If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The latest addition to the "Presidential Walk of Fame".

THIS JUST IN: Biggest Piece of Shit in the World Acts Exactly As Expected

*Andrew Johnson* had more integrity. And *he* was just a hair above Secesh scum.

The first official "Day of Thanksgiving" occurred after the brutal Mystic Massacre. English settlers and their Native American allies burned a Pequot village, killing hundreds of men, women, and children. Governor John Winthrop declared a day of thanksgiving in 1637 to celebrate the the victory.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

MAGA arguing about the definition of pedophile as if calling Epstein a "statutory rapist" is so much better.

Love your neighbor. Love the stranger. Love your enemy. If the greatest commandment is to love, then the greatest sin is failure to love.

The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.

Tim's a bit of a diva it seems.

Senator Kaine, I am deeply disappointed. I voted for you, and you have let the people of Virginia down.

The GDP of the entire rest of the world is about $74 trillion. Trump is claiming he will be diverting over 25% of the rest of the world's GDP into the US economy, while many of our trading partners are pursuing relationships with other counties due to his economic policies. Bonkers.

So Trump is going to almost double the entire GDP of the United States in a year. If you believe that, I've a great deal on a certain bridge you should consider.

No sense of history. No skill at mathematics. Just a self-glorified buffoon in a red tie.

It's reassuring to know that we are ready when the truck tire invasion happens.

Who'd have thought People Magazine would be engaged in more accurate reporting than CNN and CBS.

Apparently we're now going further back than the Gilded Age, all the way to the Crusades.

Mike Johnson bemoans able-bodied men collecting healthcare benefits from the government while not working--exactly what Mike Johnson is currently doing.

Enjoyed watching @pattonoswalt.bsky.social on The Great American Baking Show, and wonder if he's still having nightmares about ground almonds.

Trump does realize that the Lincoln bathroom didn't actually exist when Lincoln was President, right? Right?

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

Trump: "People are saying that some poor guy broke his glasses on the steps of the Portland Library because it was such a mess. And the eyeglass store was boarded up. And the guy was going to read "The Art of the Deal". I'm telling you, Portland needs the National Guard."

Meiselas: One question I have is why do we even have a funding issue? If Trump brought in $17 trillion, why is there even an issue with funding? If we brought in $17 trillion, shouldn’t Trump just be making it rain on everybody and there’s so much money to go—oh, wait a minute.

When you speak up for something, you take a risk...even when you're speaking about saving the environment, animal rights, human rights, civil rights, empathy, compassion or science. Somebody will always place their political or religious views ahead of everything you believe in & know to be true.

From NRA v. Vullo, a 9-0 SCOTUS decision, May 30, 2024: "Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors."

When it comes to foreign policy, Trump is the master of penultimatums.

My favorite cycling hero (and perhaps my favorite hero in general) is Gino Bartali. Twice a winner of the Tour de France and the Tour of Italy, Gino was a national celebrity, a hero even, during the time of Mussolini and the Second World War. He was also a devout Catholic. 1/3

On location near the ICE facility in Farmville, VA. Over 200 folks here standing up for the right to due process.

Aside from the incorrect data (the DC homicide rate is not 41 per 100k residents, it's 24 per 100k), there is an interesting point of commonality with all the other cities in the list: They all have stricter gun control laws than DC.

Might be time to flood the ICE recruitment website with fake applications.

I'm thinking "Secretary Kegseth" has a nice ring to it.

About 20% of prostate cancer patients have negative PSA tests. My father had prostate cancer, and despite continual monitoring after treatment, doctors still failed to catch it when it metastasized into his spine. Quay's assertions are flawed.

"One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own." - James Baldwin

Straight white men we need to organize and be in the front lines. This is it we have been called upon. No more letting the minorities and women do the fighting. As being the only demographic with protection from the government we have to take point. So white boys let’s fuck them up.

You can't simultaneously claim that no one is above the law and deny certain persons due process. If they're not free from prosecution, then they're not free from habeas corpus.

I had the privilege to address the crowd today at our local protest march. Here is the text if anyone's interested. substack.com/@photosynthe...

Because the current administration can't execute economic policy with anything remotely resembling forethought, the constant changes to the system have basically broken it. Only El Naranjo could make a deal this artful. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

El Naranjo planning a military parade for his birthday at an estimated cost of $113M gives me some serious North Korea vibes. At the very least, it is fraud, waste, and abuse of our hard- earned tax dollars.

What a strange mindset: that whatever real or imagined economic pain one experienced under Biden is completely intolerable, but the widespread and very real pain we're experiencing now is some sort of patriotic duty.

I just don't understand how so many Trumpers got so fucking deep into the kool-aid. People that I've always considered rational, thoughtful. Either they're pulling all their information from a couple sources and buying into the lies unknowingly, or they've doubled down on insanity.

MAGA wants to take the US back to the "great" post-WWII era. Including the polio, measles, and tuberculosis, apparently.

The folks who wish women and minorities would just "get over" over 3 centuries of oppression are the same ones in an uproar about 60 years of civil rights.

Life's backwards Life's backwards People turn around The house is burned The house is burned The children are gone Sinéad O'Connor, "Fire on Babylon"

DOGE is focused on cutting the agencies that promote the general welfare, but not the ones that arrest, deport, and kill people.

Federal hiring DEI policies have been replaced by DIK policies (Donald is King).

Every day I think, "What the actual fuck!?!"

So I'm guessing "no new wars" didn't include trade wars, or the war on different cultures, or the war on transgender persons, or the war on science.

If the Republicans keep using C17s for deportation flights, it's going to cost about $13.2 billion just for fuel.

Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time. To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

"analysis of the roll-out and implementation of Secure Communities between 2008 and 2014, suggests that there is not empirical support that immigrant deportations reduce serious crime and make communities safer" econofact.org/does-deporti...