The only presidential assassination or serious attempt motivated by something recognizable as the president's mainstream, major party political opposition was Lincoln, if you debatably put it that way. Rest are either random crazies or else had fringe political motives (communist, anarchist, etc.)

Everyone in that room who reported on RFK Jr as a “vaccine skeptic” who is on one side of a genuine, organic debate helped build the world where someone put 500 bullet holes in the CDC building. They don’t deserve it, but they do have to live in the world they built with the rest of us.

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

Cunning plan

Nussmeier at the Chiefs could be a PROBLEM in a few years.

Letting the Dirty Birds draft him after this is literally a villain origin story. Dude is going to torture us for a generation.

Chillingly explicit blood and soil nationalism here

If you think AI surveillance cameras aimed at drivers’ faces is a good idea (no matter how well intentioned the justification), you are a naive fool. This data will be harvested, sold to fascists, and used to imprison activists. Oh, and car companies will 100% use it for ads you can’t turn off.

Sorry, but if you’re mad that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid informants to infiltrate Nazi groups to expose them, then you are a Nazi.

Either they didn't tell him or the addled old criminal forgot they told him.

I’m sorry, the Iranians used an F-5 *in combat* against US positions AND THE AIR DEFENSE DIDNT STOP IT??

Oh honey, you do not want me to run for office. I am an introverted, bisexual, atheist in rural Louisiana with a digital footprint more explicit than the oeuvre of John Waters. You’d have better luck electing the Ayatollah himself here.

They will literally never get over having a black president. It was their 9/11.

What cards, exactly? 🧐

Gennings Dunker to the Steelers!

Exhibit 6387543 for the axiom of modern politics: Democrats are held responsible for every insane thing said online by their most marginally attached supporters, but Republicans are never held responsible for the things they themselves say.

Congratulations, Senator Platner

lol lmao

The Access of Evil

The jokes write themselves.

White safety! #NFLdraft

Jordyn Tyson taking a knee in tears in the hallway walking up to be drafted in the first round by the Saints is quite a moment. #WhoDat

Putting aside the overt eugenics of thinking it's ok if people with pre-existing conditions die - this was not at all the case. If the data is not enough I personally know people who were cycling up mountains and now permanently struggle to breathe

The Pope is more likely to do a @whstancil.bsky.social ICE tracking ridealong tbh

i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.

I play a drinking game where every time Elon Musk confidently announces that his cars will soon drive by themselves I do a shot. I have been continuously drunk since 2013 and am also drunk right now.

We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview.

Do I love Hakeem now? 🥴

One of Biden’s few great failures

cc: #Uncommitted

Why are there no mock draft challenges like March Madness brackets? Put 32 names on a list, and if you get them all right, you win $1M. We should also go back and check analysts’ predictions on a recap show like Barkley drawing big Xs on a white board.

Old & busted: term limits for Congress New hotness: age limits for Congress

Priceless post from the official White House social media

"A new poll conducted April 10-14 finds 55% of U.S. adults say the House should vote to impeach Trump. 37% oppose, 8% are unsure. A surprising percentage of both Republicans and Trump’s own 2024 voters say they would support impeachment if a vote were held today." open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Ruby Bridges is 8 years younger than the President.

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW RESTORE DETTERENCE

Fun fact: the first gerrymander in U.S. history occurred in Virginia when Patrick Henry tried to draw James Madison out of his congressional district

I’m a broken record on this but Trump’s firewall from 2016-2025 was voter trust in his handling of the economy. Not MAGA culture wars. That firewall has now been breached, and his overall approval is sinking to unusual levels. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

bitch whet

Really just came right out and said it.

Who among us didn’t buy their cars from convicted child predators?

Flu vaccines aren’t about “freedom.” They’re about keeping troops healthy enough to do their jobs.

Seems bad.

PBS NewsHour has @davidjbier.bsky.social on to talk about Trump's push against legal immigration

Loving your wife and being a present father is libcoded at this point. The right increasingly valorize men indulging in all their self-destructive, base impulses at all times. It’s the ideology of people in the throes of addiction.