If I had to pick one post that captures the entire Trump era it would be

A little concerned that there may not be one single government of Iran rn, which is of course a direct consequence of Trump’s insane decision making.

I AM GOING TO BURN DOWN THE SHED UNLESS WE HAVE PIZZA ROLLS FOR DINNER TONIGHT [mom sighs, rolls her eyes, writes "pizza rolls" on the grocery list for next week] I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BURN DOWN THE SHED

For @thenation.com I look at why the Saudis are telling Trump to escalate from the sidelines, and what it says about the US-led security architecture in the Persian Gulf. With gratitude for insights from @andrewleber.bsky.social and @philbrickyadav.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Didn’t know Netflix had moved into the nightly news space.

Looks increasingly likely, otoh I could also see Trump agreeing to split some kind of abusive Hormuz toll with the IRGC 50-50 and depositing the proceeds in an offshore bank account while claiming he did regime change. Would really hit the MAGA sweet spot of depravity, lying and greed.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

Truly unreal how this one fucking dickhead is psychologically abusing, terrifying and immiserating everyone on the planet. I don't know what's going to happen tonight but it certainly feels like we're going to need to be gathered in the streets sooner rather than later.

It’s a very good statement of the situation but runs into the same problem—the need to radically amend the Constitution—that everything else does. This sentiment is not broadly shared and the opposition party on the verge of sweeping victory both has no interest and can’t win enough power to do it.

Worth remembering that the spiraling, demented war criminal in the White House deliberately precipitated the very problem that 50 years of failed US policy was designed to prevent. He has no leverage and no way out, he knows it and he’s losing his mind.

If the rest of the staff stayed in the WH after leaving Trump, this is literally the Downfall video meme.

Bondi lasted an impressive 38.18 Scaramuccis.

Dow futures down 400 points since The Speech

The phrase you're looking for is "ethnic cleansing"

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

Someone put me on some right-wing fundraising lists and wow. I know there’s stuff like this on the left but this feels particularly brazen and shameless.

Tomorrow looks like the day that the last of the meager stock market gains since January 2025 will be erased, unless a new Secret Plan to End the War is leaked.

i'm being told the red sox are on here. sorry if i wasn't clear but i meant teams that play in the real league

Indivisible cofounder announcing a general strike on May Day. Wow.

Lot of talk about Israel dragging us into war and yet somehow the rancid, useless, pampered tyrants in charge of Saudi Arabia always get a pass. Urging escalation while they sit on the sidelines doing I don’t know what, hand-washing all the F-15s we’ve sold them.

My favorite thing about flying into O’Hare is how roughly half the time you land and they just park you in the middle of nowhere on the tarmac with no explanation or sense of when you might be proceeding to a gate.

I remember unveiling this plan to a group of clerks on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to a smattering of uncomfortable laughs and a swift change of subject.

The state-level swings between presidential elections used to be -wild.- Nixon (R) won Arkansas by 38 points in 1972, and then Carter (D) won it by 30 in 1976. Reagan (R) then won it by less than a point in 1980. That's three consecutive 30+ point swings. Can you imagine?

Appreciate some insights in the article from @davidfaris.bsky.social, @kjephd.bsky.social, @mcopelov.bsky.social, @jenvictor.bsky.social, & @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social Thanks sharing your perspectives!

Trump is collapsing air travel, crashing the market and adding 30% to gas prices. Covid-like supply chain issues are building. He sounds, charitably, drunk when discussing the goals and conduct of the war. His net approval is down 3 points from late Feb. There is a national election in 226 days.

For @thenation.com I argue that we should oppose the war for more than its ineptitude and lack of planning. The failure to understand that the (horrific) Iranian regime’s seemingly self-defeating behavior is driven in part by a well justified fear that America would eventually do…. this.

Sorry what???

you have got to be fucking kidding me.

I guess I’m off on an island here but I thought the only 2025 movie nearly as good as Sinners was Eddington.

I do think it’s worth pondering how many “mainstream” Republicans from a generation ago have just gone completely insane. It’s like if Tom Daschle was microdosing and tweeting “Hey guys what if just dropped fifty nukes on Donbas? Radioactive buffer zone, Kyiv is safe!”

Hilariously daft. But I wonder if it's dawning on anyone in the Trump admin that there will be no way to reliably guarantee safe transit through the Strait in the short or medium term as long the Iranian regime remains in place and no negotiated settlement to the conflict is reached.

This is a sharp interview. Read the whole thing.

Trump probably could have forced Iran into a near-total capitulation in the nuclear negotiations he cut short to start his idiotic war. Now the US position seems to deteriorate by the hour. No planning, no exit ramp, no expertise, no clue. What's the next move, dipshits?

Iran War's 'Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain'? What Long Term-Gain?!: Today's #BradCast Guest: Political scientist @davidfaris.bsky.social of Roosevelt Univ.; Also: More Special Election wins for Dems in deep 'red' MAGA territory; Voting probs in TX... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15663

Happy to take the “AOC for President” side of this debate. She’s a generational talent and it is long past time for the highly risk-averse Dem primary electorate to make a bold choice.

The moment I knew the culture had truly left me behind is when they felt the need to have cold opens for movie previews followed by “The Wuthering Heights trailer starts NOW!”

All eyes are on Iran and rightly so, but Illinois is holding a critical US Senate primary in one week. For @thenation.com, I argue that if we want a progressive rather than a moderate in Dick Durbin's seat, we need to avoid a strategic voting trap and back Juliana Stratton instead of Robin Kelly.

Mmm hmm right right right

Changing the clocks turns me, and virtually everyone with little kids that I know, into a ranting lunatic. Just pointlessly messing with everyone's sanity twice a year and no one can even consistently or credibly explain the purpose.

Tehran is a thousand kilometers from Kuwait. Sorry but where is a ground invasion getting staged from and how do they plan to get there? Has someone even told him there are mountains or are we just in magical thinking territory here? Does he know how long a troop buildup like that takes?

Worth repeating that the current American government is not just a policy disaster but an actual moral abomination, a collection of absolutely soulless, violence-worshipping sociopaths who really don’t think anyone but white Christians are real people with rights and interiority.

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime

Feels like the conventional wisdom for Dems is that esp if Cornyn wins the primary, TX is a much less likely get than AK, OH or even IA. Dems will likely need two of those four states, along with NC and ME (and to hold all of their vulnerable seats) to win the Senate. Not sure the CW is right. 1/

Everything is going exactly as planned with this extremely well-thought-out war.

Truly awe-inspiring for someone to spend virtually their entire career as a columnist at the same newspaper, writing over and over about the same issues, and to have learned literally not one goddamned thing whatsoever.

Fun to think that if there’s a major, blowback-driven terrorist attack on the U.S. any time in the coming years the exact same people responsible for all of this wanton, taxpayer funded killing will be like “Oh Em Gee why do they hate us???”

Love to live in history's most powerful country, where teachers are constantly forced to beg parents to buy them basic school supplies.

Literally “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Forget the blatant illegality and the damage done to future US negotiators for one second. The basic logic of what Trump is asking of Iranians -- shelter in place while we bomb the shit out of you and then come out and overthrow the government when we're done -- just makes zero sense.

Every day it becomes clearer that the most important task of the next freely-elected, democratic government in the United States will be to figure out how to put real, permanent and enforceable constraints on the presidency.