This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

There are plenty of legitimate ways to assess fraud. That was not Shirley’s purpose. He wanted to impose terror and loss on this community. So did Trump. And that is what is happening right now.

The entire reason they’re locked is to prevent weird freaks like this who have no right to be there from marching in and endangering the kids.

You know you’re winning when you’re dispatching never-loved 20-something white dudes whose faces scream “I need therapy but daddy said it’s for weaklings” to knock on daycare doors and scream, “SHOW ME YOUR CHILDREN!!!”

The Trump Department of Homeland Security wants you to know that when they kick out all the minorities, white Americans will be trapped in a gas guzzling car stranded on a beach as a tsunami looms. At least that’s what I think this is about.

have someone to blame is strong in the US. It’s a way to sow discontent and confusion, a way to make vaccines sound dangerous. Kennedy and his followers are liars; do not believe anything they say.

🧵

Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

Members of neither the legislative nor the executive branch had a financial stake in the prevalence of heavy metal music.

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

They're enabling creepy lonely men to create submissive "AI companions" that can be modeled on whatever real-life woman they're obsessed with and made to do whatever they want and, Jesus Christ, I need to wash my hands just typing that.

Donald Trump has made several billion dollars this year.

Plato argued in the Republic that the 'tyrant,' or someone with unlimited wealth and power, would live the worst possible life because his soul would be devoured by lawless, unlimited desires that could never be sated. I think we've gotten confirmation of this from more cases than Trump lately

Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” speech *defended* conservatives. Paraphrasing: “Some call all Republicans racist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted, but that’s unfair to millions. It’s only half, the rest are good people.” But the press made calling an openly bigoted campaign bigoted a scandal.

Christmas Travellers Maud Lewis c. 1960

Home for Christmas Maud Lewis c. 1958

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.

It’s taken less than a year of Trump being in office for Republicans to embrace being openly racist as policy and as a party.

'if the allegations against Trump were true they'd have been used to frame him'

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (April)

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

🧵 Hindsight bias is a massive problem.

"The emergence of Witkoff as envoy to the Kremlin is partly a story of Putin maneuvering to nudge aside America’s diplomats and clasp hands with its billionaires." Because the billionaires lack experience, can be manipulated. and have obvious conflicts of interest.

Incredibly funny to say you aren’t doing war crimes because George W Bush did something

In her defence, Leavitt turned 11 during McCain-Palin.

blatantly a violation of both the rules on Congress solely having the power to collect taxes, duties, excises, and so forth and also that such a new collection of federal revenue must originate as a bill in the House of Representatives, Madison wrote a bunch about it, the Constitution still matters?

AI is a cult.

Imagine, for just a second, Biden saying this about Fox News. And I bet the absolutely feckless White House press corps won’t cover this like the legit constitutional 1A disaster this is.

Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit

Why do you need to spend money on “nursing pods” if the Secretary is on about how natural and awesome breastfeeding is?

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is upset that the infant mortality rate isn’t as high as it was a century ago. Makes sense if you don’t think about it.

Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.

I, too, was thrown by the inclusion of Casablanca in the email that went out. WB made a ton of classics. I’m hopeful they’re signalling that more classic films will come available to stream and not that they want to ruin them with in-universe sequels and spin-offs.

whether hegseth gets away with it remains to be seen but it is interesting to see that he thought trump handed him a license to murder with this job, no questions asked, and now questions are definitely being asked.

Who is the president of the United States?

How it started / How it’s going

The heart and soul of Trumpism in one tweet

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.

Was anyone else reminded of Kristallnacht when this news broke yesterday?