“The Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country plagued by conflict, is one of at least nine African nations with this type of agreement.” As usual, the cruelty is the point.

And the award for most fragile ego in the land goes to:

“The stock market used to be a machine. Then it became a casino. Now it’s a farm that oligarchs use to socialize their risks while retaining private control of their capital.”

How did the Iranians shoot down an Apache without possessing any radar or anti-aircraft capabilities? There are only two possible explanations: The Iranians have made a breakthrough in applied sorcery. Or the president of the United States is full of shit.

“All districts should be constituted so that you are given every possible chance to be represented by a Republican. Knowing he has a nice, healthy cushion will encourage that Republican to try things he might otherwise not feel comfortable doing, like shooting a dog just to feel something….” 😂😭

We used to be a real country.

Yooooo remember a couple years ago when those three LA city council members were caught on tape saying a ton of insanely racist stuff and conspiring to gerrymander another council member’s district? That other council member was Nithya Raman. The voting bloc they were trying to split? Renters.

Democratic Party: How can we beat Republicans and stop fascism? Democratic Strategists: I know! Let’s text voters literally every 5-10 minutes to beg for money with no way to opt-out until they all come to hate Democrats, democracy, and their phones! Democratic Party: Genius.

Remembering Amal Khalil

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

My deeply sarcastic inner voice responded: "Of course we're going to spread humans to other planets and consciousness to the stars. Building and maintaining this company will destroy the Earth, and living in a computer just might be easier than living on Mars." My inner voice needs a whiskey.

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

Corporate money in politics has gone too far. It’s time for people to be back in the center of politics. #EndCitizensUnited

Cecilia Vega, the first 60 Minutes Latina correspondent, was fired today, along with some of her colleagues, as Bari Weiss overhauls the news magazine. She has released this statement:

That's right, folks: God has a massive dong. Ted Cruz can confirm it.

*whispers* The idea that God is GENDERED is actually the really creepy position to take.

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Amid Meta's mass layoffs and a hard pivot to AI, one engineer posted a scorched-earth farewell parody video to the tune of “American Pie” in an internal message board. We got our hands on it.

MSM, some quick notes: 1. It’s not a settlement (the case was dismissed). 3. It’s not a ballroom (it’s a bunker). 3. It’s not a library (Trump said it will be a hotel). It matters that you get it right.

man wonder what kind of stuff inspired the attack on the san diego islamic center

I know we're long past the point where this should be shocking anymore, but I still can't get over official government accounts stating that Jesus is "our Savior."

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Holy balls, this opinion: "As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors . . . will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary. DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case." (via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The president is negotiating against his own administration to shake down taxpayers for $10 billion. The corruption meter is flashing red and sounding the alarm. ca.news.yahoo.com/doj-consider...

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

Trump has shared a post calling for President Obama's arrest.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

“With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished.”—Robert Kagan. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

“A man with inherited privilege, no serious achievement, a talent for drifting with the wind, and a remarkable ability to keep millions emotionally invested while delivering little beyond contradiction, illusion, and disappointment”…. Sound familiar? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

Senators Kelly and Ossof are both right. If our national security briefings are for sale to the highest bidder, they need to stop briefing him altogether. Trump is definitely a disgrace. #USDemocracy

Usually I vote ASAP. But given the CA governor's race polling is moving around a lot, I'm waiting a couple weeks then voting for the Dem polling highest. I hope and pray it's Becerra. But if I have to hold my nose and vote Steyer or Porter to avoid a Dem lockout, I will.

Becerra: Whoever goes into that governor’s office should not need training wheels. This is a time of crisis—whether it’s a man-made crisis in Washington, D.C., or the cost-of-living crisis we face here at home. We have to have someone who knows how to get us through a crisis. That’s what I’ve done

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

Karl Rove's advice was to always accuse your opponent of having your weakness, Republicans have really stuck to that

these are not complicated people, they want money and influence and everything they do is in service to that pull

There it is. Any questions?

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.

not sure if gets more Empire In Decline than a disastrously unpopular mentally decayed president — who different people of notably different political stripes keep trying to murder — as he is badly losing a horrifying foreign war he started on a pack of lies, won’t stop obsessing over a “ballroom”

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

It’s not the most pressing crisis this country faces but I cannot get over the fact that a qualification for being a top lawyer at the DOJ now is apparently being functionally illiterate. This shit reads like a seventh grader wrote it. What are we doing here man.

KIMMEL: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

WATCH — @tedlieu.bsky.social : “Trump and his family have made over $9 Billion in his presidency.”

They want you worried about Hasan Piker so you don’t see what the oligarchy is doing. www.huffpost.com/entry/elliso...

Ossoff: "The financial entanglement, the way UAE money, Emirati money has compromised this WH is astonishing. It may be one of the most significant scandals in US history. Who are Trump's 2 chief negotiators? Kushner & Witkoff. The people doing diplomacy are at the same time on personal business."