Trump decides to own shutdown by canceling meeting with Dems he'd just agreed to. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-b...

Jim Sciutto on CNN says the truth instead of all this weird obfuscation about what Trump did at the UN today. He just clearly said: "This was not a normal US speech. We can say that with confidence. It sounded more like a MAGA stump speech than a speech to the assembled world."

NYT headline so much better than WaPo and AP.

"Well [amiably chuckling], as you know [insert name of interviewer], the president is a person who always speaks his mind." - every single Republican's standard response on "the shows", when asked about the latest crazy-ass shit Trump has spouted.

CNN pundit (didn't catch the name) says that this is standard Trump unilateralism, we've heard it close to a dozen times in the oval office. Yes, we've heard it before. BUT HE WAS SPEAKING TO THE FUCKING UN NOT A CAMPAIGN RALLY!!! It wasn't normal even for him. But hey, that old rascal Trump...

“I believe the speech was very well received.”

Same. He's always bad. But as he descends into madness he's lost all his inhibitions or sense of where he is. It's still only 2025. How will he be acting in public in two years? I feel confident that whatever he does the entire Republican Party will still stand behind him.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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I'm not sure there's anything more galacticly tone deaf or comically arrogant than Jim VandeHei's direct from the desk of Jim advice columns they do so frequently. I honestly find them hilarious. There's no better encapsulation of the assumptions of official DC, wired for the GOP as always.

RFK jr shambling into the oval office talking about treating measles with boiled pig skulls mixed with powdered supplements and susie wiles reminding trump of the tylenol murders as a distraction probably didn’t happen, but it’s not entirely implausible

M. Gessen is one of the writers I look to for naming the way this cookie crumbles. “It was never a cookie,” you say. No, & Gessen knows that, but having fled Russia to keep their kids, they also know there was something worth holding onto. But we didn’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed. A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.

BREAKING: Chicken Pox caused by Vicks Vap-o-Rub: White House BREAKING: Astigmatism caused by chewable vitamins and parental failure to invest in Trump Coin: NIH BREAKING: Havana Syndrome caused by component of Tito’s: CIA BREAKING: Red hair caused by potato consumption: Marine Corps

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Interesting: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/h....

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

Dr. Trump is back. He has a "natural ability."

Trump: "I think it has -- I think it's very bad. They're pumping, it looks like they're pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child, and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines, I guess. 80 different blends. And they pump it in. So ideally, a woman won't take Tylenol."

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

Trump: "I think I can say there are certain groups of people that don't take vaccines and don't take any pills that have no autism. Does that tell you something? Is that a correct statement, by the way? ... I'm not so careful with what I say."

"There's no harm!" The same thing he said about Hydroxychloroquine.

He's literally dispensing medical advice. Telling people when they should get vaccines and passing out bullshit disinformation. This is so bad...

Oh FFS. Trump talking about medical science is just so fucking painful. He's saying that babies are being given 80 vaccines at a time and "it's a disgrace." We are now like one of those primitive countries with a crazy dictator who says his people should take yucca root and goats milk for AIDS.

He's giving medical advice again.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

I guess Trump and RFK Jr weren’t happy with the studies that said sperm from older men significantly raises the risk of autism.

Sounds like the US is about to bail out Trump’s pal Javier Milei. ‘America First’ always has lots of exceptions.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right-let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds..." -President Lincoln, 1865 (2nd inauguration speech) "I HATE my opponents." -President Trump, 2025

on a human level I feel for Erika Kirk. The look on her face here. Heartbreaking. My heart goes out.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

And the crowd goes wild.

Hydroxychloroquine Part Deux.

So Trump teases at the Kirk memorial that they not only have discovered the cause of autism but they have at least a partial cure. I'm sure Bobby's cancer cure is on the way too. Orange juice and Ivermectin. Easy peasy.

Trump's a bit low energy here. He's just trying to get through it. This really isn't his jam.

Why aren't they playing YMCA?

Jessica Chastain won the Oscar for her portrayal of Tammy Faye Baker in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye." It was really good.

2/2 JD Vance is Trump, without the charm.

For those who are blissfully unaware:

Vance is deadly boring.

My friend @jonahblank.bsky.social knows Afgh and its region very well. As a scholar. As a working reporter and book-writer. As a government official. Thread very much worth reading. Whoever wrote and approved this lunatic editorial for the WaPo should at least put his/her name behind it.

You know Trump can't stand this. It's not all about him and everything is supposed to be all about him. Inside he's fuming and he can't wait until it's over and everyone will once again focus on him as their living god.

I'm also reminded of Nuremberg for some reason.

Some of us are old enough to remember the huge brouhaha over the memorial for Paul Wellstone. How times have changed...

If Joe Biden was two-plus weeks into slathering makeup on his hand to cover a massive bruise that may not even be healing, Alex Thompson would have been doing 72 hour shits on CNN with Jake Tapper above a chyron that reads BIDEN DEATH WATCH 2025.

Then contact each and every one to let them know you will boycott them unless Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. If he is, this particular probe of the dictator will be checked. 3/x

you live in a place with an ABC network affiliate owed by Nextstar or Sinclair, the Republican megaconglomerates that put the regime up to this decision, watch it for a few hours and write down the advertisers. (In Chicago, that means ABC-7, WGN.) 2/x

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Seem clear it was private but whenever he's caught he doubles down. He's ordering prosecutions of his enemies and also, in a stream of consciousness rant, taking credit for firing the US Atty and then once again demands prosecutions. This is obviously how he talks to Bondi and probably everyone.