OK, I’ll bite. 11 US senators launched an investigation into Trump’s Freedom 250 in March, demanding answers from Trump admin over diverting $100M in taxpayer dollars. Watchdog group @peer.org sued the Trump admin over refusing to provide info re diverting $100M taxpayer dollars.

Look for Trump to give the algae a few billion dollars and the right to collect fees from passing tourists.

Huppke: "The pool is surrounded by armed soldiers hoping you don't look at the water. That is for your safety and the safety of the newly refurbished Reflecting Pool, which is glistening and perfect and not at all covered with a thick layer of algae and stray chunks of American-flag-blue paint ..."

Republicans really know how to harvest stupidity.

Odd that we're not seeing any video of vandals cutting a 350-foot gash in the Reflecting Pool, which is in a prominent spot in the nation's capital where you'd assume there are cameras at all angles. Could it be that the convicted felon who's been lying his entire life is lying again this time?

The Trump regime publicly promised it wouldn't go forward with its $1.8B slush fund to reward Trump's treasonous co-conspirators. But it won't put that pledge in writing for a judge. The regime knows perjury is a felony, but it thinks lying to the public is just good politics.

When a white supremacist pathological liar becomes the world’s first trillionaire and the U.S. president turns the government into his personal ATM, it’s time to take a hard look at the behaviors the capitalist system is rewarding. Tax the rich. Jail oligarch criminals. We can do much better.

Major media apparently have decided it's not news that the most powerful person in the world is out of his fucking mind.

Instead of dropping expensive bombs on Iran and then negotiating to give them billions of dollars, why didn’t Trump just skip a step and drop huge bundles of cash on them?

Trump's military wisdom makes Napoleon look like a latrine digger. For example: “When your country is conducting delicate peace talks with the enemy and has signed a pledge to ‘refrain from the threat or use of force,’ it’s the perfect time to announce that you might ‘blow the shit out of them.’”

I asked Norman Rockwell's granddaughter, Daisy Rockwell, about this use of her grandfather's work. She writes: "It goes without saying that they have completely misunderstood the meaning of the painting, which is tolerance for others and peaceful coexistence."

Based on Trump’s behavior, I’ve compiled 20 lessons on how a stable genius magically manages war and peace. It takes a lot of hard work to lie constantly, insult allies, and throw money at the enemy. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

In threatening to sue ABC News, Trump recalls how ABC caved in a past lawsuit and gave him a multimillion-dollar settlement. It’s always a mistake to kowtow to a bully. It only encourages more abuse.

Gut science and medical research Weaponize the legal system Deplete our military arsenal Squander our alliances And now cripple our intel capabilities. Trump is committing the US to national suicide. Putin and Xi couldn't do it any better. www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...

Republicans took away health care for millions of Americans. They didn't do it because the country couldn't afford it. They did it because their super-rich donors wanted to become super-richer.

Democracy defenders should keep their calendars clear after the midterms. They may want to travel to hotspots where the dictator's party attacks the count. They’ve already stolen Black political power via gerrymandering. They're targeting mail-in voting. They’ll cheat any way they think they can.

Trump lost the war to Iran.

I'll never understand why millions of people think this lying, weaselly, responsibility-dodging criminal is a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. The only reasonable conclusion is that they are awful people with terrible values, just like their false idol.

Based on Trump’s behavior, I’ve compiled 20 lessons on how a stable genius magically manages war and peace. It takes a lot of hard work to lie constantly, insult allies, and throw money at the enemy. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The U.S. "Justice" Department is a fascist enforcement unit tasked with crushing dissent and imprisoning the dictator's enemies. When we defeat MAGA Republicanism, we'll need to clean house at DOJ.

Dave McCormick sent out a search party and after a few days they found a "folk" who supports Trump's actions in Iran.

When Republican senators like John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy become lame ducks and suddenly start telling the truth about Trump, it exposes the culture of cowardly silence that dominates the Republican Party.

The Trump regime wants to "help" Chicago in the same way the Germans wanted to help Poland in 1939.

When people get arrested not because they did anything wrong but because their arrest is politically useful to the regime, that means you’re living in a dictatorship.

The Iran war is not over. The Trump regime wants you to move on, but don't. Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is still iffy. Military forces are deployed in multiple countries, ready to resume the killing. Trump threatened yesterday to murder the Iranian negotiators. It's still a huge crisis.

Last June when the U.S. supposedly "obliterated" Iran's nukes, we were told the operation was short-term. JD Vance said “this is not going to be some long, drawn-out thing.” Pete Hegseth said “this is most certainly not open-ended.” A year later, we're in talks to end a war that's killed thousands.

"Everything Trump touches turns to crud...The idea that the world’s oldest republic...the nation that invented republican values...puts up with it, that’s what really shocks me." On the pod, @pkrugman.bsky.social is just brilliant on Trump and our national decline: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

JD Vance says it's a big win for Team Trump that Iran has agreed to let nuclear inspectors in. Of course, the inspectors were in Iran years ago before Trump canceled Obama's nuclear deal.

When you’re the president and you’re arguing with a New York Times headline, you are definitely not winning.

If the corporate media don't realize how mentally disordered Trump is, they're incompetent. If they do realize it but refuse to sound the alarm, they're engaged in a cover-up.

Trump and Hegseth know they're responsible for blowing up an Iranian girls school, and they know why it happened. They simply want us all to forget about their atrocity.

I guarantee you that Trump cares more about the Reflecting Pool turning green than he cares about his illegal war killing 100+ Iranian schoolgirls.

I guarantee you that Trump cares more about the Reflecting Pool turning green than he cares about his illegal war killing 100+ Iranian schoolgirls.

When a news story includes claims by Trump that are unverified, it should run with a logo reading, ”He’s probably lying.”

The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself. And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.

Netanyahu needs forever wars to stay in power.

His toughest opponent yet turned out to be photosynthesis. #AlgaeGate

Wait till they put the tarps around it.

There once was a time when a president would have fired a Cabinet member who lied about his relationship with a notorious sex trafficker who raped children. But Trump and Howard Lutnick have changed all that.

Some Republicans will try to distance themselves from Trump as the midterms near. Don't let them get away with it. They've enabled his cruelty, incompetence and corruption. And if they can con enough people in the midterms, they'll go back in lockstep w/ him afterward. Vote against all Republicans.

I have never before had such a positive feeling about algae as I have today.

Trump continues his feud with the Italian leader because he cares much more about his wounded male ego than about our country’s alliances. What a putz.

Fox News is treating Trump’s ridiculous algae accusation as a real thing. Fox does this because it isn’t journalism at all — it’s the disinformation wing of Team Trump. Its mission is to con stupid people.

Harper Collins Discovers Misprint stevebrodner.substack.com

Trump wanted to be president because it would make it easier for him to be a thief.

the pool don’t work cause the vandals took the handle

The Trump death toll keeps rising. He'll be pushing past Pol Pot soon.

Everyone hates Trump except for American racists, sexists and oligarchs.

Trump: I am the all-powerful president leading us to the golden age on Day 1. Also Trump: I can't control everything – It's Obama and Biden's fault.