what a visual

An ambitious swing seat Repub rep could likely find the 8 repub votes for a motion to vacate the speaker, make a deal with dems re: tariffs, be speaker of the house in three days, and take up the senate’s tariff bill. This seems such an obvious winner for someone who will otherwise lose in 26.

trump take job

Trump, a father, has 34 felony convictions

It's a great job, you're in charge of a beloved national institution and get to work with and on behalf of a lot of talented journalists. The downside is that sometimes you will have to go to Washington D.C. and try to calm down an extremely flustered cartoon pig.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

I saw the work by Olga Lautman and he findings were disturbing: Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the signal chat. Russia has infiltrated Signal and used against Ukrainians. Very possible they have the classified signal info:

Just accidentally texted Steve Harvey the plans for my invasion of France. I'd appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.

Everyone on the chat saw that Goldberg removed himself A WEEK AGO and they evidently… just did nothing. Find dumber people anywhere, I challenge you.

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

Someday it will seem insane that there was a period when people thought the couch story was untrue just because the outlets like the Times, doing everything in their power to normalize his campaign, said it wasn't. Who cares if someone admitted to making it up, why would that matter.

Glenn Youngkin has left the Patrick Henry reenactment and receives a chorus of boos as he makes his way to his car.

Any pub or show not running or reporting on this comment right here is absolutely caping for this administration. Everyone knows education is the most kitchen table ass talking point ever and specifically saying disabled kids shouldn't have access to it affects so many families

We need to start calling things what they are. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

"The Democrats had refused to abolish the filibuster when Schumer was the majority leader, on the grounds that someday they might be the ones who needed it. Now the House and the public were begging Schumer to use it. And he refused."

mRNA vaccines are legit a near-miracle tech, there's one in testing that might be able to cure pancreatic cancer, and this fucking degenerate might take them from us arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

BREAKING: @indivisible.org calls on Senator Schumer to step down as minority leader after voting in favor of GOP funding bill. “Our democracy is in danger. The path ahead will be hard. Indivisibles are ready to do the work - it’s time for a Senate Democratic Leader who is too.” Full statement:

Some of the most non political and moderate people I know are keying cars with Trump stickers, meanwhile Dem leadership is “ruefully” huffing Trump’s farts. When was the last time their judgment didn’t prove to be absolute dogshit? Primary these abject losers.

The federal workers unions have asked for the shutdown over the CR.

Seems like only the most MAGA faithful would blame Dems, suggests that politically this should be a no-brainer for them.

Absolutely the dumbest people. Completely leaves out that if she had won CANADA WOULD ALREADY BE THE 51st STATE and it would be called AMERICA GULF.

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Immediate presidency-ending scandals for any previous president from Truman to Biden, now happening daily 🤷‍♂️

Trump attacking Columbia for not protecting Jewish students is similar to Russia invading Ukraine to stamp out Naziism.

“The most anti-veteran administration ever”

tired of people treating trump like he is anything other than an ego-driven simpleton (i wrote this, this is a piece about why he is nothing more than an ego driven simpleton.)

hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"The House minority has not bothered with... articles of impeachment. No senator has blockaded the Trump administration's appointments...No judges have locked anyone up for contempt" Via @tomscocca.bsky.social @defector.bsky.social defector.com/this-is-uvalde

Supreme Court legalized bribery, took bribes themselves, and declared this was all just how democracy is supposed to work

"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future." - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020 www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...

This Is Uvalde - defector.com/this-is-uvalde

Spending funds Congress has not appropriated literally violates the Constitution and to do so knowingly and willfully is a crime punishable by two years in prison. See 31 USC 1341(a) and 1350. uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...

"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity." www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

I still haven’t seen JD Vance say “thank you” to the American taxpayers for his little skiing vacation.

new this morning from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The NIH cuts are part of an all-out war on higher education:

I find it weirdly encouraging that this post I wrote last year about J.D. Vance being a fascist has gotten a MASSIVE uptick in hits via search results in the past few days. craigcalcaterra.com/blog/j-d-van...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

Trump and Vance are part of the tiny percentage of Americans who sympathize more with Russia (4%) than Ukraine (62%) and who view Putin more favorably (75% unfavorable) than Zelensky (28% unfavorable) today.yougov.com/politics/art...

I think antitrust is not enough to deal with the tech industry. We need - and I know this era isn't one where we get it - a digital EPA, with quality standards for apps/digital services with personal liability for executives and real, meaningful mechanisms to force companies to stop hurting people.

it is so important to remember that IN THE MOMENT there was no one who thought jan. 6 was some innocent protest gone awry. everyone recognized it for what it was.

If there's one thing complicated electronics love it's lots of heat, moisture, and vibration

when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"

i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs