Fun fact! Land-grant public universities were opposed by the southern states and only happened due to the The Morrill Act of 1862 while they were off being the Confederacy. I WONDER WHY THE MODERN GOP HATES THEM NOW?!?! It is a DEEP MYSTERY!

It is an excellent question that should be asked of Trump and every Republican.

“lmao i’m not in a cult, bro, I’ve just got all these pics saved of my favorite politician as Jesus because it offends the libs! lol they hate my many private AI photos of him as a jacked god. I’ve also got his name on most of my clothes and my car and in every room of my house”

New bit I've perfected if anyone brings up a problem: I don't really follow politics but it was never like this before Trump. "But the Democrats and the funding and--" Yeah like I said I don't really follow that. There was always politics but before Trump it was never like this. That's all I know

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now! Trump is announcing his nominee. That's it. If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now. And that matters come November.

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

Alan Moore and David Lloyd - detail from V for Vendetta 5 (1989).

no no don't tread on ME, you see. I of course am going to tread the shit out of YOU

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Awkwardly shared an airline lounge with Sean Penn, who was extremely interested in whatever was on CNN.

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.

The weirdest part of the “let’s run the government like a business” nonsense is that the idiots spouting it always tend to take a dim view of the “bringing in money” aspect, which I’m told is actually a pretty big goal in business

"There's more to life than being able to buy cheap garbage," sagely intones the man who had a complete mental breakdown from which he has never recovered because he couldn't go to big box stores and chain restaurants for 3 weeks in 2020.

"A desire to capitulate in search of an excuse" sums up a lot of what's happening right now, and it's where Trump gets the bulk of his political strength

“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

No country in their right mind should ever buy weapons from the United States again if our president can just shut them off as an act of treason or manipulation.

It’s more than a little concerning that 4 Supreme Court justices don’t think judges have the power to enforce contracts.

@beyer.house.gov ; @markwarner.bsky.social ; @kaine.senate.gov

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

Perspective.

republican governments thinking the "department of energy" is about oil drilling and installing solar panels and not the agency that controls the nuclear weapons stockpile is one of the funniest running subplots in american politics

Inside a chaotic 48 hours of firings and rehirings at the agency responsible for maintaining the the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. Managers were given 200 characters (not words) to justify why staff shouldn't be fired. www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...

Hey, folks, what if we had Catholicism, but without the Pope being in charge? I bet no one has thought of THAT! And what if - stay with me here - our political leader were also the head of the religion everyone had to belong to? If England had been like that I bet we never would’ve rebelled!! s/

Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

Philadelphia has Fangio, who is a great old defensive mind. On the other hand he will have to reckon with the fact his men cannot hit Mahomes, and the chains on the Kansas City side have an extra link.

where does the new york times even find these people

Ed Balls

Conservative Christians have gone from saying “character matters” about Bill Clinton’s adultery to literally just blurting “ehh, sure” about a whole crew of even worse scumbags

The old world is dying (Twitter) while the new one (Bluesky) struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

I tell ya, I’m tired of this world, these people. I’m tired of getting no respect