The media: “Iran/Lebanon ceasefires hold despite no parties ceasing fire.”

I hate it, I absolutely hate it, but we need blue states to reciprocate in kind. We can fix this shit later but not if the election is rigged for Republicans.

EMERGENCY UPDATE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exu1...

It’s probably bad that our president thinks a cognitive test is an IQ test, and worse that he thinks he got a perfect score on a cognitive test he thought was an IQ test

I've never listened to Pod Save American before but I kept hearing about their interview with Ken Martin, the DNC Chair, whom I know nothing about. The focus of the interview was on the DNC's finances and his refusal to release their 2024 election "autopsy report." I listened and have some thoughts:

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

This is just brutal

It is incredibly wrong for Jimmy Kimmel to joke about my husband dying. It’s not like he’s Paul Pelosi or Rob and Michele Reiner. by Melania Trump

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

Eight children dead. The 114TH mass shooting THIS YEAR. www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/u...

What Israel is doing to Lebanon is not getting nearly enough attention.

God bless our brave, big-muscled ICE heroes who finally arrested this 86-year-old French menace. That will teach her for marrying an American servicember! www.npr.org/2026/04/16/g...

I remain convinced that one of the most important things the next Democratic president can do to avoid falling victim to a Biden-style vibecession is to mercilessly, relentlessly crack down on crypto and organized gambling. Just go full scorched-earth.

This is so well done. 👌

By efficaciously losing in Iran, Trump has put an end to America’s tradition of forever wars. by Marc Thiessen

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

Fuck ICE so fucking much. Abolish the agency, prosecute the lawless agents, and ensure every single goddamned one of them never has a role in government again.

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

The White House’s defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a “known leaker”, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired? And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?

DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”

What a fucking betrayal. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

What a crazy world we live in. The story of a sitting United States senator breaking the arm of a protesting United States Marine didn’t survive even one 24-hour cycle.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Mullin would be awful, as would almost certainly anyone else Trump nominated. But good fucking riddance to Noem all the same. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out as you storm off to execute a puppy.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

What’s that? Oh, must have been my fleeting respect and appreciation for the Capitol Police.

NEW: Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein (R) who prosecuted Tina Peters says Gov Jared Polis (D) giving Peters clemency "would be a gross injustice." Rubenstein points out that separate case cited by Polis to justify clemency misses the purpose of sentencing ranges.

Jesus. Does a single Colorado Democrat support Polis?

I am not at all familiar with Colorado politics, but a Democratic AG speaking out against their state's cowardly Democratic Governor takes some gumption. I like it. Weiser for Gov.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

But do NOT call it a war!

Cartoon by Tommy Siegel

We are not at war with Iran. We have always been at war with Iran. War is peace.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

> @covie93.bsky.social

“I am deeply concerned about Trump’s illegal strikes in Iran” say our brave Democratic leaders regarding our nation’s immoral and unjustified murders that jeopardize global order and stability and further cement our nation as the largest threat to global peace.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

I’m getting really fucking tired of living through history every few weeks.

US media is parroting Israel's BS talking points again of "preemptive strike." Nonsense. There's no evidence Iran was going to attack Israel. Will we ever learn? Nope.

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.