it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

One side, with the historical and logical tradition of math dating back 100s of years (possibly thousands), correctly asserting, "You are wrong," and another side, without evidence, completely divorced from reality, logic, or truth, just ignoring it. In their worldview, there is NO truth. None.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

"I'm one of ten people most responsible for breaking the country! Whoops! My bad! Should I not have done that?"

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

LaMelo Ball is all of the most chaotic good, chaotic neutral, and chaotic evil players in the NBA.

Disorienting to see some of the coolest shit ever from thousands of dedicated people involved in a collective effort, then the dumbest shit ever from the biggest collection of assholes in the solar system within hours of one another

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office. Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

Donald Trump is an unhinged warmonger and war criminal using violence for personal gain and profit, while innocent people pay the price.   Congress must reconvene to pass the War Powers Resolution. The 25th Amendment must also be invoked. Congress has to do our damn job. War powers and Impeachment.

wtf are we doing, Edition No. 8,947,642

fuck it, let's just buy 1.4 billion pairs of Florsheim dress shoes www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If we let them, these people will destroy everything that makes human civilization worth saving. It’s frightening how much power and influence we have allowed these tech feudalists to accumulate - and it will be one of the twenty-first century’s defining struggles to wrest it back from them.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Damn maybe those kids on college campuses who didn't think it was appropriate to have white nationalists speak on campus weren't the actual threat to free speech

Secretary of War Crimes

I, for one, think the world would be better if it wasn't run by the dumbest fucking people on the planet

"Declaring that no quarter will be given" is specifically prohibited by Art 23 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, which means it is a war crime under US domestic law by virtue of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S. Code § 2441).

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Unrestrained billionaire spending is not just going to sway the White House (see: Elon Musk in 2024), but to races for governor, Congress, mayor, courts, initiatives, school boards. Here is what a former RNC chair told me. 5/7 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

the only ones who could foresee this were anyone with a brain or anyone who ever thought for one second about the consequences of actions

I mean one of @mikeduncan.bsky.social's big takeaways from years of writing the Revolutions pod is that the Great Man Theory of Historical Change is overrated but the Great Idiot Theory holds considerable explanatory power

Just what the world needs: A war between the most dangerous theocracy on earth run by religious wackos and Iran.

Yeah, killing the Ayatollah will absolutely lead to more terrorism against Americans, but that will justify more military spending and the stripping of more civil liberties, so it's a cost the Trump administration is willing to pay.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

Please stop saying things like "executive order ... that would allow Trump to [insert whatever insane thing he wants to do]." That's still not how this works! You can't just issue executive orders like, "I am now all 100 senators" or, "I am the best player in the NBA"—that is not how anything works.

you know what i just realized, watching this guy compete Trump went out of his way to personally call Team USA athletes losers but, unless I'm missing something, hasn't congratulated or celebrated any athletes who have won Olympic medals for Team USA they don't actually like America or Americans

Could you imagine voting to give this man impunity under the law and green-light 90 percent of his heinous agenda only for him to say this about you to the entire planet? World-class losers on the Court.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

wtf are we doing

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

please kill me

They are creating a new military (lacking even the controls of the real, old military) to wage war on U.S. citizens and residents. No member of Congress with a conscience can approve a single dollar of funding to either of these agencies.

I don't know whether to buy if this is real but ABSOLUTELY NOT DEAR GOD

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

the entire difference between kyle rittenhouse and alex pretti is that kyle rittenhouse was there to shoot people the cops wanted to shoot and alex pretti was there to protect people the cops wanted to shoot

"They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.”

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Although there are so many examples now, this is one of the most chilling things I can imagine a member of the United States Congress saying. We are officially at, "You no longer have rights."

they are actively trying to get these officers killed and have been for some time

it looks like you covered fat guys in glue and rolled them in a dumpster full of the tactical gear they sell on the ACC network

Indiana? The football school?