Laughingstock of the world

Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.

I knew you were a good follow. No intention to hijack your thread, but all can read below for some details on the science: 👇 scitechdaily.com/scientists-e...

Researchers send spores directly into the tumor: 1. The bacteria wakes up in the dead, oxygen-free center 2. It starts consuming nutrients and growing 3. It multiplies and COLONIZES the space 4. It eats the tumor from the inside out

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

An Massachusetts is one of the wealthier states. Imagine how poor people in red states are doing. Our priorities are all wrong.

The movie Carousel 1956, they wrote in about a mother and daughter fondly thinking of DV, that his slap felt like a kiss. When dudes are waxing nostalgia about the 50s, this is what they are wanting.

From last night.... MAGAs will not like this👇

Every sensible government will spend the coming months accelerating the deployment of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and EVs, especially for lower income households. It’ll be a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run than subsidising fossil fuels the next time prices spike, which they will.

Sky News: While Trump, the so-called leader of the free world, sits rage-posting on SM like a man screaming into a void, France, Japan, Philippines, & UK are quietly, methodically cutting deals with Iran. The world has moved on & US Mainstream Media is not covering a bit of this. #sheshed

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

NO LIES DETECTED!!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

While the bill introduced March 17 remains stalled in the Senate, some state leaders have posted about, proposed and even enacted statewide proof of citizenship laws to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Barring an unforeseen future development—even as we accept that, with Trump, anything’s possible at any time (and it’s usually something stupid, violent, and corrupt)—America UNAMBIGUOUSLY lost the Second Iran War. And BADLY. If you’ve heard different, you’re getting bad intel.

UPDATE — MEMPHIS: Elon Musk’s xAI promised the community they’d build a water recycling plant as part of the pitch for getting support for moving in. Surprise! it’s now on “indefinite pause” 🤔 (despite claims to the contrary) More: dailymemphian.com/article/6168...

Oh.👀 If the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire had not been announced shortly before Trump’s deadline that included a threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been confronted by a revolt from Pentagon attorneys. www.rawstory.com/hegseth-pent...

That was always the plan. Tank the economy for the rest of us so rich people can spend other people’s money on the cheap.

Found this on FB. Thought it made an amazing point.

for those of you keeping score at home, the opening of the Strait of Hormuz lasted 0.045 scaramuccis

She funny

#AI and #Billionaires taking our electricity and water for free, and now #Texas #GovernorAbbott is giving them tax breaks. Vote #Blue and #Democrat! www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/t...

Trump is having a social media meltdown. He hates that the truth about his disastrous deal is coming to light. The worst part is that American service members, Iranian civilians, children are dead. He took us to war for a made-up emergency, wasted $$$$$, all to end up worse off than where we started

The two days that JD Vance spent in Hungary desperately trying to shore up support for Putin’s lapdog Viktor Orbán reminded me of what a pathetic, loathsome, lying, traitorous scumbag he is.

Today is day 127 of the ICE occupation of MN. ICE is still here. Neighbors are still being abducted. So we’re here too. Still carrying whistles. Still standing watch in our neighborhoods. Still doing mutual aid. Still fighting for ICE OUT EVERYWHERE.

“We neither need nor want NATO’s help.” - Trump, 3/17/26

I personally lobbied the Catholic Church to step up and take responsibility for the people and children in detention centers during Trump's first term. As they are part of the Catholic nation. To my horror, Trump had the Nuns arrested in the Capitol. The crosses Republicans wear are celebrations.

Tend to agree with Mark Twain: "Golf is a good walk spoiled." But I thoroughly enjoyed this article! Small point: "...unless mother nature finally does her job and they have to announce he’s departed for hell’s version of Mar-a-Lago." I thought Mar-a-Lago was hell's version of Mar-a-Lago.

NEW: In the Trump Arch case, Judge Chutkan signed a consent order that requires publicly posted National Park Service authorization before any construction could begin and 14-day notice by the Trump admin of any construction OR demolition. (At that point, litigation could happen.)

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Congress is still not in session. And the full Epstein files are still not released.

JFC. The Pentagon is trying to bully the Pope into ignoring his religious beliefs and siding with the Americans starting a war to bring about a religious prophecy about Armageddon. This is nuts. Trump wants to control the church now, like any good dictator would do.

No—he's lying. It was Pakistan that wrote up the ceasefire agreement, and Pakistan has said unequivocally that Lebanon was included. So this isn't a mistake Iran has made, this is Trump yet again covering for war crimes and vigilantism by Israel by lying to the American people. A Trumpist pathology.

If the Pakistan-brokered Iran ceasefire had not been announced shortly before Donald Trump’s deadline, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been confronted by a revolt inside the Pentagon, according to new reporting.

Wait ... was this "U.S. Official" threatening to appoint their own Pope because they don't like the actual teachings of the church? That will not go over well.

Thank you Augusta members if true.

I'm sure there are countries that have betrayed every principle they ever stood for faster than the United States but it's hard to think of one right now

She was always gonna back out. Whether it was because she briefed Congress a couple weeks back, or got fired, or the committee took a new vote on it. Why? Because who is going to make her? Even if the full house voted to refer her to DoJ for contempt, DoJ was never gonna prosecute.

Disagree. "Oh we shouldn't do our jobs because he'll react poorly" isn't a good reason to sit back and rely on feckless war powers resolutions.

#ExpandingUniverse Imagine points drawn on an inflating balloon. Do they move apart because they are moving, or because the surface is expanding? Does this analogy help us understand cosmological redshift? #Physics #iTeachPhysics

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Guards were watching a woman crying on the toilet & laughing. MEN CAN SEE WOMEN USING THE BATHROOM. The toilets are COVERED IN URINE. The toilet paper is wet. There's no privacy. PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING. There wasn't even enough room to lie down. They are depriving people of food. #ICELawlessness

Iran's parliament speaker now says a ceasefire is “unreasonable” — mentioning Israel’s continued bombing of Lebanon

there’s a reason we have diplomats and ambassadors and foreign services and do not simply conduct international negotiations by off the cuff social media posts the new system we have is not “disruptive” it is not “bold” it is not “unorthodox” it is “tremendously fucking stupid”

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

You should also read Article I, not just Article V, & remember again that everything Trump has done with 🇨🇦, 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & now 🇮🇷 violates not only US law & the Constitution, but also the NATO Treaty & the UN Charter, & it all should have already ended his presidency.

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Reporter: As of today, who controls the state of the Strait of Hormuz? Leavitt: We expect that the Strait will be opened immediately Reporter: Who controls the Strait? Leavitt: *ignores question*