Love. This. Guy.

Um, wow.

It's one thing to say "Trump lies regularly," it's another to say "and therefore I will believe any crazy possibility about anything." The fact that Trump and the administration lie about stuff is not a reason to empty your brain-pans and start believing that Trump is staging plots. Get a grip.

The real importance of that Jamie Raskin–Dana Bash dust-up on Sunday: Raskin showed that Democrats and journalists share values that Donald Trump does not. “There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.” trib.al/WbcvLFv

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

Someone ran past a metal detector and was stopped. A floor above the dinner. It was terrible it happened, and i have not seen a SINGLE PERSON in office say otherwise But they are milking all of this for all its worth. Playing themselves all to be victims all the time. It’s exhausting

Holy shit this hellspawned post is actually real I just confirmed it

Elon Musk's IQ is 110 in the shade and not one educated person who reads his Twitter feed doubts it

Here’s the information you need to understand the charges against Cole Tomas Allen—especially the attempt charge. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

If Melania wants Jimmy Kimmel fired for hateful rhetoric, someone should introduce her to her husband

Republicans want an astonishing, debt-exploding $1.5 trillion military budget, more for ICE, billions to bail out failing airlines, and $400 million for Trump’s ballroom. They are looting the treasury and fleecing taxpayers to pay for Trump’s endless wars and vanity projects.

“More than 1,500 biologists, chemists and other experts at the EPA’s Office of Research and Development have been laid off, reassigned or pressured to retire. Today, only 124 researchers remain.” How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...

How is it better for regular folks exactly?

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

I predicted for months that taxpayers were going to end up paying for the ballroom. That’s because Trump had “pledges” from people to contribute money to pay for it, not checks. Now Republicans have the excuse they need to make us pay for it. “Customs duties” is bs. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

His supporters ask if he ever sleeps, his distractors accuse him of grandstanding, but the reality is much simpler: Mamdani is doing what Americans are told constantly they need more of—fostering human connection. trib.al/RoiTk4c

Thou shalt not use tax payer dollars to fund the Epstein ballroom. It should never be built at all. It is an abomination.

Voters don’t need to “remember” anything. They see every day what they are paying for gas, groceries, electricity and everything else and they see Republicans prioritizing taxpayer money for Trump’s ballroom bunker palace. They will take that to the ballot box. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"The requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment." Wisdom from Pope Leo as Illinois recognizes 15 years since we abolished the death penalty — a moral voice in a divided moment that we could all learn from.

“It is quite obvious that the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said. trib.al/fCzrOIN

As expected, Trump personal lawyer Jeanine Pirro has overcharged Allen in order to please her client and score political points. The case that this was a targeted presidential assassination attempt is tenuous; overreaching like this is why Pirro has a terrible record with juries.

HE wouldn’t be rescuing it. The taxpayers would.

Both Trump and the head of the correspondents’ association talked about “unity” in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. But the press isn’t supposed to seek unity with politicians. It’s supposed to seek the truth. If the press gets cozier, our future gets scarier. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Unity to them means compliance.

It’s odd. You have a chunk of the line of succession gathered at one event, and no IDs are required. Identification was not needed to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Only a ticket was required to get into the ballroom. Nowhere in the hotel was an ID necessary.

Moneywise: The US Treasury is now accepting voluntary public contributions to help reduce the national debt, which has reached $39 trillion. If only there was a way to make rich people pay their fair share of taxes to help shrink the deficit. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

May I ask… what is wrong with my colleagues? I should be able to vote and have it counted fairly and accurately. If you can’t defend that basic idea, you should quit your job.

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I wish they cared this much about shootings when it happens to children at school.

Well done, Mr President!

Reminder: Occam's Razor, and logic, demand that you start from simple explanations. Also, when you charge something - "this is a false flag/op/whatever" - the burden of proof is on the accuser, not on everyone else to prove it *isn't* a conspiracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

He didn’t trip, OK? Don’t put it in the news that he tripped. trib.al/Zt12bDC

And with that, the first complete draft of the manuscript for “The Court We Need” is off to my (wonderful) editor.

Donald Trump has been losing on a lot of fronts lately. But even as the president’s losses pile up, his propagandists must forever maintain the illusion of his infallibility at all costs. trib.al/FtiOG8I

Right-wing logic is bonkers. They say when we object to Trump starting an illegal war, murdering people on boats and executing Americans in the streets, we're *promoting violence*.

If you're a Republican or a CNN anchor like Dana Bash, you think the "heated rhetoric" objecting to Trump's attempt to overthrow democracy is the problem, rather than Trump's attempt to overthrow democracy.

They think we are all stupid. 🤬

The Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner than it has for other similar gatherings of high-ranking officials in the past, top officials reveal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🎯

I don't know whether it was staged or not. I DO know he & his regime are a disgrace to this country & will live in infamy long after they all face charges, are convicted & imprisoned. History is written by dispassionate scholars baed on facts, not MAGA cult-members completely divorced from reality.

Class warfare doesn’t get more unhinged than this. trib.al/xGGqUZu

NEW: I haven't forgotten about the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/anonymous-...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog will not pardon Netanyahu. Instead, he’s seeking mediation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

😡🧵

And I say as someone who believes *none* of these three incidents was staged. What happened, instead, is that Trump decided to turn his Secret Service detail into a political operation rather than a high-quality LEO operation—Google it—and that's made him and everyone less safe.

Kevin Warsh couldn't name a single thing from MAGA with which he disagreed, except that Trump thinks Warsh looks like he’s out of “central casting," which Warsh quipped to Sen Elizabeth Warren. “Quite adorable, but you know we need a Fed chair who is independent." Warren bit back. trib.al/KpBrDYO

Todd Blanche desperately fumbling around to change the narrative away from firearms crossing state lines. He knows he’s supposed to be selling the ballroom as the solution and not common sense gun laws.

A free country of 350 million people, awash in guns and paranoia. Surprised it hasn't happened *more* often.