We've ironed out the shape of the table and the kinds of chairs to use, the rest should be easy

Lindsey Graham is rubbing his few remaining brain cells together and finally figuring out that Trump starting a war with Iran might've been a bad idea

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Broadview 6, and James Comey should all file for money from Trump's slush fund. Every person arrested by ICE without a warrant should apply. Flood the fund with applications based on actions by Trump's DOJ.

I actually think this is what happens when Trump dies: "As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron,...ran hither and thither mindless"

Trump has awarded himself a nearly slush fund of nearly 2 billion dollar taxpayer dollars, that he can use as he pleases--to hire a militia, for example, to "secure voting." This is one of the most stunning pieces of corruption in US history

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

Pretty much

The Cohen brothers are ruining Homer's legacy. Odysseus never records a hit song. This is an assault on western culture. I am very smart.

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

Just seeing this but it can't be repeated enough. Genealogical services like ancestry.com or family search reduce family to "blood:" I'm not related at all to the most important person in my life, my wife. I write this about it:

DNA is not the same as kinship. Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can: • erase community-defined relationships • reinforce Western biases • and even cause real harm in policy + research Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Trump is now begging China to help him resolve his colossal screw-up in Iran. And what does China get in return? Taiwan, most likely www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/w...

Excellent work here. Patel is a disgrace

"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is the kind of learned incapacity democrats specialize in. "Nothing could be done, the present was always already inevitable." It' not "hindsight" It was obvious a week after Jan 6 that the party response was inadequate. People on the left were dismissed for loudly shouting this

It's really easy in hindsight to view Biden's team, including Garland, as too timid in their response to Trump's actions on J6 and the threat he posed if he returned in 2025. Sure, there were plenty of folks who wanted a more direct and pointed approach to go after Trump early. Hindsight is 20/20.

1/ Historians: the Fields sisters’s work in “Racecrat” offers a way to undermine the logic of the Robert’s court. “Persons with ancestors from Africa” is not the same as “black persons.”

This is what happens under fair maps—and why they gutted the Voting Rights Act. Get it? This is why generations marched, organized, and mobilized. And so must we. 📈

Exhibit 1 for his trial for violations of our First Amendment rights.

From my book, writing about Roberts's decision on Affirmative Action in the Harvard College case

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Now will all the people staning for Mills switch to Platner?

The Supreme Court is continuing its determined effort to gut the legacy of the Civil Rights movement. As in the 1870s, they will use the pretense of being "color blind" to erase brown people from civic life

The masked ICE thug who killed Renee Good got 3 days of administrative leave. The guy who posted an anti-Trump photo of seashells faces 10 years in prison.

People don't realize how much time Patel has spent at the beach, scrutinizing the sand for dire threats to the nation. He's a hero

Just read the Comey indictment, and it is brutal. Some of the allegations: - never puts shopping cart back in designated cart return area - takes too many napkins from pizza parlor napkin dispenser - lied about having seen "Titanic" to fit in He won't beat the charges this time.

hey do you guys think I need a lawyer

Expecting the White House Press Corps, whose job is stenography, to amplify a victim/hero narrative around Trump and themselves

While old media was making nice with the government, new media got the story. Thanks, @wired.com

Now we should all see the dazzling investigative and reporting skills of the white house press corps on full display. Right?

Remember all the time Trump talked about "sleepy Joe?"

Navy Sec. fired for failing to pull Trump's vanity battleship from a hat. More spectacular flailing ineptitude from the Trump Administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/u...

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

1. Like many historians I think a lot colonialism. Colonialism and slavery; colonialism and the subjugation of Native people. Colonialism is why I live in the US, and speak English instead of Irish. Colonialism requires people to adopt the language and tools of the colonizer.

NYT soft-pedaling the mad King's lunacy. "“You could say it’s an 80 percent reduction,” Mr. Trump said in January. “Or you could say it’s a 1,000 percent reduction. You could say whatever you want.”" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

So this 29 year old woman was actively seeking older men to have sex with so they would find her lavish lifestyle. Men with lots of money from, say Iran, or Russia. She could entertain them in the bedroom, in the traditional way, and then also with anecdotes about work. What could go wrong?

We live behind a large elementary school playground. Most of the time it's great. But there's America's shrieking girl problem: really loud, REALLY high pitched screaming. Parents, maybe alternative forms of expression? Like loudly quoting Mary Wollstonecraft?

Trump doesn't understand the difference between "having" and "earning."

Patel's argument seems to be basically "I told them not to do it but they did it anyway!"

Trump is incapable of seeing or relating the truth. He can make emphatic declarations, and like a good actor he believes them in the moment, but they shred on the wind an hour later

The NYT gives us this masterful example of enabling fascism

Military spending goes unquestioned. Conservatives, liberal, libertarians fall silent when tax dollars go to bombing people

Leo bringing it

Trump thinks this is good because poor people begging him for favors is his idea of good governance

"Goddamn it, Leo! You haven't made an arrest in months! I've had enough. Put your staff and mitre on my desk and get the hell out of here."

Why is JD Vance campaigning for Orban on the taxpayer's dime? Who voted for that?

Trump was played for a fool by Netanyahu

"Nice religion ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it." Trump's people trying to shake down the Vatican. They should be shunned from public life by all decent people

Pope to Olympic Athletes: “It is possible to win without humiliating. One can lose without losing oneself. And this also applies beyond sport. It applies in social life, in politics, in relationships between peoples, because sport, if lived well, becomes a workshop for a reconciled humanity.”

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: