Metallica released 'Master of Puppets' 40 years ago today. 💿 The albums sits on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

Again, here he is, simply admitting he was manipulated into starting a war in the middle east. In a sane country, this would be yet another reason to force him to resign. If you can manipulate him into starting a war, what can’t you make him do.

Trump admits there were no evacuation plans for Americans abroad due to his war with Iran "because it all happened very quickly."

Wow indeed!

BREAKING: The UN's nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian program to build nuclear weapons, despite Israeli and US claims. LIVE updates: aje.news/dp8prb

So the F-15 is the most successful combat aircraft in modern history. 104 air combat engagements with enemy aircraft. 104 victories. Zero losses. A perfect record. Only 6 F-15s have been lost to ground based fire in all history. 3 of those 6 were friendly fire under this Operation Epstein Fury.🤡

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT. Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

A helpful overview of the Straight of Hormuz and the global ripple effect of an Iranian blockade.

Flashback to when 4 American troops died in April and Donald Trump couldn’t be bothered to go to their dignified transfer. …All so that he could go to the Saudi golf tournament they were holding at his club…

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

Meanwhile Trump’s DOJ is still withholding records of a woman the FBI wanted to cooperate with for a criminal investigation into whether Trump raped her when she was a child

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

happy 10-year anniversary to this razor-sharp political prognostication

Trump, like GW Bush, is a simple-minded President. And he is too being manipulated by the oligarchs of the military-industrial complex. Using our tax dollars. It’s all so déjà vu.

Lest we forget # 2.

Benjamin Slyngstad

This is what it’s all about!

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, senior Israeli official tells Reuters.

CAMPAIGN TRUMP 2024: “When crooked Hillary Clinton was running against me, she said… look at him. He will start a war, a world war.” PRESIDENT TRUMP 2026: U.S. attacks Iran with Israel

The Peace President

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

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

Trump’s been denying the affordability crisis. Meanwhile, January PPI just came in hotter than expected at 2.9% YoY / core 3.6%. Data don’t lie.

My team and I have been anticipating this for months. It is unconstitutional and illegal. The media should note: Last time he issued an EO about voting, we sued and won. If Trump issues such an order we will sue again and we will win again.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

My reaction to the SOTU for @liberalcurrents.com: The GOP is irredeemably lost www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...

Trump gets off on violent descriptions of women being murdered, it’s kind of his thing. He savors the gory details, lustfully. You’re in a sick place, America.

NPR, Politico and now CNN

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

This is not a State of the Union. It’s just a live stream of Trump arguing with reality.

One of the reasons it is so important that the Democrats gain control of at least one part of Congress is to be able to investigate the corruption that permeates the US government today.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

I think I’m going back to bed. 🏒🥅

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

Donald Trump will HATE this ad when he sees it during the Olympic hockey final. Let’s win gold. And then win back our country. LFG USA 🏅🔥🇺🇲

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Here is a superb explainer on today's tariff ruling (and Trump's unhinged reaction) from Professor Jack Goldsmith. Exceptionally insightful and informed. Highly recommended for those wanting a deeper understanding of where we are and where we're headed. www.execfunctions.org/p/quick-thou...

economy's dogshit

It’s a morning for the WH to hide the ketchup bottles: Bad GDP numbers. Not great inflation numbers. Tariffs overturned by SCOTUS.