Imagine looking at the period after WWII and especially after the Cold War as an era of American weakness. Unless, I suppose, if becoming the strongest, wealthiest country in history sounds bad to you because some brown people were a part oft, and you'd rather be weaker if it means being whiter.

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Piracy. 🏴‍☠️ — And by “to benefit the people” he means himself and his friends.

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this is so fuckin funny man. the most powerful person in the world made a sweeping declaration of american policy and it was almost immediately obvious that it was completely at odds with reality. why is everyone fixated on that www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/u...

Trump looked like death warmed over as he returned to the White House tonight (Alex Wong/Getty)

rubio pretty much believes in a reverse domino theory for latin america and since he is effectively running foreign policy in the region i would expect him to see cuba as his next target

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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

I don’t understand how legal obligations do not apply to the president, any executive branch officials, or the Kennedy Center, but the strictest reading applies to performing artists.

Highly recommend NUREMBERG, which is currently streaming. Edda Göring lived until 2018. “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” — William Faulkner

So very “Christian” to bomb another country on Christmas Day. This is the same guy who has practically begged for the Nobel Peace Prize.

One new war-crime for every Epstein document.

The United States does not have a president; it has a demented, deranged dictator.

He’s blocking the Epstein files from being released unredacted. And Jack Smith’s testimony from being released. Because he wants Americans to hear his lies instead of seeing the truth for themselves.

The man who ran on a platform of "America First" and promised no involvement in foreign wars is now launching wars of choice in Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, and Lebanon. Meanwhile, he is verbally attacking our oldest and closest allies.

Christmas morning

I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

So they released names and pictures of the VICTIMS while redacting the names of the men, who they see as the true victims of this all.

It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭

LOL they redacted the files so ineptly that you can basically read them with a little effort? Please let this be true.

I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.

It's quaint to talk about inflation reports and surprising softness on the margins when in 13 days the out-of-pocket cost of health insurance is going to rise for 26 million households by an average of 75%

WaPo interview with Vanity Fair photographer who took the White House photos www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

First it was "we have to blow up dozens of people on boats because of fetnanyl." But obviously it wasn't fentanyl being trafficked so then: narco terrorists are shipping cocaine! But then Wiles tells a reporter it's all about regime change and today it's bc US oil companies got kicked out in 2007?

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

Every line, spot, blemish and blood vessel of President Trump's inner circle was captured by Christopher Anderson’s lens in Vanity Fair. The Post talked with the photographer about his reaction to the photos and the process behind them: https://wapo.st/48KZXBY

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

It was never about drugs. It was always about oil.

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

Do you think, if you opened Google Maps and there was a quest marker a mile away, you’d go there

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Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)

I mean that would have to be “holy shit this barista is really into me” levels of self-delusion but she is a Trumpist so

What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

13 years ago today.

so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card

He really wants admiration, recognition, and validation. It’s all grandiosity and self-magnification. He has this desire to build legitimacy, it’s rooted in needing to demonstrate competence rather than simply experience it. It’s shows he is hypersensitive to criticism or perceived

If you’re wondering why Democratic staffers are happily leaking photos of Epstein with the likes of Bill Clinton and Larry Summers you’re really not paying attention. The parties (and their voters) are *not* the same. The Dems are not perfect and have ample problems. But GOP is different.

You'd never know he was talking about his actual son.

Trump posts that he is pardoning Tina Peters, who is in prison on state charges for which he has no pardon power.

I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”

This country's being run by the kind of emotionally spavined subnormals who want to leave NATO because they had to see a sign language interpreter on the teevee

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...