Relieved they’re trying to manage his crazy…but also concerned they have to manage his crazy.

trump continues to be just a terrible president, and significantly worse than last time

There is so much market manipulation going on in this administration.

The “feds” are investigating?

It didn’t work. It’s fucked.

Deliberate destruction of culture was the subject of an episode of my podcast, Autocracy in America www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump is doing an absolutely terrific job appearing unstable. No one can do it better.

NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

"It's definitely not open," @ksadjadpour.bsky.social says of the Strait of Hormuz. "I don't think any major shipping or oil company would tell you that we've gone back to status quo ante, and that process could take many, many months." via @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

Obama's JCPOA how I remember. bsky.app/profile/papo... bsky.app/profile/papo...

Oh, how I miss Obama! Today my parents gave me three Obama books, all hardcovers. (1 was actually Michelle Obama's book) I am so thankful that my parents are Democrats.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 17 APRIL 2026 TRUMP'S DAMN WAR Disgusted America, this lunatic trump just paid $20 BILLION for something which Obama paid $2BILLION & trump called him traitor Open the Straits, they were open but trump killed 13 dead soldiers & now it has tolls TRUMP IS VILE

See the full story by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak here.

You can also read the full 16 pages of memos here.

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Pope Leo isn’t backing down in the face of Trump's threats. Praise the Lord.

Here is a gift link to my op ed in @opinion.bloomberg.com about DOJ’s false narrative of prosecutions of FACE Act and seditious conspiracy. Trump admin is rewriting history and normalizing vigilante violence. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The story behind the ex-Brazilian model, arrested in South Florida, who claims she has compromising material on the President and First Lady. via @jkbjournalist.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

At this rate, Trump is going to demand the Justice Department open a criminal investigation of the pope....Hello? Kudos to Pope Leo for his moral clarity — and for not backing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/leo

A gift link to the article: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"I ended up writing an article in 2019 in @theatlantic.com explaining that Donald Trump is mentally disordered. He's a narcissistic psychopath and a malignant narcissist, that is inconsistent with the duties of, and the obligations of, and the ability to conduct the presidency of the United States"

The police in a Chicago suburb on Thursday were investigating a report of a bomb threat at the home of a brother of Pope Leo XIV. The police said they found no explosive devices. The investigation comes amid a public dispute between the pope and President Trump over the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted a violent and fictional Bible passage nearly word-for-word from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in his Wednesday night worship service at the Pentagon.

Why is the world supposed to look to America as the truthful and moral leaders of the world. When the leader is a criminal, pedophile rapist. It won’t even prosecute anyone in the Epstein Files. It literally hides the pedophiles and exposes the victims in those files.

Polish communism was also defeated, in the end, by an election. www.thefp.com/p/orbans-ous...

Hungarian communism also ended peacefully. So did the Brazilian military regime. And the Chilean dictatorship. That doesn't meant that the autocrats were democrats.

Thousands of displaced families flooded the main highway to southern Lebanon on Friday, after a 10-day cease-fire pausing Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah went into effect. Follow live updates.

Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain fired Peter Mandelson, the former envoy to the U.S., late Thursday. Starmer’s office said he had been appointed despite failing to pass security vetting checks.

This week, Congress was on the cusp of doing something that has never happened in U.S. history: forcibly removing four House members. Two of those members resigned. What do the events tell us about how willing Congress is to hold itself accountable? Listen to “The Daily.”

Lebanon’s government secured a cease-fire by breaking a longstanding diplomatic taboo and calling for talks with Israel, but turning the truce into something lasting will be a far greater challenge.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Kamlager-Dove: Stevie Wonder can even see how much this war is costing us. Prices have gone up, and this dude is wanting to spend $2 billion of your money every single day rather than help you. Fuck him.

Many Asian countries reeling from the oil shock caused by the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran are turning to America’s adversaries for their needs.

After Trump’s Attack on Pope Leo, a Bomb Threat Came for His Brother in Suburban Chicago John Prevost is a retired Catholic school principal who plays Wordle with his brother the pope every morning. On Wednesday night, police evacuated his neighborhood. open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

Thousands of displaced people crammed roads in Lebanon on Friday as they tried to return to the country’s devastated south, hours after a cease-fire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah.

"oppress all your laborers" or ignore the poor. For God to listen again, the text demands an end to violence: "Wash and make yourselves clean... stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed". Only after this moral turning can "sins be as white as snow".

a moral and relational barrier that prevents a connection with the divine. God rebukes those who fast and pray for "strife and debate" or to "strike with a wicked fist". He rejects worship that seeks his blessing for personal or military gain while the worshippers continue to

Hannity stating God wants war. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ I want to cry. Why do atheists always have to explain the Bible to supposed Christians? The Bible isn’t STATIC. It moves. The God of War and genocide. The warring God of the Book of Joshua. GOD DOES NOT STAY A GOD OF WAR. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Really getting tired of these faux Christians defaming my religion. Not only is Hegseth misquoting Bible passages to justify military aggression, he apparently has not read the New Testament at all. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

"I don't think people are sufficiently prepared notwithstanding what happened in 2021, for the possibility that he will try to fuck with this election. And he will. He's already basically telling us that's what he's going to do, just the same way he told us he would do that in 2020."

🚨YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: IRS data show 164 taxpayers with an average unreported foreign account balance of $1.3 billion were identified for examination - but only 12 were audited. The agency didn't do more audits even after they discovered $39 million of taxes owed among the 12.

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to tax second homes in New York City that are worth $5 million or more. Here’s how the proposal might work.

Bishop James Massa, chairman of U.S. Catholic bishops’ doctrine committee, pushed back against Vice President JD Vance’s suggestion that Pope Leo XIV be more “careful when he talks about matters of theology” following the pontiff’s criticism of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The U.S. military said it had struck a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing three people that it accused of smuggling drugs.

What the actual fuck. Is this actually true? Because to say you are not joining the war but supplying Israel with military components in the middle of a war IS joining the war. Belgium seizes two British cargoes of military components bound for Israel www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/...