So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

It remains hilarious that these chuds are (1) obsessed with child-centered pop culture while (2) knowing fuckall about it (Boop was famously based on a black woman) and (3) assuming everyone else is driven by the same weird politics of stunted development and resentment as they clearly are.

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

If you’re an attorney, a member of the same bar as these Rat Bastards, and aren’t doing your best to get their asses disbarred given the systemic damage they’ve done to your field…just walk into the ocean.

This. Entire. F’ing. Thread. If ANY SINGLE ONE of these Ratfuck Shitheels still have a law license after all of this, every attorney should be incandescent in rage.

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

If you thought Trump was corrupt before, it just got *a lot* worse. The DOJ just expanded the absurd settlement giving him a $1.7 billion slush fund to ALSO bar the IRS from pursuing investigations into him, his family and his businesses. That's a huge, unconstitutional giveaway to Trump. 🧵

The key distinction is between nominal wages and real wages. Nominal wages are the dollars on your paycheck. Real wages are what those dollars can actually buy.⁣ ⁣ If prices rise faster than pay, you’re going backwards.

Very, Very Well Played….

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

"Since last spring, the GAO has been looking into how DOGE members accessed sensitive government databases. But the probes have been stymied by federal agencies trying to avoid handing over information."

Probably should be a bigger deal that the Trump Administration used taxpayer dollars to host a Christian Nationalist event in the nation's capital, but, nah. www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

I get why many people don’t want to admit the US is no longer a rule of law democracy and has backslid into competitive authoritarianism. It’s a big change for the worse and unsettling to think about. But that won’t change the fact that it has. And the pro-democracy opposition needs to act like it.

🚨🚨🚨THIS CONGRESSMAN GETS IT. THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. PLEASE BE LIKE THIS CONGRESSMAN. 🚨🚨🚨

Comfortably Dumb

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I’d read a Hannah Arendt-esque article titled “The Banality of Intentional Stupidity.” Because Burgum knows better. He founded a software company that he sold to Microsoft for over a billion dollars. He knows how batteries and energy storage work.

So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices? Fascinating.

Here's a handy list of promises he's forgotten, but we should use against him

See if you can spot the effects of the Iran war.

Latest inflation report just dropped, and it came in hot, and slightly hotter than most folks expected.

Here's a graph showing interest payments from 1792 to present. The US has a problem, stemming from historically high primary deficits coupled w/ interest rates that have somewhat rebounded. But if we hadn't done the Bush and Trump tax cuts, we wouldn't: the high primary deficits come from tax cuts

48 years a Nurse 45 years a Wife 37 years a Mother 6 Years a Grandmother 22 Months a Glioblastoma Survivor And now Forever an Angel Happy Mother's Day to those of ours we can only see by looking skyward-

happy mother’s day

Not being always connected....

It's very frustrating living in a country where the Republicans are given a free pass by the courts and by the media to do whatever deranged dangerous bugfuck batshit they want, but when Democrats make any change at all, the media hamstrings them and then the courts brain them with a cinder block.

This supercut of Republicans crying about the price of gas under Biden vs now is a must see. These people will say anything and believe in nothing.

But let's talk abt this for a minute. 1) Tom Homan accepts $50K re prison contracts. 2) DOJ kills investigation. 3) Trump puts Homan in a position not requiring confirmation. 4) After ousting Noem, Homan installs a figurehead. 5) And moves to put HIS GEO contracting guy in charge of ICE.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Can we make “getting Andor’d” a thing?

If this picture was in black/white instead of color and I told you it was from the 1960s….yeah.

I legitimately want to know what the Pope’s diplomatic passport from the Vatican currently uses for his name 😂

This is a blunt summary of something I think about A LOT.

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

It's a very odd feeling to read that the cost of your firing was $20 billion to the US economy. Studies like this are so important. It's hard to put a value on a public service. Trustworthy economic data is vital to so much economic activity in a $29 trillion economy. Worth your time to read.

Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss hearing about Rudy G:

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🔴Cause for concern ▶️Real disposable income (aka the money you have in your pocket after taxes & inflation) is only up 0.4% y/y while consumer spending is up 2.1% y/y ▶️What gives? People are dipping into savings, using credit & leveraging wealth ▶️An uneven & fragile picture

Gas prices go up like a rocket and come down like a feather…

US #Inflation surges: #MiddleEast conflict impact on energy prices 📆March 2026 🟠Headline PCE prices: 0.66% m/m 🟠Core PCE prices: 0.29% m/m 🎯Inflation elevated & moving away from 2% #Fed target 🔺Headline PCE inflation: 3.5% (+0.7pt) 🔺Core PCE inflation: 3.2% (+0.2pt)

Inflation according to the Fed's preferred measure jumped in March, as expected, to nearly a three-year high on spiking gas prices. Headline rose to 3.5%, and core prices are now 3.2% above a year ago. Check out apnews.com for more.

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

Full statement on the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais: "The Roberts Court seeks to achieve what the Confederacy and the Klan could not while wearing robes that are black rather than white."

You want to know why Trump has loyalty from his base? It's certainly racism and sexism, etc. But it's primarily powered by their rage at the world for not accommodating their slack-jawed, drooling ineptitude

“I’m Guy Fieri and in this episode of Diners, Douchebags, and Date Rape….”

Hegseth is so outta his depth he’s gonna get The Bends…

There are sun-bleached bones in the Sahara that are less thirsty-