In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Well, at least the BBC is covering this.

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

Corporate media has wholeheartedly accepted “executive time” as a synonym for “golfing”. Just say golfing. Everyone knows what Trump does every weekend.

Remember when Senile Satan was a “nurse” last June?

Antonio Spadaro is a Vatican spokesman who knows how to hit Mr Trump where it hurts. From the FT which reports Trump’s latest rantling (a neologism that is the mix of rant and ramble that has become his hallmark)

Reagan’s OMB Director:

This is so well done. 👌

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

America’s favorite sport: saying the right thing and hoping no one checks the scoreboard.

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

So, I called Rep. Jack Bergman (MI-01) to chat about our genocidally insane president and you can probably guess what happened…no mailbox. He must be in Florida.

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization. Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do? Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

“.. Strip away the shock value for a moment .. This is not a stray remark at a rally. Nor was it a misstatement quickly corrected by staff. This is a public declaration, .. during an active and escalating international crisis.” @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/whit...

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Rep. Balint: "My Republican colleagues have accepted for themselves that there's no bottom. They will continue to support this man regardless of how unhinged and how unfit he is for office. It's disgusting."

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

And there you have it. George Carlin’s list is down to 6 dirty words. Family values my ass (not one of the remaining 6).

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

NEW: House Oversight Committee ranking member says Pam Bondi has no choice but to show up for April 14 deposition And he says GOP doesn’t have the votes to stop it Just filed to @MeidasTouch youtu.be/SNCLepdOPVc?...

Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 178,000 jobs added in March. Yeah, right. In lieu of alt-BLS numbers, I’ll wait for the revised statistics.

I get a little head rush every time Leavitt uses “Trump” and “committed” in the same sentence.

Rubio discovers the concept of misplaced priorities.

ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE: "When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."

Anyone else notice this? Mainstream journalists have forgotten their duty to speak truth to power. It is why it is one of the rights written into the Constitution. Political cartoonists are the real and true heroes of the moment.

I did not know about this kind of insidious pricing. Thank you for highlighting it!

I'm updating the famous Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" to "May you live in incompetent times" to be more relevant to those of us living in the United States right now.

There’s much analysis of options available to end the Iran war. They all rightly assume the US has a dedicated and highly skilled military. But, I’ve yet to find an analysis that factors in the utter incompetence of the Trump administration leading said military.

As Democrats have said over and over, Trump could have ended the TSA shutdown whenever he wanted. He was delaying TSA’s funding to try to get more funding for ICE, but we refused. Glad to see Trump is finally ending the Republican shutdown of TSA.

Billy Carter sold Billy Beer. LBJ owned some radio stations. The Trumps have taken $400M jets, $2B in Saudi money, and put the president's face on currency like a Roman emperor. Same office. Different universe. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Everyone congratulate Donald J. Trump on his *seventh* bankruptcy. Glory!

This is ridiculous. Elected officials, their family members, or staff should NEVER be able to make fortunes off of insider information. They’re making billions betting on our national security while everyone else struggles to pay for groceries and gas.

I love this for them!!! ❤️✈️

a. Trump isn't announcing a pause on strikes. He's saying he's postponing a possible war crime - strikes on Iran's civilian energy infrastructure. b. Also, this isn't a message to Iran. It's a panicky message to the markets: "No war escalation until markets close on Friday".

Michigan governor GOP candidate Perry Johnson is plastering ads promising tax breaks by eliminating government waste (i.e. the Kansas ruse). I really hope Michigan voters don’t fall for that shit. We have a functional efficient State government right now.

The so-called SAVE America Act is about as un-American as it gets.

"Welcome to O'Hare International Airport, where ICE agents have joined TSA to help with security! If you have TSA PreCheck, enter the 'self-service' lines and lightly slam yourself to the ground. All others will be slammed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a masked ICE agent. Happy travels!"

The airlines must be panicking about masked untrained goons screening customers. Bailout 2.0 is taxiing.

RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.

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I can’t decide who plays Trump better, Putin or Netanyahu. I lean towards Benny since he knows the “47” card is always a winner.

Shout out to Qatar for the worst return on a $400M bribe in history.

Who would be classless enough to joke about Pearl Harbor during a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister? That’s a rhetorical question.

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