when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table

"The fact is, though, that if you hold your breath waiting for moral and effective resistance from the GOP, you are likely to end up dead."

I went back on the @ifanboy.com podcast and chatted with Josh about FF4:First Steps! Hope you enjoy. youtu.be/BsWbAG9egtk?...

This is disgusting. Even in the era of no shame, it’s shameful. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

$123 million held back from Virginia. I live in a community where 70% of the children at our Elementary School fall below the poverty line. Free school breakfast and lunch are integral to keeping these kids healthy and ALIVE. Cruelty is the point.

☎️ Call 202-224-3121, now. We are on the precipice of a murderous regime. I am not exaggerating. Call you member of Congress TODAY to tell them to vote NO on the $170 billion budget to imprison non-violent, hardworking immigrants in dangerous concentration camps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nar...

In the Quest to Shrink NASA, Trump Forgets National Security www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

"We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.” arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n....

The very idea that Pete "hired because Donald Trump likes people he thinks *look like* their jobs, and despite being an unqualified alcoholic" Hegseth could dare to remove HARRIET FREAKING TUBMAN's name from a ship because mumble mumble DEI mumble mumble is enraging.

Truly- arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

There we go. From the New York Times: “But according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.”

this is all so stupid, it's getting hard to *breathe* straight. www.theverge.com/news/650974/...

First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M). Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will *never* recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Cuts to #science of >50% at NASA and >75% at NOAA would end US climate and space science research. NASA cuts are '...an "extinction level" event': arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... "At this funding level, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research is eliminated...": www.science.org/content/arti...

My statement on the huge cuts to NASA science proposed by the President, which would decimate American leadership in space and damage NASA facilities across the county -- including JPL in California:

science is actively being destroyed.

“How could Trump have bankrupted a casino?” is no longer a rhetorical question.

Seriously

2002: They hate us for our freedoms 2025: They hate us for our good-looking steaks

The tariffs themselves will almost surely tank the stock market tomorrow, but finance people seeing exactly how outlandishly dumb these fools are will likely do even greater damage moving forward. There can be no confidence. It’s like a pack of hyenas on PCP running the economy.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. This number can connect you to both the House of Representatives and the Senate offices.

This is what Trump and Musk are doing during a measles outbreak.  Today, 10,000 staffers were fired at CDC—including measles and bird flu experts—while dozens of free vaccination clinics were canceled in Texas. These billionaires don’t seem to care that children will die from their cruel cuts.

What’s up? Mr. Booker.

If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.

I feel that if, in 2010, you had told me that Citizens United would lead to someone literally giving oversized $1 million checks to voters in exchange for their votes, I would have called you a delusional conspiracy theorist. And I would have been wrong.

Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

1. Tulsi Gabbard was overseas while participating in the Signal chat. 2. Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the Signal chat. 3. Russia infiltrated Signal some time ago to use it against Ukrainians. It’s high time to Benghazi the shit out of Trump’s administration.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

just profoundly disturbed by the kidnapping and disappearing of people right off the streets of this country. hard to think about much else—and there’s so much else.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

This guy is insane and dangerous. www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...

Ask yourself what you would have thought in 2015 if the president --- actually any national politician ---something like this to the press. You would have said that he was batshit crazy. And it is.

The war against the poor continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

Telling that the dumbest president in history goes after education. What a pathetic loser.

Super fun to watch this successful launch but can’t help feel severe dread about potential NASA cuts by this awful anti-science administration.

That Watch Duty notification sound generates quite the physical reaction

NEW. Trump poll nos. on foreign policy tanking 📉 ‼️ Unlike Trump, Americans personally sympathize more w Ukraine overRussia by 56-3 👀 Disapprove Trump's foreign policy by 13 pts (50% to 37 %); in Jan they approved 39% to 37%. Ambushing Zelensky at Oval despite propaganda looks to be a disaster.

New: DOGE sought access to a sensitive database kept by federal child-support office Powerful system contains income info, Social Security numbers for *nearly all U.S. workers* DOGE initially rebuffed by a career civil servant who questioned legal authority More TK w @jeffstein.bsky.social

It’s so stupid. All of this is so freaking stupid.

In today’s hellscape news, the Trump administration is planning to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is already short-staffed and wait times are abhorrent. Veterans will die because of this move.

Legal case for Emergency Care to save women’s lives gets dropped.

Trump, like Putin, is attempting to interfere in Ukraine's election process by holding secret talks with Zelensky's opponents, but there's a problem for Trump and Putin-- Zelensky is still massively popular compared to the rest of the field. FUCK TRUMP

Trump has stopped sharing intelligence and paused military aid with Ukraine. He claims he’s trying to make peace and end the war, but all he’s really doing is weakening Ukraine and strengthening Putin. Trump is a Russian asset. (The Harbor Building, Los Angeles)

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

There is petty and there is this: www.sfgate.com/national-par...

He’s already got my ire; he’s— It’s— not getting my time.

It’s just worse every minute