By my admittedly rough math, that would fund the U.S. military for about an hour and eighteen minutes

My latest — I wrote about Cuomo’s vile racist speed run in the final days of the mayoral campaign, with gross comments on a right wing radio show, an AI video best suited for 4chan, and his weaponization of white and Jewish grievance to beat the would-be first Muslim Mayor of NYC:

“Adams represents to a lot of voters a firewall against more progressive politics ... Andrew Cuomo represents that also.” Yeah, that's why people want to vote for Zohran! gothamist.com/news/from-sn...

So if you take this at face value, and you shouldn’t, was the staffer fired? Why would the campaign hire someone who would even suggest something like that? This excuse has a million holes and issues no matter how you look at it.

"A draft proposal"?!? WTF did that rough draft look like??

The only question for Mike Johnson should be "why did you dissolve Congress?" And when he predictably lies or changes the subject, repeatedly follow up with variations of "so why aren't you doing your job?" The Speaker's opinions on anything else matter little if Congress is artificially on leave.

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Updating my LEGO White House

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​BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.

The White House website now has a timeline of the history of the building which confirms -- as if we didn't know -- just how disgusting the Trump administration is. Part of me says "don't give this trolling the attention they want," but these are awful people. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Florida man who wants a Nobel Peace Prize describes his plans to murder people.

Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.

Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows

there's so much happening, as kevin's thread here illustrates ... but I am just gobsmacked that he demolished a third of the white house. the heavy-handed symbolism of that alone takes us back once again to the inevitable conclusion that we live in a satirical universe written by a total hack.

... severed economic aid to Colombia in a tantrum, threatened to crack down on NYC, announced drug prices would be coming down "500 percent," claimed Pete Buttigieg tried to fix the air traffic system with "glass wire," and committed probably a dozen other crimes we've already forgotten about.

... threatened to invade every state in the US, renewed his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and vowed his people would prevent it from happening "again," bragged about illegally slashing programs Democrats like, said he would send disaster relief to a state because it voted for him ...

... called several African American politicians "low IQ," called all Democrats terrorists, insisted the 7 million Americans who protested his regime were all paid, showed a video of him flying a jet and dropping shit all over them, sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up a fellow dipshit tyrant ...

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

i keep thinking this must be an elaborate cover for destroying a crime scene.

A Brief History of Baseball is Dying 🧵

basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Look does it matter compared to any number of other hideous things? No but if you tried to put it in the movie someone would reject it as being too obvious a metaphor

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

I don't know which idea is worse: Cuomo is so racist & prejudiced that he approved this A.I.-generated ad that's littered with stereotypes; or Cuomo is so out of touch that he didn't see how racist this was until it was already released. www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/c...

Just disgusting.

This photo doesn't mean much to those of us who don't look at that building every day. You need the before and after to show how much has been destroyed.

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

Senate Republicans are holding a second hearing on alleged Biden censorship of speech entitled “Shut Your App” days after DOJ made Apple remove an app designed to report the public whereabouts of law enforcement. 🙃

“Trump allowed the demolition to begin this week despite not yet having approval from the relevant government agencies with jurisdiction over construction on federal property.” Of course, he’s had a lifetime of not asking for permission, so why would he start now? apnews.com/article/trum...

Criminal billionaire frees criminal billionaire from prison.

The aesthetic here reminds me of Punk Planet circa 2000 and I enjoy it

Perfect flag placement

this election was already over but jesus christ this put him 6 feet under lmfao

Trump has made a habit of extortion. Now he is extorting the US government itself—demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million.

So...like authoritarian regimes. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

When Germany sank the Lusitania, it was called an atrocity.

Hitchcock for #EataPretzelDay

Also someone needs to explain to, not just Rappoport (who is an idiot), but a lot of other people too, that the premise of democratic socialism is not that everyone is poor but that everyone can have nice things and afford an occasional date night out

Wait, someone connected to Trump might have committed fraud?

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

It’s going to be like the Taj Mahal of vulgar pseudo-classical-brutalists narcissism

I call this chart "Oh, we were right all along."

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

MAGA mouthpieces aren’t happy with the renovation conversation.

It looks even worse by video 😢

The biggest renovation of the White House -- the so-called Truman Reconstruction of 1949-1952 -- came about only because the building was in such a state of disrepair that inspectors decided it was unsafe for occupancy. Not because the president just decided he needed a big fancy ballroom.

President began demolishing the East Wing of the WH to build there his $200M+ ballroom. East Wing was built in 1942 during the presidency of FDR. It was constructed to cover the bunker that he used during WWII and the President's Emergency Operations Center.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution