This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

Once again, the founders foresaw Trump perfectly, what they failed to foresee was this supine Congress.

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

These attacks are illegal, insane, and immoral. The power to declare war lies with Congress and they must act to block this immediately.

You can just say things.

Just out in the open and people still pretend we have a federal government. Lol

One of those costs there’s probably no way to quantify but is obviously huge is just the huge deadweight loss of time and mental energy spent thinking and talking about Trump relative to a normalish president.

Unfortunately the reality is that cops have a history of killing people by dropping them off in inhospitable places. In Canada it’s called a “starlight tour” when cops detain an Indigenous person and then drop them off miles from home in the wilderness, sometimes causing them to freeze to death

WTAF? This is inhumane. Here is the HHS press release announcing the nationwide moratorium for durable medical equipment under Medicare: www.hhs.gov/press-room/t...

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

I think the fun thing about the latest John Oliver episode is that he’s mainstreaming what has been common discourse here for months, in that if you’re a government official/reporter/someone who considers themselves a non-Nazi then what the FUCK are you still doing on X?

John Oliver made an extremely solid case for leaving Twitter tonight. I wonder if anyone of note still there will finally realize it’s time.

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

The idea that Bluesky has earned a position of disrepute by being too scolding, too leftist, too echo chamber-y, too boring are all debunked by going over to X and seeing what journalists and pundits are doing over there. Scolding, fighting, echoing, and getting much less engagement for it

The Trump administration is warehousing pregnant child rape victims in a Texas facility, away from adequate medical care, in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US, so that these child rape victims won’t be able to get abortions. www.throughline.news/p/the-trump-

One thing the last ten years have really demonstrated to me is that oppression both hurts us and makes us worse. It makes us bicker, it makes us hold grudges against our allies, it makes us cruel. It makes us try to build coalitions with the architects of our misfortune against each other.

No one knows who the fuck some random the verge writer is and probably most people remember people being mean to journalists on Twitter. The growth problem is that no one likes text based social media anymore who isn’t a news pervert.

oh no bluesky is dying and irrelevant again, i hate when this happens!

Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

someone is getting a refund of the tariffs they paid but it isn't you. all you did was pay a higher price for something.

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

love to be looted by our criminal president

The brunchlord establishment press hates progressives (especially female) exponentially more than fascism and it's simply not subtle

It’s going to be great after 4 years of money is no object for cruelty and revenge when Republicans discover “fiscal responsibility” again, as if they slept through the Noem’s luxury sex jet and paying 20 men to grab a gardener.

If the right dominates the infosphere, if they can demonize any marginalized population they turn their eye on, then strategizing around *a current snapshot of public opinion* is almost definitionally misguided. They can change that opinion. Dems can't seem to, or won't try. All else is noise.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

The demand to swear fealty to Newsom and never criticize him a full year before the primaries is weird. I’m happy if that’s your candidate but uhhhhh I don’t owe him anything and if he’s transphobic and destroying poor peoples’ lives, I’m not going to blindly promise to support that policy platform?

Democrats cannot be the party of ‘less lawless cruelty.’ It’s just not good enough. We are living the end result of that approach to politics.

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

It's galling to contemplate but I really think you have to admit that Musk buying X was an unqualified victory. It can't be exaggerated just how much prominent journalists, pundits, business type, etc. mistake the vibe on X for "how the country is feeling."

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon

i have to wonder what kind of future AI hypebeasts are imagining when they say stupid shit like, "most or all of white collar tasks will be automated within 18 months". like, okay, microsoft, then who are your customers? who is purchasing O365 subscriptions when robots are doing all the work?

Republicans claim that life is hard because immigrants are taking our jobs and using scant public resources when the real barrier to a dignified life is corporate greed

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Yep. Many of us who weren't sufficiently Trump-curious had to find other places to work. The libertarian movement had one job, and it failed, and now it wants credit for success.

Also in contrast to how some of the same people treated "college student said something annoying" stories. Just a completely bizarre idea of who has power and what is important.

I think it's cool that a Republican president being elected automatically means there is going to be a recession but America keeps electing them specifically because they are perceived as better on the economy.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

One of the things making so many men uncomfortable with ✨guilt by association✨ around the Epstein files is the knowledge *they* have about men with whom *they're* associated who hurt women, and about whose behavior they've never, not once, considered doing anything.

People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience