What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing.

Nothing infuriates fascists more than being held accountable for their own failures. YOU did this, Pete Hegseth. You and Donald Trump. For nothing. An absolute catastrophe. If you had a shred of integrity you'd resign and disappear from public life forever.

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Karma needs to work faster

"You are going to find yourselves required to be sentinels at the bacchanal. You are going to find yourselves required to stand guard at the Lucullan feast..." -- Tom Wolfe, at West Point in 1987, anticipating the use and abuse of the military at the WH last night open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Absolutely brutal indictment of Trump's epic failure here, made even worse by his inability to grasp how monumentally he failed.

Trump is waiting to party on the South Lawn after surrendering to Iran. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Conservatives used to remind us every 20 minutes that Reagan never took off his jacket in the Oval Office because he had so much reverence for the White House.

By the way, Elon Musk didn't start Tesla. By the time he invested in Tesla, the original founders had already started building the Roadster THEY had designed. When he bought them out, he changed the history of the company to make himself a founder. I'm not joking. He's always been a fraud.

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

Here you go. Why is Pete Hegseth such a cornball? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Important piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

1/ What if you put all the ways that Jared Kushner is selling out America while lining his pockets into one place? In our new cover story, @cjcmichel.bsky.social did just that www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

I know I'm a broken record, but Trump *not* releasing his taxes as he promised and the IRS *not* auditing his taxes every year and releasing the results like they have for every goddamn president for forty years is the actual scandal. This won't outlast his term and should be fought right now

Really need to court martial the military doc who signs off on his check ups Article 107 false official statements

Really wish USMA would kick Luntz to the curb

I cannot with Hegseth’s speech to USMA class of ‘26 For fucks sake

So it was The Case for Reparations. It was just written by the wrong guy and should have been about white people. Got it

“Please enjoy Colbert’s final shows,” John Oliver told viewers at the end of Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight.' “He’s the f*cking best. Good night, and good luck, motherf*ckers!” Full story: latenighter.com/news/john-ol...

I regret all the work I put in to my international relations papers in college. Apparently I didn’t have to write so many pages with detailed analysis and sourcing.

The FBI did not disclose the snorkeling session or that Patel had returned to Hawaii for two days after his initial stopover on the island

So many things to unpack: The looks David and Brian give Annie when she hits the notes The cigarette David is holding and smoking while singing George in the wings singing along

If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

All over our IT Teams thread today. Glad we finished last week. Grades were due Monday night.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

thanks for literally nothing

Anyway this is maddening but not at all surprising, this was my takeway from talking to Trump voters before the election, most of them were delusional about who he was and what he wanted to do and if he actually did what he wanted to do they wouldn't like it www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

Needed to generate ratings. Giving people enough time to see it all over their socials and then turn on their tvs

You don’t need to go very far to see that the Para-Bros merger will mean censorship, reprisals, punishment and exclusion. They are already at it. Trust them when they tell you they will use the power and this consolidation of media for political reasons. www.avclub.com/hollywood-bl...

I want to see his AFT score and did they do a tape test?

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

So much to know about John Phelan’s ouster as Navy secretary: - driven by Hegseth’s insecurities - firing a Navy secretary 10 days after launching a naval blockade? - Phelan was a poor choice for the job, especially in light of his Epstein ties - scope of the Pentagon purge is staggering

The world’s richest man and a kid named “big balls” brought 6.7% unemployment to DC, put uniformed Fed troops in the streets and per conservative estimates cut programs that’ll result in the deaths of millions of people: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Any candidate who doesn’t promise to throw these people in jail should never run for office

Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

He went to Jared

CBS: American soldiers who survived the attacked that killed 6 say Hegseth is lying. They were left “unprepared” and exposed. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...