Like they say: You can hollow out the government by getting rid of the professionals or you can....well, actually, no, if you hollow out the government all sorts of bad things are going to happen. That's it.

Georgia is just about at the ultramarine blue stage.

The problem isn’t that two aircraft were shot down. The problem is that we aren’t psychologically or politically prepared to suffer any losses, because this entire war has been sold as a video game set on “easy” and not as a cause worth sacrifice.

“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."

“My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.”

lol

This might be the largest party lead I've ever seen among the double haters www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/p...

Something interesting is happening here. This is *just Republicans* souring on the economy. civiqs.com/results/econ...

You should block accounts that spread lies like this and you should block accounts that "follow" 20k people and you should definitely block those that fit both descriptions, like this one

Donald Trump has a sense of humor. Who knew?

worst democratic governor in the country imo

Particularly fucked when the actual people working for the actual military are being RIFed or having backdoor reacharound “I’m not really RIFing you” RIFs done, to see them asking for a 50% increase to military funding.

I wonder what the D.C. sandwich thrower guy is up to these days

… I believe we’re now at two jets and two copters shot down today, if reports I’ve seen are accurate. (Copters presumably part of the rescue/recovery effort) Hoping for good news about all involved.

Now will the press finally concede that this is and always has been a 100% Republican dysfunction-caused shutdown? Come on, folks. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

… Remember back in the aughts when we sent a bunch of unqualified young conservative bros to Iraq to run everything? That was so great we’ve decided to try it with our own government.

Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants And the Hindus hate the Muslims...

There's no strategy. There's no plan. There's just a tired old man who'd rather watch Fox News and grift than do the job of being president.

As always: He believes that the presidency is a prize he's won, not a job he was hired to do.

But “the military failed to pass an audit for 8 years” deliberately implies to people that nobody anywhere in the military can account for where almost any of its massive budget goes. And that’s extremely not true.

I feel like this is a lonely drum, and it feels like a sad one to beat at this specific time, but a lot of the “military failed to pass an audit” stuff implied stuff a lot broader and deeper than what is actually true.

This is not just illegal, it’s very fundamentally unconstitutional. Elephants don’t hide in mouse holes and all that. A pacifist president couldn’t be like “I’m reorg-ing the army into one condo in Berkeley.”

Once more, if the regular prerogatives of the president to reorganize and streamline organizations created by Congress wind up destroying those organizations, that is not constitutional. You can’t just be like “I’m allowed to light candles” and then put them next to a pile of kerosene soaked rags.

Budget Sci-Fi writers workshop retreat prompt:

… You would think these Western Civ devotees would be familiar with the concept of hubris, but

“in under a week, [the U.S. & Israel] will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace…. Complete control means… Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day... and Iran will be able to do nothing about it.” —SecDef Hegseth, March 4

… AFAIK the story has been circulating heavily for a couple hours but not officially confirmed by US military until now.

… ABC cut into programming with a special report on this, so it seems the major media will push this story

ABC News confirming that a US fighter jet has been shot down over Iran.

Great night in with the Androscoggin Dems in Auburn! Maine deserves better than what we're getting from Susan Collins — together, we're going to win this seat and take back the Senate.

So obviously Hegseth is trying to slash his way down to a completely pliant GOFO corps that would rubber stamp his edicts, but I genuinely wonder how much shit like this makes even those inclined to agree with him on details reticent to go along.

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

elite enablers of Trump aren’t afraid of Trump, they’re afraid of what has to be done to politically neutralize Trump. that may sound like semantics, but its not.

A deliberate, symbolic strike on civilian infrastructure with no case for military utility. As clear cut as LOAC violations come.

Ok but look how competently DoD is run now that black people and women are being purged from the higher ranks and merit is the only criteria bsky.app/profile/empt...

Apparently the DNC now uses the f word on X, and even pins it

So the Trump administration’s position is now literally and explicitly “Congress is allowed to give us power but they are not allowed to take it back”?

This is also why it’s critical to fight like hell for the senate.

We simply don’t have any institutions set up to challenge shit like this and when they do it takes a year and it’s tepid and also the ones that could do anything have been largely captured (or in the case of the military, the options for being uncaptured are, uh, also no bueno).

For almost all the recent ones it's all reading twitter/bsky either in my study on the desktop or in my living room on the laptop but invasion of Ukraine was at the race book at Sam's Town. (Almost certain; might have been the race book at South Point.)

If you think acting AG Todd Blanche looks like a stereotypical mob lawyer, it's because he literally is a mob lawyer.

Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

This afternoon the AAG for Civil Rights tweeted serious advice to a parody account regarding its post yesterday (April Fools Day) of a phony NFL memo, so I’d say she’s a solid candidate to replace Bondi.

Canada’s new Nature Strategy will protect up to 2.4 million km² of our lands and oceans. By harnessing the power of modern technology and the wisdom of Indigenous traditions, we are making unprecedented conservation efforts to build a stronger, more sustainable Canada.

"Biggest scam in modern political history."

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) with the bad news for Pedophile-Protecting Pam: “Pam Bondi still has to testify, under oath, in front of the Oversight Committee regarding the Epstein Files. This does not get her out of that bipartisan, lawful subpoena. We will see her soon.”

Lethality-obsessed man wants more guns around