Trump and MAGA will happily destroy the economy if it helps them win what they see as a culture war and a race war. They are extremists who must be removed from power and put on trial.

Best Twitter riposte of the day

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

Spiro Agnew took bags of cash. People thought that was bad

The founders knew the foundation of free men was a system of bribes.

You don’t know this but Presidents taking bribes is actually endorsed in the Federalist Papers By Jonathan turkey

Trump would say “if president Washington were smart he would have done it too”

One of the points in the 95 theses

THIS TIME WE ARE SERIOUS WE ARE GOING TO MOVE

John Roberts thinks legalized bribes to the President are no big deal. Roberts Bribes Legalized patronage

The Catholic Church used to sell indulgences; now, the US sell pardons to the highest bidder through a series of middlemen. The Founding Fathers would roll over in their graves. Thanks, John Roberts.

Trump's net worth increased by $4 billion. All of the wealth was gained by manipulating his power as president. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

Government by whoever pays the President some money

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

“The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.” Via @mmasnick.bsky.social

Street artist Topsy, depicting Trump's ICE Nazis. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

This will *really* get more artists to want to perform at the already scorned and blacklisted Trump Kennedy Center. The petty bitches in the Trump administration are smart that way.

You might see these as Russian victories. I see it as clinging vainly to scraps of an empire that once stretched from Berlin in the west to Mongolia in the east. Today Putin visits the U.S. to deal with Ukraine. Ukraine needs to be protected now and strengthened to make future gains possible. 2/2

The USSR took eastern Poland by allying with Nazi Germany in 1939. Then in 1945 it gave a chunk of East Germany to Poland, but kept the part annexed in 1939. Russia occupied parts of Moldova in 1992. Russia annexed ethnic-Russian parts of Georgia in 2008. Russia has nearly reabsorbed Belarus. 1/2

JD Vance’s invasion rhetoric about Greenland is absolutely disgusting

Few Americans have ever focused on Putin's Murmansk speech on Mar 27, in which he essentially said: I get Ukraine, Trump gets Greenland and Venezuela, Xi gets Taiwan. It's the core of their compact, in which the US is the junior partner.

FULL SELF DRIVING THIS YEAR ROBO TAXIS

The FTFNYT gets it. They like Trump and want him to rule like a king—while they get to be the favored courtiers.

I have yet to see any evidence that Trump has a soul

Droop droop droop droop my face melts down the side

Kennedy himself has encouraged the benefits of folic acid in pregnant women. He will fight on either side of any issue to stir distrust in the medical system

There were, literally, a handful of Thai restaurants in the United States before the law was passed. There were none in LA in 1970 when I returned from Thailand where I’d been a Peace Corps volunteer! Imagine life today without Thai food. One of millions of benefits of that law.

The first thing ICE did when it was created was raiding meat processing plants in the Midwest and south to help quell labor disputes over safety violations and keep those who weren't detained from getting legal protections as many had kids who grew up locally and were citizens with political power.

Mike Johnson is Trumps little puppet

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Eat shit Elon

Government by whoever can pay the President some money

Just another billionaire

Owned by the billionaires who paid him bribes

Donald Trump, bought and sold

JD Vance argues that having Muslims makes the UK and France too dangerous to have nukes, which will be great for US relations with India and Pakistan. So if you’re keeping track, the Trump administration’s position on nuclear arms is: North Korea: cool, nonthreatening France and UK: bad, dangerous

Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine

A refresher on the English language. Ordering our men & women in uniform to seize 836,000 square miles of an ally nation’s territory is not “acquiring” it. That is an invasion. He wants to invade+occupy our European ally. Honest people tell the truth. They explain, not conceal, their actions.

I had missed this. Perverse even by the standards of the Trump White House. They’re threatening to pull student aid from Brown over the shooting www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

Something to keep in mind when the press is up Mamdani's ass about campaign promises during his first week in office When you're a billionaire you can just say anything. For anyone else...

Well, it's only 7.5 Martian years. He can still make it! bsky.app/profile/did:...

1) we’ve had the productive capacity to produce food for every living person on this planet 2) we have the logistics to deliver these to every person on this planet 3) we have ideologies and philosophies to know that’s good That we don’t is a choice. And a moral failure.

Donald Trump is making America great again by bankrupting American companies. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

This piece is brilliant: there are no parties in the US, there is a two stage process with a roughly ideological runoff. This is because forming an actual party in the US is illegal.

Trump took this from us

China's clean power capacity additions picked up in November, with 13GW of wind and 21GW solar. China has already added almost as much wind&solar in Jan-Nov as in the full year 2024, ahead of the end-of-year and end-of-five-year-plan spike expected in December.

Somewhat related, Putin hates Norway a lot, because it shows you can have a country with big fossil fuel income, which gets divided between all its citizens, instead of creating a small kleptocratic authoritarian elite that preys on everyone else.