"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The shooting did not take place on the same floor as Trump www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Trump has repeatedly called Democratic leaders & voters traitors, explicitly called for terrible things to happen to them, used the state to terrorize Democratic strongholds both directly & indirectly killing many, but Corporate Media is singularly focused on Democratic rhetoric.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

The story of the Iran war is that Trump lost it in the first days. Everything since has been trying to deny that cardinal fact. You can see this by the fact that everything happening since has been trying to break free Iran’s hold on the strait, something it didn’t have before the war.

What Trump broke with the Iran war can't be fixed. He got the US into a bad strategic position he can't get out of. Many are deeply invested in not acknowledging that. Because it means they've been wrong. Who knows how long it'll take for reality to fully hit. But when it does, it'll be a doozy.

Worth remembering…

Donald Trump was accused of making a "catastrophic mistake" after a New York Times report revealed how experts say Iran's nuclear powers grew under the current president.

THIS.

🎯"Times could have fundamentally changed the way Trump has been covered.... It could have stopped using soft, empty language and false equivalence, and made it crystal clear to the public that if elected Trump would turn America into a racist, authoritarian regime where facts don’t matter."

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

When @MarshaBlackburn talks about Trump cutting taxes, this is what she counts on us all being too dumb to understand

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

WWI Combat: 53,402 deaths WWI Flu: 45,000 deaths Pete Hegseth: “Let’s make the flu a threat again!” Apparently, “readiness” now means making our troops as vulnerable as they were in 1918. Bold move.

The conservative intelligentsia is just wildly, cartoonistly racist, and the fact that this gets less elite pushback from the prestige media/commentariat than "woke" does is such a damning indictment of our whole society.

The people who refused to vote for Harris because she was, in their view, insufficiently opposed to Netanyahu's genocide think of themselves as high-minded. They are not high-minded. They are narrow-minded. Booker illustrates that point here.

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

No taxpayer $$ to Israel. No Israeli PM in Situation Room. End occupation. I am Team America. Trump is obsessed with war in the Middle East. It's time for a new generation for a new moral direction for Democrats.

Props to the WSJ, they managed to pack almost every Trump decision-making pathology into a single story. It’s all here: 1) Short attention span 2) Impulsive behavior 3) Knowledge deficits 4) Gambling for resurrection 5) Belief in the madman theory www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

1. When you read a story in the New York Times: chances are good that someone else—often a freelance reporter working for peanuts—did the actual work of finding & reporting the story 2. If it's a female reporter, the odds that they will simply rip off her work and not credit her go up exponentially

Over a month of bombings, lives lost, global economy disrupted, billions in taxpayer dollars gone, alliances weakened, depleted stockpiles, for this …

Temporary Squeaker Mike is so dumb it hurts.

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Trump just lied that Epstein survivors refuse to go under oath and lied that Pope said Iran can have a nuclear weapon And nobody will bat an eye

Republicans heading into the midterms: We should nearly double the military budget in just 2 years because Trump has a lot of wars happening, the Pope doesn’t know anything about the Bible, and J6ers are heroes who deserve compensation from US taxpayers.

The bottom 95% of taxpayers will see tax INCREASES on average this year, driven primarily by expanded tariffs and expiration of health insurance credits. Meanwhile, the richest 1% alone will receive $117 billion in tax CUTS in 2026. Never forget who Trump governs for.

Dr Fraud.

In case anyone is still confused

And, for the record, this was also very obviously Trump depicting himself as a doctor. About to do a prostate exam.

Trump makes a profane post threatening genocide on Easter, trashes the Pope for refusing to worship him, and posts a depiction of himself as Jesus healing the sick. The right-wing political pastors who promoted this scumbag fake Christian as someone chosen by God are charlatans.

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

You know who else was weak on crime? JESUS. Famously advised people who have been assaulted to “turn the other cheek.” Big-time loser.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

All this because Donald Trump couldn't abide the idea of a Black president having a success. This war may have been triggered by his desire to distract from Epstein...but his tearing up the JCPOA (like his Nobel Prize obsession) is driven by his profound and unyielding racism.

By abandoning the JCPOA and then once again by starting this war, Trump has completely negated and inverted the incentives the Iranian regime once had to negotiate with us. ...

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

👀 Oh. My. Gawd. Now we know why Melania gave that Epstein presser on Thursday. An interview with Amanda Ungaro is about to be released by El Pais on Sunday morning (and it’s after midnight right now in Spain). And on Monday, she will be on CNN.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

This might have something to do with it…

We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history

Apropos of nothing: Trump was constitutionally ineligible to be president

Remember when Republicans pretended to be apoplectic over Obama giving Iran "pallets of cash"?

Chart shows the success of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act to combat post-pandemic inflation and the subsequent failure of Trump. #Trumpflation