He thinks that if he pretends hard enough that something is true, it will be.

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Kash Patel: "Keep talking (about my heavy drinking), it means I'm doing exactly what I should be doing (drinking heavily)".

🚨EXCLUSIVE: On multiple occasions, Kash Patel’s security detail had difficulty waking him because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to info supplied to DOJ and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment” was made because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors.

This is sickening.

They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process. It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance. You know, real conservatives.

Love this! Cat-holicism wins! I'm feline that it's Cat-astrophic for Trump fur sure! 😏🐾

If you are sadly without a favourite dinosaur, the correct choice is the Ankylosaurus. Armour plating and a big bony tail to smite your enemies.

Who did it best?

it'll be back in three days

Fast Attack Ships: "Not much of a threat" Schools full of girls:

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...

I hope Stephen Harper is having a shitty day.

Today is a good day.

Iranian official: (shushing the giggling in the background) Uh yeah, the only person we'll negotiate with is JD Vance

Trump's inner circle brainstoring solutions:

"I thought my brilliant strategy would have made things much worse" is a next-level flex.

Vance: Shmoke and a pancake? Iran: No thanks. Vance:

Not surprising, the Ostrich weirdos' claims were based on a mix of pseudoscience, lies and conspiracy theories. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Sweet.

The right wing is worried that not enough teens are getting pregnant.

Is there a Polymarket line on when Gladys becomes an independent MP? And will it be her choice or Carney's? I don't see this going well.

If I was advising Trump about avoiding the "TACO Tuesday" label, I would tell him to not set a deadline for a *Tuesday* when I was planning to *TACO*.

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

BREAKING: In a desperate attempt to save face ahead of his fifth deadline TACO, Trump has apparently got the Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to publicly ask him for a two week extension. 👇

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

Google trends of note:

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

I hope future generations pull a hard disk from the smoking, melted remains of civilizations, re-invent a way to read it, and enjoy this snapshot of terminal-stage America.

1. Overt threats of genocide is not "bluster". 2. It has never been about "liberating" Iran. 3. Ron Johnson has enabled this at every turn.

"The US's military objectives have been completed, but tonight we may or may not need to completely destroy Iranian civilization"

There hasn't been a better moment for hand-wringing Republicans to wake from their coma, get on the right side of history, and join Democrats in impeaching this lunatic. Trump has advertised the exact deadline.

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

This is who Americans decided (twice) should be their President.

The internet

Decoded:

We could all be watching the marvel of Artemis flying by the fucking moon, but no, we have to watch this piece of shit decide what he's going to destroy today.

Melania is hanging around so she's the first to know when he expires.

This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

The problem isn’t that two aircraft were shot down. The problem is that we aren’t psychologically or politically prepared to suffer any losses, because this entire war has been sold as a video game set on “easy” and not as a cause worth sacrifice.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

I dunno, firing the chief chaplain of the military because his staff are accepting too many conscientious objector applications seems especially bad, in many many ways that are hard to quantify and could have unpredictable downstream effects.

This entire administration is uninformed people laughing at experts, rejecting their advice, and then discovering why the experts said what they said.