“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours. Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump

I’ll be at Fair Trade Books on Saturday.

Tangle-knot by @lorettaellsworth.bsky.social, illustrated by Annabel Tempest, is such a delightfully surprising, quirky, and heartfelt book all at once! I laughed so hard! It's a lot of fun to stumble across gems like these. 👏 #picturebooks #kidlit #bookrecommendations

Just a reminder to Congress: Any time you send soldiers to another country to start bombing shit and shooting at shit and killing the people of that country, THAT IS A WAR. If your President is DOING WAR without Congressional Approval, THAT IS A CRIME AND HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

Turns out, he did come back with a comically swollen right hand. Looks like a water balloon with a terrible makeup job. H/T: @atrupar.com

The worst people you know keep making great points H/T @amysiskind.com

So far, Trump is just lying about Obama’s nuclear deal. Not a word he said about the JCPOA is true

Trump says we’re going to keep hitting them hard for 2-3 week. Always 2-3 weeks

To all the new people who realized Trump is insane after last night’s address: The hell took you so long?

If talks were going very well, we wouldn’t be sending thousands of troops to the Middle East

“believed to be” completely unnecessary here, good grief

You know who’s a perfect metaphor for the GOP? Scott Jennings. A pundit who mocks Trump with us during commercial breaks — but fawns over Trump when the camera is rolling. Brave enough to speak out… in the green room.

- Iran won’t close the Strait because that would be very bad for them - we knew they would close it, I expected oil prices to be worse - the strait will open itself - we don’t use it, allies should open it - OPEN THE STRAIT RIGHT NOW OR WE’LL DESTROY YOUR POWER PLANTS

Watching both sides of this war blatantly manipulate the US stock market is maddening.

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"Britannica’s lawsuit said that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its articles... The complaint said that ChatGPT produces “near-verbatim” copies of Britannica’s encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions and other content, diverting users who would otherwise visit its websites."

He’s going to declare victory and leave. This is why the US engaging in a regime change operation is almost always a bad idea, but particularly under this administration. Taking his ball and going home now will create another insurgency in the Middle East.

This happened in Minneapolis, too.

It’s insane how they vacillate between lies depending on what they want to do, and crazier that people just believe them. Want to look strong? WE COMPLETELY OBLITERATED IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM! 💪💥 Want to bomb Iran? Iran is a week away from bomb-grade material!! 😱

Yes. Let’s analyze the risks *after* we send billions of dollars worth of equipment to the region. This is either misdirection, or the most glaring lack of coherent strategy I’ve ever seen.

Trump again claims Iran’s nuclear sites were destroyed and that they don’t have a program. Is he lying about that? Or is Witkoff lying about Iran being a week away from a bomb? And if the nuclear program was blown to smithereens, why are going to attack Iran? 🤨

This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on. Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories? What a shitshow.

What goes around comes around.

“She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America: “‘Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.’”

👀👀👀👀 When you’ve got THIS administration admitting that ICE lied under oath, the video evidence has to be catastrophic.

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Q&A with Loretta Ellsworth about her new novel, THE JILTED COUNTESS. tinyurl.com/bdd87cne @lorettaellsworth.bsky.social

USAID fraud - no arrests Medicare fraud - no arrests Social security fraud - no arrests Election fraud - no arrests If MAGA didn’t have the collective IQ of a moldy peanut butter sandwich, they’d realize they were being scammed by now.

I wish folks would quit reporting that it’s too classified to send to Congress. No it’s not. That is Gabbard’s EXCUSE for obstructing it.

1. Trump can’t federalize elections and he knows that. 2. That doesn’t mean he won’t try, so what are WE going to do when he inevitably does?

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Turns out pizza-gate was more or less real, but full of Republicans and not Hillary or Obama. Go figure.

This five year old is still in jail

🎈🥳💙💛🎉🎈💙💛🎊🎈🍀 Happy Birthday, Mr. President 💝 BEST LEADER of the world🫡 We wish you all the best! May your wishes come true soon.🍀

One more datapoint - bourbon accounts? wow.

stuff like this, etc

We have reached the point where a judge literally has to order federal law enforcement officials not to destroy or mess with evidence from a homicide scene.

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

This is who Trump and Noem murdered

Agree!

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Incredible. The people of Minnesota are inspiring a nation.

Translation: NATO told him to get fucked on Greenland. Now he’s going to try to sell putting the Golden Dome (which we were already going to do) in Greenland as a win.

👀👀👀👀

That’s a weird way to say “blew out all the veins on his right hand so now he has to use the left for the injections that we refuse to admit he’s getting”