The 2010 midterms are criminally overlooked. Republicans blew Democrats out and used the census to gerrymander congressional districts into seats so safe only the most insane of them could win their primaries. And here we are.

We were so close to becoming a genuinely better nation until a bunch of white folks decide they needed revenge for having to suffer a Black president.

Trump is doing Democrats a real favor. He’s proving that you can’t convict your political enemies just because you want to. Crimes actually have to be committed. Democrats should hammer this home when the media predictably accuses them of pol retribution when the convictions come rolling in.

The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

The $1.5 trillion military budget request from Trump today is an obscenity. The defense budget in 2024 was $841 billion.

His filter is gone. This is what happens when dementia asserts itself. I saw this with my mom. She would say things that would embarrass us and herself but she couldn't help it. She was confused about taking her meds, needing to take showers and forgot to eat. This man is not competent.

US-Israeli air attacks have destroyed Iran's oldest medical research facility, the Pasteur Institute. Israel also destroyed a key pharmaceutical company. Both were civilian targets, war crimes.

If you followed me on the other place before my switch to this site then you’ll know I’ve been pointing out that Trump has dementia since at least 2018. It’s nice to see everyone finally catching up (admittedly, then it was much easier to confuse it with his stupidity).

Moulton: One thing that came out of the president's speech the other night, besides the fact that he's senile and falling asleep, is that there's no plan, there's no plan whatsoever…

This is exactly what he did during Covid. The moment a crisis arises, suddenly his all powerful government is completely helpless and he pawns off all of his responsibilities to the states.

I can smell the desperation through my phone.

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

“He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” -- President Donald J Trump, July 18, 2015

I’ll never forget when years ago, Anthony Bourdain, who’d just return from Singapore, told Chris Hardwick something to the effect of, “I just came back from the future, and let me tell you, we’re not a part of it.”

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

“We must lock everyone up to prevent crime.”

The US Department of War Crimes.

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

They’ll get us all killed but at least they’ll be undeserving white men.

It’s like having an atheist as the Pope.

I’m almost entirely self published. Over the course of my career, my books have entertained / amused / violated the eyeballs of nearly a million awesome readers. But please tell me again how I’m not a “real writer”. 😁

🚨 BIG NEWS: Samsung opened their very FIRST U.S.-based manufacturing facility right here in Maryland! Life-saving therapies for people around the world are going to be made here in America, while also strengthening our state’s economy. Maryland delivers – and we’re not playing for second.

I’d like the president, the guy who’s fucking everything up, to be held to a higher standard than a literal child.

The Iranians wanting to negotiate with JD Vance suggests they’re as aware of Trump’s impending death as we are. They know Vance will be the principal power sooner than later.

From a party that’s obsessed with birthrates they do fuck all to make having children desirable.

“Our government,” is some weasel shit. Donald Trump, the man these fucking abject morons helped put in power (he’s speaking to Rogan here), is not here to help the people. It is deeply depressing that men like this wield the influence they do.

It’s increasingly clear that Donald Trump has declined in alarming ways. His vocabulary is shrinking, his cadence is slowing, his speech is often slurred. Nothing in his recent appearances suggests the capacity expected of a president. The only question is whether those around him will confront it.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

Just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic at this point.

At the heart of so many Republicans is a Democrat that’s snuffed out because of bigotry.

Prediction markets aren't just corrupt. They are a sign of our nation's spiritual atrophy - as every moral question became commodified and wagering becomes a growing source of meaning and purpose. My latest substack:

I just don’t think you need to love war crimes to be a real man.

Finessed a couple of stat padding years in Washington into gobs of unwarranted money.

He’s so mad she couldn’t figure out a way to prosecute all of his enemies that never committed crimes.

Tired of these 30 degree swings in weather. This shit is insane. We’re facing two existential threats to humanity, climate change and Donald Trump.

Which, when you think about it, is not far from the truth.

The day Donald Trump dies the world will celebrate like we just defeated an alien invasion.

Whatever happens tonight; The. Damage. Is. Done If other damage can be averted,… ok? But we are going to be living with the reverberating consequences of this for a long time.

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

Not so hard to believe when you accept that a significant portion of the electorate hates everything that makes this country good.

so it sounds like this speech tonight is going to be the president of the united states crying and whining on worldwide tv about europe refusing to clean up his mess

Trump has turned this country into the broke dude who thinks every girls is after him for his money.

Black people using the same religion that was used to dehumanize us to dehumanize the LGBTQ+ community is really foul work.

Elected officials knowingly lying like this should be grounds for removal.

Abdul El-Sayed on Fox News: "You've got the Saudis, you've got the Qataris who are buying the Trump administration a jet that he plans to take after he's done with the presidency. Those are radical regimes too, but we're not going to war with them."

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.