There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

It's wild that you can have someone like Kaitlan Collins who came up working for Tucker Carlson at the Daily Caller and Republicans will still be like, "Yep, look at this awful, horrible, corrupt leftist media!"

JACOBS: I have one last question for you. Who won the 2020 presidential election? MARCO RUBIO: I'm not here to answer about 2020 JACOBS: It seems like you have an issue admitting facts, just like you couldn't admit the shoes the president bought you were too big RUBIO: The florsheims fit fine

Randomly remembered this gem from Reddit

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

Additionally, the USPS is now working to implement the rule that would prevent voters not appearing on Trump’s list from receiving ballots in the mail. 3/ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Staging these sites under the EOP & circumventing fedramp means we can’t see who’s doing what, who’s writing the code, etc - things required for govt sites. This is scary stuff. They could fabricate voter registration fraud and use it to throw out votes, for example, and we couldn’t check it. END/

On multiple levels.

I just watched that whole interview again - the mayor is full of 💩.

It's not hard to figure out how we got here.

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

I’ve followed this story for its absurdity and as an illustration of how police lie and bully the public they are supposed to protect. Only after national media attention do they withdraw a case of accusing a woman of something she can’t possibly have done… cbs12.com/news/local/f...

“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

I am tired of Democratic senators warning me that all of Trump’s judges will dangerous “MAGA loyalists,” and then dutifully voting to confirm some of them anyway. Completely unserious people. Do your jobs or stop talking about it.

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

BURN IT DOWN, BURN IT ALL DOWN

FETTERMAN CONFRONTED: “I’m a breast cancer survivor, I had a double mastectomy, and the Trump administration took my health care away… And you’re standing with him.” Fetterman can barely talk. Painful to watch as usual.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

This is how the Israeli minister Ben-Gvir is treating the European hostages Israel kidnapped in International Waters. Where is the outrage? Our Media and Politicians are owned, get them OUT.

A true fact about Trump's stock trading- I ran the numbers and Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026. All 535 Members of Congress made a total of ~$635 million worth of trades in 2025. So Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did last year

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

If you stand behind Trump next to Mehmet Oz and RFK Jr for a photo op, you are choosing to write the narrative that you are part of this group. That's a hell of a choice, @mcuban.bsky.social 😳

TRUMP: Routinely falls asleep on camera, has unexplained injuries on his makeup-caked hands, regularly makes genocidal threats, posts nonstop AI slop, compares himself to Christ, goes on unhinged rants every time he appears in public THE ATLANTIC: "He's becoming purer"

When life imitates parody:

Burchett followed this statement by saying eating hot dogs at the ballgame was "kinda gay"

It is exhausting trying to explain to the purists that the Democrats do not have to win MAGA voters in rural red states. They just have to peel off single-digit changes among indies, and get some of their own centrist voters to come back to the fold.

Every time you drink out of a straw you’re giving a tiny blowjob

Republican guys have some serious problems.

Hey, trumpers...this is what you voted for.

Urgent thread. The Makoka boys are sharing truth through @nickjudin.bsky.social; up last night. Must-read.

This is what they think they got on AOC. Century-level high on your own supply right now. Those court decisions got them juiced.

Joe always sounds like he's about to bust out laughing at these fools.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

"It's not a golden idol forbidden by the Lord because we're not in a cult, y'all!"

ALERT: The Trump regime just got caught trying to hide bury five taxpayer-funded studies proving vaccines are safe because it would infuriate their base. We have the proof they didn't want you to see. Read it here: 👉 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-regime...

You wouldn’t marry someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t be friends with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t do business with someone who lied to you like this. You wouldn’t work for someone who lied to u like this. You’d want nothing to do with someone who lied to u like this.

SCALISE: We've delivered. Remember that 2 years ago, we were paying almost $6 a gallon. Right now it's in the $3s KERNEN: When were we paying $6? SCALISE: 2.5 years ago K: That's not right S: We are lowering inflation K: We're actually above where we were then. 2 years ago the average was $3.65

Debt is good. Savings are bad.

See this over and over over with conservatives: They don't believe problems are real until the problem impacts them personally. Then they're like, "wow, how come nobody ever told me??"

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

Gary Chambers delivering a masterclass in how to talk to Republican lawmakers

It’s certainly not important— is it?— that the man with the nuclear codes be able to tell the difference between one country and another, or between one war and another? MAGA doesn’t mind because none of them know the difference between Ukraine and Iran, either.

That Trump continues to believe acing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (a 10-minute screening test most commonly used for diagnosing dementia) is a significant accomplishment is damning indictment of his actual intelligence.

NEW: She's from Colombia, where she was a victim of torture. The United States tried repeatedly to deport her to places like Mexico, where she has no ties. And now they've succeeded in deporting her—to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-deport...

This travesty demands a congressional inquiry and the ouster of Kash Patel. His willingness to pervert justice in the name of loyalty to one man and his sheer, mind-boggling incompetence are serious threats to American freedom and democracy.

To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

Hegseth is so out of control that even the House Republican committee chair is telling him to calm down