(🚨) OK, the time has come. Everyone needs to read the 2020 bestseller Proof of Corruption, in which the man pictured below is a key antagonist trying to steal the 2020 election for Trump. Don't care about the money here, just borrow it from the library.

Jennifer Rubin in the Contrarian on China overtaking the United States because of Trump’s blundering. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

MAHA is more like Make America Pregnant Again. Gift article Does the Trump Administration Really Want More Teen Pregnancies? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

I keep hearing I should be more open to Marjorie Taylor Greene because she demanded Trump release the Epstein Files. But she had no problem being buddies with known human trafficker Matt Gaetz, supported Trump even when he was an adjudicated rapist and was a seditionist on January 6th. So I won't.

This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.

My Friday began with some really good news. I wrote about the busy day that followed. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/one-...

Truth is a defense against a slander suit. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

The Gates of Hell, Darvaza, Turkmenistan

I think the concept of Worst Possible Sustainable Equilibrium (WPSE) is the closest I've come to some kind of grand theory of Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrcu...

DJT and his illegal war are fixin to cancel your summer vacation due to lack of jet fuel and $5 gas.

This is a choice.

This is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. It is 154 feet tall. Trump‘s new arch in Washington will be almost 100 feet taller than this. It will be a colossal wart on the face of the city.

Kristol argues here that Trump is wrong about power and that in America, right makes might. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Can somebody explain to me why the deficit only seems to matter to Republicans when a Democrat is in the White House?

LFG

Call 202-224-3121 and ask Trump's Republican co-conspirators that question. Without their willingness to enable the Trump crime spree, he would not be able to rip us off, or get away with raping children.

I haven’t seen any reporting on Trump’s response to Orban‘s loss.

Ossoff: "Trump apparently promised pardons for entire WH staff, which is what you do when you run it like a casino. Maybe the West Wing is too busy placing bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt...in Trump’s America the well-connected get stock tips & everybody else makes sacrifices"

Iran brought 71 people to Islamabad. America brought a real estate developer… his boss's son-in-law… and a vice president running for president in 2028. And we're calling this a negotiation.

Selective enforcement.

The Artemis mission is everything that is good and right about America, which may explain why Trump is almost invisible in the coverage of it. He is everything that is wrong and bad about America.

I guess now we are importing our racists... guess tRump thinks we don't have enough of them, or that the homegrown versions are not racist enough for him.

Obama never threatened the pope.

2 years ago today much of the middle part of the country experienced a total solar eclipse. I drove from Chicago to Southern Indiana to make sure I experienced it as totally as I could.

why is our vice president in Hungary campaigning for a candidate who is anti-EU anti-Ukraine? What is wrong with this administration? Why is it so Putin centric?

So let me get this straight, tear gas is safe enough to be shot at protesters, but not to be returned through the air toward Ice? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

It has never been more apparent that we have a game show host as president. His constant promotion of tonight‘s 8 o’clock announcement feels like the lead into a commercial break.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if all government functioned like this?

While atrocious, this is pretty much par for the course with this administration. It is definitely a feature, not a bug.

The war in Iran is a failure of intelligence. But not in the way some might think, Shane Harris reports.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Iran hits back on social media.

lol

here’s what would be better than this performative bullshit: if he looked out into the crowd and saw … no crowd. because reporters who actually care about the first amendment kept they asses at home. (via @status.news, a newsletter well worth paying for)

Na na na na na na bat dog

Knock, knock. It's karma, JD!

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m gifting this article because it’s about taking away women’s right to vote. We need good men to fight for us. Please stay informed on this topic. We cannot allow this to happen. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Soon to be appearing in midterm political ads for Democratic candidates nationwide. Thanks, Darnold. 🙏

I mean, you don't really need a translator

The shortsightedness of this administration is infinite.

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...