Rich people actually like paying a lot of money for things so other people know how rich they are. Status sell.

What are we doing here?

“I called Trump to ask about having a man who says such things in charge of federal disaster response, Trump asked ‘what does teleport mean’ and ‘was he kidding?’ Adding, ‘It just sounds a little strange, but I know nothing about teleporting or him.’”

Someone compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about Calvin’s polls of his Dad, which is proof that good people do exist on the internet imgur.com/a/poll-resul...

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I kept waiting for the audience laughter at the end only to realize this wasn’t an SNL fake C-SPAN voiceover

What the people around trump need to grasp that yes in fact they do have the power and the prerogative to remove him from office Screw your courage to the sticking place people. Without you propping him up, he is nothing.

Trump Has Found God. It’s Him. The president’s messianic rhetoric has soared since the assassination attempt. Another great piece from the super awesome @michaelkruse.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A whole two minesweepers! We are saved!

Schrodinger’s Blockade

I’m sure there’s a good explanation. Sure of it.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

I'm a protestant, so I disagree with Catholics on the extent of the Pope's authority (he is the RCC's Bishop of Rome). But I firmly believe that Pope Leo is a faithful servant of Jesus Christ. I've never heard him preach anything but Gospel truth. trump's just a penny ante thug who failed upwards.

“‘I genuinely believe Trump is currently demon possessed,’ far-right Texas pastor Joel Webbon asserted before hosting a livestream where he and others debated a simple question: ‘Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ?’” 4/13/26 … 1/ www.alternet.org/Bank/trump-p...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yz... New Angine de Poitrine live, from yesterday

Stolen valor

President Pezeshkian of Iran posted a statement on X in English and Persian condemning Trump’s insults to the Pope and his “desecration” of Jesus and tagged the Pope. In his Persian post, he used the honorific “peace be upon him” after the name of Jesus. (Jesus is revered in Islam as a prophet.)

exhausted historian of christianity screaming into the void, once again: christianity has never been apolitical. to wit: jesus was executed by the roman state.

chat is it bad to anger the Knights Templar? lmao

When evangelicals talk like this, they are projecting their belief that they alone have direct access to “the throne of grace” and God doesn’t listen to the prayers of people who believe differently. It’s a spiritual humblebrag. The believe their prayers clearly moved God’s hand.

This almost makes me want to believe in reincarnation and the possibility that Doug Wilson gets to experience his philosophy from the other side next go round

Thiel is among the top ten people who are more than likely to be the actual anti-christ

Somebody’s going for it.

There is no human I wouldn’t cut out of my life if they were credibly accused of what Swalwell is credibly accused of. Not one. So why would I want him making laws. Bye bitch.

This is funny given all the right-wing critiques of the temporal bounds on the JCPOA

Via discovery phase and testimony from the humanities grant lawsuit. gift article wapo.st/4cjuZRN

evangelicals eagerly, gleefully pretended not to see the myriad ways trump is the most heretical politician to hold american higher office in modern history so i don't think we should take their outrage as sincere now that they need a way out of his sinking coalition

Get one for your favorite evangelical today!

At this point, I feel it incumbent to point out that Substack was started by the guys behind Kik, a "private direct messaging" app which became known as the Internet's #1 app for child predators due to its complete lack of safeguards: www.bbc.com/news/uk-4556...

can u spot my eliminated job’s salary in her lips

Oh I remember. Narcissists love to play dress up

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Plausible.

Trump just pardoned a guy who stole $39 million from elderly people. Thanks to Arkansas, he’ll spend at least a little more of his sentence behind bars arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Pollute what?

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

*SWALWELL RESIGNS FROM CONGRESS

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I don't think my day can recover from "I thought it was me as a doctor." Let's call it a wrap.

This is why unions exist and should be allowed to exist.

Not a good look for that puff piece on Lauren Sanchez to be circulating at the same time. Wow.

Sid Krofft, Producer and Creator of 'H.R. Pufnstuf,' 'Land of the Lost,' Dies at 96 - Variety apple.news/ALCqplegYQg6...

An absolutely baffling time to be an historian of apocalyptic thought. Like my man is just straight up doing Antichrist stuff and I am meant to be normal???

Sending care and love to every victim. May they be supported and cared for people who believe them.

Everything about this is classic DARVO

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare