We cut childhood poverty nearly in half and then just stopped with little debate or news coverage. It was shameful and terrible politics.

Remember how Republicans thought Obama using a teleprompter was a scandal? Trump doesn’t even understand the simple concepts on the teleprompter.

Pure unadulterated fascism.

Mad as a hatter.

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court disbarred John Eastman because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. We never celebrate the removal of a lawyer’s right to practice law, but we are proud that the California stood up for our professional ethics. 1/3

The mining process exposes minerals to rain that creates sulphuric acid ergo Minnesota is a bad location. The company is foreign owned, would ship to China and back, no discernible US benefit per @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

A trillion dollar military budget doesn’t stretch as far as it used to.

A trillion dollar military budget doesn’t stretch as far as it used to.

Jared Golden was the one and only Democrat who voted to continue Donald Trump's war on Iran. The vote was won by Trump by 214-213. Won by just one vote, Jared's. What a scumbag.

A disgusting vote. The Republicans are so morally bankrupt.

" In addition to his proposed gutting of various low-income assistance programs to the tune of $73 billion, he is also requesting an additional $400 billion for defense spending." prospect.org/2026/04/16/t...

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

I’m disappointed but not surprised that two days after finally reporting on the widespread concern that Trump is “insane,” the NYT is right back to treating Trump’s erratic behavior as if it is inexplicable. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

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Today, these Dems likely to hand Trump-Kash Patel FISA Section 702 power to access Americans' emails, texts, calls without a warrant @meeks.house.gov @jahimes.bsky.social @adamsmith.house.gov "undecided" While Trump admin appears poised to abuse such powers against bogus "antifa" affiliates.

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

"House Democrats will introduce five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday accusing him of abuse of power, war crimes and other serious wrongdoing." www.axios.com/2026/04/15/i...

and this was before this latest one! bsky.app/profile/myri...

Vance is convertsplaining theology to the Pope now.

The president staying up till 3 AM posting memes on social media would be a five alarm fire in any other society

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"

Big news: Gov. Spanberger signs bill making Virginia 18th state + DC to join National Popular Vote Interstate Compact States in compact now total 222 electoral votes, 48 shy of 270 needed for popular vote plan to go into effect www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...

"The people we identified as resisting attempts to overturn the 2020 results have been replaced by roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This is clearly not sustainable for 3 more years. Trump is quickly spiraling into dementia and the Republicans are letting him hold the nuclear codes the whole way down.

17 votes to make oil & gas S-Corps pay the same taxes as C-Corps. So 17 votes to get $100 million or more for Alaska's schools. 23 votes to instead hand that money to a billionaire in Texas.

On top of everything else, Jesus H. Trump has never done a selfless thing in his life. If he could help a sick person, he wouldn’t bother unless there was something in it for him.

this new series is actually disappointing…

Trump makes a profane post threatening genocide on Easter, trashes the Pope for refusing to worship him, and posts a depiction of himself as Jesus healing the sick. The right-wing political pastors who promoted this scumbag fake Christian as someone chosen by God are charlatans.

"It's going to take months if not years for the US and global economy to recover from Donald Trump's war of choice."

Trump is demonstrating the importance of credibility in international relations. He is not credible. He’s shown that others can’t trust what he says, and can’t act as if his stance will be the same tomorrow. He can’t communicate demands or make reliable offers. He made America’s word is worthless.

As a Boomer-era person all too aware of the effects of interrupted and insufficient sleep, I see the list below as a ten-alarm fire. Even for someone with 1,000,000x the equanimity, self-control, decency, empathy, knowledge, etc of Trump, such a list would constitute an emergency.

Over 2 million people lost access to SNAP. The Trump administration likes to see Americans starve, scrape and struggle. www.huffpost.com/entry/snap-f...

I spoke to an ICE observer who was detained last week after following DHS agents to record them. She was not arrested. Five days later, her Global Entry was revoked. A day after I asked DHS about her case, her Global Entry was restored. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

This is how it's done! "a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods" www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

Voters are terrible at predicting who is electable. Voting for the person you are excited about is a better bet than trying to guess who the median voter will like.

Not that I expect him to know this, but a blockade is an act of war

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I bet some insiders made a killing betting on rising oil prices.

Trump worries about "volatile, difficult, unpredictable people" having access to nuclear weapons.

So they weren’t really negotiations.

"We're Republicans. We're not in Congress for oversight – we're in Congress to get insider info for our stock trades."

On the cover of the NY Times today: Immigration Judges Are Purged As Trump Speeds Deportations. Dictator banana republic ish.

“Sending abrasive dickhead to negotiate with Iran has backfired”

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Exactly. The national security media is horribly failing us now, as can be seen in vital distilled form by comparing to the Afghanistan Biden coverage. Trump threatened war crimes then lied about his utter failure and loss and natsec media is too afraid to tell the truth about Trump

People hear "judge" and they assume judicial independence. But the Trump administration has hacked away at immigration judges independence to the point that they can expect to be fired if they don't do the Trump administration's bidding. And the Supreme Court has blessed this loss of autonomy.

The NYT is just lying to you here. GW Bush passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which, among other things, required USPS to prefund future retiree benefits. That year, before PAEA went into effect, it posted almost a billion in profits.

That seems like a major escalation in authoritarianism.

I’m muting anonymous accounts that post ostensible breaking news without linking to sources and I’d urge you to stop RTing them. It’s just some person typing words that may or may not be true and they always have a zillion RTs.

Democratic leadership’s ‘focus on affordability’ means refusing to consistently push back on practically every element of Trump’s political project.