No wonder Melania Trump thinks that the pictures of her and Epstein are fake - she looks so high that she probably doesn’t remember anything.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Berlin, where a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is scheduled. Germany marks the start of the Ukrainian delegation's diplomatic week in Europe.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Based on this, Ukrainian drone pilots were trained and some decades later, we are blowing up russian oil facilities. Thank you, Rockstar!

Trump wanted to kill off PBS & NPR by defunding them. It hasn't worked as intended—viewers came to their aid & now a fed'l judge has held Trump's executive order unconstitutional. We also look at why Trump might dislike public media & a Muppet named Donald Grump. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Ignoring the orange shit-gibbons PR bullshit blockade: A Chinese tanker managed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, despite the blockade by the US, reports Reuters. 1/4

Meanwhile, in Houston, gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is talking about Greg Abbott trafficking people into Texas’s private prisons and detention centers so that his donors will profit, and I really appreciate her for it.

Wait’ll you hear what Donald Trump says about his Jesus picture. No matter what you guess…You’ll be wrong. 😂 Seriously. He’s lost his mind.

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

Vance is building up his IOUs with Putin in prep for 2028.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Warnings about Rep. Eric Swalwell had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far he got.

Members of Congress are gaining access to ICE facilities and surprise, surprise, the conditions are inhumane.

Why, on Earth, is Trump still in office?

China lead the way in COVID from unhygienic bushmeat markets. Now it leads the was in a virus from seafood has spread to humans for the first time and can lead to blindness. 1/4

Neither Trump nor anyone else in the US administration has extended congratulations to Péter Magyar for his victory. Russia has rebuffed it yesterday.

😂🥸😂

China is not sending its navy. It is not ignoring the blockade either. It is doing something more dangerous: running a quiet, low-risk probe to find out if the US will blink. The calculus for Beijing right now: Trump-Xi summit is May 14.

I have a plan to defeat Russia! We just got to get JD Vance to fly to Moscow and shake Putin’s hand.

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Hungarians singing 🎵 We are the champions 🎵 after finally finding out their vote is their power. 🤍 🗳

You cannot unsee 🫣

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Reminder of this awful story:

if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.

In Feb. 2025 when a USAID worker asked if their “lifesaving care” for “two of the leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths” would be considered a number one priority for programs to save, a Trump official responded “I’d say that’s more of a number two.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

I can't stress enough how much USAID is all over Project 2025 in relation to abortion. Out of the 200-some times it's mentioned, if my memory serves me right, at least half of them were in relation to USAID.

Pope Leo is a man of conviction. Donald Trump is a man with many convictions.

BREAKING: FIFA to award trump a medical degree.

trump out here going to war with the Pope like he found out the Vatican has oil.

Provide the social safety so that grandmothers don’t have to take multiple jobs to pay for their husbands cancer treatment

> @adamscochran.bsky.social

Let us count the ways Trump lost this weekend: 1. Orban got his shit pushed in. Like bad. 2. Iran said piss up a rope. 3. The Pope said kiss my ass, God got me. 4. A golfer that hates him Rory McIlroy won The Masters 5. The UFC event he attended was empty. We done winning yet?

I so wish I had thought of that, dang.

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BRUSUELAS: “.. Six weeks into the attacks on energy facilities in the Middle East, and on top of the obvious increases in the cost of food and gasoline, consumers now expect inflation to increase from 3.3% to 4.8% over the next 12 months.” @joebrusuelas.bsky.social #UMich

Hey Rep. Tony Gonzales, what’s the delay?

Trump posted a renaissance style picture of himself as Jesus healing a sick man with his heavenly touch whilst adoring disciples witnessing the miracle look on in prayer. Trump says “it’s just him as a doctor” America, the man is a lunatic. Do the right thing. Please. It’s painful to watch…

An election-denying Republican member of Congress is targeting New York’s voter registration process — demanding records and threatening legal action over familiar, unproven narratives about voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

VANCE: I think the president was posting a joke and, of course, he took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren't understanding his humor in that case

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

More evidence of the tactical brilliance of Kegseth. The US Army fired its entire stock of Precision Strike Missiles in the opening stages of the war against Iran. aviationweek.com/defense/miss...

I’d like to live in a country where a grandma doesn’t have to work as a Door Dash driver to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment

Someone is dying in ICE custody every week. Republicans want to use the reconciliation process to give ICE a blank check. I say: Let’s negotiate basic reforms instead.

"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband. The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My thoughts on the Swalwell stuff. Notice how Democrats always hold their own accountable and Republicans just yell fake news, no matter how vile the evidence is?

Periodic reminder that the president has lost his fucking mind