I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
To be clear, the mRNA vaccines have saved millions of American lives and prevented millions of hospitalizations. That they’re seen as a liability on the political right is just evidence that right-wing ideology has no place in government or anywhere near power.
Ideally, your proof of life photo ops don’t come off as proof of sick.
For all the Jake Tapper jokes, it is pretty unusual when someone writes a book on a topic to not be booked to opine as an “expert” when almost the exact same situation is very relevant again. Jesus, Woodward and Bernstein are still dragged out to comment on every presidential scandal.
At every turn, Winsome Earle-Sears has been in lockstep with Donald Trump — even as it hurts Virginians.
The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.
It’s Tuesday after Labor Day, Congress is back up and the agenda is being set. This is the latest from the highest ranking Democrat in the house.
Are we going to let the base, that form the base of the democrats and who we owe our existence to, determine party strategy? You should. The “smart” guys and gals keep fucking it up, alongside the media and the gop the “smart” democrats are why we’re in fascism.
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
Talking about grocery prices while tanks literally roll on cities is absurd and doesn’t connect and it’s what congressional democrats keep doing because they’re scared little shits
“flexes unchecked power that often tests the Constitution” What are we even doing here?
Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
When your HHS secretary’s whole deal is that people who get sick caused it themselves and should probably just die, any medical issue is somewhat of a PR pickle.
Golfer-In-Chief who knows what workers really want because his billionaire friends assured him of it, speaks from a comfortable cart (as the caddy conveniently drops a ball a few steps away)
if you are a Democrat and you work on the Hill and you have an ounce of respect for the values of what the party is supposed to represent in the times we live in - here are the words to avoid. Pathetic to see the likes of @warren.senate.gov throwing around the word “bipartisan.” It’s embarrassing.
Most striking thing about this clip is not Trump floating the idea of being a dictator (again) and claiming some want that. The most striking thing is his sneering dismissal of the counter argument "freedom." Only modern US president to explicitly oppose freedom. Should be the basis of opposition.
He mixed up Wes Moore, brilliant Governor of Maryland, decorated vet, Rhodes Scholar... with Tim Scott, moron hack maga stooge boot-licking Senator from South Carolina (former VP hopeful who didn't even get a cabinet nom from his boss). Because they're both black.
Meanwhile JD Vance is giving an interview today saying that World War II ended with "negotiations." I assume he means this:
Silly as this is, there is a version of it that would actually reveal something about the person answering: Would you publicly praise Trump if it meant he’d exempt you from the bad policy he’s inflicting on everyone else? That’s an actual measure of principle. And it’s one too many are failing.
Biden, who has publicly talked about battling a stutter his entire life, occasionally stumbled over words and it was a national scandal. Trump lives in a different fucking dimension from the rest of us and it's being completely normalized.
Trump truly believes he is the totalitarian emperor of the USA because he won a plurality of the vote and most of the media is just going along with it.
Cuban Extoll Crisis
Pretty lame when the only issue they’re got in the VA governor’s race to try and bail out a failing candidate is a homemade sign from a random person at a school board meeting who is not part of the governor’s campaign and has been denounced by the candidate and party.
Trump's splotchy hand and swollen ankles raise new questions about Joe Biden's health.
He’s sick in the head.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
You don’t win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing
Every news outlet in America urgently needs to hire an editor whose sole job it is to ask, "How would we cover this story if the main character were a Democrat?"
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Steak & Shake posing all folksy and traditional on social media while their food quality (by most accounts) is not what it once was, as they abandon table service in favor of self-ordering at electronic touch-screen kiosks.
Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."
A flamboyantly criminal administration cracking down on the most petty crimes while giving the okey doke to all sorts of white collar and white supremacist crime. Good place we’re in!
It shouldn’t. But even so, a sound businessperson from a publicly traded company might be OK, not someone who inherited a shady family business, considers himself a genius, and bankrupts things
just checking in on the latest communications from the highest ranking democrat in the house on a day when the president blamed an ally for being invaded and praised slavery
If the print edition was still a big thing, imagine the extra tanker truck loads of ink they’d be buying to avoid using those three little letters
The reason they love saying "woke" is that when you say what you actually MEAN by "woke," you sound like a repulsive piece of shit. God forbid a history museum should teach that slavery was bad.
Imagine what they're thinking listening to Trump's stream of nonsensical and incoherent lies.
Why does he keep saying he’s ended six wars? What the hell is he talking about?
What’s it going to take? I think about this every damn day
Putin “wants to make a deal for me,” implying the Russian leader prefers him personally as a partner. Put simply, Trump shrugged off elections as optional and cast himself as Putin’s chosen dealmaker proof that in his world, democracy is expendable but his ego is not.
