To paraphrase Jane Coaston, this is why political junkies need to have sports in their lives. You don’t have to pretend everyone on your side is always the best at everything. It’s very normal to complain about your side and you are a weirdo if you refuse to

Apropos of nothing, nothing at all

FIFA did this? I'm afraid this is sullying the good name of their Peace Prize. For shame.

I know he wants to be president, but Pete Buttigieg would be the greatest press secretary in history. Absolutely the job he was born for.

the world was a better place back when these apolitical dipshits just kinda sat politics out instead of in 2024 when they all voted for Trump entirely based on vibes and then googled what tariffs are the day after the election

People who are still on Twitter don't think Nazi shit is a big deal.

Next edition of On War is gonna look like this

RE: the Pentagon meeting

Wonder who took control of the Truth account for this one

Someone forgot to check the old texts to see what abilities you get when you ascend to the office

They're negotiating with their political backers. It's a corruption of the public sector and decades of evidence suggest it should be done away with. Statutory just cause protections can replace them. Private sector is completely separate.

"How many divisions does the Pope have?"

Ruffini once QTd me because I missed some Virginia precinct data changes and basically said "this is why amateurs shouldn't do data analysis." It's funny to watch him squirm.

Yup

Trump doesn't understand soft power *at all* and the GOP has followed suit. That's probably the biggest problem the GOP has caused in the last 10 years, which is saying a lot.

My $.02: a "tolling" regime actually makes intuitive sense to Trump. I think if you got him rambling in a private conversation, he'd probably say "Why SHOULDN'T Iran charge a toll if they can?" It matches his worldview.

The end of free passage of the seas and the Pax Americana.

In hindsight, Trump allowing a foreign adversary to wet its beak as part of a protection racket seems fairly predictable.

Only Israeli politicians have agency. Poor dear trusting Donald Trump, how badly they have treated him.

Coward after coward asked “what’s the harm in humoring him?” and now here we are

"The President threatening massive war crimes in this illegal war that he initiated without legal authorization is an impeachable offense, and I urge my colleagues join me in demanding his resignation or supporting articles of impeachment if he refuses."

Dudes gonna dude. Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

Audio on to hear the full range of humanity - people excited, mystified, disinterested, and then the payoff of the pilot at the end.

I just want Hegseth to suffer after all this but he'll probably make millions working at Fox instead

I for one would love to see a decrease in demand for tickets, particularly in Philadelphia

This headline makes it seem like Jonathan tried to cheat folks with cryptocurrency. But he prefers the shell game.

This suggests bad prep by the administration. Gotta know Gorsuch will ask this.

I believe the polite term is "ladies of the evening"

Roberts? on the SG's argument that "birthright tourism" is a serious problem that should result in reinterpretation of the Constitution: "It's a new world, it's the same Constitution"

The wildest thing about Trump's disastrous war with Iran is that the Iranians never tried to control the Strait because they knew that the US-backed global order would stop them. Now that we've managed to fracture that order against us, they have exerted control that will be impossible to displace.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

I am going to disagree here, because I think that the species of economic regulation that Trump does--he loves to take ownership stakes in businesses--is pretty anathema to Republican dogma. Of course, if we just see that as part of the corruption, it is all a single story. So... Up to you.

I genuinely think the market manipulation is secondary to the president lacking object permanence

GEN. MATTIS: “.. Iran right now, if we declared victory, they would now say they own the strait. .. You’d see a tax for every ship that goes through. .. We’re in a tough spot, ladies and gentlemen. .. I can’t identify a lot of options.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

He's a caricature.

Lindsey Graham is a caricature.

Yeah, Jeet, I would like to see some reflection.

It would be better if presidential administrations were less ideological in general. The whig view of the president has a lot to recommend it.

Personal character in politicians is underrated. I don’t care that much we have the same opinions right now if your character is poor because 1. You will change your opinions as it benefits you 2. There’s a ton of stuff I don’t have opinions on that you need to make the right decisions for

Exactly right. Though I think that what often happens is that his counterparties end up having to bail him out b/c they decide it's in their interests, instead of letting him twist in the wind. That may not fly this time.

Keep digging in, Platner supporters! You're only embarrassing yourselves.

It’s small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but The Kennedy Center’s self-destruction—a two-year “renovation” to hide fleeing acts, empty calendars, and an Honors program rejected by major artists—is a fairly succinct encapsulation of Trump 2.0. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-day-and-...

This Administration hates our free society, and our free press in particular.

Looks like the pardon pen is coming back out!

Absolute must-read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

At no point in the Iraq War did anyone in the administration say anything like this bloodthirsty. The message was that we were going to free the Iraqis (thus Dick Cheney’s “we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators” line bsky.app/profile/laur...

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

Broke: stop anthropomorphizing LLMs Woke: name LLMs after women to make men more skeptical of their outputs

If someone is upset after all these years that a Democratic woman replaced the lecherous Al Franken, then it says something about their own character.