I’ve said it before, but People magazine should get a Pulitzer for its coverage of this administration.

I do not give the IRGC or any entities associated with Iran permission to mine the Strait of Hormuz. With this statement I give notice to the IRGC it is strictly forbidden to mine the Strait. The violation of ukase can be punished by law (UCC 1308 11 308103 and the Rome Statute).

Buttered his bread

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

David Bier slaying them

‘This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don't have any idea why they're alive.’ - Michael Shannon in 2016 predicting the hell we’re in now www.rogerebert.com/interviews/y...

MERKLEY: So when the VP said 'ICE agents have absolute immunity' in violating people's civil rights, he was effectively correct? BIER: Effectively, yes. Right now as the law stands.

If you want a glimpse into what passes for smart, talented, high performance in tech and finance circles, worthy of enormous salaries, torture yourself by watching these deposition videos

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions. Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

Two nat 20s in a row right there

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Simple solutions for simple minded pigs - and everyone in the world pays for it

Give the man his due!

Uncle Scam...

ngl, thinking that the issue here is just that "US is rational and stable" is a load-bearing assumption for a lot of things so people default to it. because house of cards collapses entirely if assumption is put into severe doubt

We’ve gone from “shock and awe” to “Shock and uhhhh….”

Next MAGA anthem will be Graham singing “Don’t Take the Oil” in the style of Tim McGraw

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Huh but I thought the US “has the best intelligence”…

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

Real crazy to think about the implications if Trump seriously just shutdown letting any legislation pass unless the SAVE Act does even for a few weeks •no farm bailout •DHS stays shutdown •no bipartisan housing bill •no disaster aid •no supplemental Defense spending

When my mom was a K teacher, she explained to class how a pregnant coworker had a baby growing in her belly One kid’s parents were outraged. “How dare you! We tell our kids babies come from angels!” Yoinked kids to pvt school after Imagine letting lunatics like that inform major business decisions

A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.

Agree; but they had a good thing going with the “they’re weird” angle. That is EXACTLY how you defuse bullies like Trump, and it worked! So refreshing. I felt HEARD. But KH fucked it up eventually, listened to the wrong ppl, got baited into jumping in his traps predictably, to the detriment of all.

This is the way

Certainly bad at being parents, if not bad people outright

Thinking of Teddy Roosevelt’s hasty and ill-conceived treaties that led to WW1, and how Trump’s foreign “policy” is likely to have a rhyming effect but on meth and steroids

“A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.” ~ John F. Kennedy 🍟

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety. venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars. child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me. mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed. mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

meth was once a homegrown US tradition that a state like North Dakota could be proud of.

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

I don’t think people have grasped what it means to have a WH & a military who commits mass murder over and over for the sole purpose of committing mass murder.

People who have committed crimes against humanity should be prosecuted, tried, and face appropriate, proportional consequences. This is not a radical position.

when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually

Maybe they’ll fight 🤜 💥 🤛

USA is led by some of the worst people on earth

These are definitely guys who choose which burger restaurant to go to based on which company has the better EBITDA

Seeing her up there always reminded me of the administrator in Half Life 2

Dang never thought the pervert glasses could be used for financial crime too

on this team and gonna keep saying: behind the extremely thin veneer of concern and responsibility of anti-Bluesky takes is the desperate attempt to portray something that is obviously their problem as though it were our problem. nice try. go with God, have a blessed day

This point echoes conservative argument against animal rights: they’re not real because animals wouldn’t have rights unless we provided them

This isn’t just an indictment of the regime - not even just an indictment of the entire GOP who are enabling this. It’s an indictment of the private sector bosses who run their businesses this way, who saw a guy who runs his businesses this way and thought “that’s how we need to run the government.”

In my experience this kind of cluelessness is borne out of a profound shallowness: guys like that can’t fathom that people wouldn’t be so shallow. They do not have the capacity to perceive what we do, and they think we’re crazy or liars.