Two big takeaways from yesterday. First, by “joking” that if the U.S. were at war in 2028 there would be “no more elections,” brushing aside the constitutional mandate for regularly scheduled votes. Then later, when a hot mic caught him telling French President Macron that
“If I were his wife”? What a strange framing
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Gavin Newsome really want to troll Trump voters, he'd start showing up at the McDonald's drive-thru wearing orange face paint.
That’s just crazy talk
I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
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Anyone who watched that body language & didn’t think he was a Russian asset or agent this entire time is simply delusional.
Not only do I love Martina Navratilova, but back on the other place, her “liking” one of my tweets was my biggest brush with fame ☺️
I will never forgive Apple for getting rid of their headphone jack and giving the wired headphones a lightning cable end. More than ever people seem to use their phones without headphones to watch videos on the subway and you cannot convince me that change isn’t partly responsible.
Lmfao
When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…
The REAL STORY is STILL THIS: AND WE MUST KEEP IT THAT WAY.
Never bothers them enough to reform their behavior. Usually it spurs creativity around how to become even worse
Crazy how the guy on the Epstein list is also the guy making sure you never see it.
Before the election, my focus group of Trump voters said their top priorities were lowering prices and releasing the Epstein files. Now the same respondents say their top priorities are building a gold ballroom for the White House and putting tariffs on Ford and GM.
Reasonably well said, I think better than saying what it’s not (a show of strength) is saying what it’s is: a show of weakness
What if all of America is not, in fact, the outcome of a single close presidential election forever? What if—stick with me here—media and politicians overdetermined one election's results in pursuit of narrative, as they usually do, and institutions were a little to quick to buy that? Just sayin'
it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
Thou shalt not steal
Some questions.
An innocent President would simply release the Epstein Files and demand a full FBI investigation into every Epstein client. That’s it. That’s the whole ballgame summed up.
RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"
It is interesting that GOP is so worried about losing the House they are willing to go nuclear on mid-decade gerrymandering but aren't willing to consider the alternative of maybe shifting away from policies that are deeply unpopular.
"Zohran Mamdani is a job-killer, not a job-creator," continued Andrew Cuomo. "Not like me. I've created jobs. Mortuaries, mass grave facilities managers, trauma therapists, pepper spray salespeople, sexual assault hotline operators -- they'll all tell you. That's what I told my good friend Don."
Not understanding how that works. Isn’t that amplifying? Or does it help get them spotted for blocklists?
Can we just have our own foreign policy? Once again, this doesn’t seem like America First.
What if there were already some sort of contest where people were able to choose between them, I wonder how that would go
OK well, thanks for spreading the word that educated people should not be listened to, not enough of that outlook prevalent at this time
Well if I ever decide to go visit the Titanic in a submersible, I’d feel slightly better if a PhD designed it
Yeah except I remember telling my best friend “dude, her income depends on making guys at the club think she might be into them”. Then he ended up dating her for awhile and later she would occasionally come around to his house when his mom and dad weren’t home
I know Tim Cook is just trying to protect his company but saying the president is a “well endowed and quite generous lover” seems a bit too far
The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.
thanks schnookums
Could not summarize better what goes through my mind every day
The empty space of “incredible FaceTime sex”, trading “I love you’s”, and pretending to have a future together with a woman engaged to someone else, of course
Virtually zero legacy media coverage of this statement. A couple of stories, that’s about it. The lies and insane statements have become completely normalized and are largely ignored now by Big Media.
If you’re noble and useless on the right, you got primaried into retirement a decade ago. If you’re noble and useless on the left, Biden put you in charge of deciding which insurrectionists to prosecute.
It is remarkable and astonishing that the entire apparatus of the Republican party -- the entire organization and every single person who is part of it -- has been converted into a cover-up operation to protect a single pedophile rapist. Is that why these Republicans went into politics? Really?
Terrible, but sadly, expected — and the latest remark in an Orwellian laundry list that suggests the president views gov economic data as a source of propaganda to make him look good, not to guide policy for the best interest of all Americans. Facts don’t matter, only Trump does.
i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him
Welcome to the new head of the Bureau of Labor statistics, Trump’s caddy.
I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.
Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country — and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil — because it’s prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
“I fell out with Epstein because he stole girls like 16-year-old Virginia Giuffre from my spa” is not the winning argument Trump thinks it is.
Oh crap. I certainly shouldn't have said I knew Jeffrey Epstein was kidnapping young girls from my hotel spa.
I didn't know Elvis wigs came in yellow.
I used to have special late night chats with that guy everyone accused me of having an inappropriate relationship with, about how silly that was!
So sad for smart and sophisticated leaders to have to suffer this fool!
We are quite literally living through the most radical presidential administration in US history and no one in our political media notices it because being a Republican means you’re a “conservative”