Ron Filipkowski of MeidasTouch posted this to remind us that Trump wasn't afraid to not be in a bunker to attend a UFC fight. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

He’s losing an argument with his own would-be assassin’s manifesto

Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. There was also the small matter of Jan. 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons.

I’m fascinated by how obsessed Trump is with his ballroom but still unsure why he wants it so bad. There is definitely an untold story there that goes beyond him just wanting a larger event space.

An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Excellent reporting here on the Trump administration’s successful assault on the food stamp program, undertaken as the ranks of hungry Americans desperate for assistance include more and more “working families who cannot keep up with the cost of living and inflation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

Every single weekend, he golfs on a massive course, but he needs a giant ballroom for his “safety.” 🙄

If a powerful and evil person reviled my colleagues, and dehumanized them, and said they should be executed for treason, and I went and broke bread with that person at an event to promote and celebrate and normalize him, I would be a shitty person, and I hope people would be shitty to me.

Just a reminder that past motives for assassination attempts have included: "because the ghost of William McKinley told me to," "to save the trees" and "to impress Jodie Foster."

One in every four days of his second term, Donald Trump has been on a golf course. The taxpayer bill across two presidencies just crossed a quarter of a billion dollars. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

It’s honestly insane to watch American conservatives pretend that the energy transition just is not happening. Batteries are bridging the gap in California. Many countries in Europe get the majority of their power from wind and solar. It’s just… here.

Young Americans are very low trust, sometimes bordering on nihilism. It’s up to us to build institutions that make them want to act with social trust—to make an effort at school, to vote, to have normal social interactions in public spaces, to date, to not shoplift or evade fares, etc

A year ago they were fully publicly complying with the third term / president for life fantasy and now they’re leaking shit like this to tee themselves up — is he dying or is this just a historic lame duck cratering

Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

"His negotiating team is his son-in-law and a real estate developer. The secretary of state is...apparently not deeply involved here. The DNI is virtually invisible. If I were a foreign opponent, I'd be saying this is the most incompetent American regime we've ever faced." @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Eric Trump gets a massive Pentagon contract. Melania gets a movie. Donald Trump gets millions in payouts and crypto. They’re all cashing in. And the corruption is killing our economy.

Yesterday, a U.S. soldier was arrested for placing a bet on Polymarket for the capture of Maduro and winning $400K. Clearly insider knowledge and clearly a national security issue that needs to be addressed.

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

Uh oh: Somebody saw his horrible 33pct approval/67 pct disapproval numbers and is lashing out online all hours of the night. Shows just how laser-focused he is on the lives and economic hardships of regular Americans.

Her partner died in the Baltimore bridge collapse. The Biden administration offered her a way to stay in the U.S. Their 7-year-old is a U.S. citizen. The Trump admin is deporting her. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

“There will now be 35,000 vouchers available — funded through taxpayer dollars.” AGAIN: Almost entirely to kids already in private schools. They won’t track that, because they know it. @GovBillLee’s legacy will be coupons for the wealthy that take hundreds of millions from public schools.

That seems like a lot

“Not as long as Vietnam” is some truly top tier marketing for this war.

This could almost be considered criminal. After a brutally cold winter and now record gas prices, this Administration is refusing to provide crucial funds from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program that helps MILLIONS of people pay their electric bills.

The plan is to blame Biden for Trump's catastrophic fuck-up.

Important to note that the Congress in the most powerful country in the world has chosen to completely ignore a deepening global economic and political crisis flowing from Trump's failed war. No hearings, no legislation, no studies about mitigating the damage, rebuilding afterwards. Just this 👇

Statesmanlike.

I was shocked to learn in Tennessee that Nashville's single Democratic Congressman was gerrymandered out of a seat, leaving the city divided into several half-urban, half-rural constituencies and with no real representation at all. That was years ago, and I didn't hear any Republicans object.

Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

My story about how 924 sailors died of influenza over the course of a month at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. chicagoreader.com/city-life/th...

Democrats did not want to do any mid-decade redistricting. It was Trump who started it in June 2025 with a phone call to Greg Abbott after more special election losses. Dems warned they’d respond. But Texas did it anyway - without the consent of the voters. Then Dems responded.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Virginia voters have delivered a significant win to Democrats, as the party aims to pick up four more U.S. House seats in the state. n.pr/3OEODjt

Tragic and heart-breaking. Why we must not let our guard down - measles is terribly contagious and can and will come roaring back if we let it.

Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.

When the Oval Office becomes a stock tip line, it’s corruption in plain sight. We must continue to sound the alarm. Head to the Substack page for everything you need to know: www.adamkinzinger.com/p/this-isnt-...

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.

Nobody has given more aid and comfort to health and welfare fraudsters than Donald J. Trump, a new Protect Our Care report shows. He's pardoned executives responsible for more than $3 billion in fraud. prospect.org/2026/04/21/t...

Al Gore: “This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has. It’s shocking to me.”

Do not stop talking about the Epstein files!

Me: look, it’s very important to understand racism as a social structure, focusing on individuals as “racists” is counterproductive Rep. Brandon Gill: hold my beer

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Is that bad? Seems bad

Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

248 US military flights over Ireland went unreported due to ‘administrative error’ Well that is some admin error - get the US military out of Shannon #USoutofShannon www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …

NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/air-...