I see a lot of reasonably anti-Trump people angry at this, but at this point that requires being in a state of denial about how bad SCTOUS has gotten. Court packing is bad in the same way nobody wants their leg amputated, but it's the lesser evil when it's only way to save the patient from gangrene.

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

Dear White House correspondents, It's not too late to develop flu symptoms and decide that you should stay home and miss having dinner with fascists. Think about it. Sincerely, Mark

I certainly hope he’s not the guy in the photo because man, those 38 years have been tough

So the WHCA dinner features a mentalist and a non-mentalist

Nervous. Feel like I ate some dodgy lasagne.

[working at the swastika factory named after a notoriously unreliable crystal ball used by evil forces to conceal true threats] this place is starting to smell like fascism

Same little man...same.

this is what they’re missing when they weaponize uncness. more like trappist monkness

The reason journalists are still attending the WHCA dinner is because they all hang out on X and cooked their brains into thinking it's normal. They have no idea how abnormal it is. Their entire information environment and social construct is telling them this is exactly what they should do.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

I voted for Mr. Trump to make it 2019 again and it worked! Unfortunately, that was last year, and now we're back in 2020

Yo look at my cute ass cat

every trump nomination, regardless of position, should have been a unified "no" from the democrats that is literally the bare minimum, and the party not only failed at that in the first few months -- THEY ARE STILL FAILING AT THAT NOW

Bill Kristol to the left of like 85% of Dems sitting in Congress right now lol

in many ways, W.E.B Du Bois wrote the first Freakonomics

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Voters: "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore!" Dem consultants: "What the voters want is compromise."

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

“Voters went along with it” is a hell of a way to describe democracy functioning correctly

she is old enough to know who these people are — to know *what* they are — and she hates them and i love her for it

I have no view on whether it would be an electorally successful platform. But “hardball in the service of democratic norms” seems to me to be the morally correct platform for Dems.

There is no way that the country can allow the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision allowing forced classroom presentation of the Ten Commandments to exist alongside Mahmoud. It's laughable. And offensive. It's discussed elsewhere, but Higginson, dissenting, got the last word — and it's good:

my skeets would have been way more viral if it wasn't for iran

Whole generation got their brains pickled by the idea that politics is a process of patient triangulation and consensus-building instead of a knife fight that decides how pain, suffering, and resources are distributed throughout society

The real problem with the Democratic Party is that it doesn’t actually stand for the stuff—or people—it claims to. Because it caters to big money. And the result is that it doesn’t fight. Look at Schumer and Jeffries and tell me with a straight face that the problem isn’t inside the house.

If they wanted to get away with something like this they should have painted the statute brown and raped it.

The thing is you have a Secretary of Defense who quite literally does not think germs are real, he explicitly rejects germ theory The question to ask isn't "why did pete do (x)," it's "why did roger wicker vote to confirm a guy who literally doesn't think germs are real"

What is "remarkable," @nytnickc.bsky.social, is that it didn't even occur to you to ask, hey, why are there these mid-decade redistrictings happening in the first place? What did Trump say the goal of them were? Kinda weird isn't it? Kinda weirder than a "Dems are hypocrites!!?!" angle?

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

REVEREND: And now, the couple has elected to write their own vows. We’ll start with the groom GROOM: [clears throat] WHAZAAHHHHHH,

I am so sick of the @nytimes.com sanewashing Trump’s lunatic threats of massive war crimes and the destruction of Iran’s civilization as “warning them of more violence” or the “threat of attack.” The other “style” difference is that Trump is completely unreliable. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

A new poll of Mississippi's U.S. Senate race from Impact Research has Democrat Scott Colom trailing incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 3 points. With leaners added, she's ahead 47%-44%. Trump won Mississippi by 61%-38% in 2024. www.splcactionfund.org/wp-content/u...

blexas and blississpi would probably destroy the GOP's fighting spirit

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

My cousin Shawn took weed to impress a girl when we were teenagers and his asshole & penis switched places. All the doctors at the (real) Pitt threw up when they saw it. Be my guest and Get “high” if you want this to happen to you

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

First ever criminal charges against ICE agents for pulling a gun on two people in a car during a road rage incident. They’re being charged with 2nd degree assault.

Genuinely funny that Sonia Sotomayor issued a public apology today for her mild criticism of a conservative colleague on a specific, substantive issue, and then a few hours later Clarence Thomas picked up a mic and was like ALL LIBERALS ARE AMERICA-HATING COWARDS

@barryp.bsky.social was on this beat. defector.com/i-have-creat...

making the headsman laugh so hard with my little quip about “taking a little off the top” that he hunks the axe directly into my prodigious ass cheeks, saving my life in what the townspeople now reverently refer to as “The Miracle of Messy Bottom”

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

“If the president can’t tell the difference between Jesus Christ and the Red Cross he should be removed from office. But if he thinks he is Jesus Christ… he should also be removed from office.” - free statement for Democrats, customize as necessary

It’s Voltron, avenger of blasphemy