"Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization"

I'm sure the Astronauts for America (AfA) are taking notes and will try to figure out this tricky situation. AfA might appear to be indistinguishable from the famous NY Times Pitchbot here on bsky.

“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives,” a Ukrainian officer told me. However, “it is painful for them to lose money.”

"I stand by every single word of this report...I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information." Sarah Fitzpatrick on Kash Patel: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Trump is threatening Spain over its refusal to allow air bases be used for the Iran war. Meanwhile, Russia provides Iran with targeting info and intelligence to kill Americans. Trump just invited Putin to the G20. www.reuters.com/world/pentag...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

This is one step short of Francis' "Who am I to judge?" Francis, of course, was being sly, and everyone got plyed because they wanted to get played: he did judge, and quite negtively, while pretending not to. The answer to the question is that he was an ignorant asshole to judge.

I have no doubt that the Astronauts For America are on the case! Go astronauts!

Astronauts For America will surely hammer Trump for this! Go astronauts! [If you, generous reader, are confused, see approx half-a-dozen posts down ...👇]

So proud of everyone who voted for this great American leader! Over 77 million had the brilliance and strength of character to vote for this leader of leaders! So proud! So proud! They have all made America so great, so great again! Every one of them is a coward/fraud/political-simpleton/fascist.

No shit! The Catholic Church is a an organization of primitive, backward, stupid, and abusive spirituality posing as a supremely enlightened spiritual authority: it was always, & remains, fraudulent. It has also been & remains a criminal organization with multitudes of heinous crimes on its hands.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

It’s not hard to understand. Maxwell is blackmailing Trump and Melania by threatening to release her discovery files. Trump has to pardon her. He’s asked republicans in congress to provide him an excuse to do so. (This is all speculation on my part. But it seems pretty obvious.)

These two narratives are, at face value, incompatible; (1) Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States. By Phillips Payson O’Brien (2) Donnyland’? Ukraine Proposes Naming Part of the Donbas in Trump’s Honor. By Anton Troianovski and Andrew E. Kramer

"Astronauts For America" sounds like "bothsides bullshitters" posing as high-minded seekers of truth. If, at this late stage, you are not already calling out Republicans as *the* overwhelming problem, then you are a fraud — or worse. To be clear: bothsides bullshtting always makes things worse.

The Scale of Iran’s Advantage Comes Into View talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

Democrats' fight on gerrymandering needs to be a model for abolishing the filibuster and reforming the corrupt Supreme Court - the two reforms that make a civic democractic future possible talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...

The most corrupt war. Here's another well-earned superlative: surely it's the most ridiculous war. Can anyone think of a more ridiculous war?

Always the Republicans: the Republicans are the problem. Many liberals can not bring themselves to articulate that: it's against their self-identity, because we are all God's children, or something.

The Joy Bus

PPOB: "Writing the United States off as a friend might once have been a sign of doom for Ukraine. It isn’t anymore."

Republicans — and everyone who voted for Trump — have made America so great already there is hardly any room left for any more greatness. But I have faith that they will make America even greater still! Everyone who voted for Trump owns this, they did this — and so much more. This is Republicanism.

"Using Hungarian and European taxpayers’ money, Orbán shamelessly bought Germany’s favor" and "guaranteed then-Chancellor Angela Merkel’s inaction."

Christianity, again: The headmaster of an orphanage in the Hungarian countryside was sentenced to 8 years in prison "for sexually abusing young boys for more than a decade." Endre Kónya, deputy headmaster and an elder of the Reformed Church, was sentenced "to more than three years for ...

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda. snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...

This is Christian fascism. All fascists are frauds and cowards, and this particular one is additionally a moron and an ass-clown. It's common. Over 77 million US citizens voted for this always-obvious malignant ass-clown. They did so because they are political simpletons and/or fascists themselves.

Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

Republicans did this. Everyone who voted for Trump did this. Over 77 million USA citizens did this. They own it. And every one of them is a coward, because not one of them will reckon with what they have done.

Vance is peak Republican.

Important point: Joe Rogan has been mocking Trump. People listen to Joe Rogan. So, what does Trump do? Anything Joe Rogan wants him to do. Hence, FDA approval for psychedelics. youtu.be/7NvNyKOQ46U?...

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

"Is Trump’s Iran War Like a Katrina Moment?" The things it takes to wake up, ever so slightly and only temporarily, just a few Republicans is truly astounding. Can you imagine being so spiritually and mentally unwell as to be a Republican? That there are so many means the USA is a very sick place.

Progress! "Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States." By Phillips Payson O’Brien

From P.P. O'Brien: Weekend Update #181; Germany Raises The Pot For Ukraine

It's exactly what an anti-American, an anti-patriot, would do. And he is all that in spades. All the people supporting him, loudly posing as patriots, are frauds, all are anti-patriotic, anti-American. Sick people. Sick society.

Trump is anti-American, anti-patriotic, and a Russian asset. Also, he is and always was manifestly a malignant moronic ass-clown. Everyone who voted for him is a fucking idiot-asshole. That's over 77 million US citizens: definitional of a sick society.

It's hard to be a Republican and not be disgusting, all the time.

This is a Ukrainian boy, Bohdan. He will forever be eight years old. Yesterday, a Russian drone killed Bohdan as he was playing on a playground in Cherkasy. Bohdan sang in the church choir. Deepest condolences... Russian terrorism must be stopped.

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

The NYT strikes again! Pathological.

Trump is anti-American, anti-patriotic. All who support Trump are poseurs and liars, and functionally anti-American, anti-patriotic. They lie about that all the time, and others even believe them.

3/3. It’s hard for Trump to end a war when Putin is making so much money from it.

"A US STEMM workforce shortage is coming", but "we need only a modest course correction to prepare additional mathematics and science teachers and set the US on the path towards an adequate high-skill young STEMM workforce a decade from now."

"Trust in Higher Education" "A more honest explanation would be that administrators prioritize income and prestige from research contracts over long-term social benefits of an educated population. Leading universities like Yale and Cornell have helped by their example make this choice acceptable."

Just sent out my free weekend update. This week the big story was that Germany bet on Ukraine, not as a supplicant but as a defense partner. The USA, otoh, bluffed and then, as it always does, protected Putin. Shame on you who fell for it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Whenever you have a chance, read Roger Rosenblatt. Here's his latest (gift link — anyone can read this): "My Wife Is 85. She Takes My Breath Away." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...

"Thinking Live with Phillips O'Brien on War in Iran and Ukraine" Of course well worth paying close attention to:

SOFIA ISELLA - Numbers 31:17-18

More here, of course, than what the title suggests.

"Trump Can't Even Surrender Right"