A substantial minority of America is losing its mind. The same community whose grandparents were smashing Beatles records in the streets after Lennon’s Jesus comments are literally idolising a guy who posts images of himself as Jesus and calls himself the ‘chosen one’. Descent into mass psychosis.

In a normal Presidency this would trigger a public warning to Putin and a reaffirmation of US commitment to NATO. Probably a shift of air defence assets too, to emphasise the point. With Trump we’ll probably get crickets, or open support for Putin with an excuse for this. bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

Russian drones breached NATO airspace in Latvia overnight, with one striking an oil storage facility in Rēzekne and two more crashing nearby. A criminal investigation has been launched into the incident. www.kyivpost.com/post/75601

Trump walking nine miles.

@gtconway.bsky.social Where are the Secret Service?! An Iranian has just knocked out Trump on live tv. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...

Tbf there’s no SSRI manufactured that can overcome waking every morning to realise yes, Trump is really President.

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

Iranian officials are saying that commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz will be required to pay a "Tehran toll," and US warships will not be allowed to transit. Meanwhile Trump continues his blockade of Iranian ports. Yet oil prices are falling on the assumption the the Strait is "open."

"I'd like to gavel in today's board meeting of the American Medical Association...."

Will it rise again in three days though?

Orban can still win if Mike Pence has the courage…

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why it’s necessary for the United States to invade Vatican City and install its own pope.

@jasonreifler.bsky.social ‘misperceptions, fact-checking, and foreign policy attitudes. American’ Boy, the Trump regime is a professional bonanza for you. 😂

NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead

I nominate this cartoon by Steve Cousineau for a Pulitzer!

BURGUM: That flows to American refineries on the gulf coast, lowering the cost of gas in America TRUMP: Forget that. When are they gonna do the statue?

‘The President is the only judge of objective reality’ Hell of a Republic you got there.

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

🎶🎶🎶🎶 We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Because I love you Hormuz, baby Why can't you see What you're doing to me When you don't believe a word I say? We can't go on together With suspicious mines (suspicious mines) And we can't build our dreams On suspicious mines 🎶🎶🎶

Yeah, about that.

Trump is today telling every member of the US military that it is ok with him if Russia helps Iran kill them--every one. Once again Americans, Trump looks at US military personnel as suckers and losers that he can sacrifice for his own glory and profit. This is who leads

Well, imagine that …

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.

@jaketapper.bsky.social Hey Jake! This thing on? Trump here, unable to remember where his father was born. A dementia riddled madman has started a massive war, and still you all just shrug. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Katyal: "Here's the problem for Donald Trump: his DOJ, in our case, filed briefs to the courts that said Section 122 is inapplicable and the president can't use it. So now he's turned around & he's gonna have to somehow argue against his own DOJ's interpretation of the statute. I think that's tough"

BREAKING: DOJ to investigate Supreme Court for mortgage fraud.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

In govts around the world, people in the Epstein files are resigning in disgrace. In private business, executives in the files are resigning in disgrace. In the Trump admin, nothing happens since the boss is in the files more than anyone and his party is filled with cowards.

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

All the various kinds of revisions add up -- by the end of the year, there were more than a million fewer people employed than previously estimated.

Just a reminder that Trump’s former criminal defense attorney turned Dep. AG Todd Blanche transferred Ghislaine Maxwell to a Club Fed where she now plays with puppies and goes to yoga classes.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Just had a fabulous talk with John Sipher, one of the most experienced CIA officers of his generation. We went into the Epstein files, what they say about Epstein and Russian intelligence, how Epstein kompromat might work to influence Trump… substack.com/@phillipspob...

In 2024, Trump stated that only himself and Dan Scavino have access to his Truth Social account. This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.

John Barron

Bitcoin reacting to Punxsutawney Phil’s six more weeks of winter.

@news.sky.com Adam Boulton just said live on Sky that Trump has a sexual felony conviction. 👀 I’d get the apology in pretty quickly unless you want to join the BBC. Trump is a revolting sexual predator, but his sex case verdict was a civil suit.

Reporter: A Democrat won a special election in Texas in an area that you won by 17 points Trump: I’m not involved in that. That’s a local race. I don’t know anything about it. I had nothing to do with it.

@jowolff.bsky.social you got your pocket edition of Marcus Aurelius handy?

He’s so catastrophically demented the only reliable recall he has is his whirling Lazy Susan of rehashed grievances and ‘Sir’ stories. Shameful that this empty wreck of a man is allowed to squat in the Oval Office.

The only thing his dementia riddled brain can reliably recall is his rotating Lazy Susan of personal grievances. It’s extraordinary.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.