Claude, how long will it take to count to a trillion? Short answer: about 31,700 years if you could somehow say one number per second, nonstop, day and night, forever — but realistically far longer, because the assumptions fall apart fast.

For $1 trillion, you can give 25 million people each a free Tesla.

Area Man Realizes He’s a Sap.

What about daddy? And don't forget you "built" this country by discriminating against Blacks looking to rent homes.

All of which is just to say, it seems like beating back an existential threat to liberal democracy is going to require grudgingly supporting some unsavory people (Plattner) and actions (gerrymandering), & I hope folks don’t succumb to the temptation to retcon those things as awesome & unproblematic.

I think one of the more corrosive forces in politics (and probably elsewhere) is our psychological need to gradually convince ourselves that choices we make as a strategically necessary evil are, on second thought, actually totally cool and morally unobjectionable.

Breaking: Trump says he's nominating Jay Clayton, the current U.S. Attorney for the SDNY, to be Director of National Intelligence. Just this week on CNBC, Clayton said the "American people are right to question" California's elections. To be clear: There is no evidence of fraud in those elections.

No more Bud Light for me! (Truth be told, I've never had a Bud Light. But I was thinking of starting.)

Jay Clayton does not have the “extensive expertise” in intelligence the law says the DNI must possess.

So we are now up to 38 announcements of an Iran deal?

Now compare beef to a $20 cocktail!

strongly recommend this by @rickhasen.bsky.social

A psychopath.

Trump is putting a novice and political hatchet man in charge of the ENTIRE US intel community, and this guy is still keeping his job as a housing official. This is nuts, and any Republican who pretends it is normal and legitimate is threatening US national security.

Keep calm and carry on--and do the work.

David Ellison ostensibly tapped Bari Weiss to run CBS News because of her extraordinary digital skills, paying $150 million to buy The Free Press. But how is The FP actually doing? Last month, the site’s traffic plunged 17% from last year. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

This is the mindset of the Trump regime and the GOP—Rep Mike Flood, R-NE, told working class & retired Americans they don't have the $$ for healthcare-& the crowd booed him to his face. We won’t be fooled. Every other wealthy nation affords it, but the GOP is giving that $$ to billionaires instead.

it took decades of cultivated belligerence and stupidity to get to this point—a fox new hosts and a millionaire contractor who now runs the domestic security state, agreeing that loyalist mobs terrorizing belfast just want to be irish

What else would you expect him to say. “I am ushering it an era of tremendous dislocation and expect to make billions while the rest of you are living in a dystopia”?

Look what happens when Donald Trump is not present.

I’m off to see Wendell Pierce in “Othello.” Recording the Knicks game. So please, no spoilers here. Thank you.

Which was?

Is he auditioning for SNL?

I’m calling the Lack of Self-Awareness Police.

“I moved on her like a bitch.”

Joe Rogan conniving with JD Vance? Not such a good look for the podcaster.

A nugget buried in the big & impressive NYT piece on how the Trump White House had an internal freak-out over the Epstein case....If Bondi didn't use DOJ email, what did she use? I recall a time when the right (and the NYT) went ballistic over a Cabinet official's use of non-government email.

[email protected]: "So thoroughly poisoned are the minds of Trump’s base voters by now that they no longer need to see even pretend evidence to believe his claims that this or that election are rigged." Read the latest Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Not sure any Maine voter gives a damn.

That's exactly what THEY want you to think.

Usually, I'm against body-shaming. But this is just a data point.

Thank you, Trump voters.

Getting ready for the World Cup. Here's a good schedule. kingdoggydog.github.io/worldcup2026/

They’re just lying.

Babe wake up they’re gooping the drones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In other words, a guy who is implementing racist policies is decrying racism.

I try not to be alarmist, but I think we should be paying very, very close attention to how the president and the MAGAsphere are talking about the California elections: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Now do the White House.

Spencer Pratt lost his bid to become LA's next mayor. Trump and his horde are claiming the election was rigged.

NEW: Putting aside the $1.8 billion slush fund Trump tried to set up, the whole "weaponization" claim is utter bullshit. I explain in the latest issue of my OUR LAND newsletter. Give it a read. link.motherjones.com/public/46038...

Now do staying up all night and posting on social media.

Complete this sentence: The value of crypto is _______.

How the flamingo became a potent protest symbol

Being a racist is actually kinda bad.

A radical socialist.

2016 is calling, Senator.

This is awful news. Wood was a hero of history. A tremendous loss.

A very lonely boy.

Jared Kushner’s leading role in the bungled negotiations makes him complicit in what, by most accounts, has been a costly and humiliating defeat for the administration—and for the nation. Check out our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/7feeb4hw