This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

Clever of Trump to release a Stancil profile to distract from the—<deletes account>

Making up future democrats that have already fucked up so that the Skinner box app throws some pellets at me

The coverage on Trump's potential Iran invasion has been woefully inadequate. And that's before you consider that none of them say, "Iran already agreed to a nuke deal, Trump ripped it up, causing the problem he's currently facing."

"What if this patriot is actually really annoying" all patriots are really annoying guys, this is one of the understated parts of *Hamilton*.

stancil agreeing to be profiled as part of a piece covering the situation in minneapolis, but then it only being about him, really gives away that our established media/political class *only* care about content and how it plays on twitter/etc. they don't care about policy, they care about posts

Russian General “Roman Demurchiev, 49, shared graphic descriptions of abuses of Ukrainian prisoners, apparently committed by him and his subordinates, including severing their ears.” And Trump wants to hand Putin a 14 trillion dollars economic package.

and spare me the "trump's gonna TACO, he's bluffing, 2 weeks" crap. at this point we've got so many more assets in the region that such shit looks like the "putin won't attack ukraine" bullshit. to use a vulgar metaphor: you don't put on a condom unless you're going to fuck.

jaw is on the floor, this is going to go catastrophically bad www.reuters.com/world/middle...?

The CDC has had a Senate-confirmed director for all of one month of Trump's second term. NIH director Jay Bhattacharya will now run both temporarily. One source I spoke to said that's like “asking someone to manage live flight traffic while also designing the planes.” www.wired.com/story/the-cd...

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

This. Today's ruling is primarily a multidimensional failure of the judicial branch, not really its robustness in the face of authoritarianism. This should never have been a SCOTUS case in the first place, & it shouldn't have taken over a year to get here.

Wow, I hate all of this.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

🚨🚨🚨 This new paper's interesting results indicate a sudden 10-fold increase in lithium at 96 km altitude due to #SpaceX Falcon 9 re-entry debris. This is now joining further modelling and evidence of impacts on the upper atmosphere - a shared global common we all rely on. 🔭🧪

I remain convinced that "make the bad thing on the news go away" is what drives the median voter's behavior which is why it's simultaneously incoherent and thermostatic because they'll believe and project really stupid shit they think will make the bad thing go away

An absolutely stellar message to put out there heading towards the midterms

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Donald Trump illegally stole your money. He should give it back to you. Instead Trump is scheming up new ways to force Americans to pay even more.

SCOTUS didn't try to save the midterms for the GOP through their tariff ruling today. They're going to save the midterms for the GOP through their rulings next week on the VRA and birthright citizenship.

Breaking News: The EPA is allowing coal-burning power plants to release more heavy metals like mercury, a powerful neurotoxin linked to brain damage.

The new national emergency is I'm very mad about the old national emergency.

The first and most important adaptation everyone has to living with an abuser is to monitor their moods more closely than the sounds of a frozen lake under your feet.

Trump’s Brett Kavanaugh glazing should really make people think about what a fucking toadie Brett Kavanaugh is

John Roberts made him a king, but he's not allowed to have Ship Money.

"I can destroy the country." --Donald Trump, 2/20/2026

Remember when John Roberts was visibly angry at Obama’s mild chiding of him

This is the right's god of manliness?

1-Trump authorized KSA to build a civil nuclear program, which will more than likely turn into a military nuclear program. This decision is one of the worst foreign policy mistakes we’ve made post-WWII. It is based on bad/weak assumptions such as 1-KSA is stable; 2-KSA will recognize Israel if

20 minutes... I believe in you little clot!

It's easy to idealize the past but I do think there was a time when "the Secretary of Labor's husband has been banned from her workplace because he wouldn't stop groping women" would be in the top five stories of the week.

Sharing classified information every time I teach about the Drake Equation.

CNN doing PR for Johnson here by claiming "the general practice is for presidents, select military officials & select government officials to lie in honor" without noting exceptions. Like Billy Graham. So White preacher gets to lie in state but not Black one?

Awaiting the Supreme Court Decision That Could ‘Completely Erase’ the ‘Civil Right Movement’s Crowning Achievement’ talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

idk what this means when you repeal a revenue source because it was illegally applied for the debt ceiling but someone does and I bet they're having a stroke right now

Also, frankly, the United States Government at this moment has easily the largest statutory fiscal deficit it has ever operated with and we were already downscaling dynamic effects of the tax cuts due to the interest effects. This is a genuine financial crisis.

Oh my god shut up

They’ve violated more than 50 court orders. Chaotic, cruel for cruelty’s sake, and completely lawless—that’s what the Trump admin’s immigration agenda is. Anyone who says different is lying to you.

*pounding the table* STOVE STOVE STOVE STOVE STOVE

Wishing everyone involved a very merry let's you and him fight.

It really is a testament to just how a lot of ppl--in news media, in the commetariat, and just regular schmucks online--are just deeply invested in grading Trump on a curve that they watch his signature economic/foreign policy policy get shredded & their first thought it "wow, what a win for him"

Now that the Supremes have humiliated Trump, it’s time to invade the Falkland Islands, I mean, bomb Iran.

Lutnick’s Son has literally been “shorting” the tarrifs.. buying companies rights to claw back tarrifs from the govt in this exact eventuality… thedeepdive.ca/howard-lutni...

“Mr. President, John Roberts just requested his money back on Venmo.”

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

Am I overly cynical to assume this is why the tariff ruling dropped before the VRA one?

$175 BILLION in illegally collected taxes. Has a nice ring to it when you say it. Trump collected 175 billion in illegally collected taxes. The world is subject to gravity. Words mean things.