Bezos depended not just on the post office, but on greatly reduced media mail rates, which exist to subsidize free speech!

like the uvalde cops, but the total opposite

pour one out for the comms staffer who pitched "fuck around (tax billionaires)" before getting overruled by legal, the CoS and the senator

The rule of law in the US quite blatantly breaking down. Within a decade American law could be on a par with Russian; meaningless statutes maintained in a parody of real legal systems by a despotic one. Then real asset stripping and capital flight begins. If nothing is done, American poverty.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

imagine getting back the parts of your attention drawn into wondering “is that legal? can they get away with that?”

District Judge Williams explicitly said the filing by tRump contained no mention of a settlement, no paperwork describing a settlement, that no settlement of record existed when she closed the case. The slush fund “in exchange for dismissing” his case against the IRS is a complete scam.

Democrats trying to force the slush fund into the public consciousness, good stuff bsky.app/profile/greg...

People who say it’s impossible/illegal/unconstitutional for Trump to serve a third term would do well to take note of the unprecedented developments of every single day. They don’t wait for permission. They just do it.

An outlet running from fear and begging for favor can never do good journalism.

Mainstream media should be covering Trump with fewer political reporters and more crime reporters.

At this point, the whole world is just Bill Murray, every morning at 6 am, hearing "I Got You Babe."

Anyway, this is about to be a disaster. Americans are not ready for this. Be ready for the thin veneer of civility to vanish. The 🧵 just gets more interesting as it goes on. Side note, when Joe Biden released reserves, he timed refilling them so the US made a profit buying at a lower price.

While chatting with some friends, it occurred to me that other people could benefit from a summary understanding of what's going on in the oil and gas markets. Here are some little pictures to give you the big picture. 🧵

I am calling for an immediate investigation into any collusion between Jared Polis and the Trump administration. I am also calling on the Colorado State Legislature to convene a special session to consider articles of impeachment against Governor Polis.

HELEN OF TROY MUST BE PLAYED BY THE SEXY GREEN M & M

Trump is planning to pay $1.7 billion in REPARATIONS to white people. Yes, that’s exactly what this is. The same government that refuses to compensate Black people for hundreds of years of slavery and second-class citizenship now wants to pay reparations to Trump’s cronies. Straight up racism.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

May hell hath no fury like Black voters scorned.

Seems.... not ideal! "More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone"

this guy took free tuition for his nephew from a right wing billionaire with a literal garden of evil. Took a freebie RV. Didn’t disclose it. Took free *tires* for some reason. But he thinks you’re a crook if you get mail order medicine.

1. Major media outlets are credulously reporting that cost of the Iran War was $29 billion so far, citing the Pentagon. This number is absurdly low. It is based on flawed accounting and completely excluding major categories of costs. But it still made all the headlines.

Among the grifters in Trump's circus is a common thread: they will eventually disappoint their marks, I mean, deep-pocketed patreons. It's an incompetent group, replete with promises and compliments, but unable to deliver on pretty much everything. It catches up with them at some point.

When both the Middle East and America come to grips with the fact that Jared Kushner works for Israel first, it will all seem much more clear.

Democrats are not real Americans. I wouldn't be surprised to see Trump declare the Democratic Party a terrorist organization because that's how insane this is all getting.

Please say hi to Millie, seen here holding my hand 🥹

I wonder how exactly those conversations go? WH: Jump. DOJ: How high?

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

What you write in an “editor’s note” at the end of a story when you are definitely a credible news outlet running reporting by a legitimate journalist

Insane

“Trump is using social media not as Big Brother or Stalin would have…but the way a depressed teenager would: as a source of fantasies that provide him with validation, comfort, and escape from the frightening realities of the outside world.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... #influencee

Fascinating

The right-wing project is gonna forever pigenhole 2020 health professionals for being imperfect in a once-in-a-century crisis because the right-wing project knows they didn't try at all.

What's more...it won't work.

Enlightening. No scheme is too far fetched for the insurrectionists.

We are still favored to win. Every twenty cent increase in a gallon of gas loses republicans more votes. And every Senate seat is statewide. Immune from the gerrymander.

But sure, Trump derangement syndrome is a thing.

NEWSNATION: But we did hear a much shorter timeframe at the beginning of this. How do we reconcile the original timeline with what we're dealing with now? GORKA: There's a very simple answer to your question -- we've just been too effective

It's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

"I used to make fun of this kind of thing when reporting in North Korea."

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

The democratic theory of the Virginia Supreme Court

We all desperately need this today.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk is all about how the modern federal government was set up to reduce & eliminate a vast array of invisible problems, which it has done so well that it opened a door to wreckers who claim it did nothing, & are now making that lie true—with disastrous results

Please no. I can’t take this again.

Just complete vandals. Lazy vandals.