The crime rate is lower in the Vatican than it is in the White House.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

So delighted every time @jamellebouie.net correctly calls Vance a miserable little pig man youtube.com/shorts/-KIy1...

i think people have forgotten that vance is quite possibly the least experienced person to *ever* serve as vice president of the united states

If you thought Joe Rogan was separating an inch from Trump, Rogan traveled to Miami to hang with Trump and Vanilla Ice at a sort-of sporting event. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

A bad setback for US national interests, Trump doesn't mind. The national humiliation of losing a war to a weaker power even though the US started it, he can tolerate. But setting up a racket for someone else and not getting a taste? Now that might be too far.

Bret thinks Iran lost and big

For 70 years the US Navy was the guarantor of free sea passage globally with a credible threat of punitive force. But after a month, we’ve punitive force’d all we got. There’s nothing left to deter Iran short of the massive war crimes murdering civilians. 1/2

Hegseth was Fox News’s Weekend Third Person on Couch. His true qualifications are racism and enthusiasm for war crimes.

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“In addition, immigrants who don’t register [for the draft] may lose their U.S. citizenship.” Because any excuse will do when denaturalization is a top policy goal. thehill.com/policy/defen...

This, in its own way, is as delusional and disastrous as his pledge to wipe out their civilization just yesterday.

Trump abandons the principle of freedom of the seas in the vain hope that Iran will let him in on the protection racket.

Iran and the US had a war, they both lost and Russia and China won.

Republicans admit they are cutting popular domestic programs in order to fund wars. Or maybe they are funding wars in order to cut popular domestic programs. To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

“Not anticipating Trump will screw his allies” is equivalent to “not anticipating Iran will block the strait”.

Looking forward to the very online leftists asserting that a President Harris would also be threatening Iran with genocide.

The 25th Amendment should be invoked because Trump’s senility has loosed his inner psychopath and he is on a murder spree. The 25th Amendment will not be invoked because his cabinet knows Trump would have them murdered first.

Well well well. We will see what TACO is made of won’t we? Billionaires will be very pissed off if this takes a hit. No iron dome here? You can’t protect everything everywhere all at once.

Trump wants to commit war crimes so much more than get a deal. He’s a psychopath angry at Iran for his losing his war. Trump Says Iran Proposal Isn’t Enough to Stop Attacks on Bridges and Power Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old sexual predator wake up on Easter Morning, snort some Adderall and insult the world’s 2 billion Muslims while threatening war crimes against a country he illegally attacked to distract you from ‘Epstein Files’ before?

Of all the Donald Trump tweets Speaker Mike Johnson won't see, today's will be the one Speaker Mike Johnson didn't see the most.

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.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Trump: "The US can't take of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We're fighting wars. Medicaid, Medicare -- they can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. But all these little scams that have taken place, you have to let states take care of them."

The talking heads on CNBC were firm in their belief that Trump was a somewhat normal pro business Republican at heart, just a little non conventional tactically. Whistling past the collapse of global trade and domestic investment while he personalizes the economy

NEW: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration, by @kbmorales.bsky.social and @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east

I think Iran is going to transition from an oil economy to a Hormuz toll economy. Why do the work to have expensive oil facilities vulnerable to hostile nations when you can just take a piece of anyone else’s traffic? It’s the logic and ethos of piracy, but so what? Who can lecture? Not us.

It is crazy how few people know this: Russia now occupies less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion four years ago

JD Vance has been rebuked by more popes than Attila the Hun www.christiancentury.org/features/van...

There was a NYT article with a man who had voted for Trump 3 times (on the economy!) who realized he had no idea if his parents came from Mexico legally.

There are reasons why no prior president has done things Trump does. Fools rush in and all.

Unexpected

Immigration enforcement is the number one priority of this administration — beyond everything else. And when the DOJ makes that its number one priority, it means that they have to drop a bunch of other cases, including ones with far more serious consequences.

“He said that only President Trump could decide when to end the war….” Iran War Live Updates: Top U.S. Defense Officials Hold Briefing on Latest Attacks www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

damn @pemalevy.bsky.social

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

I think the No Kings marches are great: They are the kind of mass protest even someone like me - who distrusts mass protests - can admire. No violence, no vandalism, the Dumbass Quotient low. I just hope it all turns into voting in the fall.

The regime counts its successes by looking outside electoral politics, touting speech suppressed, laws violated, media co-opted, societal institutions cowed. That’s why demonstrative politics outside of electoral campaigns, where tons of people express dissent and show that they can, matters a lot.

Four Big Ten teams make Elite Eight, tying men’s NCAA Tournament record for single league www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...

“The triumph of congestion pricing also offers a larger reminder: Government, done right, has immense power to improve people’s lives.” If you want that. Trump is still trying to block it www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

Speaker Johnson declares that the bill approved by every Senate Republican and approved by Trump is a sick move for open borders and endangers everyone.

If I wanted to enrage middle class families, I’d increase the travel hassle for spring break for no reason. A short window. Kids in tow. Stuck eating in expensive airports. Or missing flights. And that’s assuming terrorists don’t figure out they don’t have to get a bomb on a plane.

Seem Investors Are Losing Patience With the War in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...

Markets no longer buying Trump patter

I think Iran is going to transition from an oil economy to a Hormuz toll economy. Why have expensive vulnerable oil facilities when you can take a piece of any traffic? Open shipping lanes for every country is so Pax Americana, those days are gone.