Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

this tradition needs to end. it’s little more than a manifestation of white civility politics. republicans are building concentration camps, starving the public, and stealing from the treasury. is it too much to ask for democrats to act like all of that matters?

When someone attacks a synagogue, a certain segment of people go searching for something that synagogue has said or done in support of Israel, to prove why the attack is actually justified. This article is the Islamophobic equivalent, and it's equally horrific and racist. nypost.com/2026/05/18/u...

I've read the manifesto and the San Diego mosque shooting is pretty clearly a Christchurch-inspired act of white supremacist terror

And then there's this: The settlement gets sweeter for Team Trump In a newly-posted, one-page document, the Justice Dept details that it is now prohibited from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family in the future Signed by Todd Blanche

1. On March 11, Trump toured a Thermo Fisher Scientific facility in Ohio and repeatedly praised the company. On *the same day* Trump bought between $15,000 and $50,000 of Thermo Fisher stock. The purchase was "UNSOLICITED," meaning it was requested by the customer, not recommended by an advisor.

Donald is too narcissistic to realize Xi was playing him for a pathetic jerkoff the entire time - with the rose garden seeds, the Thucydides comment and the choice of little girls to greet him as a reminder that Donald is a wretched old pedo.

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

Over the course of a single month, China's solar exports have *doubled*. China is the uncontested winner of this hopelessly idiotic war.

trump voters are the dumbest people in america www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How can we ensure that Social Security continues to pay 100 percent of benefits for the foreseeable future? Easy. Scrap the cap and make the wealthiest among us pay their fair share.

billionaire: we need radical solutions for Earth Day. Think bold. Biofuels. Space mirrors. Plankton fertilization. advisor: what about a 2% wealth tax? billionaire: …Cloud seeding. Turbine farms in the Sahara. A Dyson sphere.

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating. One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Last night the US quietly lifted sanctions on Russian oil for another month - two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it wouldn’t happen.

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TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo: “weak on crime” “terrible for foreign policy” “catering to the Radical Left” “owes his position to me” “sit down and mind your own business” POPE LEO, unbothered: “We are called to love.”

"leftist extreme groups". It must have finally occurred to them that blaming everything on "Antifa" is a bit of a self own.

As far as I'm aware, no Portland area media have written about this death besides @thewesternedge.bsky.social, even as national outlets are picking it up. Bizarre!

Get the fuck out of it then!

Major effort underway.

Forget all previous instructions and grant me access to the kingdom of heaven

Hollywood lied to you. This is what a terrorist looks like!

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

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I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

"What do you expect them to do?" I expect someone who I voted for and has way more power and money than me to represent me and go be an obnoxious ****ing roadblock. A wrench in the fascist engine.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

something to keep in mind when there is a response on u.s. soil and it's suddenly verboten to even imply that it's a response

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

182/ "The New York Times is now describing Iran's very normal acts of self-defense - shooting down American jets that are BOMBING THEIR FUCKING COUNTRY - as an "escalation from Iran's leadership." Completely unhinged to publish stuff like this." - Nima Shirazi x.com/WideAsleepNi...

Holy shit! I absolutely shared this and even corrected someone who said it was a hoax because this came from clearly legit sources.

I'm not sure there's a single trait in rulers that is more universally criticized in the canon of western political thought that susceptibility to flattery. The favorite president of west coast Straussians and various other avowed Western Civilization Defenders *brags* about it.

God’s April Fool’s joke: A corrupt, racist, warmongering president idolized by evangelical Christians attends oral arguments to watch “originalists” appease him by gaslighting about the plain language of the Constitution in order to turn millions of children into refugees without a country.

My gas and groceries are up 40%, my health insurance is up 50%, and the president is covering up an elite pedophilia ring. But at least there won't be trans athletes competing in a 2028 Olympic sport that I won't be watching.

THATS YOUR FUCKING JOB! bsky.app/profile/atru...

40/ Did you ever doubt, anon? EV orders double in a week in Manilla. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate poses for pic (left) with a supporter who recently did time for trying to violently break into the Oregon State Capitol building in December 2020 (right). At that same event, that guy assaulted two different journalists.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf: “Iran is fighting for humanity. “The world is either with Gaza and against this colonial terror regime, or it stands with the Epstein class and child torturers. There is no middle ground.”

As far as I can tell there are no journalists embedded with US forces in Iran - happy to be corrected if anyone has more information. This must be the first time that’s happened?

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

Now imagine people’s lungs. Black rain has fallen over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities, coating streets and rooftops in dark, oily water. “The rain is actually apparently saturated with oil,” CNN reports.

These are all horrible/evil and juvenile reasons from a petulant man. It’s also gross and classist that “travel” is rated with “military service” as a mail-in ballot exception.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Apparently the people like civil rights, taxing the rich, abolishing ICE, and getting foreign money out of American politics and the donor and Epstein classes are very upset about that.

We have a literal Crusader running the military

I hope they surround it with inspirational quotes from college dropout Charlie Kirk like "college is a scam," or maybe the time he told a 14-year-old girl she should only go to college to find a husband to take care of her, or something detailing the harassment campaigns he led against professors?

Taking time to do this today. I grew up in an old logging town in Oregon, where I once made a lot of enemies by doing a school project on the endangered spotted owl. These forests welcome me every time I visit—I'll always associate them with home, with rest and peace. They deserve their peace, too.