My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I can’t afford gas or steak. But at least now they’re using fire squads for executions again.

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

What? He didn't have secret service hoist him up so he could clench his fist and say "Fight Fight"?

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

So when I was the editor in chief of the New York Observer I was determined to continue the paper’s tradition of never attending the White House Correspondents Dinner because it was an embarrassing trust eroding media suck up festival I thought was bad for journalism

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

One sentence to destroy them all.

Don’t worry, the Kings of Comedy have road tested the WHCD jokes for Trump.

Vietnam comes up from Trump at a frequency a psychiatrist would really want to dig into.

At least people won't think that you are opposed to him, which is the worst possible outcome.

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

“Too many men in women’s sports,” they said

These people demand the right to appoint faculty and prescribe the content of the curriculum at American universities.

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 transparently trying to do a bunch of small-ball normal seeming shit to hold back on the blue wave and its funny cause it won't work but also he can't keep up the ruse for 24 hours let alone 7 months

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

It's just so funny that their egos are so inflated that you can't even tell them how math works.... they know better.

I'm starting to question the health benefits of a diet limited to beef tallow, "ferments," and road-kill.

On the left, Lindsey Graham in 2015, before he started supporting Donald Trump. On the right, Lindsey Graham now, after a decade as Donald Trump's biggest enabler.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

GOP - *gerrymanders* DEMS - hey stop that no fair GOP - *gerrymanders even more* DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely* DEMS - *start gerrymandering* GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

Anybody who was in the academic trenches knows that the administrator class was a representative of capitalist interests that prioritized the financialization of academia while undercutting labor and destroying democratic energies. You don't get here without them serving as hatchet men.

Seeing a lot of discussion regarding where the crisis of the university came from. You cannot, in any way, shape, or form, talk about this without also focusing on administrators as both a corrupting force and a group that laid the foundation for and was rabidly starving for authoritarianism.

Also, if you have a BA in English but you wind up writing partisan propaganda that is based in the past, that does not make you a "historian" We historians actually spend a good bit of time actually learning how to do this stuff, and it saves us from making these kinds of whoppers in our work.

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

Wouldn't want to illustrate a story about Trump cosplaying Jesus with the image of Trump cosplaying Jesus.

Vance thinks Trump is infallible but the Pope needs his input.

Really enjoying this new series "Where in the World is JD Vance Being Humiliated"

Seems pretty clear that he’s hitting Reagan levels of dementia and they can’t hide it the way did for Ron because Trump simply refuses to shut up

The Republican Speaker of the House, an office held for a large parts of my life by a pedophile, and who is undoubtedly covering up for some right, has told us that his phone goes off every time his son watches porn - AND VICE VERSA - and nobody mentioned it again. Ds have no appetite for politics

As someone who doesn't want children the only thing that could change my mind is if a weird guy on the internet told me I should

REPUBLICANS: trump knew nothing about his best friend jeffrey epstein's crimes. ALSO REPUBLICANS: Democrats really expect us to believe that they didn't know about their friend swalwell?

Tuberville on Somali-Americans: "If you talk like they talk, they should be kicked out. They should banned from any committees. They should not be able to vote."

it's weird that "larp" has somehow become synonymous with "poser" among a particular type of exclusionary loser when actual larp is one of more hardcore dork activities going, really. people who larp are extremely in it for love of the game you don't exactly get into that to appear cool lol

This guy specifically brings his religion into politics and then gets mad when other people do the same, as though your belief in the underlying structure of the universe and morality aren’t intrinsic to how you think government and society should work.

In case you missed it, the recent convert to Catholicism declared— and I’m really not making this up — that it was “very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Vance has never “opposed” the war an Iran! He has publicly supported it from the beginning and every step along the way. The idea that he privately opposed it and that should be considered his official position is absolute garbage.

I’m so old I remember when republicans said they didn’t hate Obama because of his race but because he had a huge ego and said “I” too much.

looking forward to the gop and fox declaring war on the very woke bible with its frankly very weak hero jesus who "turned the other cheek" instead of powerfully and strongly closing our beautiful borders

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Increasingly mainstream news is just a fan fic commissioned by the white house

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

"Orange man bad" was true & sufficient from the very beginning. Here we are, over 10 years into this shit, and the supposed adults in charge of US elite politics & media just keep ... discovering it. Again & again. Exclaiming. "Gosh, y'know, he really does seem bad!" No shit you f'ing lumps.

Incredible work buddy

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

It’s still so strange to me that both russia and the USA are openly campaigning for Orbán 🤯

None of these would be valid. No amount of exaggeration about the pardon power can overcome the express mandate to the President in Art II, Sec 3: "He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." He can't pardon people for breaking the law on his behalf. Contrary arguments are invalid.