Dear lord, we are so far past 25th amendment time here. I simply can't comprehend how millions of Americans see strength in this pathetic, diminished, addled old man.

In the NY Times top stories today, there's one tiny mention of the weaponization fund heist in an "audio headlines" widget. Trump stole $1.8B from the American people to pay off Jan 6 insurrectionists—the most corrupt act of any US president, ever—and legacy media is burying it in less than 24 hrs.

A perfect vignette of why we are where we are: Trump's math can be proven wrong by an 11 yr old. RFK tries to defend it but makes it worse by getting it wrong in the other direction too. Bunch of other people who should know better nod wisely and agree. Dunning-Kruger ass administration.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Every single day, Republicans find new ways to disgrace themselves and our country.

Neat real-time case study in the effects of deprofessionalizing military leadership and replacing it with clueless ideologues and loyalist podbros.

Exactly. Works like a charm every fucking time.

Hey, look everybody. The most obvious and widely predicted thing to happen has happened. Releasing the Epstein files is to Trump 2 what the Mueller report was to Trump 1 and Jack Smith was to the interregnum.

Proposing the title for a documentary about the 2026 USA men's hockey team: The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

[monkey's paw curls]

This is excellent (and, sadly, incredibly rare these days).

This is 100% correct and my only firm criterion for the next Dem primary. Milquetoast incrementalist centrist corporatist candidates are completely unfit for the moment and should be completely purged from American public life.

American fascism is hilarious; it’s politics as aesthetics, but the aesthetics are ass.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?

Truly the worst to ever do it. No understanding of power levers, completely out of touch with public sentiment and political winds, no principles, and a godawful communicator to boot.

Federal prosectors acted to enforce the law with proper procedure and got fired, because the White House opposes that. The new standard: Criminals the president likes should be allowed to do crimes, and people he doesn't like should be prosecuted for things they didn't do. I preferred rule of law.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

A venture capitalist with principles? Well now I've seen it all.

There's a real poetic symmetry to a week that started with the president gloating about the taxpayer-funded 24K gold he's slathering in the Oval Office then two days later canceling healthcare for millions.

The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.

As a taxpayer, I find this particular flavor of corruption absolutely blood-boiling.

The world’s richest man starving the world’s poorest children while creating an AI robot that praises Hitler, trying to take over the country, and using women as broodmares is some hackneyed shit. Where’s the depth? Where’s the humanizing nuance? We need better villains.

Seems criminally negligent that Texas regulators greenlit this.

if you are old enough to remember, at all, what was going on during the run-up to iraq, and fall for it again now, you are either vile beyond repair or such an enormous mark that you should be locked in a mcdonald's playplace for your own personal safety

Tesla fake robotaxi rollout going about as expected. Love that not only did it ignore the school bus lights and hit the “child,” it then took off in a hurry afterwards.

Batshit insane that Twitter accepts ads like this.

Sound up

In case you're wondering what *actual* academic indoctrination looks like (instead of the completely made up "anti-woke" crusade currently mobilizing the extremist right).

Good anthology of 20 years of outrageous lying that, for some reason, has never caught up with him.

Democrats in 2024: Trump will push 10s of millions off of Medicaid if he wins Corporate Media: Democrats are liars, Trump promises not to cut anyone from Medicaid if he wins <Trump wins and cuts 13.7 million off of Medicaid> Corporate Media: real barn burner last night in House, so much fun!

For all the talk about “hard truths” etc that propagate our discourse we really don’t discuss how coddling conspiracy theorists has made things worse for everyone.

Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...

America in 2025, in a nutshell: Woman targets black child with racist rant, goes viral, claims victimhood, raises $250K. Our society consistently elevates the worst people alive.

Just incredible

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

I'm just a small-town political scientist, but my unpopular opinion is that American hegemony was never actually declining pre-2025 & we simply could have decided not to touch the stove on the fascism, mercantilism, isolationism, & aggressive imperialism & enjoyed the rest of the 21st century.

I'm putting a tariff on the word "tariff"! Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen. 20 tickets == 1 beer

This is a very useful journalistic format and should be used more widely in clarifying these kinds of injustices.

Important to remember that absolutely everything happening right now is a result not of real need, but of decadence. The wealthiest, most comfortable people who ever lived joined an economic suicide cult and we're all about to pay for it.

Yes. I have tried to argue over and over that Trump/Vance's large scale destruction of clean energy manufacturing jobs (the manufacturing jobs of the future!) should be relevant to discussions of their stated goal of reinvigorating US manufacturing. No one listens newrepublic.com/article/1933...

So the basic proposal, if I’m following correctly, is to wrench the whole American consumer economy back to Gilded Age protectionism by means of Executive fiat, right now, tonight, while Congress tries to relieve the tax burden on some rich people but everyone else goes on paying income taxes too.

Everything this admin does is galactically stupid, but gutting a century of public health and science investment that made us the envy of the world takes the cake IMO.

This is brave, and apparently cost her her job. But why are the only acts of courage right now coming from the (relatively) powerless?

Fascinating article about SpaceX. Total commitment to a fundamentally flawed technical concept, but there's too much riding on it to say he was wrong. Very similar to Tesla's failing pursuit of camera-only autonomy. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-w...

Completely unfit for office and the moment in every possible way. Unfathomable that other Dem senators think this is the right guy for the job.

He was a few months ahead of himself.

Fellow MA residents, you know what to do. Light up this fucker's switchboard.