Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

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MAGAism, distilled to its essence.

From last year:

He has no idea what he is doing. This 👇 journalist randomly called him on Sunday and Trump was asking him what he should do. 😒 bsky.app/profile/maud...

Trying to time it with the release of the Republican healthcare plan.

Officials at an Omaha-area high school ordered the student newspaper to remove this editorial cartoon criticizing ICE, then demanded prior review of articles about their censorship. Via @splc.org, which is advocating for the students: splc.org/2026/03/nebr...

There are no solutions you can enact without a veto-proof majority. Your job will be to thwart, delay, investigate, provide oversight, expose, cut funding when possible, and impeach when necessary. Which will be often. Trump is historically unpopular. Anti-Trump is fine.

fyi this isnt a one-off. the new york times CONSTANTLY does this. it is on purpose. citation -> www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

#Trump and #Hegseth are now learning that the hardest part of a 3-day Special Military Operation is the first five years. #Iran

Lab Leakers: "SARS-CoV-2 can't infect bats, so it must have been made in a lab". Science: "Let's do the experiment". SARS-CoV-2 behaves exactly like one would expect in a reservoir species - low-level infection, no overt disease, etc. Elegant study from Sato Lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Phil has the videos Kid Rock posted. Why did two military helicopters buzz the No Kings protest in Nashville today, then pay tribute to Kid Rick at his home?

13. So even if His Accidency's plan works, it serves only to call Senators back into town for a vote that won't pass, leaving huge parts of government unfunded, just because that's easier for him than standing up to Trump or his wingnuts.

15. Things are fluid and maybe these dynamics change over the next few hours. But it's your regular reminder that there is no overlap in the Venn diagram between a government that works and a Congress under GOP control. /fin

I don't care about any of the intel obtained. I just need the IRGC to disclose the specific topic they used for the phishing email to get Kash Patel's password.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

The $580 million short oil bet was the smaller of the two insider trades. The larger one, placed at the exact same time (6:49-6:50am), was between $1.4-$1.9 billion to go long S&P 500 e-Mini futures. Over $2 billion in Trump traitor trades, all wildly profitable 15 minutes later after Trump's post.

So they are not, in fact, really good people

not only are they not good people, this performative courting of nonexistent integrity is a bizarre waste of everybody's time

"warfighters" has quickly topped the list of "words I never want to hear again"

The FCC today updated its list of products that can't be sold in the U.S. to include *all* consumer routers made in foreign countries. It's a big but potentially disruptive move to limit supply-chain security risks to U.S. networks. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler is on Fox riffing on why Dems are to blame for the crash last night in LaGuardia, because nobody in the Trump administration has real job duties beyond going on TV and fluffing the leader

If there is one thing I’ve learned is that if a project is struggling, adding a bunch of new trainees always helps, especially if they’re being paid and you’re not, and they’re the reason you’re not being paid

New bit I've perfected if anyone brings up a problem: I don't really follow politics but it was never like this before Trump. "But the Democrats and the funding and--" Yeah like I said I don't really follow that. There was always politics but before Trump it was never like this. That's all I know

Trump is trying to shut down one of the world's premier climate & weather research labs. Why? A petty beef with a Colorado official who didn't support his effort to steal the election. That's it.

this should have really just been stopped immediately at "Jared" and asked "why is the president's son-in-law conducting foreign diplomacy when he has no role in this administration and has not been confirmed by the Senate to any position permitting him to engage in it?"

a fun fact that I will never tire of is that the brits cooked up the idea of a “vote of no confidence“ specifically to ditch the govt that lost the war against the US colonies, which is why our constitutional tradition doesn’t benefit from their innovation

If you assume that “based” means “insufferable asshole“ you will rarely be wrong.

Jared Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration. The U.S. becomes less safe and more corrupt every day Jared Kushner remains involved in our political system.

Puffing Trump’s delusions about the economy as if they were on track until ten days ago is peak NYTimes soft-pedaling Trump’s furious unreality and both-sides-ing it with actual documentable reality

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

i got a spongebob tattoo and i retweet spongebob fan accounts all the time and i went on a podcast with a spongebob influencer and told him i loved his podcast and appreciated being on. but all of my friends will "freak out" if you say i like spongebob. and well, thats basically just, totally normal

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"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

"Tech killed online education" is a heck of an outcome.

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

The Cabinet this week *RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat *Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island *Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims *Noem blanket *Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it *Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Yes, Bobby, that's the problem in a nutshell.

oh so like they’re literally ALL in those files

A very significant vote. The $75 billion can be taken away; this marks a clear vote by the Democratic caucus to do so.

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