here's today's post: "Couchfuck McGee speaks to an empty arena. try not to laugh" — JD Vance lectures the Pope. hilarity ensues. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

A #GOP bullshit artist heys called out. Stefanik being the one in question

Democrats slam, Republicans defend Vought during testy House hearing: Three takeaways #TheHill

The system doesn’t reward competence. It exploits it. jasonjamesweiland.medium.com/i-ran-a-mill...

The fact that the man has not been removed from office and sent away for psychological treatment is proof positive that the #GOP in general is nuts. Governed by both #oligarchs and crazy #Evangelicals.

A win! John Eastman (the right-wing attorney who helped orchestrate Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election) has officially been disbarred by the California Supreme Court.

Increasing diversity in Canada's trade can only be a good thing. #Canada #Finland #MarkCarney www.winnipegsun.com/national-new...

AI oversight is a must. In the absence of Federal regulation, we cannot allow Congress to strip states of their power to regulate this technology. Protecting local authority is the only way to manage the risks effectively.

Russia Vought's evil being exposed

The historical irony here is bitter as hell #Israel #Palestine www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

Not all cries for help are loud. There’s a silent signal everyone should know. Thumb tucked. Fingers folded. It means “I need help” Share this please! You could be the one who sees her when she can’t say a word! #SheShed

I reiterate: #AbolishICE #ProsecuteICE. #ImpeachTrump #ProsecuteTrump

This is what got christian conservatives mad at trump. Not his cuts to the social safety net, not ICE kidnapping and killing people, not his killing of people of other nations. This says something about those people m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBKj...

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT

More consequences of the #Republicans being in power. Only the military and the already rich benefit from them being in power

NEW: Trump is trying to save his legacy by scrubbing from the record that his presidency culminated in a violent attempt to overturn an election on his behalf. But there is something even more sinister in that effort, because these are his soldiers and midterms are coming. Read & Subscribe 👇🏼

#AbolishICE #ProsecuteICE

I’m not a well-paid Dem strategist, just a rando nobody on bluesky, but seems to me it would be easy to turn Marshall’s statement into a simple, direct ad with the message that Trump and the Republican Party don’t give a flying fuck about American consumers, especially the ones who voted for Trump.

Tax Day 2026 How much wealthier did the richest men in America get last year? Musk ⬆️$305 billion Page ⬆️$101 billion Ellison ⬆️$36 billion Bezos ⬆️$8.5 billion Brin ⬆️$88.1 billion (Trump ⬆️ $1.4B) The 98% struggled to afford healthcare, groceries, & rent. Trickle down economics is a lie. #TaxTheRich

This is in addition to the four women who came forward in the CNN article, and likely part of the reason Swalwell resigned yesterday.

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point

Religious privilege. Not just in the States. This ruling is bullshit. Those pilots are to be compensated because their airline gave a higher priority to public safety over personal religious views. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

As the guy says: #TaxTheRich. #TaxTheBillionaires Go back to the pre-1970 tax rates m.youtube.com/watch?v=Escq...

The source is shown in the video. Boycott #Amazon. #TaxTheRich #JeffBezos needs to be held to account. That manager also needs to be charged. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuJ2...

Typical #MAGA JD Vance accused the rest of Europe of interfering with Hungary's election. At least Orban's gone. Now to get rid of #Trump, #Vance and the rest of the #GOP m.youtube.com/shorts/6p3Kw...

Some damned good questions.

Bernie Sanders has the right idea when it comes to #Israel m.youtube.com/post/Ugkxjcg...

Once again: #TaxTheRich #TaxTheBillionaires

#DailyBeansPod ☕️ #MSWMedia Eric Swalwell steps down, Trump takes a legal hit, and the pushback is getting louder—from voters to Pope Leo Hosts: @muellershewrote.com & @dgcomedy.bsky.social Like, share & follow to support independent media. Listen: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/episodes/sto...

Now the trial needs to happen.

“What is it about Trump and [Putin]? And could it have any connection with Trump’s close friendship with deceased pedophile Epstein? … Over and over [Epstein’s ring] touches Russia… The most telling part is that Trump’s mind, asked about Epstein, immediately went to Russia.” @whitehouse.senate.gov

Never stop talking about #Epstein

This is what #FreeSpeech means for the #GOP and the conservatives. Free speech for them, suppression for everyone else.

Jon Ossoff: "In Donald Trump's America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #HealthcareNotWarfare

Heritage Foundation has always had the goal of creating a permanent underclass of overburdened low wage workers with no education, information, choice or recourse. Small wonder they eagerly betrayed their country and embraced Russia's Orban-modeling. #CheckYourVoterRegistration

@repstansbury.bsky.social reports that 2 individuals allege that Donald Trump raped them when they were minors. While we’re holding people accountable for alleged sexual crimes, let’s start with the pedo in chief. Don’t stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.

California! This is for you! Check it out. Please narrow this field Dems. We must end up with a dem gov!

This is how people like #Bezos become billionaires ##TaxTheRich m.youtube.com/shorts/jXzuh...

Why don't reporters carry copies of documents, then hand them to politicians who claim they haven't seen them?

Vought and the organization that devil belongs to, the #HeritageFoundation. also needs to go.

Meet Bishop Robert Barron (shown w/ Heritage president Kevin Roberts in 2023). Today, he wrote that he thinks Trump “owes the Pope an apology”, while gushing that it’s “been a high honor to serve on [Trump’s] Religious Liberty Commission” from which Barron gave no indication of resigning. 1/

Democrats didn’t start this fight, Republicans did. So why should we walk away? This is about fairness. Meanwhile, Republicans are still at it with racist mailers targeting the most consistent voting block, Black voters in Virginia, and they’re built on lies. #VoteYesVirginia

Too bad that #Netanyahu is still in power in #Israel Look at what they're doing in #Gaza. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260413-gaz...

Or, and hear me out, we break up #CAFOs and #BigAgra, and regulate the shit out of those corporations. #SheShed

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

This is the way. #Hungary #Magyar

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause*

"Now's the time to stay the course and never look back. Shoutout to the astronauts, bartenders, budtenders, do-gooders keeping love and hope alive in the middle of these crazy times.

all over the world, these guys are just exact xerox copies of each other. in this case, "istvan" is pronounced "JAYR-id"