Obama calls for no political prosecutions, no political pardons, no politicizing the military, and no presidential bribes.

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

If you don’t know Sarah you should… her books about American politics are timeless and astute, an education we all need! @sarahkendzior.bsky.social substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

When I say that dispensational theology (rapture theology) is dangerous, this is what I mean. Bad theology kills.

Screenshot from Guardian live feed re the corespondant's dinner. WTF. Tell me it's just me?

“American military bases and other equipment…suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, according to three U.S. officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage.”

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, nearly every ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz today turned back.

My reaction to the lede is "just alcohol"?!?

While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits. Yes, $30 million per HOUR. All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.

Schrödinger’s Strait

as a non Christian I am wildly impressed by how well they predicted Trump in the Know Your Antichrist section of the Bible

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Pondering the slight possibility that Trump doesn't know who Jesus is.

Donald Trump: he‘s just like us (losing his mind at the consequences of Donald Trump’s actions and posting his way through the emotional turmoil)

They look like they were created in the same lab.

In what universe did this take place www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NYT article on Trump posting image of himself as Jesus contains not one iota of context. Zero pushback. Just stenography. This is journalistic blasphemy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Trump attacks pope, sees himself as Jesus, days after threatening to destroy an entire civilization, and our top news organizations still won’t acknowledge that he is seriously deranged. I am a broken fucking record: presswatchers.org/category/tru...

Here's preview of the end of the current US administration

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

Welp. 11:54 PM: Iran War Live Updates: U.S. And Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal After 21 Hours of Talks, Vance Says Vice President JD Vance said the Iranian delegation had not accepted American terms for ending the war after a marathon, face-to-face session in Pakistan.

A short list off the top of my head of what US-based AI companies are the most weird about: Anthropic = personhood OpenAI = sycophancy Grok = edgelord bullshit Google = ruining search Meta = glasses that make no sense

Trump literally can’t imagine how his actions today could lead to famine in a few months. Second and third order effects are alien concepts to his brain. All he understands is his immediate urges and how to satisfy them.

Reminds me of when China thought it would teach Vietnam a lesson in 1979, but ended up getting schooled.

Remember: The Vatican has had to meet and negotiate with Nazis and Mussolini's reps, so they know from unpleasant and confrontational.

We're living through the doom loop once again.

It was just an “excursion.”

"Mr. President, you've turned the Strait of Hormuz into a more expensive, more volatile Suez Canal controlled by a man whose family you murdered."

Trump is now begging to be business partners with Iran. Think about that. Reminder: there is zero evidence that what Trump is saying is true. None. Iran, however, is positioned to cash in and make more money than ever before.

Gentle reminder that the Democrats can't call Congress back into session or push any legislation right now. They are in the minority.

The entire world is looking at Thune and Johnson now. Something must be done. His posts today have been completely, 100 percent bat shit crazy. It's not OK. It's dangerous. And something must be done. bsky.app/profile/meid...

So, in his addled mind, Iran is good now? A partner? The incoherence flowing out of the White House today is breathtaking. It's clear that he has to go, or let others lead now. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Iran will withdraw from the ceasefire agreement if attacks on Lebanon continue.-Tasnim News

Iran’s Fars News Agency says all tankers passing through Hormuz have been stopped after Israel’s ‘ceasefire breach’.

If this is the deal then Iran straight up won this war

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Yup they still have all the cards…..

What are we supposed to say? Oh, well, phew?https://aje.news/7gu06w

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Dictators are all cut from the same psychopathic cloth. America just happened to get the dumb one.

I think the biggest crisis right now that most people are unaware of is the complex interlocking conflicts in the Horn of Africa (and Libya), and how they are fueled by the Gulf states projecting their rivalries into an important but broadly destabilized strategic arena.

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick

President Zelenskyy has been formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize !!