fyi this is the kimmel comedy routine MELANIA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE. definitely do not like and share it or else the MOST UNPOPULAR FIRST LADY IN HISTORY will be mad. youtu.be/GRjKhsJc95o

It's an understudied element of our media environment that Republicans can insult Democrats in any way they see fit, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

ok this is legit shocking!!! The person with the most traffic tickets in all of NYC turns out to be an NYPD officer from Staten Island. jk it’s not shocking at all lmao

If you're a producer for a cable news show, you should have a tight two-minute montage with a sampling of the many times Donald Trump has encouraged political violence, just waiting for the inevitable Republican guest who tries to pretend Democrats are the real problem here.

Like this....? m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs2...

They’ve always been shameless liars about everything, but Trump has brought out a new level of meanness from these sneering motherfuckers.

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

This is a good time to re-read the decision in Carroll v. Trump.

I’m old enough to remember all the times Donald Trump joked about Paul Pelosi being attacked by a man with a hammer.

They clearly need golden ballrooms to keep them safe.

Trump blames eight million people for last night’s attack.

NARRATOR: federal court has found the allegation Trump raped E Jean Carroll was “substantially true”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean...

"I don’t think Americans fully appreciate the extraordinary cost of Trump’s bluster. It should go without saying, but once you threaten to invade an allied country, you don’t just place the existence of the alliance in jeopardy; you raise the possibility of allies turning into mortal enemies"

notice the casual conflation of “free speech” and “no big deal” as if these are not categorically different claims; the contempt for his colleagues; and the inability to distinguish interrupting class out of retaliatory spite from the protest of an address by a public official

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Apparently there's an "anti-Trump ideology," parroting which is a good way to offer your services to the criminalization of speech. www.cnn.com/2026/04/25/p...

Funny how that works. 🤔🫤🤨🙂‍↔️

President Trump has repeatedly called Democratic leaders & voters traitors, explicitly called for terrible things to happen to them, used the state to terrorize Democratic strongholds both directly & indirectly killing many, but Corporate Media is singularly focused on Democratic rhetoric.

Interesting to note the different reactions on the dais the moment gunshots were heard at the WHCA Dinner:

Even before last night’s WHCD, the only thing that was on Donald Trump’s public schedule for today was “executive time.” In three days, the only thing that he’s done that wasn’t self-serving was having a policy meeting on Friday.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Video: Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) Condemns Political Violence; On Redistricting, Says “it would damage the credibility of the VA Supreme Court for a generation if they were to overturn the will of the voters” bluevirginia.us/2026/04/vide...

Luke Russert on MSNOW saying that when the shots were fired he ran down the middle of the aisle in the room, right towards the president, thinking it would be safest near him. Yeah, man, I'm not sure you've really game planned how "rushing the president during a shooting" might end for you

Would you fight me in the Hampton Inn parking lot

The anchor of a CNN Sunday show asking Democrats if it's irresponsible to criticize the president.

Right, it's important to remember that this is unfortunately a fairly common experience for most presidents, but normally presidents don't spend all their time crying about it in public.

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

For the "tone down the rhetoric" crowd: Nope. If actual dead kids in schools are the price we have to pay to protect the right to own guns, then potential dead politicians are the price we have to pay to protect freedom of speech and the press. You don't get to have it both ways.

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

Republicans have told us for years that dead kids in schools are the price we have to pay to remain free. But if someone (allegedly) tries to use a gun to decapitate the government, Republicans want us to give up freedom of speech and the right to oppose GOP policies. They can't have it both ways.

A Farce in Four Acts: 1. Trump skipped the WHCD every single year. 2. Except this one. 3. All of a sudden there’s a shooter in the lobby. 4. Trump: “This shooting is a clear example of why we need a new ballroom!” It hardly gets any dumber than this.

I'm not changing my rhetoric and the least. Trump is objectively bad for the United States. My saying so does not make me in any way responsible for some Looney Tune making use of our nation's lax gun laws to (allegedly) try to assassinate Trump.

"Okay, let's focus on the Epstein Files instead."

It’s happening:

“The state takeovers of MEMPHIS, MASON, TSU, etc. — all seem to have a common thread… Can you guess? Do I even need to say it?” As state Republicans seize the MEMPHIS school board, we asked comptroller Jason Mumpower why they only seem to take over *certain* (Black-led) orgs🤔

Not remotely low enough.

Fully 55% of Americans say Trump does not have the mental soundness to serve as president, according to Fox News poll, up 7 points since late 2024 and near the high of 56% in 2023. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.

I was raised Catholic and had the choice to leave (& did), but now OUR OWN GOV'T is shoving it down our throats. Btw the White House and SCOTUS, too many men are used to forcing themselves on others w/o consent.

Dobbs isn't religious liberty, it's coerced religiosity. Why should people who aren't Catholic be forced to live by Catholic doctrine? In a country where religious freedom is a foundational principle, no less? Your religion controls YOUR behavior, not mine.

James Ho with an utterly crazy concurrence (that no one else joined) declares that SB4 is an appropriate use of Texas' power to defend against war, repeatedly citing a Great Replacement-theory-promoting book that claims Mexico and other countries are "weaponizing migrants" against the U.S.

man it's always the ones you most expect

I know it seems as if there is a backlash against sexual freedom and tolerance in America, but this weekend there‘s a very public event where prominent people are going to a party in order to be humiliated and urinated upon. Each to their own!

My wife and I just got back from a trip to Greece. Decided to add our Cavapoo, Athena, to pictures of the Parthenon.

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

The Sovietization of Texas public universities continues at breakneck speed.

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...