Because he's an idiot. Because everything he touches turns to shit. Because the skill he's built his brand upon is selling worthless crap to rubes, so if he's not dealing with rubes who want to buy his worthless crap he has nothing. But mostly because he's an idiot.

"WILL YOU SING AT MY FREEDOM 250 CONCERT?"

amazing this is not a skit

Byron Buxton grounded into a double play for the first time in two seasons to end the second inning. His last GIDP came on June 8, 2024 in … Pittsburgh.

NEW: Updated Concert lineup. 👇

I mean look at this. Look at the utter lack of pride or self-respect in this man's face. Look at how debased this man is, desperate to believe this pathetic final act of ego destruction will make Trump reconsider tearing his 24-year Senate career into pieces. You sad invertebrate dunce.

Cornyn is exactly the kind of guy it's fun to say goodbye to, after Trump ruins him. He ate shit constantly, just guzzled more and more of Trump's shit -- knowing it was shit, but thinking maybe this one last shit milkshake would save him. It never does. www.chron.com/texas/articl...

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

All he wants in the world is for New York to love him, and it sure doesn't, and he's about to find that out again

Stuff like this and KFC turning Colonel Sanders into a meme is my atheist idea of hell: stripped of all interiority and forced to shamelessly hustle forever in the service of a business that only recognizes you as a secondary revenue stream.

Let's not forget how kooky it is to have cabinet meetings where people tell outlandish lies about how great the president is to the president.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

“We are many — the working class. They are few — the billionaires.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison, a protester says billionaires divide people by scapegoating immigrants, trans people, and foreign governments — while the real enemy is the billionaire class. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social ⬇️

The only Iran deal Trump is looking for right now is one that will convince anyone outside his cult that he didn’t lose and get humiliated because of stupidity & hubris. Whatever that looks like he would do in a second. The problem is that Iran isn’t cooperating. So here we are.

Trump's ever-expanding list of taxpayer grifts: -$1.8B slush fund for political allies -$1B for ballroom "security" -$1B for Qatar jet refurbishments -$230M in DOJ "compensation" -$100M+ for golf outings When he says he "doesn't think about Americans' financial situation," I believe him.

What is Paulette Goddard known for? Per IMDb? No, not that. No, not that either. eriklundegaard.com/item/what-is...

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

100%

This is my favorite thing that Stephen Colbert has done in a while. I loved The Late Show, don't get me wrong, but this is Colbert unfettered by corporate rules and pressure. The comedy is so pure. Also a huge shoutout to community access TV. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

JFK Ends Mostly Successful Dallas Trip

Hey, immigration attorneys, we know you've been working 24/7 for the past 365+, but here's a complete, dickish change in policy dropped on a Friday before a holiday. Is it legal? Can't tell from this! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Weird how each of Trump's Colbert-related posts invoked death imagery. I can only assume the DOJ is investigating the situation thoroughly.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. cbsn.ws/4uSxuCf

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

JFC

100%. Southern states are elbowing each other out, going "No, WE'RE the most racist!"

"...a new unit dedicated to revetting thousands of immigrants with permanent residency across the country" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

100%.

That'll show 'em.

Really hard to imagine a crew more comprehensively crude, malign, incompetent, corrupt and shameless getting hold of a previously mostly functional state than the appalling specimens now running this country into every available ditch.

A right-wing journalist released footage of White House officials saying, "We have to get rid of Trump," while secretly being recorded. "Seriously, he's a mess. He's f— it up for everybody. Everybody!"

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

Trump is posting absolutely deranged shit on social media this morning ahead of departing for China today. Get a load of this stuff.

This

So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices? Fascinating.

A commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was booed, with graduating humanities students yelling out, "AI SUCKS!"

Saw tonight at SIFF. Highly recommended. www.siff.net/festival/franz

Trump gathered all of the very worst people in the country in one place and got them to break a million laws and then pardoned all of them, and now local law enforcement has to go get them one by one as they commit new crimes.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

This is your summer campaign, Democrats. Donald Trump says the high gas prices you're paying are worth it because of the war he started that no one wants. Repeat. Repeat. When they bring up something else. Repeat this. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

100%. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

Joe Posnanski on the third guy on the stand in the '68 Olympics. Prepare to cry. www.joeposnanski.com/p/br-request...

The only place you can find this post is here. eriklundegaard.com/item/this-si...