I had a long conversation yesterday with a psychologist about the Eric Swalwell situation and suffice it to say that there’s a lot more Cluster Bs in government than we may realize. Personality disordered people are drawn to elected office. Thankfully there are also some really good folks too.

As part of implementing its Security and Defence Partnerships, the EU and Japan held their first ever defence dialogue. Slowly but surely the EU is expanding upon its defence cooperations:

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To the person who wrote in the comments here “so we’re celebrating SOCIALISM now?”— oh my sweet summer child, yes we are.

NEW: the #AlabamaPenis has been freed!

Revenge tour continues apace.

JFC

NEW: Republicans (and Fetterman) just BLOCKED a war powers resolution in the Senate. Rand Paul voted with all Democrats. Senate Republicans (and Fetterman) are now on record in support of this illegal war.

An immoral industry.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

You need to read this. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game. V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice. www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

I don’t Know. Maybe it just slipped his mind or something.

“Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: ‘I don’t want…Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.’” @propublica.org 10/17/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/russ...

NEW: In Fulton County’s suit seeking return of 2020 election records seized by FBI, Judge Boulee denies county’s request to compel production of additional evidence. But Boulee says he’ll consider additional evidence the county can obtain on its own. Sets April 27 deadline.

Congratulations on making it halfway through Monday. Would you like to see something really quite silly but also life-affirming...?

Keep talking, Donald. Way to alienate even more of your supporters.

Pope Leo nominated for Nobel. 😅

Trump attacks the Pope in a Truth Social rant, calling him “weak” and attacking his views on foreign policy, Iran, and even his legitimacy as pontiff—claiming he wouldn’t be Pope if Trump weren’t president.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

Lol

I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE) (Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.

What a rambling, incoherent bunch of psychobabble

A face plant. A very revealing one. Prominent Republican member of Armed Services Committee. He betrays absence of Congressional oversight. Brennan also asked Turner about absence of any public hearings. His answer was aaaawful (that they've held hearings in past decades).

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This was Toby, the Learned Pig, and it wasn’t the only print the highfalutin hog inspired. There was also Bowles and Carver’s ‘The WONDERFUL PIG of KNOWLEDGE’, in which he’s in the process of spelling ‘porcine’

So, happy 241st anniversary, everyone, of the publication of Thomas Rowlandson’s The Wonderful Pig – marking the arrival in London of a prodigious porker who could apparently read, write, tell the time, and do maths 🧵

just wait until she takes over for Leavitt. This nightmare just keeps descending into ever-lower levels of Hell

For the record, I was a Swalwell supporter and had planned on voting for him in the primary. Me believing the women was not political. It's based on the corroboration of evidence confirmed by multiple news outlets, and the Manhattan DA finding enough evidence exists to open a criminal probe.

Solidarity. Sending love and healing. There’s a lyric in a Taylor Swift song about “a soldier who’s returning half her weight,” and that always seemed to me to sum it up.

This isn't our fault. It's Swalwell's.

I'm really sorry for all the SA survivors having to put up with the onslaught of INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW bullshit going around the internet today. I see you, and I know it's traumatizing.

I watched this live because golf weirdly helps me relax (especially on days where I’m mad at the world *resign Swalwell cough resign*) and it was magnificent.

I’ve been checking out Xavier Becerra… and I like what I’m hearing. Serious experience. Solid on the issues. Not just talk. And he’s hitting the issues the right way. Feels like someone who actually understands what California needs. Let’s keep eyes on him together.

MS NOW: Rep. Eugene Vindman thinks the U.S. is in “significant trouble” as it starts negotiations with Iran. “The only thing worse than this ceasefire is the war continuing under the management” of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

Holy crap, @allysammarco.bsky.social, wife of @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social, is one of the brave women speaking out here. No question about it: Swalwell must resign— not just from the governor’s race, but from the House entirely. He’s done.

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Melania is in self-preservation mode due to her connection to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as described in Andrew Lownie's book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York -- about Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

Epstein dies. The cameras miss it. The files stay hidden. The bombs fall on Tehran. A man who will start a war to stop you reading a document. Whatever is in those files is worse than you imagine. www.plagueisland.com/p/the-archit... #EpsteinFiles #IranWar #Trump #Israel #Truth #Mossad #MelaniaTrump

Trump’s Pentagon Caught Violating Court Order!!! open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Wtf?! Now this is Fubar.

Seriously, how many times is he going to make a case for the 25th Amendment

GLOSSARY: "Participates in Executive Time" = "Watches Fox News." "Closed press" = "Cowering, afraid of questions that were not pre-approved." "Receives his intelligence briefing" = "Eating Big Macs." "Participates in a Roundtable" = "Napping on a round table."

Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Another moment to be proud of for him and his minions. How republicans can sit back and watch this happen and not act? History will not be kind to any of these cowards

Rewatching the Melania statement on Nicolle Wallace and what is noticeable on the second watch is that she is physically shaking.

PS. The boomer women are actually the worst on this.