AM I DEAD
AM I DEAD
At the very least it’s fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event
"I Dreamed a Dream"
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
They joined Twitter 15 years ago and found that their statements, previously made to a room full of nodding peers, were being torn apart by sarcastic peasants wielding memes. It broke them.
Update: it got funny again
At some point Trump is going to call for the removal from congress of dozens of Democrats, all of them accused of mortgage fraud, and Corporate Media will obsess over details of the accusations rather than just calling it a partisan purge and fascist consolidation of power. Stop taking the bait.
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
Where is all this tariff revenue going? Where is the corresponding announcement for lower taxes? Is anyone asking? $360 billion is equal to 17% of all income taxes paid by Americans in 2022. Shouldn't our tax burden be lowered by 17%? Are they just stealing it?
I can't tell if they're racing to get ahead of the Epstein Files, or racing to get ahead of a tariff-driven economic crash, or racing to get ahead of Trump's health issues, or all of the above.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Why the fuck is this being presented as a legitimate thing? There is no way in hell that trump will ever win a Nobel Prize because he is one of the shittiest people on earth. He is a convicted felon, a rapist, a liar, and has not brought any peace anywhere. He just spreads misery and death.
Only one?
The Wes Moore who offered him a golf cart? www.google.com/amp/s/www.ra...
What might have been.
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Let's take this moment to thank @atrupar.com for all he does, because if there's ever a brain-frying moment to be clipping Trump videos, it's this one. I cannot express how much I've come to rely on Aaron's work, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Subscribe!
He has no friends.
Plain spoken Tim Walz. Love it.
JFC. That poor man.
How is showing something is a lie "implicitly accepting the premise"?
Why does being a reporter require acting every moment like a naive infant, unable to see patterns, unable to learn anything from prior facts, as though being the guy who fell off the turnip truck every single day constitutes “objectivity” rather than idiocy or childishness?
The president of the United States, wearing a novelty hat that says he’s always right and sitting next to the World Cup trophy he stole, insists that “African American ladies, beautiful ladies” are demanding he invade Chicago with the military.
you'd think a guy with pancake on autoship would be better with concealer but this looks like a 12yo's inaugural attempt at covering a zit
NYC is way too expensive — but some of the best things are free. Earlier this week, I met up with some new friends at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center to watch some qualifying matches. US Open Fan Week runs through Saturday. And it's free.
It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.
Trump is mentally ill and needs treatment. I say this as a mental health professional who is concerned about a person who appears to be a danger - if not to himself (because he is so closely watched) - then to others
Who needs a campaign?
How do you not follow up with: “Are you talking about yourself, sir?”
Wut?
Farrow & Ball's Dark Night of the Soul
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.
Inshallah.
"hello we are here to represent the serious views of piss pants conservative white men. look upon our pants, filled with piss because we saw a black. whizz whizz" Vance and Hegseth get booed as they survey Trump's DC police state www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?
He had the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Ukraine, the EU and NATO in the White House and he made them wait while he went to get instructions from Putin ... For forty minutes?!
Meloni simping as usual.
Wut?
Lead or get out of the way.
JFC
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
How dare they? Honestly, I despair.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Putin came to me with tears in his eyes and said sir...
I fear they know exactly what they're doing.
With tears in my eyes I said to myself, "Sir..."
I think she pushed him rightward.
Is it a wig?
A startlingly bad headline.
"It turns out." Gee, who could have guessed?
See also panini and cannoli. Drives me nuts!
Since when is it his home? I could start screaming and never stop.
My baby boy's first wonky media mention. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Order food I like? What a concept!
The "winning streak" jumped out at me. What are those wins? Not going to prison?
This Peter Baker joint does catalog Trump's lies and censorship, but headline and text tie themselves in journo-cliched linguistic knots to avoid that direct judgment. He's not "underscoring a tendency." He's not an "echo" of an "authoritarian playbook." He is a dictator.
“Frankly, I don’t agree with anyone about Israel, so that can’t be the criteria for who we elect as mayor, because I don’t even agree with myself most days.” A truer more Jewish quote has never been given www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n... by @liam-stack.bsky.social
Trump is asked about the "Russiagate burnbags", gets confused because he thought the reporter said Patel "appointed a man named Burnbag", and then seemingly gets confused and rambles about the Epstein files
Who was mayor during the midtown shooting. Just checking
It’s been 2 months since it came out that a bunch of NYPD cops, including one of Adams’ bodyguards, helped torture that Italian guy for his crypto wallet.
Or racist skits about a judge in a murder trial?
Truly.
Also, she's fictional.
In this very scene the main character is unable to eat due to corset tightness.
"Execs at CBS’s parent company Paramount may have dumped Colbert not to appease Trump, but to join with him. There’s ample evidence that billionaires genuinely, sincerely like Trump’s vision of authoritarian rule by billionaire, and want to do their part to crush dissent and discipline the proles."
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Also, his job is to get to know him.
Four high-ranking NYPD chiefs are suing Mayor Eric Adams saying they were forced out of the department after they exposed misconduct, cronyism, political interference and violations of department policy tied to Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle. www.amny.com/news/nypd-ch...
I totally forgot about him.
Every accusation is a confession, after all.
Does ICE swoop in at the end and arrest the woman who lied on her citizenship application?
Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.
Hopefully this puts to bed a whole lot of misconceptions. Like Republicans being good people, fiscally responsible people, people of faith, and that they're policies are for the working people and their families.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
He posted this a few hours ago. Then voted Yes.
Hmmm, who can tell?
We'll find out in two weeks.
Puh-lease
Also, why are they getting involved in local politics where they have no power rather than being active in their own areas?
Carol Burnett wore it better.
It looks SO uncomfortable, too.
Scarlett O'Hara curtain dress.
"Strident"
And upset about it .
I mean this is what it would sound like if you asked a fourth grader to imagine what a ceasefire would be like. and yet our entire political class is committed to never mentioning that the man is an imbecile
Enraging.
Rhetorical question I'm sure, but so far they are city and state politicians and next up are national Democrats.
Padilla gave this speech on the floor pretty much as the news of Brad Lander's arrest in New York was breaking. Two Democratic lawmakers tackled and handcuffed by federal law enforcement in the span of a week.
Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
She's Trump in a dress, though. She brags about being his buddy.
For good? Name one
If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.
And murdering opponents.
Hot and heavy?
Yup.
Hope they tell him what YMCA is about while they're at it.
Terrible, but also, do they not have anything more urgent to do? Refuse to engage in performative bs. Point out that gop is all talk and no action.
One thing I've come to believe is that Democratic leaders have to start talking about Republicans the way Republicans talk about Democrats. No more "Our friends on the other side of the aisle" more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger pieties, which everyone hates. Say what they are over and over. It matters.
Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.
Winners and losers.