A reporter asked Trump about Iran charging fees literally yesterday -- and his response was that we were going to get a cut of the action!

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"Black people are so annoying." That's how I read that headline.

This week's podcast features our interview with John Famiglietti recorded as HEALTH passed through Vancouver in the first stretch of their ongoing tour. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/04/09/w...

Star Trek: Lower Decks lasted longer than the confederacy

If you can't hold and eat it in one hand, it's not a burger it's just a pile of food.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Or maybe you want to hear about my #IBM Model M #keyboard from 1991?

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

Note the reference to a “real agreement“ that was “reached”. The problem is that unless each party agrees, then there is not an agreement. It is not for one party to unilaterally assert what was in some “real” agreement. There is never a “real” agreement separate to what each party agreed.

this fucking regime

I don’t mean to be a spoiler of good times but you should not party with the president if he fairly regularly threatens to jail or potentially bankrupt you if you don’t write the news how he thinks you should Like, skip the dinner and just go to the after parties if u really wanna party

The Boys and Daredevil: Born Again are somehow the best pop cultural commentaries on the second Trump administration, which is less a matter of "superhero metaphors allow for sophisticated social commentary" and more a matter of "reality is now full of cartoonish supervillains."

Death To Smoochy endorsements = automatic RT

One thing that I’m coming around on is that the outcomes of elections are more or less predetermined by a bunch of factors external to campaigning and that every campaign guy knows this and is desperate to keep up the ruse so they can keep getting paid

"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."

a substantial portion of american politics since 1865 is literally the south enacting revenge on the rest of the country for the civil war

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Idk how this myth persists, particularly when we have footage of the rallies, we have pictures of them wearing the shirts that say "mass deportation now" "tariffs are good" They literally said they wanted these things.

to put this in perspective. i usually get about $500 to speak at a university, plus travel costs (the max I think I've ever gotten was $5000 but that was for an endowed lecture, once)

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

okay i was joking. i thought.

A bunch of literal children died after he manufactured a crisis. Just a reminder. Many mothers and fathers had their lives irrevocably changed so Trump could pat himself on the back. They lost their babies. For Trump.

😂🧅Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum theonion.com/trump-warns-...

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Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

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I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

What happens when (not if) Israel violates the cease-fire?

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

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we're gonna get ten years of outrage from this one or is that reserved for bad sandwiches

"lol wow the market is rallying on this?!" guys, don't make me tap the sign again

Every time Trump "makes a deal"

If the media were even remotely liberal every story would mention that the nuclear deal Obama cut was working extremely well before Trump withdrew from it out of spite.

Look, there was like a 20% chance he’d bomb the power plants and a 1% chance he’d nuke. And those are 20% and 1% too high, no matter what the final outcome.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

At least when it comes to Universities, I feel pretty sure that a lot of them are operating from the posture of never letting a good crisis go to waste.

Trump backed down (good), but this is a win for Iran. Legitimates Iran’s control of the strait. He chose humiliation over escalation. For now. Or until he realizes he chose humiliation. cc @dandrezner.bsky.social

Remember how you felt about people defending their neighbors in Chicago, Minneapolis, and other cities around the US? Extend that empathy a bit further, to people Trump is calling animals. It may hurt to stop and think about how much you have in common with those people. That's okay. Let it.

They are telling the world a story by putting their bodies on the line—a story about people clinging to the support structures that make their lives and their families' lives possible and livable.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Of course AOC is the only one with the nuts to warn people in the chain of command that acting on Trump's illegal orders is a crime they can be tried for. Literally, she is the only person who has a moral claim to the Democratic nomination. I just hope voters see it. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

To be fair it was a tough decision at the ballot box

It's so incredibly jarring to have someone threatening to destroy a whole civilization in the language of someone promoting a reality television finale. What the fuck is happening. Get him out of power and put him in the fucking Hague.

I will never listen to Tucker Carlson and neither should you. Anyone suggesting you do so is doing you a favor in telling you that you can safely discredit anything they have to say going forward.

The biggest world issue every day for 82 years has been nuclear weapons. And yet some days it's been like 200th on the list of priorities, behind stuff like "Ally McBeal" or a novelty disco song called Pac-Man Fever.

For the love of God, stop falling for this.