Bingo, @tnbrando.bsky.social 🎯

THANK YOU David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for a lifetime of smart satire, laughs, speaking truth to power & sending us to bed with a smile on our collective faces. You will be missed. 🙏 #EndOfAnEra

Trump got absolutely rolled by Xi. He’s afraid of upsetting the Chinese because he’s weak.

Seattle is a beautiful city.

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Imposing real, criminal consequences for the Hegseth/Miller/Trump drug boat murders must be a top priority for the next administration. It would be a catastrophic moral failing to let them go unanswered.

pictures of a dazed-looking Trump with President Xi in China today (Evan Vucci/AFP via Getty)

This is depressing and shameful but I want to highlight @raskin.house.gov's dissenting vote in Committee. He gets it, and I'm glad he put in the time to fully assess this bill and put this on the record. His full dissent is here, at the bottom: www.congress.gov/committee-re...

Hawai’i just passed a bill that undermine Citizens United. The bill establishes corporations as “artificial persons” without the right to spend money on elections. The bill could limit the influence of super PACs and be a model to challenge the influence of money in politics.

My dog walker took me on a journey in her notes.

naturally

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

For as long as I live, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t the end of Donald Trump. I will never, ever understand it.

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity. But the sun comes up the next day. When the Strait of Hormuz is closed, it stays closed for months.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the president of the United States has walked away from an Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz so he can have photo ops with the Chinese leader who is going to rake him over the economic coals while smiling for the camera. Oil: $100 ⬆️

You will never guess who has a tough runoff election on May 26 in the Republican primary.

To my former GOP colleagues still in office: enjoy the next 24-48 hours. Relax, take some time for yourself. Cuz pretty soon you’re going to have to go on TV and defend all the terrible things Trump agreed to in China because he wanted to be friends with XI

i keep seeing people share stills from that awful looking wapo opinion podcast and my main thought is that they might want to hire a wardrobe department before putting those dudes on camera

brutal meme via the official Democratic Party X account

It’s National Police Week, and Republicans in DC have shown how little they care about Capitol Police.

It's not just that the FBI director is acting like a spoiled child; he keeps repeating the dumb lie that Van Hollen was "drinking margaritas with a felon" when he visited Kilmar Abrego Garcia. As a reminder, it was a stunt from the El Salvador regime, who put sugar-rimmed glasses on the table.

In the same press gaggle, Trump said he doubled the size of his ballroom and he doesn’t care about Americans’ financial situations. I am begging the media — act like Obama or Biden did this shit and cover it the way you would have then.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Did he actually just tell the truth for once?

This should be in every single dem ad (and it probably won’t be)

"I don't think about Americans' financial situation" 175 more days until you get to vote against this and every Republican who enabled it to go on this long.

Yes, yes we know

Oh. So he could have done this last year. Got it.

Trump talking about the ballroom budget... or the national deficit... or his cholesterol...

Trump gets his ballroom, Hegseth gets to blow things up, the rest of us get screwed.

In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

Trump is posting absolutely deranged shit on social media this morning ahead of departing for China today. Get a load of this stuff.

You can listen to the full discussion here. As we note, the more Trump's mental decline visibly accelerates, the worse his aides' sycophancy gets. They're becoming like an end-stage cult: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Trump's war is driving up inflation: The consumer price index rose at a 3.8% annual pace in the year ending in April, up from 3.3% in March and 2.4% in February.

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

How long will the Republican Party and corporate media pretend that Donald Trump is not a deranged monster who endangers us all? Their failure to act is a crime against humanity.

Dear ass clowns: Just uh, fyi, expunging impeachments mean absolutely nothing. You can’t pretend he wasn’t impeached. The history books won’t forget. It’s just another attempt to debase themselves for trumps approval, super pervey

For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

I think this is right. The fascist right is desperate over their cult leader's deep unpopularity, and the 6 co-conspirators on the Supreme Court are trying to help Republicans grab complete and permanent control while they can. I've said for more than a year now that 2026 would be decisive.

At this point anyone who cares about justice and the rule of law just needs to be upfront about the fact that this is an illegitimate court whose decisions will be undone at the first opportunity, and that opportunity being peaceful is the best these partisan hacks can hope for.

In 1970 jizz was chunkier

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

the supreme court is both rooted in so much history and so fucking deranged that it feels like a real blind spot for me as someone with a firm grasp on currents events, and a lot of the time when i see a SCOTUS headline my brain shuts off because it’s something too awful/hard to process

NEW: NAACP on Supreme Court allowing Alabama to redraw map to dilute power of Black voters "We are witnessing a return to Jim Crow. Anybody who is alarmed by these developments—as everybody should be—better be making a plan to vote in November to put an end to this madness"