When Trump talked about pardoning Netanyahu, everyone said that was dumb and made no sense b/c, o/c, potus doesn’t have pardon power in Israel. However, wouldn’t it be a more typical Trump slip of the tongue if Trump was thinking about crimes Bibi may have committed in the US? 🧐

The President of the United States, clout chaser in Chief, hoping to get some of that Mamdani magic rub off on him.

These would be the “new” emails that his stooges in Congress had already shared with his Justice Dept and for some reason they weren’t important until now, 🤔

Memba the rumor that they werent going through the docs to scrub Trump’s name, but wanted to alter them to lessen how bad it looked? 🤔

Men would rather shut down the government than go to therapy.

@thebulwark.com I hate to be that guy, but this WSJ Trump letter looks a lot like it’s a self-plant. Trump will sue Murdoch and they will settle with a retraction, thereby making anything else that is Trump in the files suspect.

This is some grade A, Big Beautiful BS from ssa.gov when in fact, roughly 90% of seniors this bill was designed to protect from being taxed on their Social Security already paid little to no federal tax on those benefits before its enactment. (“Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security, 2023” -SSA)

He said this BS right after two days of keeping his votes open for record amounts of time, well after time expired, because he needed all of that time to strong-arm people to the "simple truth." What a sanctimonious asshat. The GOP had better make sure there are no more so-called "free" elections...

Little known fact, Auschwitz was referred to as “Auschwitz Alcatraz” when it first opened as a camp. (This is not a fact, but Germany did study the American penal system, segregation, and Jim Crow laws in designing their deportation and concentration camp plans)

Alligator Auschwitz, that’s its name, now and forever. DeSantis and Trump, and everyone cheering this on should never be able to live this down.

"Like I said, we hungry" —Don Toretto

This is particularly disheartening & do not suggest that being more centrist (as people have been saying) would have improved anything. The lessons learned that were assumed appear incorrect. It also kind of kills the Trump cheated narrative. 😞 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

I'm not saying there isn't an official or de facto ceasefire, but can anyone name a person on the Israeli and on the Iranian side who is on record officially agreeing to a ceasefire; if so, what are the terms? I've googled and asked our friend ChatGPT, but nothing can be found, only unnamed peeps

I guess every authoritarian is a major wuss? www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

I did a small edit to the NYT story...

June 22, 2025 - here’s an op-ed from Bret Stephens in the NYT that’s guaranteed to age well…😑

What’s the chance ICE peeps are pretending to be a Jehovah’s Witness to canvass homes?

FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️ - I'm seriously getting tired of this shit, how about you? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Khamenei is starting to give off “strongly worded letter” Schumer vibes…

Can someone in the know please explain to me the following: 1) Has an active nuclear reactor facility ever been struck before? 2) What are the ramifications for the reactors? Will this be a meltdown in the rubble?

This is shameful and frightening on so many levels. I'm sure there will be those who say (or think), "you've got nothing to worry about, as long as you're on our side..." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

May I humbly request someone develop a Kim Jong Un or Joseph Stalin filter that can be applied to footage of the TACO parade?

I think this is probably the fairest criticism I've read and agree wholeheartedly. It also explains how people keep talking past each other in a way many takes don't.

I stand 100% with Terry Moran.

For years, Republicans baselessly claimed that Democrats somehow were "cooking the books," but now the MAGA Admin is both openly and secretly manipulating data, and it's not even subtle.

This is going to sound like a dumb question, but I'm sure the media has images of who exactly stopped the waymo cars and lit them on fire? Same thing for the dumpster lit aflame?

Plot twist, in another genius move by Zaslav, one company will be named "War Bros," and the other will be "Disco Nervy." New branding shall immediately commence!

What if the Dems add in to the protests that the election was stolen and they are taking the country “back” (like the J6 peeps)? Does that then make the police tactics/using the military this way bad again? (Not like this was done to J6, but you get the point).

She was right.

FFS, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov, why isn't there a unified plan of action by the opposition party laying out what is expected of EVERYONE, citizens and politicians alike? Other than a secret plan, it is unforgivable that the response to the most predictable admin is chaotic.

The State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. ~Thoreau

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As predicted by so many, Republicans are now saying they don’t care what Trump may have done with Epstein, it was “a long time ago..he is President now.” Family values my ass.

I’m enjoying this as much as anyone, but seems very likely they do some big show of squashing the beef within, like, a week.

And following the grand distraction, detente, like the end of any WWE beef.

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

This is perhaps the greatest combination of effort combined with stupidity living in one article, and it's filled with infographics that reinforce its lack of understanding, courtesy of the WSJ: www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Anyone looking forward to their Apex Tech shingles vax in a few years?

This didn't age well... (In all fairness, Dalio also said in Sept & Oct a Trump admin would veer right 1930s style)

Apparently, in order to get everyone on their side in the fight against the administration, Harvard is going to allow everyone to drop into every conversation that they "went to Harvard," just like actual grads.

Let me understand: the cover-up of Biden's health was done by...Joe Biden? He cleverly convinced people of his mental acuity by demonstrating...his mental acuity for hours at a time? I don't think he should have run for a 2nd term for a variety of reasons, incl health, but this is some rank BS.

What are the odds Thune allows the CBO to score the bill before any debate, and of course, after any changes, before the final voting?

I'm so thankful that glamour is being restored to the film industry...wtf? This looks like the post-separation pic following a human centipede...🤮

Do any of the AI agent models have threaded conversations, or the ability to highlight something the agent said and add a comment for it to respond to? Seems useful.

One of the most misguided arguments against taxing the wealth, income, or investment gains of the ultra-wealthy is that we lack the means to prevent capital flight. Imagine the tools being used to bring manufacturing back, but instead of it costing the consumer, it would actually raise capital.

Im no big Biden defender, but this is some rank bullshit

@schatz.bsky.social as a constituent, I respectfully ask you to explain how we are better off now than if we let the govt shut down? Aren’t we just being rolled in reconciliation, like most of us thought would happen?

Democrats should have done a wake to commemorate the first 100 days. A full-on mourning of the end of America as we know it.

How soon does Trump tell the DOT to withhold future funds for the Federal Highway System unless a state allows a transferable control to the US military under the military purpose doctrine in times of a national emergency?

If the entire news division doesn't threaten to resign over this (and resign if this goes forward), then the fourth estate has ten toes in the grave... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...