They're setting up Vance to run as the anti-war candidate in 2028 and the stupidest people you know are all going to fall for it.

they view the mere presence of nonwhites in positions of influence as “DEI,” regardless of credentials or performance. again, all of this was extremely obvious.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

He fired a Black man who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He fired a woman who was the CNO. I could go on. How much more evidence do we need.

Top 60 guys donated about 1,9 billion, the top 20 gop donors hit just under 1.5 billion in 2024, and a lot of that money is necessary for them to raise other funds

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.

good video from @jamellebouie.net here on how Trump reportedly gets a sizzle reel of cool bombing footage instead of an actual intelligence briefing, and what that means: www.instagram.com/reel/DWXKurC...

The fact Trump keeps making this absurd claim means his advisors are scared to correct him. The war is being run by someone absurdly out of touch with reality, who listens to no one who has a clue.

“It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump: The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Not even the departments or agencies that get the front facing losers. Just the small corners where they’re, like, making sure that rural road maps are accurate and the people put in charge are still fucking weird shady assholes who demand calls, not emails due to paper trails.

seriously. at least scrooge mcduck loved his nephews, trump doesn’t love anything

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

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I can save you some time, JD. This administration is frauds all the way down.

the awful toll of ranking “this is sure to anger a hypothetical person I hate” over “this is good,” a kind of stupidity that has taken on world-historical importance as one of the key guiding principles of the world’s most powerful regime

Part of the allure of Trumpism for his followers is that they perceive him as extending this power to them. I've seen it with family members, who just seem so relieved that they can just believe whatever they wish were true, and ignore troubling facts.

go obsessively-anti-woke, go broke

i do suspect the methods of by which people can accumulate vast amounts of economic and political power in the post-Reagan era definitely select for amorality.

this is a really fun podcast!

3/ We’ve been monitoring how the administration has taken the US in a more authoritarian direction—targeting vulnerable communities, suppressing dissent, and breaking through guardrails set up in our Constitution to restrain government power.

1/ A new report from the Varieties of Democracy Project shows a disturbing trend toward “democratic backsliding” worldwide—especially in the United States. (🧵⬇️) 🔗 www.v-dem.net/news/press-r...

This is the clearest illustration of the concept of (psychological) projection that ive seen in a long while.

"As much as 30 percent of planned U.S. data center capacity is paired with behind-the-meter power...when data center developers go offline, they are no longer paying for grid upgrades. The aging grid is one of the chief drivers of rising electricity prices." www.politico.com/newsletters/...

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

big metaphor vibes

In a letter to USAG Bondi, @raskin.house.gov, says novel disclosures suggest Trump stole top secret documents that pertained to his business interests & may have endangered national security to further them. Raskin posed a series of questions for DoJ; likely to require litigation to obtain answers.

Killing people. Not just Renee Good & Alex Pretti.

I believe a shitty media diet also explains Trump v. US. The right wing justices REALLY believed that Trump had been unfairly targeted for attacking Congress.

The Pentagon and White House are not providing much detail to members of Congress about the Iran plans as they request hundreds of billions in funding for the war. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/joe-mor...

The challenge arises here where someone has to hold more than 0.01 ideas in their head at once. Yes: tech companies dominate the list of renewable contracts. But that list of contracts is itself miniscule compared to the total growth of data centres: MANY of which are now just building fossil

ultimately RFK Jr’s biggest grievance was that there was *too* much trust in the medical system and not enough of an opening for the cranks and grifters he prefers

At first I thought: these dummies. Launching a ground invasion can’t be the final blow of anything. But I’m the dummy for thinking anyone cares about lives or goals or anything

“I bought a ticket on the Dipshit Express and now I’m concerned about the destination”

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Not great how this debacle revealed there isn't a single person in the Pentagon with a functioning brain, just sycophants who type "final blow" into an AI chatbot then pass it up the chain with a yessir. If even one person there told Trump/Hegseth the truth, we'd know because they'd be fired.

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Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

I think - and we saw this with Bezos at WaPo - these billionaires are badly misjudging how much of the public agrees with them and their reactionary politics. They can also afford to weather catastrophic mistakes.

"how DARE you suggest there are 'boots on the ground.' ...we're sending them barefoot."

Every year, this is in fact who gets in trouble for attempting to vote more then once. Cranks with rental property who think they have a god-given right to vote wherever they own property, and snowbirds who think they get to vote in both Florida and New York.

I AM ONCE AGAIN SOUNDING THE ALARM THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING TO PRIVATIZE OUR SCIENTIFIC ECOSYSTEM.

This is so different from the past membership. Deeply concerning where this might be headed...

I don’t have any direct knowledge, but I do get the sense that some of these rich dudes are so insulated they really do think there’s some mythical audience of “reasonable” people out there—you know, like them—just begging to be rediscovered. And Weiss’ one true gift is for playing to that belief.

I'm curious if leadership installed Weiss at CBS (1) knowing, or at least suspecting, that she would tank the ratings, but not caring because they mostly wanted to control mass media/suppress criticism or (2) bc they deluded themselves into thinking there is a larger market for her political slop?

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It feels like that thing where you’re walking in public and you accidentally fart with every step except instead of your butt it’s our country and the farts are Nazis.

Gonna drop the gimmick for a second and explain, as a therapist. What you're describing is a phenomenon called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It's a subconscious habit that develops in which a person seeks dopamine-releasing behavior at night to exact "revenge" on the day which deprived them