Trump wanted the biggest fireworks display in history and it looks like his vanity could lead to yet another Trumptastrophe. He’s going to Hormuz the Semiquincentennial. I just hope people don’t get killed.

Donald Trump's self-serving massive fireworks display on July 4 may cause the worst air pollution and public health disaster in Washington DC history, especially when combined with the extreme heat wave. Stay indoors, stay away, wear an N95 mask (you still have them, right, because of Covid?).

So far through Trump's second term, 90% of all job growth has accrued to women. (If you want to understand the why, I dig into it here: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/the-pink-c...)

I'm not saying it's cause and effect, but I'm also not not saying it. Either way, the manufacturing revival never came.

Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆

Shocked not shocked

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confronted a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent primary elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"No one gives a shit about housing." Only ballrooms.

Reminder: Burgum was once a "serious" figure. Tech CEO. Who said (on Meet the Press) that he would never do business with Donald Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJU... Now, one more lickspittle clown.

JUST IN: Trump administration argues courts lack grounds to halt White House ballroom project even if it was clearly illegal. DOJ attorney also contends no lawsuit could stop Trump from tearing down Statue of Liberty if he wanted to. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Delusional shit from a former Obama adviser: the Strait is less dire because people are adjusting to it by consuming less. That’s like saying a famine is growing less dire because people are adjusting to it by eating less.

We’re not a serious country anymore

Props to CNN for this chyron

Good for Scott Pelley. These people need to be humiliated personally because they have no humiliation about what they’re doing professionally

“Needed dementia test.”

Good thing nobody covered Trump’s 2024 win as a mandate for dramatic policy change & a right-wing vision of America’s future — instead of, say, a close win driven mainly by the price of eggs and gas going up (then back down!) in 2022-23. That would have been irresponsible. Good thing nobody did that

New deep dive on the House generic ballot from my colleague Mary Radcliffe and me (mostly Mary): The Dem lead on the generic ballot is now as large as it was at this point in 2018. That’s due to sky-high loyalty from Dems and notable defection among Rs open.substack.com/pub/fiftyplu...

He's completely incompetent, even apart from being deranged.

“And by ‘another way” I mean make even more concessions to the Iranians.”

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OPEN THE STRAIT YOU CRAZY BASTARDS I WILL DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE CIVILIZATION OK FINE YOU GUYS CAN RUN THE STRAIT BUT THEN WE WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE NUKES AGAIN

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Bushart, a retired law enforcement officer, isn't the only one paid after being penalized for comments about Kirk...a TN professor reached a $500,000 settlement with the school that also gave him his job back; Iowa agreed to rehire & pay $125,000 to a public defender www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

A good update on Ukraine’s attacks against Russian industrial targets around Moscow over the weekend from @TheStudyofWar understandingwar.org/research/rus...

This - plus the III Corps news - are all different ways of saying that the services spent all their O&M on Iran and are in need of a massive supplemental

Hegseth management update.

As I told some people on the Hill recently, Trump is writing the Dems’ ads for them. He’s at -50 on handling prices, and 50% of persuadable voters say the economy/prices is their top issue, and they trust Dems by 10 on it (will likely increase with new data). This is a huge easy W for Dems

Average daily shipping volumes through the Strait of Hormuz have declined nearly 94% since the start of the war in Iran, Bank of America notes:

Trump's net job approval rating this morning is rounding to -23 for the first time fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Trump insists the White House needs his ballroom, especially after Saturday’s incident. His GOP allies have introduced legislation to authorize it. But the public continues to reject the ballroom by a 2:1 margin. Fresh polling via @sfcpoll.bsky.social.

trump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

This... is apparently something DOJ thinks worthy of charging now.

“86” is not a death threat. It is code for being thrown out of a bar. Kash “Chugalug” Patel and Judge Jeannine “Boxwine” Pirro are very familiar with this fact.

Bravo to there person who has put these flyers all over Capitol Hill and even thought to put them in waterproof sleeves.

The new Fox poll has some of the worst numbers for Trump that I've ever seen

This is amazing: A new rapid-response network just launched to alert people to ICE prison camps in their area. GTFOice.org Sign up. Tell ICE to "GTFO"! (and thanks to @milestaylor.bsky.social and @defiance.org for this initiative!)

More desperate bluster. He has only one diplomatic move — bullying and threats. These aren’t working anymore, so he’s panicking.

You might or or might not (but I’m guessing might not) be surprised to learn that CBS News invited Stephen Miller to be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Hegseth, too. www.breakermedia.com/p/axel-s-tel...

After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood. open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

So if he posted an image of himself multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish into a feast for thousands, would he claim it was a depiction of himself as a caterer?

Agree:

Blockading a blockade is the work of a pure stable genius like no one has ever seen before. Only Donald Trump could have thought of this. It's like, "You think you can shoot at us? Well, we'll show you—we'll shoot ourselves!!" We should all have tears in our eyes.

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame

When we polled 2024 Trump voters who now disapprove of the president and asked them why, the top three issues were prices/the economy, immigration, and his personality/conduct in office. We have come to expect insane tweets like this, but they are still taxing with normies

New piece: Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the "double-haters" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-05...

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