Personally, I would be far more reassured by Bhattacharya’s “remain calm, this isn’t COVID” if he wasn’t a total quack who also tried to tell us that COVID wasn’t COVID.

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

My pastor saying "it's not a golden calf idol" has people asking questions already answered by the pastor bsky.app/profile/nyma...

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

Perfect summary of where we are with Trump’s Iran war debacle (from Bloomberg):

Nick makes an important point below: even if stark descriptive language is accurate, we need to consider if it is persuasive. Of course, the inverse is also worth asking: has downplaying Trump’s insanity been effective in persuading the people who are still sober enough to care?

Sounds familiar…where have I read about this recently. 🤔🤔🤔

BTW, we’re all going to pay a price for this for years to come, at the pump, in our diminished global standing, in the lives already lost, and in the likelihood that we’ll have to return someday to do it all over again. This is what losing looks like, so much losing……

The corruption is staggering.

"Where is the Donald Trump I voted for?" He's very much with us. You just thought someone else would pay the price.

“But even Jimmy Carter kept the Strait of Hormuz open!” is a great line.

Me: I’ll just check Apple Maps to see if my husband has made it off the plane yet so I can decide if it’s worth it to wait up for him. Apple Maps:

U.S. foreign policy and the Trump family’s personal business interests aren’t two separate things. They are deeply and corruptly intertwined.

I chuckled at this Onion headline only to realize it (somehow) isn’t the Onion!

We're paying to destroy our green energy projects at the same time gas and utility prices are skyrocketing thanks to Trump's stupid war. All because the president is an idiot who doesn't understand how anything works, and also because he's determined to undo every good thing President Biden did.

I regret to inform you that President “Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee” is going back to his same old playbook again.

Begging someone to mention that literally every gulf ally is shut in barring Saudi and UAE who are merely 50% shut in

Platonic ideal of the “questions answered by my shirt” joke

Just noticed you can watch Trump eat it as he slowly tries to evacuate on this video too (about 10 seconds from the end of the clip).

TRUMP: "We have all the cards, they have none!" IRAN:

Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

🚨 Commodities friends, Donny Two Weeks is strongly signaling here that he’s gonna let Iran keep its toll booth in place indefinitely, just as long as they let him leave and pretend he won a great victory.

Yes Mr. President sir, by all means keep comparing your war in Iran to Vietnam. I’m sure your aging MAGA base is very excited at the prospect of another ‘nam.

If there was one guy in the Trump administration you would expect to understand the economics of drug pricing, it would be RFKJ. Unfortunately, he is much more familiar with meth than math.

The Pope’s message of “we must treat all humans, especially migrants, humanely” is so clearly straight from the red letter words of Jesus, but I am confident it’s going to make the tradcaths and right wing evangelicals foam at the mouth.

This is quite a comment from someone who served on the FOMC for nearly four years with Kevin Warsh. He says Warsh failed to project independence at his hearing.

The fucking people who spent three years telling us Biden was reckless fool because every Humvee begrudgingly sent to Ukraine could force Putin to nuke the world are now like, "WE THOUGHT THEY HAD NUKES, SO WE BOMBED THEIR LEADERS A BIT IN THE HOPES THEY'D BE CHILL."

Looks like War Crime Wednesday is slated to follow TACO Tuesday.

“The losing side cannot dictate terms.” Iran’s troll game is absolutely top tier.

🎶 “The TACO, the TACO, it’s coming, the TACO, it’s only a tweet away.”

"Honestly, you should be thankful we’re freeing you from the burden of having massive amounts of money... We’re going to have to spend a good chunk of it on bunkers and machine-gun-wielding robot dogs to protect us from the mass social unrest we’re creating."

Uh, is Comer suggesting that Iran is kidnapping/murdering our best nuclear scientists because Trump put complete imbeciles in charge of our national security? (Patel, Gabbard, Hegseth, etc.)

[Scene: My daughter is at the restaurant and trying to remember the name of the artist Renoir.] Husband [with a completely straight face]: “Oh, do you meant the famous French impressionist artist, Rayquaza?” Daughter: “Oh, yes, Rayquaza!”

Tech billionaires saying UBI is coming is hilarious because c’mon, how have they acted the last 5 years in response to the prospect of higher taxes on the rich and corporations to fund social programs?

No ships are moving through the Strait of Hormuz and as I understand Iran is still requiring permission (+ probably tolls) from the IRGC and the US bloackade is still in place. Was this just a big market manipulation? Has there been any real progress?

Rental Car place: Are you willing to drive an EV? Me: Yes, as long as it isn’t a Tesla. I refuse to drive a Tesla.

Not a Catholic, but this Pope rocks

Taking my first Waymo ever in SF—my brain is having trouble processing that nobody is in the front seat. Hoping that a random item doesn’t cross our path trapping us indefinitely. The future is now!

I, for one, hope we can keep this “least popular American president” v “most popular American Pope” beef going as long as possible.

Trump’s horrifying senility is the real story here’s but don’t miss “the image was doctored [AI slop]” as a talking point Leavitt thought was clever.

“We can’t stop attacking rule of law and eviscerating Americans’ constitutional rights every time we hit a little road block like the grand jury telling us they are innocent.” - Trumpy DOJ (For the non-lawyers who follow me, please note this is really, really shameful stuff from Blanche.)

I enjoyed this one so much I ran across the room to share it with my husband.

checkmate, fellow terrorists

Post a picture of yourself as a doctor.

Post a picture of yourself as a doctor.

“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better…and I do make people better...I make people a lot better” is somehow even more delusional than the post itself. I wish someone had followed up to ask how he makes people better.

they like him and want to help him. They send out a push alert not for the actual story "the president is losing his fucking mind" but one repeating Trump's false criticism of the Pope as if they are reasonable.