Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication --- Cruelty is the point. Always has been.

News and culture is very rapidly being dominated by administration-aligned companies. It's actually astonishing how fast this has happened. And it's not stopping. Today will be a significant detail in the many, many textbooks that will be written about the era I fear we're still at the start of.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

So what major news sources remain outside the grasp of malign oligarchs? ABC? NBC? I get ever more news from non-US sources. We've got to get rid of the oligarchs and consolidated power and rebuild. I doubt we'll be restored as a nation in my lifetime.

There have been a lot of "leftists should give up on voting devote themselves to destroying Democrats" posts of late. I used to post comments on them saying they were bad faith agitprop. Now I find I'm still being served these posts but these "leftists" have already banned me. Maybe it was working

I’m shocked he’s even aware there is a SOTU. Apparently, he has zero staff to keep him informed of anything.

The people who are withholding federal funds from blue states and killing citizens with ICE say we can't acknowledge the existence of slavery/lynching/the Trail of Tears/Stonewall/trans people/etc/etc because that would be divisive.

If another country suspects that Americans have drugs on their boat are they allowed to blow it up and kill everyone too, or are only we allowed to do that?

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

For Republicans, "divisive narrative" means anything that suggests conservatives don't deserve cultural dominance. They LOVE division. Divisiveness is their bag. Fight the internal enemies etc. But even more they love forcing their enemies to cower. It unshrivels their balls. wapo.st/4se1k2N

> Should Europe envy the United States for its tech sector? No. Aside from the fact that Europeans are living well, tech generates a big negative externality, because among other things it generates tech-bro billionaires, who are corrupting our politics. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Horrific. Fuck all the imperialists. bsky.app/profile/theg...

Side note: if someone is shot in the head, is it ever non-violent? How did we ever manage to elect this stable genius? bsky.app/profile/drha...

Very much this: The first time could be written off as an erroneous and unfortunate fluke...

“Del Bigtree told me he wants his teenage son to catch polio. Measles, too. He’s considered driving his unvaccinated family to South Carolina, which is in the midst of a historic outbreak, so that they can all be exposed… He’s more than anti-vaccine: He’s pro-infection.”

Bookmarking this one for the next time some deluded leftist or clear-eyed "leftist" trots out Assange as a leftist hero and martyr. bsky.app/profile/muel...

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

A good take on the "men are lonely and angry so we must accommodate them" movement www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

Oderint dum metuant. Our new Latin slogan. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

> the culture of impunity didn’t simply benefit Donald Trump: it was his business model. > ... John Roberts and the rest of the corrupt Court majority have taken it upon themselves to fabricate this impunity into the Constitution itself. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/donal...

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

He might have that "killing everybody" part right. First honest thing he ever said. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Resistance is joyful. Fascism is bleak and horrible—even for those at the top.

Johnson is gifting us with a new drinking game. bsky.app/profile/atru...

He's not as enthusiastic about the imaginary kissing. We'd be so much better off if all the conservative men who need to could come out of the closet. newrepublic.com/post/206896/... via @newrepublic.com

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

> This is a betrayal of everything America used to stand for. We’re witnessing a war between freedom and tyranny, between an imperfect but decent government and a monstrous mass murderer — and the U.S. government is de facto backing the tyrannical monster. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Trump is no longer Putin's useful idiot. He's just an idiot. I wish I could be more of a bystander and less a victim of the coming idiots' slap fight. bsky.app/profile/altn...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

This country is under some kind of wizard's curse where every 50 years there's a crisis that reminds everyone why it's bad for a small gang of obscenely rich assholes to control everything, and we go ohhh and then we all immediately forget again

Supreme Court: tariffs are illegal President of the United States: I will impose more tariffs. So if the President can ignore SCOTUS rulings does this mean the rest of us can?

Also, the current republican platform is literally a bizarro Ten Commandments. Murder who ever, steal whatever, lie as much as you want, covet everything, worship a false idol, etc. So this is actually at odds with what the Christian right is preaching daily and what they need their soldiers to do.

How About That, Pam........

The only question left by the Supreme Court decision on tariffs is: What the fuck is wrong with Thomas, Alito, and Kavenaugh? The Constitution could not say more clearly that only Congress has the power to impose taxes. Can't those three justices umderstand a simple, direct English sentence?

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

> The Court is corrupt. There’s no future for the America republic without thoroughly reforming it ... Today’s decision is simply one of those cases where the Constitution happens to coincide with the Court’s partial and illegitimate self-interest. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Wondering if any republicans in Congress who flipped out when Clinton and Lynch ran into each other, or wouldn’t shut up about Jack Smith “conspiring” with Biden, would have anything to say about this shit.

I can only speak for myself, oh, yeah, and MILLIONS of Americans, and BILLIONS of actual human beings when I say that Donold trump rapes children, and as of * checks watch February 20, 2026 has not yet been arrested for child RAPE. How about Congress grow a set and make this happen TODAY?

> If the law is on hiatus, that doesn’t mean it’s gone. ... There are countless corrupt deals, corrupt mergers, cash payoffs and more that an opposition Congress needs to get to the bottom of. It’s essential. It’s just. It’s absolutely necessary. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ceos-...

New from me: What do Jeff Bezos, Bari Weiss, and RFK Jr. have in common? Each has used the trust trap: they bemoan a loss in institutional legitimacy as a justification for radical actions that further undercut trust in their institutions. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

"The people who have benefited most should pay the most" is actually a fantastic principle.

If a member of your family in the US military gets killed in Iran soon, you can console yourself by knowing that they died to distract from their Commander-in-Chief's pedophilia.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

I've been seeing a lot of people disparaging democracy as a failure. It has not failed us. We however as a nation have been failing it. For it to succeed, it needs an engaged and informed populace. Which is why those who want power but not responsibility, attack Free speech and public education

The UK arresting Andrew. South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life. John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.

John Roberts will go down in history as one of the worst Americans. Trump and the Epstein class are anthrax to the country. Roberts is the person who mailed them to us. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...