This is the same stupid reasoning that got us Trump. A vote for Pratt is a vote for idiocy.

You really have to hand it to Trump and his crew. It is almost impossible to suck at international relations this badly. And yet somehow they figured out a way to completely cave to Iran after launching an unprovoked military attack.

January 20, 2029, falls on a Saturday. The number of parties and celebrations that night will be epic.

My friend, Sean, is going straight for the heart today. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...

Look, this Administration does things on the regular that are so egregiously horrible that decent people should be reduced to sputtering expletives and gesticulating wildly. This is in the top 5 of those moments. www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/p...

We did what we called a "no thank you bite." Basically, the kids were offered what was on the table for dinner, which was a healthy set of options (protein, veggies, carbs, etc.). And all they had to do was take one bite of each thing and if they didn't like it, they could say "no thank you" to more

So, this is common to the developed world. Once you get to a certain wealth level and you get to a certain civil rights level where women are free to work, divorce, get birth control, procure abortions, etc., the birth rate falls because it turns out that most people don't want 9 kids.

Musk is the biggest mass murderer of the 21st Century.

Listen, if you're having trouble connecting to that certain energy field created by all living things that surrounds us and binds the galaxy together, just remember that it was a pair of non-Force using rebels that stole the plans to the Death Star and brought hope to the Galaxy.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Game of Thrones 30 Rock Scrubs Ted Lasso My Name is Earl The West Wing Watchmen Andor MASH Battlestar Galactica (reboot) The Expanse Severance The Magicians The Simpsons Seinfeld

I can't figure out why know one has figured out a way to get him to stop bragging about the cognitive tests. It must make his staff cringe every time he says it.

There is a certain awkward tension created by him saying this.

I can give you 86 reasons why 47 is the worst president in the history of the country.

It sure seems like the reason the US attacked Iran was because Trump and his advisors wanted to. That's it. There was no imminent threat or anything like that. They just wanted to. And that decision was certainly enhanced by Israel also wanting to for its own (though probably overlapping) reasons.

Narrator: He'll extend it again. www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/w...

Interesting paragraph in the CNN article: "The breakup would be significant because it would allow competition — like SeatGeek and AXS — to come back into the fold in a meaningful way, according to former federal prosecutor and podcaster Alyse Adamson. More competition ultimately drives down costs."

The hilarity of this comment is that the Republicans were saying last week that you couldn't take his statements about eradicating Iran's entire population seriously because it was just a negotiating tactic. (And a bad one at that because everyone was saying that no one should take it seriously.)

Ka-boom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/a...

Getting rid of the license plates is certainly Constitutional but revoking the tax exempt status seems like it violates the First Amendment. I find those groups odious, but they don't seem to fit into one of the narrow categories where they can have their tax exempt status yanked.

Ooof, it looks like Swalwell is going to have much to answer for, and some of it may be answered with jail time.

"But where they're in conflict, they're in conflict . . . I think it's a natural thing." So, just to be clear, after decades of saying that the US should be run as a Christian nation, and -- amazingly -- Trump and crew have tried to say that he is running the country as a Christian nation,

Squid ink pasta is trash.

It's not ice. It has ice, but Greenland is land. That's why you want it (I think?), because it has minerals in the land, not the ice. And also, NATO isn't there for you to call up to attack Middle Eastern countries. It's a collective security defensive alliance. Why is he so stupid?

He is such a bad negotiator. Just comically bad.

The stupid part of this Republican response is that the whole concept of using this hyperbole or threat as a negotiation tactic is that they must be credible. If they aren't credible, they aren't effective. So saying that he clearly doesn't mean it just demonstrates that he's a bad negotiator.

Because this Administration is full of stupid people who don't ever think things through.

Great thread.

Happy Easter!

Could the International Association of Hypocrites please start sending me my checks? I have not been receiving my hypocrisy money.

The amount of rampant hypocrisy in this book might break the hypocrisy meter.

What could go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Narrator: It was always the fake news.

It is not illegal to have a monopoly in a particular market, it is only illegal to get that monopoly or keep that monopoly using anticompetitive practices.

I really want nothing to do with Platner.

Oh thank God

This is absolutely fascinating, particularly with the push to involve AI in everything. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

There is a reason he keeps getting these easy tests for dementia. It's because he has dementia.

Today the District Court dismissed with prejudice X dot com's claims against the advertisers filed in 2024. www.reuters.com/world/judge-... I wrote an analysis of that suit and how it would likely result in a win for the defendants back in 2024 in the thread below.

The amount of damage that Trump is doing to America and its reputation around the world will be felt for generations. It's heartbreaking. Whatever moral high ground we ever had is being burned to the ground.

Go away, Platner. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Man, I can't wait for Fetterman to be out of his Senate seat.

Time for Fetterman to go.

Excellent. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

I love this.

Trump: "If you take steps to prevent us from killing you, we will kill you even harder! Get those mines out of there and let us keep killing you the way we have been immediately!"

Trump: "If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before."

Look, if we are going to disregard international law, disregard our own Constitutional law, ignore very recent historical precedent of our own actions and predictable failures, and generally behave badly, at least we are finally doing it vaguely in the direction of getting rid of ...