Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

President Hernandez was responsible for smuggling 500 TONS of cocaine into the United States! He was the top dog; the Pablo Escobar figure! He wasn’t just “selling drugs in that country.”

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I’m proud to have played my part in fighting DOGE, but the fight’s not over yet. This is no more a victory than when a tsunami begins to flow back out to sea. The destruction from DOGE is incalculable, and goes far beyond what can be measured in money. Our case, Lentini et al. v. DOGE, is ongoing.

they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.

More than 9,500 Palestinians remain missing as search efforts continue amid the widespread destruction caused by Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, according to estimates by Gaza's Government Media Office. #Infograph

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

Take road safety. The last admin pushed rules for speed limiters+side guards in big rigs and automatic emergency braking in cars+trucks—est. to save 1k lives annually. After industry blowback, the Trump admin has killed, made plans to weaken or signaled delays/changes for each.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Utterly lawless

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

“Health officials in Gaza reported at least 24 people killed and another 54 wounded, including children.”

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

i'm not exposed to raw cable news very often but when i am it's a reminder paul verhoeven was way too subtle

Russ Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president 👇

This, from 2016, feels very quaint now. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

🚨 27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths. In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...

[padme] which prophecy? which prophecy, mike?

Two things are true: 1. Immigration judges are not, well, judges. they are members of the executive branch. you do not receive the kind of process you associate with courts from them. 2. This framing will encourage ppl to apply who will make things worse.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

it just seems plainly clear to me that if you serve the country in any capacity, civil or military, and you are not a conservative white man, the Trump administration wants to make the workplace as hostile an environment as possible so you remove yourself

I can’t get past this. what can you possibly still have on your hate symbol list once you take off the swastika?

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

This is why you can miss me with the "the failure of the Comey prosecution shows they are weak" takes. Even winning the case, as she has, is a load of unimaginable trauma for anyone who is not an absolute elite in this society.

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

Hearing her state out loud “the kids who starved had complicated medical histories actually” is a very “Do you hear yourself?” thing and beyond that a case of anyone thinking that reporting had value even on its own stated terms just massively undermines credibility.

never thought I could see federal law enforcement so depraved that it would negatively polarize local cops to the left, but nothing is impossible for ole Donny Trump

The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.

NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Awards being given to USAF aircrews who expended several hundred million dollars worth of US taxpayer funds to ensure that Israel didn't have to face consequences for its brazen and illegal attack on the sovereign territory of Iran and the targeted killing of Iranian diplomats

"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."

It does feel like we're all going insane. We *know* he's implicated in Epstein's abuse. He's lashing out, in a misogynistic way, when questioned about it. We know. Why isn't every news stations 24hour coverage of the president being a child abuser? It should be wall-to-wall

you gotta hand it to him - another remarkable bit of statesmanship from our Nazi pedophile billionaire president

Trump: And you know, we got rid of the drip drip water, we call it the drip drip, where it drip drips out of the sink, states with tremendous water, so much water they have nothing but problems getting rid. They had restrictions on water. It comes down from heaven, right?

I was literally thinking about this today. On paper, America will have paid for a gulag archipelago, a full-on concentration camp system, but they'll all be delayed and most will begin & end as empty lots. The contractors will all get unaccountably rich, weirdly