in AI adoption: UAE, Singapore, Norway, Ireland, France. US is near the bottom with Czech Republic, Italy, Bulgaria.

Impeachment is for high crimes and misdemeanors. If the president is unfit to serve, the 25th amendment is the right vehicle. If the charge is high crimes, many, many accomplices will be implicated: for ICE's terror and murder campaign, the Trump family's profiteering off the presidency, ... 1/

Who's the rogue nation now?

Went over to RealClearPolitics.com to see what drivel they're promoting today. Learned that if Trump's a war criminal, FDR is too! So there! "Trump Confounds Critics Again" spectator.org/trump-confou...

American capitulation and humiliation are better than nuclear war and Iranian genocide. But Trump has never taken humiliation well. And he's increasingly demented. The terror and war crimes will re-escalate soon. In Iran, maybe, or Cuba, or the next target Trump dreams up. Impeach. Now.

Imagining conversations that didn't happen, telling children to sell his autograph on eBay, telling a fable about Joe Biden's autopen... Not the most important things, sure. But he really is stark raving mad. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-20...

I think I'm pretty privacy and security focused, but somehow I've always been using built-in DNS settings. I learned: 1. You should always encrypt your DNS requests, so your ISP can't track the sites you're visiting. 2. Services like AdGuard offer a DNS server with ad and tracker blocking.

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union" "We hold these truths to be self evident" "A house divided against itself cannot stand" "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" "Ask not what your country can do for you" "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards"

92 million people are begging for their civilization to be wiped off the planet. Says genocidal maniac. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-6-20...

Good Friday ... Easter Sunday ... Genocide Tuesday On the third day He was resurrected. On the fifth, 92 million people were nuked back to the Stone Age.

Love Dave Barry. This piece, about pooping in space, was LOL funny. Does Dave have a Bluesky presence, other than this mirror?

I paid $3.48 for E15 gas yesterday, vs. $3.55 for standard E10. E15 has 1.7% less energy content than E10, so this was a wash. Advocating E15 as a solution to Trump's energy crisis is like putting a band-aid on a severed limb.

I truly believe we'd be better off as a country if members of Congress were randomly selected out of the population. Like jury duty. Or a draft. Serve for a year, then move on. The electoral system rewards lobbying and corruption, and elects geriatric lawyers. Convince me I'm wrong.

"'If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!' — AND THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS LONG AS I AM PRESIDENT. President DONALD J. TRUMP" He must be doing OK. Totally normal insane post a minute ago. Unless someone else is crazy posting for him...

Put on speed dial for your outer space plumbing needs. @colbertlateshow.bsky.social

Kinda hard to get excited about a good jobs number, when 1) the data is so noisy and 2) the initial number frequently gets revised down. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

Hilarious Olaf robot fail. Or, miming the end of the Mad King's reign? youtu.be/FBHhCp7itSw

Good headline on Yahoo Finance. Trump's address last night didn't calm markets. His reckless war has put the global economy at the mercy of Iran.