The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

He keeps saying this and I guess nobody is ever going to explain to him how insurance works? This is maddening. This man is a doctor/afternoon talk show host. He's in charge of Medicare and Medicaid and he is eithe completely clueless or more than willing to appear to be so.

Watching Trump speak these days is literally painful. He's so reprehensible, so disgusting that I honestly can't stand to do it anymore. I have to put the closed captions on. He's reptilian, almost alien, like something out of science ficiton.

Nobody celebrated the 125th. It's not a thing. But if he's just pulling out random years why didn't he pick the 2010th so he could name check Reagan? BTW, We did celebrate the 100th and it was epic. Grant was president. Coolidge was president at 150th. Both featured massive World's Fairs.

The media is more insufferable than usual about this alleged socialist takeover of the Democrats because DSA unseated a couple of incumbents. "Are you too extreme???" It's predictable so I really don't get why Dems don't just say what Jeffries said," are you kidding? Donald Trump is president!"

OK Boomer: Not that anyone asked, but I've picked 10 Essential Albums of 1976 (+10 more) - up now over at Digby's Hullabaloo. digbysblog.net/2026/06/27/i...

Latest example of how imo the 6th Republican vote has so warped and loosened the majority’s incentives to pretend to care about even the appearance of good argument, much less the myth of the institution’s grandeur, anymore. Yadda yadda yadda, mask-drop, we win, next case. What a tawdry spectacle

Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.

Compare & Contrast with “The Great America State Fair” this weekend

So just to be clear, it's war when the markets close for the week, every week, and peace when the markets re-open. And we're just going to pretend that's not happening, apparently. bsky.app/profile/wsj....

My number one requirement for Dems: do they know who the real enemy is.

Trump in the middle of a book-length unhinged screed: “The criminally made algae is gone”

Strained???

A single, delicious tear rolls down Rod Dreher's cheek. 🏳️‍🌈

Niedermeyer misses the point, as usual.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

Ossoff: "Illegal tariffs, failed war, healthcare cuts, and unmatched corruption. 34% approval and a presidential legacy cemented in disgrace."

It is core to the nature of reactionary politics that its adherents *always* conceive of themselves as aggrieved victims, no matter how much power they amass. It's a permission structure for their own lawlessness & violence.

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is awful. But so predictable.

Mike Johnson: "If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats…will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body and they will go after the president's family…Half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I'll take care of you."

Spinal Tap redux.

Spinal Tap redux.

i...what???

Mask off, hood on

This mail-in voting opinion appears to have stopped this crackpot USPS Executive order. Will the Supremes take it up on the emergency docket?

This is at least the fourth time I've heard this in my lifetime. Generational change freaks the older generation out. Witness James Carville, a man who made his bones on a campaign of generational change that freaked out the party elders. A little self-awareness please. I'm so tired of re-runs.

Hakeem Jeffries as Joe Kernen badgers him to "reject" the winners of Democratic primaries in NYC: "Donald Trump is the president right now. Are you kidding me?"

Love to catch up with my buddy, the heir to an international manufacturing conglomerate, during my meetings with foreign diplomats.

"No one gives a shit about housing." Only ballrooms.

The president of the US, sharing his deranged fantasies.

Mamdani won big but much less attention on how he looked for objects of opportunity and sat out contests where the DSA brand wasn't going to fly. That's not a criticism; it's part of being a smart pol. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

So let's get rid of all good things?

FFS. She voted for Alito, Roberts and Gorsuch too.

Can you believe it?

Trump on the reflecting pool: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it." Also, Trump on the reflecting pool: "They cut it."

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

A human auto-pen.

incredible things are happening with Trump's hair today

great

Habitual lying is the culture of the Republican Party. Even the most absurd, preposterous lies are pushed daily to gullible rubes.

Understand: Trump is having random police departments arrest (or issue citations to) people sticking their hand in the reflecting pool to COVER UP how his corrupt contracting fucked up the reflecting pool. These arrests are a criminal cover-up of Trump's own corruption.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Totally agree. And if candidates run only on "the economy to the exclusion of democracy, or freedom, or any of those other "abstract" ideas, they have no mandate to do the hard, radical work that's necessary. People need to understand that stakes and their leaders have to articulate them.

pathetic #mindofachild

He has the mind of a child.

No better illustration not only of how fast things can change for you in Trump World but how your loyalty and support can be wheeled around and turned against you. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

yes exactly

You told people to report their coworkers for being insufficiently mournful of Charlie Kirk

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250