Christ! Why is MS Now featuring Mike Barnicle with his Eric Sevareid style retro pontificating?

Becca Balint is consistently awesome. But my first thought when watching this political master class was FUCK RUBEN GALLEGO. Balint is precisely the kind of woman Gallego demeans when he snorts that "hot girls" aren't Democrats. I was a founding donor for his campaign against Sinema, but fuck him.

Trump doubling down on his connection with 6'6" Jesus. But the idea of Trump accepting consolation from any figure human or divine is very "un-Trumpian." More likely Trump sees himself as firing Jesus and telling him that Trump was always Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sent to Make God Great Again.

After writing this, J. D. Vance got up to explain Hinduism to his Indian-American wife Usha.

www.rawstory.com/raw-investig... Trump's a natural born atheist if there's ever been one. I've been an atheist for fifty years and even I have more of a sense for religiosity and the miraculous than Trump.

My wife and I know what's going on with the NY Times and unsubscribed after the 2024 election. However, I didn't realize that Scott Bessent was such a major league dumbass.

www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-267... Given that both Vance and Rubio are likely to be extremely unpopular by that time, I wonder if some billionaire is going to swoop in for the GOP nomination in 2028.

LOL! This is the kind of anodyne BS that Trump was supposed to get away from. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump responded by putting out a Truth Social image of him punching the pope or bombing the Vatican.

Speaking of a very wealthy Nazi who should be subjected to tough regulation, having several of his companies seized, and be banned from international travel to promote fascism.

After eating his morning whopper, Trump tells an either bigger whopper to reporters.

Trump’s 2nd term is a smash and grab. He doesn’t care how much of America and the world that he destroys. He’s a convicted criminal taking all he can. It is an unprecedented crisis that will require massive democratic reforms and criminal prosecution for him and those who abetted his crimes.

The New York Times will wait till morning.

Not quite heresy. This speaks to the gap between Trump and Jesus in white evangelical Protestantism. Jesus is becoming foreign to white evangelicals whose religiosity lines up more with Trump than the New Testament. This picture shows Trump as the divinity of a successor religion to Christianity.

atlantablackstar.com/2026/04/11/t... Findings on the Epstein files have established 3 things in relation to Trump. 1. Trump is a rapist 2. Trump is a pedophile 3. Trump was involved in sex trafficking. After Pam Bondi's firing, Todd Blanche has taken over the Justice Department's cover-up for Trump

www.thedailybeast.com/eric-swalwel... Speaking of sorry, I'm sorry Eric but this doesn't cut it. Time to stop the campaign, give up your seat in Congress, surrender your law license, and walk quietly into that good night.

I have some suspicion that Trump is hanging Vance out to dry by sending him to the Iran negotiations. The people Trump trusts are Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and they're going to be watching Vance on Trump's behalf. Vance is going to be just as big a loser on Iran as Trump himself.

spectator.com/article/ye-k... Reads like a New York Times piece.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqI-... I don't think American culture has fully come to grips with the significance of taking down the row of Confederate statues in Richmond. At the very least because it represented the death of the "tragedy of the South" as a warm, nostalgic part of American history.

www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa... Hegseth did nothing to prepare U.S. facilities for Iranian retaliation. It's Hegseth's C student energy denying the need for careful planning, the loser's disbelief that he could fail AGAIN, and the mob guys faith in extortion as always the first choice of winners.

Last night I gave a talk at the Princeton Adult School on the legacies of the civil rights movement and the links to our world today. Just posted it on CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

Not sure the situation has changed much. The Iran War took another sliver off Trump's support and lowered his standing with Trump allies like Russia, but it's likely that Trump will continue to declare victory while plotting even worse to distract from the current defeat. Trump could

Trump's rejection of merit is closely tied to the integration of military leadership. That Black people, women, and LGBT folks can demonstrate merit and show leadership means that the idea of merit is wrong and repulsive to Trump and needs to be abandoned in favor of loyalty and barbarism.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... So Melania's getting a sex life out of Kristi Noem's firing. Good for her--takes some of the loneliness out of being married to Trump.

www.rawstory.com/trump-indian... The only real test for Trump's "stranglehold on the GOP" would be if Collins, Murkowski, and Tillis left the Republican Party.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y96... I thought Paul Rieckhoff made an important point today on MS NOW when he stated that the most important strategic objective of the United States is now to remove Donald Trump as president.

Totally tracks with Putin’s personality and behavioral profile that he would tell a world leader how how afraid he is…he’s been working on vulnerabiiity with his therapist

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Iran wins!

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

I'm a lot older than Ben Collins but today really does have a Cuban Missile Crisis kind of feel.

www.thedailybeast.com/caitlin-clar... Love Angel Reese and wish her well. She plays a feisty, tough-minded game, took on the Kaitlin Clark hype, and had the guts and credibility to force her way out of Chicago. One of my favorite athletes and a strong role model for Democratic politicians.

If you want to celebrate religious high holy days in the U.S., you're limited to non-Christian options. Trump's ranting makes sure that Christian holidays are all about Trump.

Far from being the "leader of the free world," Trump has turned the United States into a rogue super-power and sided with dictatorships like Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Gulf monarchies.

Trump: "If they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil.” Oil was always the goal. Trump's first idea was to decapitate Iran's leadership and create a vassal state that would give him their oil. Now, he threatens a more destructive extortion.

www.salon.com/2026/04/05/f... The only question about FEMA teleporter Greg Phillips is whether Trump is going to make him Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or head of NASA.

Agreed!

What was announced was that Todd Blanche is now in charge of the Trump/Epstein Cover-Up and that Blanche is going to do a better job of covering up Trump's rape of little girls than Bondi.

Famous Nazis have mothers too.

Publishing tip #6: Try to find an editor who actually edits, someone who will help you think hard, conceptually and structurally, about your project. Editing is increasingly a lost art as universities cut subsidies to their presses, but there are still great editors out there.

This question has occurred to me as well. I assume that Wiles talked Trump into giving the speech and it was a bad, bad idea. But then again who besides Trump could be the public face for the Trump administration in its imperialist phase? Steven Miller? Vance? Rubio?--the pickings are VERY slim.

I wonder if Trump's sub-mediocre speech was AI generated from his Truth Social posts.

I know almost nothing about Hasan Piker but enough to prefer him over Josh Kraushaar, Josh Barro, Bill Maher, John Fetterman, and the rest of the "I hate Democrats although I'm not a Republican" crew.

TRUMP'S SPEECH. I grew up with an abusive father who I kept in a tokenism box for the last 22 years of his life. Tonight, Trump spoke with almost exactly the same lifeless lethargy and boredom I had while speaking with my father.

What's the matter with South Dakota?

Vance already has a magazine piece about his conversion. If I remember correctly, Vance's conversion was mostly about his initiation into the right-wing elite of people like Thiel. It also represented a transition from his grandmother's influence to that of the political right.

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

The 25th Amendment Ballroom.