A great deal of the reason why things aren’t so very much worse right now is because there is almost no overlap in the Venn Diagram that represents Trump’s Stooges Trying To Do Evil Shit in one circle and People Who Know How To Do Shit in the other circle.
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
Good luck getting any guidance or career advice under that model.
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
I understand the argument for how Israel’s national interest was advanced in this war.
I do not in any way see how our interests were anything but severely harmed.
If they were looking for ways to make ICE even *more* unpopular, they sure found a good way to do it.
If they were looking for ways to accelerate people's hatred of ICE, they found the perfect way to do it.
Every time someone sets off fireworks in my neighborhood I rush to check the news to see if they’re celebrating that It Finally Happened.
I will never use a calculator to compute anything. Using a machine to do math is like having a robot do the reps during weight lifting. Your math skills will deteriorate. Your brain will atrophy. I genuinely don't understand why any mathematician would do it. Makes no sense.
I need to find a way to use the phrase, "I understand the meaning of the words you are saying but it doesn't make any sense" in the future.
Prerogative Powers and Presidential Self Care talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prero... I think this is 100% true.
Credit where credit is due: the QAnon folks were right. The Epstein files prove there was a child sex cabal run by powerful elites. They just got which elites were behind it all wrong, and in the process empowered the wrong people -- the ones doing all the abusing.
It’s half time, and that means it’s time for one of America’s most enduring and beloved traditions: mediocre white people being unproductively furious at having to notice brown people
Great question!
Whocouldanode
in a democratic republic (and really in all times and places) the slavish hunger to be in the thrall of a strongman or a king is the ultimate moral degeneracy.
Zero “illegal criminal aliens” in the Epstein files so far.
Just billionaires.
Royals.
CEOs.
Politicians.
Funny how that works.
Just wait.
He probably got wasted to suppress the guilt.
They're getting eaten by the very beast they fed for years.
Potential for sanctions or contempt against Halligan?
Halligan's gonna go through some things. I swear, the only thing that will save us from authoritarianism is the fact that these people are so fucking stupid.
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and it is now clear to me that the President of the United States is a pedophile. But at least I know that the Cracker Barrel logo won't be changed any time soon.
So does that mean he's gonna agree with Dems to restore ACA subsidies and reopen the government?
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
Even better example is NJ-GOV. Most polls there had the race being 1 or 2 points for Mikie, she'll likely win by 10. So much herding, based on media narratives most likely.
I predicted this a few years ago, which is why I co-founded theofficial.ai. The ecosystem needs a way to verify whether the real person consented to their use or not.
Good morning.
The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.
Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
I think a corollary to your analysis is that there is more. And whatever that is, it's worse. No way he'd have acted this way if this was the only incriminating thing. He could have just dismissed it as "locker room talk" like he did with Access Hollywood.