Congrats to the scammer who texted me a fake court order to pay overdue parking fines in NYC when I don’t own a car and haven’t lived there in 7.5 years. Nailed it, buddy.

Delusional

From last night: Minnesota Still Cleaning Up after Pam Bondi's Trophy Stunt emptywheel.net/2026/04/18/m...

Wright. Your name was just added to the Hague list

Chris Wright: "I think we've managed it fantastically. Here we are in the middle of the largest interruption in flow of energy ever, and gasoline prices peaked a week ago about a dollar below the peak during the Biden administration."

lol -- Trump is sending JD Vance on another humiliation tour in Pakistan

Chris Wright says the pause on sanctions on Russia oil was extended because "bankers around the world were making pleas. 'Hey, we want to keep energy prices down. Just help us.' All that Russian oil goes to China anyway."

Also, 6) growing addiction to snuff films.

Except they still depict him as a functional actor here. If this were anyone else it'd be a 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 story about how the President can't or won't focus on the war he started, which narrative might force the GOP to do something about it.

To me it seems bad that the press only knows how to cover authoritarianism through the frame of identification with the fascist father

Bc lots of people in Ireland talking about how the Posobiec brothers are stoking threats and unrest, here's a golden oldie from when Jack was trying to make then US Ambassador to Ukraine less safe. wayback.archive-it.org/org-982/2020...

One could liken this to Kissinger's "madman" theory of statecraft, except with an actual madman.

Expert psychologist Dr. John Gartner issues an apocalyptic warning. He confirms Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist in severe cognitive decline, acting purely on impulsive destructive thrills. His erratic behavior is dragging humanity to the brink of a global war.

No coincidence that Kash goes on Fox to claim he’s about to make arrests of people who supposedly rigged the 2020 election right after a story breaks that he has a serious drinking problem. A pattern of things like this every time Kash gets in trouble for his audience of one.

Why are we allowing the shittiest group of people ruin everything for the rest of us? #trumpforprison

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

I talked with Terry Moran about current events this week on Thinking Live. snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

Don’t vote for people behaving like Ramaswamy.

That’s the point — if we are aware of the scenarios and we are ready to mock and block, these stunts can be deterred or turned against Trump. One of them just failed hard in Hungary — because people were ready!

Arrogance to achievement ratio approaches infinity www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

This week I talked with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on Thinking Live about the Iran War and the Russo-Ukraine War. snyder.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

3/3. It’s hard for Trump to end a war when Putin is making so much money from it.

2/3. The biggest example of profiteering is of course the person Trump openly adores — Putin, from oil prices and the lifting of sanctions.

1/3. And this is one more reason the war goes on in some form — people close to Trump are making money from it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

On just one night this week, Russia sent nearly 700 drones & dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the 5th year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense & more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help save lives.

A step away from asking the Russians to investigate their own influence operations in the US. The guiding principle of Trump policy is that Russian ops are good because they support him personally. The guiding principle of Russian policy is that Trump is good because he wrecks the US & helps Russia.

Leaving out that crucial fact allows the reader to miss the way this echoes prior authoritarian "investigate the investigator" moves as well as the fundamentally Orwellian character of this. (3/3)

including a Senate investigation, the Mueller report, multiple intelligence investigations, multiple reportorial investigations in the US and elsewhere, and multiple books. (2/3)

Worth adding that Russia did as a matter of fact intervene for Trump in 2016 and that the evidence is widely known, abundant, and collected in various forms (🧵 1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Salute to an all-time tweet

Is he bragging about a spike in terrorist attack plots?

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

Wonder what the State Department’s genocide lawyer does these days.

I think you have to be drunk to use logic this poorly

Lindsay is doing the best analysis I've seen of the back and forth on talks. This is from the middle of one of her threads. I don't know what it will take to make Trump get serious. Probably a major market crash. But he'll announce something tonight and his marks in the market will do his bidding.

An American from Utah killed her husband.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup. Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires. It's a disgrace.

Time for Mamdani and Obama to go to a baseball game with the Pope. Let’s just blow this whole thing wide open.

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

Watched Maria Bartiromo’s interview of Kash this morning. That felt a whole lot like Sen. John Kennedy’s questioning of Kristi Noem right before she was fired. It seems like Trump uses proxies to lay the groundwork for it so he can claim firings aren’t in response to “fake news”.

Donald Trump posted dozens of late-night, incoherent messages about the 2020 election while tensions with Iran escalated. Serious questions about his mental state continue to grow.

What a surprise.

You can call it a hoax. You can call it a staged event. But mostly you can call it the workings of a sick, demented man.

Liar

Liar. It won't save your job. Check in to a rehab

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/