Pope: [moral critique of illegal war] President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay Media: they are feuding😳

Oh, the lust for power. The same guy who called Trump “America’s Hitler” said at the 2024 GOP convention that Trump “cares about people….He is a beloved father and grandfather, and, of course, a once-in-a-generation business leader.” www.americaamerica.news/p/why-should...

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

This Yale committee can speak for itself, and not higher education, generally. Affordable options with workforce connections exist at community colleges, where 40% of college students attend. As usual, ignored here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

I believe the full quote is "to paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from, if you are being dumb on purpose"

It's really not a good idea to try to be a debate-me bro with the Pope. Especially when you have only been a Catholic since, like, last Tuesday.

JD Vance vs the pope on theology is so funny because the last dustup was about ordo amoris, the ordering of love, where Vance tried to justify hating immigrants; but his own ordo amoris is 1) Trump, 2) white nationalism, 3) trolling the pope, 4) his own family as long as they don’t skydive

JD Vance mansplaining Catholic theology to the pope is the ultimate example of how MAGA does not believe in expertise of any sort. Science, medicine, history, and now religious doctrine: all to be manipulated to serve rightwing politics. www.thedailybeast.com/catholic-con...

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

“Having been a Catholic for nearly five minutes, I am eminently qualified to explain it to the Pope…”

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

If you have standards or values, you can be excoriated or investigated for failing to live up to them, if you don't, you are completely free to do anything you want. That is the unavoidable lesson of the last decade of American politics.

Imagine no inflation It’s easy if you lie No oil blockaded Economy sky-high

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

So has anyone asked Vice President Convert about any of this?

Telling that as big of a piece of shit as orban is, he managed to concede to defeat. Something Trump has never been able to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

The Americas watching right-wingers lose everywhere else

As Hungary shows (and Poland before it), we don't have to live like this.

Terrific piece. This is what actual partisan capture of campus speech looks like

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Seems like the lesson that the Trump admin took from 2025 was “we can just do things. No one can stop us, and the consequences won’t hit us personally.” And that was also the lesson they took from Venezuela. “Lol we can do whatever. Consequences aren’t real.” The Strait of Hormuz upends all that.

To scholars of democratic backsliding, it is difficult to overstate how big a deal today's election in Hungary, a country of less than 10 million people, is likely to be as a narrative milestone for our age, regardless of which way it goes.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said.

This looks like a set design from The Man in the High Castle.

It is 1854. American right-wing nativist WASPs fearmonger about Catholics handing the nation over to the Pope. It is 1960. American right-wing nativist WASPs fearmonger about Catholics handing the nation over to the Pope. It is 2026. American right-wing nativist WASPs fearmonger about Catholics ha

Everyone is crazy but me, everyone is nuts but me....

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

It says a lot about Republicans that they’ll make draft registration automatic and mandatory, but not voter registration.

This thread is objectively correct.

this is how trump responded to covid and that turned out ok

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

1. Which of these public utterances would immediately end a candidate’s presidential ambitions? A. “I want to be a dictator.” B. “If [she] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.” C. “YEEEAAAAAWW!!!”

All grift, all the time.

(Trying to come up with a relatable analogy) You know how your wife be wanting to kill herself?

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"The suggestion that one has 'sat on' revelations of grave public importance until they could be accompanied by a handsome dust cover, embossed serif typography, and a coordinated morning-show rollout is both reductive and hostile to the long tradition of political nonfiction."

In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Trump’s new negotiated settlement with Iran would make Obama’s nuclear deal look draconian by comparison.

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

no offense to the hungarian people but i’m sorry, the idea that hungary is some last bastion of “western civilization” is absurd. can’t overstate how much this post-liberal, national conservative nonsense makes you sound like a putz

I’ll bet Trump made wild threats before each of his businesses failed too.

In a sane world, in a world of accountability, the man who incited a deadly insurrection five years ago never would have been able to hold public office again. That reckless, abusive man needs to be removed from office. Now.

We are simply not going to get free of this until our political class accepts the fact that the entire GOP led us here and must be destroyed.

I can guess.