President Trump is a racist rapist who has us mired in a mindlessly stupid war. But Zohran Mamdani just raised taxes on the $12 million trophy condo I spend two weeks in each year. I have never felt more politically homeless.

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

you can get an M1 Air — still a very decent computer — for less than $400. incredible.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Learn whatever you want about "law," it doesn't matter because GOP Justices blew up the entire process of deciding cases based on chats with rich friends and stuff they watched on TV. That was the entire basis on which SCOTUS switched to the shadow docket.

Yup; another engine for right wingers to push their undemocratic agenda.

yeah it is critical that dems win the senate

Wow.

Despite the extreme and well-deserved unpopularity of the Catholic Church in recent decades, the fact that the pope acts like he’s not scared of Donald Trump and politely tells him to go fuck himself has made the pope very popular. I wonder if there is any lesson to learn from this.

Literally looting the treasury.

Never made sense.

Tells me anybody calling him a communist is probably a plutocrat defender who should be ignored.

Gotta admit, I was a bit taken aback Mamdani called out Ken Griffin in the video, but I think it was bait for the knee-jerk plutocrat defenders. “A small tax on non-primary residences valued at more than $5M? That’s what you’re crying about? Why am I taking you seriously?”

Trump is in Vegas. It's Wrestlemania weekend, also in Vegas. There's no way Trump dies in the ring at Wrestlemania. But we can't rule it out.

The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother Fills me with the urge to defecate

As a fellow 6’3” man, I concur.

Great job, DoorDash PR. Piss off all your users who hate fascism and still get thrown under the bus by the fascist. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Large parts of the business of keeping the US military fed were privatised to civilian contractors. And then last year DOGE started making cuts in those civilian contractors. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Oh. www.ft.com/content/5407...

Are these fascinated people all NYTimes writers?

Things do bad in Mamdani’s socialist hellhole that the millionaires are fleeing with just the golf clubs on their back

really does feel like we have a bunch of commentators who would like to just say “the bell curve was right”

Many other examples (eg, the Philippines pictured). In Sweden, speeding cameras don't just catch speeders, they also enter drivers going the proper speed into a lottery to win cash prizes funded by the traffic tickets. We should do the same with timely tax filers.

Again, every Democrat needs to brand their COLLEAGUES with this failure too. The Republican Party, from top to bottom, are giving adjudged terrorists the ability to rearm. The GOP is pro-terrorist and need to be called on it.

you get a lot of practice at this in music scenes where you, at best, get 10 minutes before a show to bullshit with a musician from another band and almost immediately forget who they were, but they’ll recognize you and vice versa 8 months later and you both pretend to remember who each other are

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

I mean, if you could get rid of your most obnoxious colleagues (and were so old you knew you wouldn't have to live with the consequences), why wouldn't you?

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

DHS launched a military attack on a Chicago apartment building bc the landlord wanted them to clear out migrant squatters. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

Wow. That could be amazing. I’ve driven through there a fair deal and it’s miserable.

I don’t remember the “sex god” bit, but I do have to keep reminding the young ones that Bush supporters deified him until they ditched him. Republicans love false idols.

- Crypto allowed to run wild with no regulation - Gambling everywhere - Bribery now celebrated - IRS, CFPB crippled Trump and the GOP have created a scam economy, where fraudsters face no consequences and regular people are nothing but marks. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

listen the evidence for “trump os the evangelical antichrist” is very strong bsky.app/profile/deac...

I gotta admit I’m going to laugh if it’s the Christ meme that gets the cabinet to enact the 25th amendment.

I’ve been trying to say this for years. And I think it’s too late. Antisemitism is spreading like wildfire on the right.

Again: a collapse like this doesn’t happen if it’s just because of anti-Semitism. This is because of the Israeli government & military’s actions, policies, and constant hectoring and mindnumbingly annoying public relations conduct, and how all of that scans to normal people bsky.app/profile/sahi...

I have a feeling he wasn’t that liked beforehand and people were seeking an opportunity to kick him to the curb.

This is not something I was familiar with.

so this is him admitting he is aware that everyone thinks he’s losing.

That is a good question. My guess is the media is having a hard time accepting Trump and team are a bunch incompetent idiots. “Did America really vote for this?” They’ve been doubting it could get this bad, and that Trump and his mouthbreather supporters are as stupid as they appear.

the reality of his war uncomfortably intruded on the carefully cultivated false reality he has created for himself and his supporters and he is desperately trying to reconstruct new boundaries for his false reality to prevent the actual reality of his loss from spilling in.

“SECRATARY”

Weird company bought my email.

And this is what really bugs me about Trump supporters… they don’t care how Trump’s genocidal threat totally soiled America’s reputation. It was just “negotiating” to them. They’re short-sighted fools and sociapaths… something we need to say louder.

Yep. There are immense costs to having a president make deranged genocidal threats even if he doesn't act on them. Including (as I try to argue in this piece) a deeply dispiriting toll on ordinary Americans' impressions about their own nation.

GO AWAY.

I don't think my working title "Impeachment Today, Impeachment Tomorrow, Impeachment Forever" is going to make it through editing. Also, it's good to have editors.

so far in hungary, Vance has stumped for a kleptocratic dictator, regurgitated putinist propaganda, and is now indulging the gutter racism of his hosts. it really is an unvarnished look at what the ideological character of the trump regime is.

anyway vance and his ilk sees the presence of any black (and most brown) people in elite or coveted spaces as on its face evidence of “anti white discrimination”