My new piece: ART AS ACTIVISM: “The Mourning After” Jo-Ann Morgan’s quilts confront gun violence, war, the border, Gaza, Ukraine, and other human tragedies with devastating force. A piece about art, grief, witness, and empathy. open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

Who's the biggest idiot? Trump or RFK Jr.?https://apnews.com/article/cdc-covid19-vaccine-study-ea3a8e56d0dcdb7428f060b395b5ff23?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share&nbsp;<br>US health officials nix publication of a study on COVID vaccine effectiveness

A very smart country. 👍

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

BREAKING NEWS: Navy Secretary John C. Phelan has abruptly stepped down as the U.S. naval blockade of Iran is set to expand. www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/p...

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

Too little too fucking late: Tucker Carlson Says He Is ‘Tormented’ by His Past Support for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Same.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump couldn’t be a bigger POS > Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

If Orbán can lose, so can Trump. That’s the story. open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

If you watch this and then follow it with a viewing of our current president's recent disassociated rant to schoolchildren about Biden's autopen, well, you have a perfect microcosm of the steep American descent into ignominy.

This conjures a memory of the best mayor NYC ever had. Here's the Little Flower, reading the funny pages to kids on the radio and loving his job as Mamdani clearly does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFT...

Popping the corn. 😄

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

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Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

Mackenzie Scott for the Nobel Peace Prize.

#Hogsbreath is too stupid to be the Secretary of Defense!

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

We are the human traffickers. Our government.

There are moments when something shifts—not gradually, but all at once. Hungary just showed the world that even deeply entrenched power can fall. And it changes the way everything else looks—from Trump to the broader authoritarian movement. And the Worm Turned open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

Just to go back to basics: I once worked on a (winning) presidential campaign. Something too obvious for anyone to mention was: "Don't get into a fight with the Pope over who knows more about Jesus." These people are morons.

The worm has turned. I’ve recorded the audio version of this piece—on Viktor Orbán’s defeat, the collapse of “inevitability,” and what it means for Trump and the broader authoritarian movement. If you’d rather listen, it’s here: [link] open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

Hegseth is now comparing Trump to Jesus

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

We were told they would never lose. They just did. open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich 
Well, today we're taxing the rich...

Boom Shaka laka!

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

I have a new name for the GOP. The Collaborationists. Yes, Republicans, that is you. We will hold you accountable . 👊🏻 open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

Trump doesn't care about Native Americans or their needs/issues: apnews.com/article/trum... second time, Trump seeks to eliminate federal funding for tribal colleges and universities

As a Boomer-era person all too aware of the effects of interrupted and insufficient sleep, I see the list below as a ten-alarm fire. Even for someone with 1,000,000x the equanimity, self-control, decency, empathy, knowledge, etc of Trump, such a list would constitute an emergency.

They know. That’s the point. They know—and they’re still doing it. open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

BOOM! > Judge dismisses Trump’s $10B lawsuit against WSJ, Murdoch over reporting on ties to Epstein apnews.com/article/trum...

Let today in Hungary be a warmup for what we can do, for what we can have.

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Vance has really got that global magic touch. Shown in diff ways with: -Booed out of visiting anywhere in Greenland except US military base -Pope Francis, RIP -Pope Leo, declines his invite to visit DC -Orban -Iran "deal" What a guy.

100% agree with @froomkin.bsky.social on this one

Boom! Hungary has taken care of their fascist problem! >> Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result apnews.com/article/hung...

We keep using the wrong word. They’re not just enablers. There is a word for people who know—and go along anyway. open.substack.com/pub/betharno...

Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.

If only Trump and Hegseth had experts to strategize stuff like this available. Oops, I forgot. They fired them all.

Entirely agree. White House figures usually wait until they've left to do "if only they'd listened to me!!" apologias. Vance is doing it in real time. Reporters *must* know this, but they're playing right along.

At some point, silence stops being neutrality. It becomes participation. open.substack.com/pub/betharno...