Grim reminder that this is currently the most competent and experienced Cabinet that Trump will have for the remainder of his Presidency, and the above statement will also be true for the remainder of his Presidency.

I asked myself "how do golf courses possibly afford property taxes" so I looked it up and came away convinced we could virtually eliminate the entire sport by simply removing several dumb tax loopholes

Melania comes to the podium each day for the next week to make a new denial. "I know nothing about the Paula Abdul mystery plane crash" "I am not the subject of the song 'You Oughtta' Know" "I had nothing to do with Flight 370" "I am not Banksy." "I did not pay a lot for this muffler."

Load bearing principle for the American pro Israel consensus is that this guy is less influential on world affairs than your average college student at Columbia

“They better not be”? “They better stop now”? Trump’s Iran War was supposed to be his strongman moment abroad. Instead, Trump has been reduced to pleading with the Iranians to stop collecting fees in the Strait of Hormuz - something they weren’t doing before his war.

Iranian negotiator 1: Quiet a moment. Shut up. Stop talking. Zip it. We have video. You know what kind of video I'm talking about US: *runs out of room sweating and texting* Iranian negotiator 2: do we actually have video proof? Iranian negotiator 1: Does it matter? He seems pretty convinced.

May we see this agreement?

It's hard to feel the rush of adolescent revolutionary rage when you and your parents are protesting the same guy

Happy Confederate surrender day! This should be a national holiday, and it says a lot that it isn’t.

On previous form the British Right will deal with its cognitive dissonance over this by championing Argentina's claim.

Throwback Thursday (”The USA still believes the chaos in Iraq to calm down”, 26 October 2003)

Trump was initially told that Thursday’s ceasefire would cover the Middle East, including Lebanon—a view shared by mediators, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Iran’s Araghchi. However, after a call between Netanyahu and Trump, the U.S. position shifted. Source: CBS News

I think either (1) nothingburger (but streisand effect) or (2) big story and not wanting to comment after it's out (and her people just referring people to prior statement)

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

I can excuse NFT casinos for toddlers but I draw the lines at violating GAAP

The AICPA is getting involved, they're capital F Fucked LMFAO

Gov. Pritzker: "I know the Republicans say Democrats aren't patriotic. We're more patriotic. We believe in this country more than they do. They're tearing down the laws. They're operating in an unconstitutional fashion. They elected somebody who is ruining our democracy."

The fuck is this shit? What is she getting out ahead of?

posting pictures of myself with particularly expensive sheep (that i have hired for the day before I return to my cottage I share with four other influencers)

Stories written by a literal sheep

So this is how i find out melania is on the epstein files

chyron has me asking a lot of questions already answered by the chyron

One of the few people who can prove whether Melania is lying about Epstein is Ghislaine Maxwell. Trump's personal lawyer, now the Acting AG, transferred her to a minimum security prison. And Trump has publicly said that he "wishes her well." Nothing to see here.

In case you're wondering why Melania is suddenly talking about Epstein... An Epstein victim told the FBI she recalled seeing Epstein introduce Melania and Trump at a modelling agency.

France's Marine Nationale (Navy) Jeanne d'Arc 2026 task group, comprising Landing Helicopter Dock Dixmude and stealth frigate Aconit, departs Table Bay on Friday, having spent a week enjoying the hospitality of Cape Town. Bon voyage!

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Approaching the one-year anniversary this weekend: @atrupar.com

Somehow, the bodycam footage of Alabama police arresting a Black pastor watering his vacationing neighbor's flowers makes the story even more surreal than the headline suggests. They keep threatening to cuff a man who is *actively spraying planter boxes the entire time*.

Are you surprised?

I just learned that Kash Patel signs off all his emails with, “I’ll see you down range.” I…don’t think he realizes what he is saying

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

In this clip Kevin Hassett predicts 4-5% GDP growth this year. Comparable 2026 forecasts from... Fed: 2.4% WSJ survey of economic forecasters: 2.1% CBO (from Feb, pre-war): 2.2% FT/Clark Center survey: 1.9% IMF (Jan, pre-war): 2.4% OECD: 2.1%

For some reason, Sevastopol isn't thrilled with the direction the "Russian world" is heading. And since this Russian woman lacks any sense of cause and effect, it’s no surprise she doesn’t understand what’s happening.

The dirty little secret of code in this capacity is that actually humans are really bad at seeing the systematic language and how that works but for the calculator that's the primary way they 'understand' the world. The machine is doing the thing with mathematics. There's no competition there.

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

It is truly remarkable that after the Vietnam War, after the Afghanistan War, after a catalogue of US military failures in the post 1945 world, people claiming to be serious analysts are saying because the US dropped alot of bombs it won this war. It did not.

Please @skywatch.blue, why is @fbermingham.bsky.social labelled as spam ? He looks perfectly authentic to me - if just a tad voluble.

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

"It was not an empty threat" Activate universal jurisdiction

Why the Viet Cong and RVN Think They Won the War Despite Huge Military Losses

We already know exactly what China will do when their favorite proxies start committing crimes against humanity, they've been doing it with North Korea for the past 75 years. They literally invaded Vietnam because it defeated the Khmer Rouge and overthrew Pol Pot.

The Chinese simply do not have the power projection to keep shipping lanes safe and enforce the international order. They also don't really seem to care - for now they can offload to the US, but more broadly states preying on each other isn't their concern as long as they can sell things to them.

We certainly can’t “restore public trust” in public universities while constantly having the very people responsible for causing the trust problem in the first place come to our campuses & continue to lie about what the problem is & why we caused it ourselves.

The only reason public trust has declined is that the far right authoritarian party has spent decades attacking universities in bad faith. It’s been going on in WI for the entire 20 years I’ve been here. Nothing we’ve done has caused it or can stop it. <We> can’t solve this problem for others.

Trucking rates will definitely get your attention. (via Schwab)

Henry VIII at least had the decency to draft legislation. Trump will tweet his Act of Supremacy.

Spasiba, Donald! www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

One of Biden's top officials on Europe: "In Brussels in my academic capacity, I was surprised EU interlocutors were joined by at least one colleague — a requirement for conversations with Americans... when I served in gov, such practices occurred with foes like Russia & China"