This is best case scenario for the Dems… having to use money from the Big Beautiful Bill that was designated for ICE to pay TSA agents. DJT is the worst negotiator.

I assume everyone on this app is 42 unless proven otherwise

Linking back to this essay I wrote last year bsky.app/profile/asel...

Hard agree

Trump now wants the Senate to combine the SAVE America Act with funding for the Department of Homeland Security. "Don't worry about Easter - going home. In fact, make this one for Jesus, okay? Make this one for Jesus, that's what I tell them. It would be a damn good thing."

I finished Resident Evil Requiem last night. It’s crazy that Elpis ended up being a new GLP-1.

I’m sorry I cursed the Gators by watching my first game of theirs this season

Trump’s new plan to end the DHS shutdown is to combine a full funding plan (unchanged), which already can’t pass without Democrats, with the SAVE America Act, which already can’t pass without Democrats. No changes to either bills. Just take two bills that currently cannot pass and put them together

Why didn’t anyone tell me that the Florida Gators men’s basketball team has a literal giant?

The INTEREST on our national debt is projected to hit $1 trillion this year. Instead of trying to reverse the spiral, this administration is cutting services and still exploding the budget. No one is even pretending to care anymore.

They will always hate me far more than they will ever hate you. They need opponents on the Left. The last thing they need, or can abide, is critics on the Right.

When liberals say "Republicans were always like this" they think it's a harsh indictment, but it's actually letting them off the hook too easy. The reason anti-Trump conservatives like me generate so much hatred from today's GOP is that our very existence is proof that there was always a choice.

Remember all the times I said never to celebrate the death of another human being, because it just makes you look like a terrible, shitty person? Don't be this guy.

Building the strawest of strawmen

Dashboard Confessional’s seminal album The Places You Have Come to Fear The Most came out 25 years ago today. It might be the most important album that shaped my music taste that I found on my own. A poster from that album’s tour hangs in my office. Note FSF opened. Note that it was $10.

I voted Republican in every election since I was old enough. I really enjoyed The Apprentice. I, as much or more than anyone, was willing to give DJT a shot. He was so manifestly unqualified and petty from the moment he came down that escalator in 2015. He made clear he was unfit before primaries.

It’s implementing The Long Walk for every American over 65

Not now, millions of scorpions. www.newsweek.com/millions-of-...

Writing out that first draft and grimly deleting the exclamation point after the "Thanks!" You hate to do it but sometimes you have to let em know who you are

Fetterman was the deciding vote on advancing Mullin’s DHS Secretary nomination. With the GOP committee chair Rand Paul voting no, Fetterman could have single-handedly thrown sand in the gears of the agency of ICE, mass deportation, rights violations, and concentration camps. He chose the opposite.

Oil can’t get through the strait of Hormuz because it’s now a rouge-like, every time a ship dies it respawns with none of its items. This is bad for the oil industry.

I don’t know how anyone could look at this Trump administration and think that they would have done a better job exiting Afghanistan than Biden did

This segment was incredible and infuriating. Great work for the part you played @propublica.org

Our President doesn’t want any more people mutilized

Eric Trump calls the Ayatollah’s son an incompetent moron who only got his position through nepotism. Irony is dead.

The thing that happened this week that I don’t think people realize how significant it is is that BOTH the GOP-controlled House and the GOP-controlled Senate blocked a War Powers act that would require the President to get approval from Congress to go to war. Like the Constitution says.

It sort of makes sense you’d be allowed to sink enemy ships during war. It’s just, when you pair that with “also we can be at war with anyone at any moment whenever I, the idiot president, feel like it, with zero rules whatsoever,” it kind of becomes a license to kill whoever annoys the GOP

I’m more worried about the policy/constitution issues that the DJT admin presents, while my wife is more worried about the humanitarian/civil rights issues that the DJT admin presents. Is this the opposites attracting that MC Scat Kat and Paula Abdul told us about?

I don’t understand why general body shaming is frowned upon, but it seems like anyone who uses a GLP is fair game for scrutinizing.

If anything, Trump’s handling of foreign attacks indicates that he would have been much worse than Biden in extracting the people, military, and equipment from Afghanistan.

There’s a non-zero chance that the only reason Trump is doing what he is in Venezuela and Iran is because we didn’t give him a Peace Prize

The imminent threat that Iran posed the US is that they hate our freedom

Hegseth's "no stupid rules of engagement" (real quote) pairs well with Trump saying the US had some Khamenei successors in mind to back but the initial wave of American-Israeli strikes killed them.

Iraq war was started on a presidential lie but it feel like somehow the Iran war was started on something worse: a total presidential failure to comprehend even the most basic facts of the situation

The trend of increasing presidential power at the expense of Congress did not start with Trump, but this attack on Iran brings it to new heights, with the legislature not even consulted on a consequential use of one of its core responsibilities. And the GOP majorities are apparently fine with that.

A doozy of a doublethink: Trump's bombing completely eliminated Iran's nuclear program, it's wrong if anyone says otherwise, AND Iran today has such an advanced active nuclear program that Trump had to bomb them a lot more, it's wrong if anyone says otherwise.

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

Take him seriously and literally.

right wing pastors are screaming, crying, throwing up because John Piper posted a Bible verse on the everything app.

If you hate on YUNGBLUD because he is a newcomer, or maybe because he doesn’t stand for anything, here is a screenshot from a video from his early days. And the song is about homosexual love. The dude means what he says and has for years.

it's really surreally funny that the socialist mayor of New York City seems to be Donald Trump's current favorite person

What a great fishing joke #SOTU

Went through some of my adoption paperwork last night and got to look at the only picture I have of my birthmom. I inherited one of my favorite things about myself from her, and that’s my crooked smile ❤️

Me before the big speech tonight: *walks up to the podium* *adjusts the microphone* ‘The state of the union is WRONG’ *leaves the building*

An important Twitter thread:

If you find someone that’s as obsessed with you as DJT is with tariffs, call the cops.

look, all i’m saying is if your packaging says “tear here” and i tear there it should open the packaging

What’s needed, required, is a thorough investigation by some responsible body. I don’t comment on the Epstein files much because I have no idea what’s true, what’s not, separating fact from internet rumor from spurious allegations is all but impossible. Something like the J6 Committee is needed.