I can’t wait until we have a Democratic president and blatantly lying is considered bad again.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Seeing the sad excuse for a celebration in Washington, I remembered when I was a kid in '76 the Smithsonian recreated a Centennial exhibit hall in their oldest building. I was fascinated because it felt like time travel. Today's kids get a plywood arch.

Well, it's no tiny crystal football from Marco.

New cat bed already causing beef.

I think a President should know how passports work.

I thank my lucky stars To be living here today 'Cause the flag still stands for freedom And they can't take that away

I kind of feel like if it’s your thing to keep insisting Democrats must elect more centrists you should start be demanding Republicans elect any.

Sleepy Joke.

The floundering fathers.

Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?

Was the fake Trump arch a 7th grade class project?

Honestly can’t tell if the fast casual shrimp post is real or satire.

In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail

The older Ralph Reed gets, the more he assumes his final form: ventriloquist dummy.

Man, if only Democrats were as ruthless as their friends across the aisle say they are around elections.

Can they do a secret resort deal here too?

You can feel the "open secret" material being danced around in the stories of Trump and his human printer.

I appreciate the two takes here.

This is such a disturbing flex. He’s basically acknowledging that he and Trump have raised the bar on what scandals presidents can get away with so much that Watergate was nothing compared to them today. True. But yikes.

That “on leave” is going to feed 10,000 variations on the same joke.

I thought this was America.

Yikes, catastrophically low turnout for Trump's "rally" last night kicking off the 250 festivities...

I think if there were still such a thing as a moderate Republican it would make moderate Democrats seem less like that’s what lane they’re going for.

Honestly, I think electing a few socialists is probably the least disruptive reaction to Elon Musk wants all the money.

People who have witnessed what Trump and his band of GOP stooges have done to the country over the last ten years are shocked at how a pendulum works.

The funniest thing about the Mamdani sweep freak out is it seems to be suggesting a House that was serious and sober legislative body up until now.

Mamdani has delivered yet again!!

I think there’s some pundits whose whole thing was waiting for something that would take down Mamdani a notch or two and it’s kind of going the other way for them.

Did people think a guy as broken as Elon Musk being allowed to manipulate markets to trillionaire status and all the other daily oligarch outrages wouldn’t dilute the fear of socialism they’ve worked so hard to instill?

I think moderates who vote to confirm bad Trump nominees are driving voters to look for anyone that seem aware of the stakes.

Seeing another purge curtesy Bill Pulte I think the criteria is they assume anyone competent won’t be sufficiently loyal.

Tapping into the nation’s strategic tarp reserves now.

“We’re going to need a bigger tarp.”

Just waiting for Kash.

Some random tractor pull’s loss.

Now I’m just morbidly curious how much more Trump can clown himself over a water feature.

Well, he is a generational talent obviously.

"We have no choice but to give him compassionate use access to the Flowers for Algernon shot."

That's the Trump promise.

One possible conclusion is they're in the same "throw everything at him" mode as when he almost died from Covid.

Uh, is there any reflecting in your reflecting pool?

What the tech oligarchs have going for them is politicians understand money so much better than they understand technology.

In a normal country the President would be enjoying the World Cup spotlight, not criminalizing tourism.

It’s going to be wild when we can finally look back and trace all of these failures to a bottomless need to make his name synonymous with success.

Mr. Jones extended to me a coveted Bluesky invite back when that was the ticket to escape Elon. I love this for him.

Never were the emperor's clothes more admired! At last a little boy piped up. "But he has nothing on at all! He's completely nude!" A national guardsman and a sheriff from Oklahoma whisked the child into custody and his parents have not been told where he’s been held.

It’s almost impressive how our beloved tech billionaires have managed to just push the expectation that great wealth should inspire great philanthropy out of the conversation entirely. Instead, they are rewarded points for when they are just slightly less overtly evil than Musk, their North Star.

The Donald Trump and Smithsonian Institution

“Unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office… Does anybody know what that means?”