the optics of this Oval Office event are absolutely insane. get a load of this. crazytown.

4 things you will never hear from Trump or any of his cabinet members: 1. We made a mistake. 2. We take full responsibility for it. 3. We apologize. 4. We will learn from it and do better.

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Walking in a straight line is hard.

Trump cites Venezuela as a success. The old regime is in place. Nothing much has changed. Except...Trump's pals now are getting a little taste. It's mafia imperialism. It's a shakedown. And for the right $$$ he would've given the same deal to Iran's leaders. He just wants his cut. Gotti-ism at work.

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer. His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

If Democratic candidates don’t use Republicans in Congress forcing taxpayers to pay a billion dollars for Trump’s ballroom against them bigly in the midterms it will be political malpractice.

White House trying to pull wool over Congress' eyes? White House Letter to claim War Powers clock stopped: "There has been no exchange of fire between United States Forces and Iran" since ceasefire began Gen Caine: "Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran...attacked US forces more than 10 times"

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

In which the Defense Secretary insists that when two countries shoot at each other and literally sink ships amid a ceasefire, it’s a “separate and distinct project,” not a continuation of the war said to be stopped by the ceasefire.

Is this Joe Biden’s fault or Elizabeth Warren?

Interesting. This must be a new kind of chess where you compete to put the pieces back where they were before you smacked them off the board.

Hard to see so many basic rights being dismantled and not view the Biden interregnum as a total failure. His presidency was premised on restoring institutions and stability, and so many of the wins achieved have already been undone by Trump (as well as 50+ years of progress).

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

the first three questions Hegseth takes at this morning's press conference are from OAN, Real America's Voice, and the Daily Wire -- all right-wing propaganda outlets

Remember when they told everyone taxpayers wouldn’t pay a penny?

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

Someday soon people like Jeff Bezos will pretend they never supported Trump, that they were against this the whole time ——- NEW: Generic ballot 2026 among independents: 🔵Democratic: 52% 🔴Republican: 32% Washington Post/Ipsos poll | April 24-28

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Lambert: The Strait of Hormuz is going to be open and we’re going to control it. Mockler: In two weeks? Lambert: It doesn’t matter if it’s two weeks or two months. Mockler: It does actually matter because economists are saying if it's closed for a few more months, we're going into a recession

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

Democrats need to tone down the political rhetoric?

Marca and many of us WOULD happily pay more to live anywhere other than Florida - BUT darrellfinance guy there is scamming the whole story, intentionally. Florida has a state sales tax of 6% on the sale or rental of most goods, services. Oregon's state sales tax is ZERO. Now redo the math.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump told her that people at Mar-a-Lago would be hurt by the release of the Epstein files. Greene: Trump said his friends would get hurt if we release the Epstein files. He said, “Marjorie, these are good people. These are people you know at Mar-a-Lago”

One of the most amusingly petty things Justice Alito does is to put deadlines on administrative stays *only* when he is deeply *unsympathetic* to the applicants. He did it in the 2023 mife case and the 2024 SB4 immigration case; and he did it today. In all other cases, his stays are indefinite:

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

Dangling prosecutions is not justice, it is mob-style leverage. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

In the now all-too-common category of things that are completely unsurprising and yet utterly shocking, Republicans have completely memory-holed the killings of the Hortmans and shootings of the Hoffmans in Minnesota. As far as they’re concerned it just never happened.

Saying this now, just in case - - New Yorkers hated Giuliani on 9/10, couldn't wait to get rid of him - Giuliani was in the street on 9/11 bc the Command Center at 7WTC was destroyed (he put it there to be near Judi Nathan) - Giuliani killed 343 firemen by forcing cheap radios on them

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Australia & Japan just elevated their special strategic partnership with fresh deals on defence, energy trade, critical minerals and economic security. PM Albanese & PM Takaichi in Canberra: “less vulnerable to global shocks” like Middle East conflicts. mcsp.short.gy/TFzt

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social

Do the laws not apply to the rich and wealthy? Kleptocracy? Quid pro quo. Bribery. You name it. All of this is wrong and illegal. Shameful.

consolidated corporate power and the extraction class are waging war on journalistic labor, informed consensus, and archival history

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

🔥 megyn kelly: “That’s f*cking bullsh*t. Trump’s intelligence community assesses Iran was not anywhere near getting a nuclear bomb right before we launched this war. It’s f*cking propaganda. People don’t believe it. That’s why approvals for this war are in the basement.”

I don't know why we should judge public figures based on some secret belief that might be in their hearts that they don't act on, rather than on their public behavior and contributions to public life.

Gee, thanks "teach the dems a lesson voters." 😡😡😡😡

Trump has never faced (or “confronted“, as the NYT homepage says) a single reality in his entire life, and I see no evidence that he’s confronting this one.

Were they sincerely horrible, or did they cynically *pretend* to be horrible to get fame and money? It can be impossible to know in most cases. We can't ever know for sure what they're thinking, so let's focus on the horrible things they did and said, as that's what actually impacts the rest of us

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

“You know we’re in a war,” President Trump said yesterday, as a White House letter to Congress asserted that the War Powers Act doesn’t apply because there’s no war. Utter contempt. Congress is cool with it. Because the GOP majority also has contempt for the law, Constitution, country, and people.

“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

a “what does tucker carlson believe” story should be one sentence long and the sentence is “he will say literally anything for money, we saw him admit it in the texts released in the dominion lawsuit”

A standing room only event in rural Cameron, Missouri.  Rural Democrats are here. We have always been here. And I know one thing, the Republicans are gonna feel us in November. 

WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