This is it for me. I don’t see the Met as the reason why my groceries are expensive. Art isn’t why I can’t afford gas. I totally understand why people have a different reaction, though. This is just what I think.

THIS.

As a Costume Designer, I just love this. People have such a thing about clothing being presented as art. What Mr. Guy says in the thread is so true, the red carpet celebrity machine is consumed like candy, but people wearing clothing as art to raise money for a museum, enrages them. So interesting…

MAGA pastors and rabbis dedicate golden Trump idol

Trump suggests a leader cannot safeguard his people if he is overweight and eats unhealthily

“While the working class is standing at the pump doing financial triage, they are eating cake while building a billion-dollar ballroom and painting buildings that do not require painting and throwing seven-month television-ready family caravans on the public tab.” open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

Since April 10, Trump has zapped out nine Truth Social posts deploying the “low IQ” tag. Six times his missive referred to a Black person.

Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, said that Alito’s claim is “simply not factual,” and that the turnout gap had “exploded” over the last three years. trib.al/8N53FLm

Weekend reading: I wrote about why Reconstruction is such a key historical reference - and about the lessons from the way America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and white supremacist violence. This week’s piece:

“The kind that thought, despite rampant news coverage and statistical evidence, that they wouldn’t catch an infectious disease on board.”

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

Basically this. We can’t turn into MAGA and just assume everything is rigged, staged, stolen, etc. Let the investigation play out.

“I’ve studied assasinations” “its people who do important things who are targeted”. Tell it to Garfield…

Trump almost makes sure to note how it was a "record setting crowd" at the dinner.

Joseph Decker. Green Plums, ca. 1885

No, seriously, you have no idea what's going on at the DC Hilton, and neither do I. Neither do many of the people that are there. And unless you're part of the law enforcement effort, you don't really need to figure this out in the next ten minutes.

He’s. Talking. About. The ballroom. JFC

OMG…the Ballroom.

This this this

Now Trump is saying he’s giving a press conference from the WH in 30 minutes from the WH after law enforcement asked him to leave. WHCD is also announcing that everyone is being asked to leave.

Closed replies on this because some of you are legitimately no better than QAnon.

Is there some way to mass block every idiot who comes on here as a serious event is unfolding, knowing absolutely nothing, saying it’s faked or staged? Because I feel like that would improve my BlueSky experience 1,000%. And if this is you, please just go ahead and block me.

THIS

On CNN SE Cupp saying what we're all feeling: The constant violence against politicians, against media, against everyone is so traumatizing and exhausting to constantly be exposed to and cover.

YES. People are idiots.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is currently on air from the WHCD. Blitzer said he “happened to be a few feet away” from a man who opened fire outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton where the annual event was taking place. Blitzer indicated the man was quickly tackled by police.

My comments are already so full of them and it’s so exhausting. Like this is America, mass shootings happen every day and they are not staged. We give everyone guns, and particularly men with domestic violence arrests, and no one shouts STAGED when they try to kill whole rooms of people.

And now Trump is going to do a speech. He knows he has a moment, and he is going to use it. Watch his approval ratings go up. But maybe whoever this was trying to kill the press. The one thing the right and left wing agrees on, demonizing the press.

🚨 POTUS still plans to deliver a speech tonight, per a WH official. Via Jake Traylor for MS NOW

BREAKING: President Trump and top administration officials have been rushed out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner by Secret Service. A source says the president is safe. https://cnn.it/3OpDl2z

Security officials evacuate U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as a shooter opens fire during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C.-Reuters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shooter opened fire inside the hotel where Trump was attending dinner, a law enforcement official says.

Weijia Jiang, who's president of WHCA, just announced the program will resume. Meanwhile Wolf Blitzer is reporting being thrown to ground by Secret Service and he saw the shooter with a "very serious weapon."

CNN saying there is a dead shooter.

Oh fuck…there was a shooter

We can only hope this was not some idiot…

The SECNAV is not a senior officer, has no operational role, does not issue orders. He was a rich, art-collector donor who probably got sideways with Hegseth by just not liking him. Stop looking for the Tom Clancy movie version of everything.

No. No no no. Stop doing this. Phelan wouldn't know one end of a battleship from another. This is about internal palace politics, Game of Thrones stuff. Stop looking for *interesting* explanations and go for *simple*, and *likely*, and very *human* explanations.

Yes. Stop assuming they're all drooling morons. They're not smart, but they're playing a DC game with a long pedigree.

"His negotiating team is his son-in-law and a real estate developer. The secretary of state is...apparently not deeply involved here. The DNI is virtually invisible. If I were a foreign opponent, I'd be saying this is the most incompetent American regime we've ever faced." @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Wow

Yeah, Donald Trump has nothing to do with Donald Trump's war.

Gift article. “Trump didn’t just hire incompetent people. He didn’t just hire lickspittles. He visited some perverse preserve of the morally degenerate — some superstore of grifters and goons — and said, “I’ll take the worst of the worst. A baker’s dozen, please!” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/o...

Trump fires the Navy secretary, his billionaire Palm Beach neighbor and fellow Epstein-knower, for not delivering a Trump vanity battleship fast enough

It’s instructive to see a list like this with timestamps and all the garbage stripped out.

also it's kind of amazing that Homelander declared himself the Messiah like 10 days after Trump posted an image of himself as Jesus. obviously the episode was finished long before it aired, so...that's some solid prognosticating by the boys' creators there.

NEW: President Trump’s ethos is famously shaped by the 1980s - which helps explain how he is viewing the conflict with Iran A deep dive on his (surprisingly consistent) take on Tehran. And how that may be leading to mistakes in this war: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...