Donald Trump is not in any meaningful aspect the president. He's part of a coalition of the worst and dumbest people of all time, and we don't know who is making the decisions at any given time.

I really love this legacy media environment in which I'm asked to pay $20/month to support traditional newspapers and then asked to spend another $29.99 for a supposedly essential book written by two reporters who could have already published that information in said traditional newspaper.

It’s great how this administration has hired people to create explicitly white nationalist propaganda for them, and then simply mentioning this fact in a classroom can get you fired.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it’s OK for white people to say the N-word, there wasn’t a case or anything they just went ahead and ruled it

The Manhattan Institute is probably America’s most flagrantly racist “respectable” think tank.

Jesus Christ

tucker carlson is lying, he will vote gop up and down his ballot, he will use his platform to promote republicans and he will use this “break” with the gop to lend false credibility to his future endorsements

Hugh Hewitt, 5/27: "What I appreciate is the president said he's not caring about the midterms... he's putting the national security ahead of gas prices.” Hewitt 6/18: Trump decided "weeks ago" to prioritize midterms, which is "critical to the national security" www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/new...

What a wild lie from Musk as well, given that USAID funding was completely halted virtually everywhere, and this was extremely publicly reported.

Dave McCormick sent out a search party and after a few days they found a "folk" who supports Trump's actions in Iran.

When Republican senators like John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy become lame ducks and suddenly start telling the truth about Trump, it exposes the culture of cowardly silence that dominates the Republican Party.

Long term thinking is hard.

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

The success of the US women's soccer team has been spectacular and the fact it's still not being acknowledged alongside the men's soccer team is outrageous All of these people speaking about "first time the US has a chance" babe, the US has won 4 times, you just don't see women as people

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

She begged me for a picture!

People struggling to pay bills are cheering on the president and his allies become richer at their expense. All because he claims to hate the same people they do. Culture war is powerful, and awful.

Like most things Trump touches, the Reflecting Pool is now in worse shape than before. Adding cosmetic paint did not solve the underlying problem. And now he baselessly blames vandals for his failure. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With dozens of self-inflicted crises on his hands, all Donald Trump wanted to talk about was his plan to renovate the reflecting pool, a topic literally no one gave a shit about. And now that he's fucked that up, his cult members are complaining that people are talking about his big project.

Somewhere a historian just sat upright in bed after hearing the words "signed" and "Versailles" in the same sentence.

Musk is possibly the most dangerous & evil man alive, though the competition is stiff these days. Yet unlike many of his rivals for that cursed crown, he controls no armies, has no nuclear deterrent, & his power is intensely vulnerable to political intervention.

This Anthropic/White House spat is funny. Anthropic spent months declaring that its model is so powerful at finding bugs it threatens the world's digital infrastructure. The WH says OK it's banned then Now Anthropic and its allies have to say actually you know it isn't "uniquely good" at that stuff

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Whoa, so like... Iran WON won.

The funniest thing about the reflecting pool fiasco is nobody would have noticed if Trump didn’t insist on doing a preemptive victory lap.

He’s right

Epstein in 2011: “that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him”

Our present situation makes much more sense when we recall what proudly bigoted trolls many College Republicans were in the 1980s.

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

As a historian, I approve this message

all the ‘lmao trump is gay’ stuff would be such rank, hack homophobia if he didn’t seem so hellbent on proving it true

The Fucked up world we live in..

Remember that as bridges collapse and kids go hungry here.

I fell like we just let that couple of weeks where Trump repeatedly praised the “late great Hannibal Lector” slide.

So I drank the algae from the Reflecting Pool and now I can hear the color strawberry

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

THE COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST DREW THE MOMENT THEY REALIZED THEY FORGOT LUIGI

Promise made, promise kept

But this is why I am losing my shit! Most Americans are great and the ideal of America is great! Why are so many Americans letting these fucking Nazi freaks who look like shit and smell even worse define what American is for all of us??

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

This is at Dartmouth College, where our president cut a deal with Anthropic--which stole the books of 133 faculty--without faculty consultation. Soon, there'll be a Claude for every student. They're already there. They feel like there's no escaping it. & they don't like it.

github.com/nzaki-dev/di... Some surprising names here. And some not so surprising.

One thing I find intensely annoying is when pundits blithely assert things about the world that are obviously false. Bush was below 50% way before Katrina! He barely won reelection! Where on the chart do you think Katrina happened?

Fucking Metal Gear Solid 2-ass plot here.

Someday I’ll be sitting at the old man table in McDonald’s at breakfast. But not today.