Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

PLATNER IS LITERALLY STILL OPENLY USING THE "R" WORD IN CASUAL CONVERSATION. TODAY.

I just found out my kid thought Star Trek IV was a period piece, like the episodes where they go back to the Depression or Mark Twain or whatever.

These guys now literally doing what the national media accused Biden of doing during weeks of breathless nonstop TOTAL FAILURE coverage of 🇦🇫 in 2021

Congrats to every news org that breathlessly led with "ceasefire!" headlines on Wednesday despite having ample evidence that Trump likes to bullshit about exactly this sort of stuff without having anything concrete in place

If Swalwell was a GOP ratfuck they would've waited until ballots had been out for a few weeks to release it

The fact that Tucker Carlson is defending Lebanon against Israel on the grounds that it is a “Christian-led country” really gives the game away on what is going on here.

This is a rehash of the vibecession debates but median household income adjusted for inflation hit a record in 2024 (2025 data will be released in September). It’s just *not true* in any objective sense that people don’t have money anymore. It may *feel* that way but that’s different from reality.

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

The fucking noble savage rural voter always the fucking noble savage rural voter

we don’t owe the “why didn’t she report it” crowd a single response

People are completely convinced of this lie that Buckley tried to keep like racism at bay. He absolutely didn't. He tried to keep *lower-class* conservatives from having a seat at the table.

And Trump has a way of using brute repetition to get the media to forget his fuck-ups and scandals. So by hyper-focusing on the Strait, Trump can pretend that was the goal all along. And if it opens, the media appears poised to treat it like a victory, when it's us surrendering.

Oh dear, folks, I was being sarcastic, not literal. No one has explicitly stated that the goal of the war was to open the strait. The glowing "peace talks" and "historic event" coverage is concealing the ugly reality: Trump lost this war. And begging Iran to open the strait is no victory.

All this gushing coverage of JD Vance is nauseating. He's basically negotiating our country's terms of surrender. This isn't some big moment for us.

As I feared, it's hardening into common media wisdom that Trump started the war to open the Strait of Hormuz, and therefore it's an outstanding victory that he achieved this once-unthinkable accomplishment.

Another deported U.S. citizen. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

And this isn't forward-looking at all! The people Biden pardoned would absolutely be persecuted right now if he hadn't pardoned them, but no one did anything on the expectation of a pardon, especially an explicit one. Trump is explicitly promising pardons to induce his people to act criminally!

Yup. Similarly, I was born in 79' 6 yrs after Roe v Wade and 10 yrs after my mom had an illegal abortion. I'll be 47 next week and the amount of rights we've undone in my lifetime is really awful.

Pardoning specific people Biden’s political enemies had threatened to destroy with frivolous prosecutions is not the same as pardoning your whole administration en masse.

Obviously the press is going to adopt the dumbest possible reasoning for why Trump's pardons are okay, and no ostensible liberal needs build that case for them.

“Gonna be awfully hard to prosecute serial killers after the government killed bin Laden.”

Perfectly said, better than I did. Thank you.

Biden’s preemptive pardons were to protect people from a promised perversion of justice. Trump’s promised preemptive pardons are to shield people from the actual administration of justice. If you compare the two you’re running interference for the latter.

My hatred is infinite. There is no such thing as too much punishment for him and his supporters.

Hell, the fact that Elliott Abrams isn't going to die in a prison infirmary *just* for having propped up Efraín Ríos Montt's hellscape regime in Guatemala, is a tragedy and scandal of elite impunity.

You still occasionally see people complain about Democratic politicians getting successfully nailed for sexual misconduct, while Republican politicians like Trump are seemingly able to shake it off. The difference, I think, is that Democratic voters now generally don't tolerate this sort of thing

lmfaoooooooooo

This looks like a set design from The Man in the High Castle.

this is kind of over

To all who celebrate

Drug courts in Kentucky have been requiring participants go to ARC programs (which are the only ones around in some places) despite knowing about the corruption. Folks are not getting treatment or care: they are funding a corrupt machine.

I will note that Trump, SecDef, SouthCom, etc have been posted snuff films for many months now. Killing for content is a feature of this administration's use of force.

OMFG. This is now on the FAA online job application form - for all positions including air traffic controllers!

Maybe electing a person to be President who never spent one second in the government or the military ever wasn’t a great idea.

This is why this chart is useful, in my opinion. It matters that DEI is the *only* issue that was met positively as it was clear what he was doing from the executive orders issued his first day in office.

I would point out that popular protests tend to be flaky & only loosely responsive to actual events. But it's a serious problem that a lot of left protest dynamics are at best "how do we influence Democrats & the Democratic Party with the biggest stick we can find" with little conceptual follow-up.

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

The national divorce gave us ice cream, country music, and the NFL while the other side got raw milk, the measles, and Riley Gaines. It's the most lopsided settlement in the history of settlements.

This is something that bothers me.

How is the regime doing worse things somehow less worthy of mass protests to the people who are, supposedly, the vanguard

If there was a protest culture that only popped up with Democrats and then sunk down with Republicans in office doing worse you'd ask yourself just a whole host of questions about that, right

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

This is an important point that gets missed in this discourse, but we also didn't see campus protesting for universities rolling over to trump's demands last year.

This is the worst president in the history of United States.

So….. I got a dog today😁 I went to the dog shelter and they brought in this cutie and it was instant love This is Ida my 5 month old puppy We are both exhausted!! Good night BlueSky😴💤🌙