What if something really bad happens? A terrorist attack. An earthquake. A tsunami. A volcanic eruption. Anything, where disaster management and recovery will be needed. What are we going to do? The people who handled Warp Speed are gone. It's just that geriatric ringmaster and his circus.

What a horrible horrible feeling to walk away with. Relief that the president "only" shouted a truth social post at us. This is so absurd it just exhausts me. What we we doing?

Susie Wiles right now is Googling “presidential stimulants too much?”

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

Rivited by this play by play of NIMBYs taking Ls.

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

I didn't know what to do with myself, so I wrote something about and for trans teenagers, who I believe have the right to be spoken to frankly. Read it, and show it to them if you want. Or don't. I don't know if anything an adult can say means anything. www.patreon.com/posts/146111...

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

I am so thrilled that he didn't declare we're at war with Venezuela.

It's not just me! Oh my god.

What is happening, is he high?

36 Democrats votes to criminalize treating their constituents' children with well-researched, conservative, and individualized plans for a recognized condition that, untreated, leads to serious mental health issues. It is outrageous we have allowed this party to take its LGBTQ voters for granted.

"trans minor care felony criminalization bill will die in senate because it requires 60 votes" there are 53 senate republicans and 36 democrats (+angus king) just voted for a bill that statutorily defines trans women as men and BLOCKS CARE FOR TRANS KIDS

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

Is there anything in this universe less useful than a live chat on the AP YouTube channel showing a Trump speech?

I desperately need people to watch this because I have repeatedly tried to tell people that Trump is not unique, they just don't remember Bush. His entire administration was memory-holed by a right wing ecosystem humiliated by being proven wrong about everything from Iraq to the economy.

Denaturalization can not be decided by a federal court for just a mistake on paperwork. Period. Read my book www.pennpress.org/978081222212...

This mediocre white man owes his entire career to the media's right-wing affirmative action program. The only reason he exists to me is because he lives a privileged life in a society consumed with rewarding white men.

"Overall, this data does not really support Savage’s material thesis. Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."

this is completely delusional

It's like speed running the Bush Administration.

Republicans have successfully ended a student loan repayment program that provided a lifeline to Americans drowning in debt. “If you were totally screwed before now, you’re super screwed after.” From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/2rpUhC5

They refused to even say they won't just execute folks off the same secret list I get cis folk don't realize they mean ALL trans people when they say "trans equality activists," but they're telling you, outright, they want to kill all trannies who don't accept being treated as subhuman please care!

He's admitting that the healthcare system, as it existed before the ACA, was working as intended. They've said it in every way they possibly could for 20+ years. Everything, from the panic about death panels to the shrug at rising costs, has been about going back to it.

I need everyone to make it clear to these people, Bongo, MTG, Massie, that no matter when they leave the swamp, being there at all was permanently disqualifying from public office. You stepped in the bog of eternal stench. You will smell like Trump forever.

Russ Vought’s Project 2025 plan all along was “destroying agencies’ notion of independence, that they’re independent from the President”. As admitted on hidden camera to journalists in 2024… www.cnn.com/2024/08/15/p...

A Dem senator pressed Trump's FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, on the agency's independence at a hearing today, noting it says "independent" right on the FCC website. Minutes later, with the hearing still going on, the website updated. The word "independent" was gone. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It enrages me that people aren't going to bother with this. He's ineligible for the Presidency because of what he did, and it's all there in Smith's case.

oh you don’t say

“ the jail is at a horrific state right now."... “We hear stories,” Harris, the county mayor, tells me, of “individuals that are standing for 24 hours straight because there’s no room or place for them to sit down. I don’t have the words for what’s happening over there.”

If Miller thinks that an expropriation of wealth generations ago is an outrage that demands recompense today, then I eagerly accept his apparent endorsement of reparations for American slavery.

The photographer might need to go into witness protection because he just blew ALL their shit up, lol. A master work.

"My kids won't talk to me," and "My kids treat me as a doormat," are non-overlapping problems. No one can possibly assert both simultaneously unless they're speaking in bad faith. I wonder why journalists at the WSJ aren't smart enough to figure that out?

The first time I mocked Donald Trump about stealth aircraft not being physically invisible was February 17, 2016.

Donald Trump sincerely believes that stealth aircraft are invisible to the naked eye. He thinks they almost magically disappear. He has talked many times about how it's like nothing you've ever seen before and how you wouldn't believe and that they just disappear. He really believes this.

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

median asking rent in the US per the Census Bureau (data is through 9/30) JD Vance lies as he breathes

Everybody in Congress knows what they should do. I guarantee you Roger Wicker knows what his job is here. Every last member of Congress knows that they should act. And they're not stopping it.

Step 1: the president makes a declaration. Declares himself Space Pope. We ignore it. No such thing. Step 2: the media reports this declaration in a headline that Trump declares himself Space Pope. ("Experts say no such thing.") Step 3: Trumpworld angry no one is genuflecting to new Space Pope.

What happened in 2008

I used to struggle to understand how it was that reformers of the early 20th century could reconcile themselves to Jim Crow. The past few years have been eye-opening in that regard.

What's maddening about Trump is he is just another issue where the Democrats know exactly what they should do and won't do it because it won't succeed or it's not politically "smart"and they are so focused on winning the media over they forget to do their jobs.

Trumps logorrhea is getting worse. His diabolical and disturbing rants against a murdered man and his wife are totally unacceptable. & his ridiculous claims that the university is to blame for not catching the Brown shooter, & the FBI are blameless, are obviously demented. Trump needs medical help!

kyrsten sinema seemingly had a long-term plan to cash out of her senate job by establishing a reputation as someone who was connected to both parties, so at minimum it is good to see her get to find out that her name is mud

Free business plan: half the planet would pay $10 a month for the Google search of 2004 and the Gmail of 2010. We will pay a company real money to insulate us from AI.

whoever is writing reality lately is really getting heavy-handed with it. no subtlety at all

What I don't understand is why they thought they were going to take a victory lap about how cool they're being. Not just because they should have known Trump wouldn't. Rob Reiner was a beloved filmmaker, not a political figure. There's no reason to be anything other than cool. The bar is so low.

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

Anyone who looks at Trump & sees *more than nothing* -- whether good or bad -- is not telling you anything about Trump, they are telling you about themselves, their own worldview, what they want. They are ascribing content, plans, intentionality, self-awareness, where there is none.

This is the movement that demanded we publicly mourn a little-known campus provocateur who made his living fighting teenagers and who left behind a body of work so noxious that people repeating his own words were said to be maligning him in death. This is how they behave when someone else dies.