i want a weighted blanket that weighs 100lbs

"Covid will be over in two weeks. Gone by Easter" "We're signing a health care plan within two weeks" "They’re dying, Russians & Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours" Based on his record, this isn’t ending anytime soon.

Notice how he absolutely DESPISES any Republican who actually still believe in the policies he actually campaigned on? Such as: Releasing the Epstein files, not getting us into new wars, creating a healthy & affordable economy, new job growth, & lowering energy costs. These people are now demons.

In Schnecksville, PA, Trump said he’d drive energy prices “so low” that everything else would fall too — even food prices he claimed had gone up “double and triple and quadruple.” Then he promised he’d “get it way down.” Big promises come easy. Real results don’t.

Pep band 💯 on point

Apparently, Kegseth hasn’t destroyed their ability to drop truth bombs.

these coins are gorgeous. what they are saying to me from 2000 years in the past: don't get comfortable. your time here is nearly up.

Agree. It's so bad

I realize…and I’ll never get over the hate and lies…

Working on what has become a "these dipshits blew up the entire world economy to own Iran, make money on the betting market, and cause the return of Christ at the end of days" episode and I haven't been this mad working on something at 3am since I discovered that the Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

👍 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

The Department of Justice has sued 30 states and DC for access to their unreacted sensitive voter data. My law firm is fighting them in all 30 cases. We are dedicating so many resources because these are the most important legal fights and the future of free and fair elections is at stake.

Just like Witkoff coached Putin’s team

www.wpri.com/news/local-n... “Just 11% of Connecticut’s state roads are in poor condition,” compared with 32% in Rhode Island

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

And this is all he had to replace Noem.

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

Justice for Cricket.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Nah. The real debate in America is between people who know Trump is evil and say so, and the people (like Laura!) who know Trump is corrupt and evil and lie about it for personal profit.

arrest Noem, arrest the friend. do it now.

given the Texas voting location fuckery, this is a real sign of how fucking furious people are

people not in Texas, let’s get ready to open our wallets to whatever grassroots orgs are helping voters navigate this fucking bullshit (media campaigns, carpools and transport, door knocking, whatever is needed) this fuckery cannot stand

What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*. In March. Imagine November. I broke it down here: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...

Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for hosting this week's #PromptCombo #Powerless. Here's a fairly literal response which turns a little gloomy at the end. Looking forward to reading other offerings from the #PoetryCommunity in due course

The latest addition to this saga is that the White House has said that 6'9" Barron Trump is "too tall to serve in the military." That's evidently their modern equivalent of Trump's bogus bone spurs story. David Robinson is 7' tall and put his lucrative NBA career on hold to serve in the Navy.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

The average person doesn’t realize just how different professional athletes are… the level of skill it takes to perform inside the top 1% of the entire population of the planet at something is incredible I have a Will Perdue story that boils down to: Purdue was unreal good & was a scrub in the NBA.

whiteness at work

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

Then what happened?

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The cries of anguish. Jesus Christ.

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

> @keithedwards.bsky.social

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

First of all -- fuck you, Pete. None of this is happening in the faculty lounges of your fever dreams. Second, I've taught military personnel in our PhD programs and if you think slamming the door to Harvard and Princeton in their faces is "having their back" you're even dumber than you sound.