People are urging participants in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to wear pro-1st Amendment pocket squares or take a bathroom break when “guest of honor” Trump speaks. I have a better idea: Cancel the damn dinner.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Based on this story’s excerpts I have no idea what he even means in a practical sense. That people should just be left alone to be as greedy and corrupt as they want, and a majority cannot elect a government to help the poor and oppressed? Just say it, Clarence. abcnews.com/Politics/sup...

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

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"

I really hate how fucking frequently US news media uses "feud" as a descriptor for Trumps attacks on others, implying a mutuality that isnt actually there. The Pope isnt in a "feud" w Trump. He is speaking out against war & for peace, as all Popes do. Trump has decided to take that personally.

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”

But Hunter Biden sat on a board and sold some paintings.

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Seems like an exaggeration and yet

Forget about the attire. No one with an ounce of self respect should show up.

You can’t ban conversion therapy, which increases risk of suicide. But you can ban gender affirming care, which decreases risk of suicide. It’s almost like, and hear me out, they want people that they don’t think should exist to…not exist. Hell, if it does exist, will be cozier than they deserve.

Beautifully written portrait of ignorant leaders at war. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

The Art of the Deal

This is quite a list.

Remember how easy he said everything would be? Because everyone else was so stupid and he was so smart? I’m not sure he does.

Thou shalt not demand respect for your dead racist podcaster whilst mocking the deaths of everyone else.

"The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." www.theguardian.com/world/commen... I never thought I would live through that. But here I am.

The dementia-ravaged president is increasingly spewing nonsense and acting erratically, with dangerous consequences for the entire world and it seems like that really should be all we're talking about.

1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people. This time, it comes from Jesse Singal. I fact check it in my latest piece. End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue. Subscribe to support our journalism.

How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

The good part of war is blowing up elementary schools full of young girls and leaving sailors to drown after torpedoing their unarmed ship. To this administration, that stuff is porn.

They're still lying on the website: www.foxnews.com/video/639055...

This is what fascism looks like. 😳👇

If I had to guess the three people Trump trusts the most, they would be Stephen Miller, Netanyahu, and Laura Loomer. Heck of a crew.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

CNN put together a video illustrating that while Trump regime officials keep describing the Iran strikes as a "war," Republican members of Congress are using all sorts of euphemisms

The NYT style guide

Short 🧵 1) Stories of this category have *entirely* outlived their usefulness. "Insights" are pre-determined by tiny group you choose. Could find any six people to say the exact opposite. Could find any group to to make this case "smartly," or stupidly. Then sold as "Do voters agree?" But wait..

Iraq war was started on a presidential lie but it feel like somehow the Iran war was started on something worse: a total presidential failure to comprehend even the most basic facts of the situation

In other words, Trump is clearly out of touch with reality, but the media have to pretend he is making sense.

Statement from Major General (Ret.) Paul D. Eaton, an Army commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom:

I guess this is making a comeback here? Or maybe it has always been thus.

If you received all of your news as a regular reader of a national newspaper or a viewer of a major news telecast, would you understand the United States is no longer a functioning democracy? I don’t think so. And most people are not even engaged with real news at a basic level. 1/3

When he calls it a hoax, what does he mean? That Epstein and Maxwell were innocent? That the prosecution and her guilty plea were illegitimate? That he never knew him or flew on his plane? That the suicide was faked? That the girls were all consenting adults? What is he even denying?

📌Yes, this Ellison takeover of CNN is dangerous as hell, but also why that damn station should have treated a possible Trump second term as a national emergency. Instead, they shoved amateur "both sides" journalism down our throats.

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Do the New York Times’ editors have any awareness of how badly they’re failing this country? They write a whole story about how Trump is trying to rig the midterms and then they call the Democrats’ fears that he’s trying to rig the midterms “downright alarmist.” What the hell are they doing? 1/4🧵

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting. She had some things she needed to get off her chest

I’m sorry. But what do you call it again when a president ignores court rulings?

Addendum: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy, 2) Whatever goes upon four legs/wings is a friend, 3) No animal shall wear clothes, 4) No animal shall sleep in a bed, 5) No animal shall drink alcohol, 6) No animal shall kill any other animal, and 7) All animals are equal.

I don’t understand why CBS lawyers warned Colbert would violate the FCC equal time rule by interviewing Talarico. Couldn’t the show eventually have on his opponents? Why would equal time preclude having on a specific candidate? Time still flows in a forward direction, right? Or has that also broken?

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

So many countries reminding the USA of all the things the USA is supposed to be…

Prince Andrew arrested and South Korean ex-president sentenced to life in prison. See? Was that so hard?