My beautiful Mom received a 100th Birthday letter from President @barackobama.bsky.social and Michelle Obama this week. President Obama doesn't have to keep doing kind things for individual Americans, but he does because he was a good President. Will we ever have another President as good as Obama?

🤡Mike Johnson🤡 is determined to go down with the ship ...

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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Senate Republicans have blocked a resolution that would stop Trump's Iran war. This is the fourth time Senate Republicans have struck down this resolution.

RNC Chair Joe Gruters says Americans should use their tax refunds to offset rising costs (Only the richest 5% of Americans received tax cuts this year)

BREAKING: Jesus Christ Returns For Second Coming, Republicans Immediately Start Explaining His Own Teachings to Him

President Trump's attacks on Pope Leo are unprecedented, religious experts told NPR. Here's how the situation differs from other popes' political critiques. n.pr/4vwevyv

Bessent calls the Strait of Hormuz the "Strait of Vermouth"

This isn't being talked about enough: President Trump is hosting a gala at Mar-a-Lago next week for the top 297 holders of his #$TRUMP memecoin. Not only is this blatantly corrupt, it's a national security threat.

It’s so creepy that these people see major declines in teen pregnancy as a bad thing.

This is low on the list of Trump outrages, but it’s completely unethical for him to make important government announcements exclusively on a social media platform he owns. It’s a perversion of the presidency to put cash in Trump’s pocket.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists. They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

It's interesting that Mike Johnson is bringing up just war doctrine, because Trump's Secretary of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth, is clearly and serially violating some of its most basic tenets: newrepublic.com/article/2083...

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Hey Johnson, you're deliberately misquoting the Pope to manipulate the masses, Mikey. Pope Leo said, "He [Jesus] does not listen to the prayers of those who *wage* war, but rejects them." The US waged war. The US started it – not Iran.

This kind of confusion about when a significant event happened is extremely familiar to me, a child of a person who has been diagnosed with both vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Trump is their Pope, and Trumpism is their religion.

Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

Is there an option of not picking a fight with the Pope, or would that be seen as disloyalty?

My theory is that Republican employ Gingrichian mad-libs in inverse proportion to the confidence they have in the popularity of their positions. Using three of more "contrasting words" consecutively is a rhetorical Hail Mary and suggests they know they are unpopular.

WATSON COLEMAN: What would you say to the mothers of the kids who died because of your dismantling of USAID? Harvard says there are more than 100,000 of them VOUGHT: Harvard?

America's right-wing in a single exchange. It's perfect.

VOUGHT: This president has campaigned and led for peace, and against endless wars BALINT: So it's peace through war? Is that where are right now? Peace through war?

BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss? VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden-- BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!

WYDEN: Are you gonna recommend the US taxpayer pay Trump $10 billion? BISIGNANO: I'm not rendering an opinion WYDEN: Give me your opinion! You're ostensibly somebody who is supposed to be doing stuff

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

DOGGETT: Doesn't your budget propose another 12% cut for NIH? VOUGHT: Most of what you said is untrue. NIH was not cut at all-- D: My Q is don't you propose another 12% cut? VOUGHT: We propose a cut D: Is it your feeling that we just can't afford to invest more in doing something about cancer?

Casar: "Millions of Americans could be on verge of losing their jobs, but the only AI legislation Republicans are pushing is legislation to prevent any regulation. We should be stopping AI billionaires from putting countless Americans out of work, but Republicans are too busy cashing their checks."

CHRIS MURPHY: What does it mean to 'end a civilization'? MIKE WALTZ: It was some tough talk. They clearly got the message MURPHY: I guess it's an open question as to whether we should try to pursue our aims by threatening another nation with mass civilian casualties

It was a war crime, not "tough talk"

Local broadcast media in DC, like @nbcwashington.com, especially portrayed it as though it was real & never mentioned she's a Trump voter from Arkansas brought to the White House as a publicity stunt. @nbcwashington.com has become notorious for simply reading press releases on air ...

One job of journalism is to identify changing circumstances that require changes in policy. So when the first-ever convicted-felon president assaults the free press, why would reporters honor him at a dinner just because “that’s what we always do”? Wake up. Cancel the Correspondents’ Dinner.

cant wait for Tappers new book on Bidens mental health

You guys. No.

Did JD Vance just tell the pope to shut up and dribble? @ronnychieng.bsky.social

This kind of insanity also happened right before the internet stock bubble burst around 2000 and a lot of people lost their proverbial shirts

This will be another "Does the Senate exist" test

Oh sorry, so religion and politics should be separate? Is that what you're saying? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Crypto is Mary Kay for Men 💄

“It’s a multi-level marketing scheme.” Getting to know the boom and bust world of crypto with @benmckenzie.bsky.social, whose new doc “Everyone Is Lying To You For Money” explores the harsh truths of the industry. New pod out now!

The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel said the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, contradicting decades of Supreme Court precedent. Why they got it wrong, from former OLC Assistant Attorney General Chris Fonzone:

Terrible damage to children is being done in our name. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/ice-kids-detention-over-6200-trumpICE.

“RFK Jr. & his team have been wrong repeatedly over the last 14 months issuing ridiculous medical claims without any evidence.” They are now facing backlash & issuing retractions, but the damage has been done. Take a listen to Dr. Vin Gupta!👇🏼 #pinks

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.