Reading John Phelan's bio in the wake of his departure, it seems his main qualification was he was Trump's generous neighbor. I'm sure making someone so unqualified Secretary of Navy was a scandal at the time of his appointment, but I probably forgot it due to the crush of outrages.

For those not paying attention, this is new. For those paying attention, this is what LOTS of elected Democrats have been saying for years. I'm thinking of AOC. Point is, great message. We need to spread the world. The only problem is Platner himself.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil. www.wired.com/story/palant...

The Epstein crisis is escalating. Reports say Ghislaine Maxwell may be seeking a pardon as lawmakers demand answers from the DOJ over missing files and unanswered subpoenas. This isn't going away.

Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. An elderly convict who regularly shits himself in public says it's open. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.

Shared 👇 comment: 🤔 He staged it and let someone else bite the bullet. 😡 #tRumpLied

The Trump family turned the right's "Biden Crime Family" bullshit into a business plan. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Trump’s Failed, Illegal War Is Breaking His Presidency, And The Republican Party Too - Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg #democracy#trump administration#republican party#society

I have legit lost my voice from doing an Alex Jones impression once an hour or so for the last three days. Nobody hates this man more than his own larynx.

Hilarious posturing. Oh did the Democrats finally turn up to the gun fight with a knife? Mercy mercy, when did this all get so violent, lands lands.

The wildest part of articles like this (to me) is that they never consider that these tools don't have to "work" technologically in order to "work" as tools of oppression and fear. Facial recognition and ICE databases are notoriously flawed, but still deployed and used to justify arrests.

This is your reminder that it's been ten months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog, and there hasn't been even a hint of justice for her family, friends or colleagues.

One reason I respect Victor Glover, the Black pilot of the Artemis II mission, is because he said he listened to this song on the weekly to help keep things in perspective and remind himself why other Americans might not see the value of the mission the same way he did.

The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline. The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.

the liz cheney who hated gay people so much when her sister got married to a woman she called her out publicly on it

also not for nothing but liz cheney does have a deeply personal beef with trump its not like she decided to campaign with harris out of the goodness of her heart

"She didn't have to make any changes to her platform to get Liz Cheney's support."

"Erm, she didn't have to change anything about her platform to get Liz Cheney and a bunch of Bush-era Republicans on board!" So close to understanding why the left wasn't super duper thrilled about what she ran on. So close.

"No, no, no, Cheney said she disagreed with Harris on policy!" I'll be real: the ideal politician is someone who makes people on the hard-right like Liz Cheney scared that all the work she put into government would be washed away and replaced with something better.

A post and friendly reminder from last year.

George Washington LITERALLY would not have won the Revolutionary War had he not vaccinated the troops against smallpox. Meanwhile, this idiot: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

dershowitz in disarray

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "We're on the cusp of bringing back land-based supersonic flight. So supersonic flight from LA to New York in two and a half hours. Wild."

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

Her platform already being palatable to someone as far right as Liz Cheney is not making the point you think it's making.

Doesn't look like agreeing to Trump's absurd demand for an end to edited interviews got you much, CBS. Maybe next time choose *not* to get extorted?

"This is an important thing to think about."

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

My phone screen time report feels less like data and more like a digital nanny who keeps clearing her throat.

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

A senior Iranian official says vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz will still be required to pay tolls to the IRGC

WAHLBERG: Mr Secretary, thank you for being here RFK Jr: *gets up to leave* WAHLBERG: I just want to make a few statements RFK Jr: I've gotta step out *leaves*

Nobody declares victory after losses more often or as loudly as Donald Trump.

BREAKING: I just got President Trump on the phone. He said his farts smell like roses today, everybody at the Trump hotel is coming up to him w/ tears in their eyes crying "Sir!", & Iran just agreed to become the 51st state w/ Don Jr as governor. Then the call ended. (Satire but you follow me ... )

Rep. Adelita Grijalva to RFK: "I was reading an article this morning that talked about your affinity to perform your own medical research. You apparently once cut the penis off a roadkill raccoon to study them later."

put this in ads against every R senator who's running this year and voted for this monster

Giant body of Christ wafer is one of my favorite things about Catholicism

Look, the only person sucking off the US government is Laura Loomer

Rep. Casar: Have you met with any of the 1.4 million people who have lost their health insurance just this last year from dropping off of Obamacare? Kennedy: They’re almost all illegal immigrants.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

It's such a strange, childish approach to politics: no matter what is happening, how much abuse of power or exploitation, for Klein & others, the answer is always "why can't we all get along?" Neville Chamberlain killed off those tendencies in the UK with "Peace in our time," but the US keeps it up.

Reminds me of this excellent analysis of Ezra Klein's liberalism from @andyelrick.bsky.social. All Klein really wants is a politics without conflict or friction of any kind. badfaithtimes.com/ezra-klein-i...

Kleinian liberalism says we must accept the terms of the right and legitimize their worldview, however wretched and unjust. That’s just not the case. Too much West Wing honestly.