Look, SecDef just needs someone compatible, someone who can work with him. You know, someone you can have a beer with.

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When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

it's cool that this is literally just 100% Trump's fault

Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.

It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior

The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche Another dark day for DOJ.

Trust me, you'll want to give this a read:

Opinion Editorial Board Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it. April 21, 2026 at 9:08 p.m. EDT

Opinion Editorial Board The Texas gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy. August 20, 2025

The Washington Post editorial board under Jeff Bezos is exactly who you think they are.

Jtbc, Trump Media was not a legitimate company, but rather a money-laundering vehicle via which parties could bribe the incoming President-elect.

Nunes didn't leave until he was able to cash out over $46M in stock options (with a company that reported only $5M in revenue).

The map on the left shows how Mississippi voted in the 1964 presidential election between Republican Barry Goldwater and Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson—back during Jim Crow when Mississippi still did not allow Black residents to vote.

The map on the right is the 2023 governor's race.

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

Fast-food chains use Alabama prison inmates as slave labor, lawsuit alleges The number of prisoners granted parole has plummeted, and prison officials force many of those inmates to work off site in a scheme that generates $450 million a year for the state, the lawsuit said.

www.al.com/news/2023/12...
Ashton’s a great follow to get lots of information on voter suppression and what red states want to implement

Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.

sowing reaping

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

the media's actual response to this is to invite him to their dinner as the honored guest

Sarlacc pit in a committee hearing

Protect Our Daughters Dan Orlovsky is Donald Ducking at the draft

Stop telling me how to post. It's social media not social youdia

Conservative pundits are calling out Trump and the GOP for starting the gerrymander fight that they are now losing.

You swim in sewage filth and drive with dead animals in your car you are patient zero of everything in this country you even brought new shit here there's gonna be RFK Disease by the time you leave office/die/destroy the local water table whenever you're buried

Gonna slam this creampuff to the floor and roll down Whittier Blvd like a mf

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

The Tonight Show is built to liquify all phenomena into content. Trump, the political reactionary and demagogue, the harbinger of a crisis, was treated not as a threat to democracy or a figure of public concern, but just another wacky celebrity guest willing to play along. Fallon and his show are not horrifying because they are malevolent, actively creating suffering in the world, but because of a thoughtless, systematic refusal to perceive any of their work as having ethical consequences. Trump’s monstrosity becomes merely eccentric, as neoliberal media packaged as entertainment normalizes a failing status quo.

Illustration of Jimmy Fallon looking demonic

This is such a great encapsulation of the horror of the Tonight Show.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Another in the 'AOC is culturally Italian' collection. All we need now is an arm crossing up yours and we'll have the trifecta