The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.
The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.
TACO Trump now signaled he will never restart the war. Iran can do as it pleases. Watch him take down the sanctions in exchange for reopening the Strait.
I also describe the twin acute psychological dilemmas Trump is facing, which may be why he's crashing:
1) To actually win the Iran war he has to turn on Putin.
2) Any deal will require conceding Obama was superior to him.
This is a long think piece, but I argue that Trump's Iran catastrophe may disrupt his efforts to consolidate his authoritarianism, but even more, may provide cause to go after his Tech bro donors and data centers.
The Third Trajectory and Hopes for Rebuilding
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MAGA Inc, where record unpopularity among voters translates directly into record slush fund cash for campaigning
1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
If the current New York Times headline writers were zapped back in time to December 8 1941: "FDR Once Advocated Neutrality, Now He's Calling For Declaration Of War"
New York Times Shocked, Shocked That Democrats Fighting Back After Trump Ordered Gerrymanders
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[guy who asked the computer to create the most racist electoral maps in history]
gerrymandering is not good.
We go way back
What an absolutely train wreck full of clown cars this administration is. Yes, I'm mixing metaphors, because that's how bad it is.
Hegseth sneered about the military's logistical experts, and now he's got ships stuck with sailors almost starving on them.
But he's still sure the dismissive attitude about the flu won't come back to bite him.
(2/X) the debate was between Camille Paglia and Naomi Wolf. Also both Trumpers now.
An enormous percentage of the self-promoting gasbags of 90s political/"culutural" tv became Trumpers.
There's a reason why things are so fucked up now.
(1/X) People sometimes wonder how things got so crazy in this country. Well, look back at the '90s: for Clinton impeachment, you had Alan Dershowitz on Geraldo arguing against impeachment and Jon Turley arguing for it. All three of course became Trumpers.
On various topics around feminism....
Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?
liberals created the new deal and the great society specifically because limited government conservatism had fucked up so royally. we were way too polite to the reagan/bush/bush ii types.
the first time one of these guys was like "i really think cutting taxes for the super rich will lead to economic growth," that person should have been stuffed in a locker. our failure to bully and shame dumb shit has really hurt us all.
many of our problems would have been solved if, in the 80s and 90s, democrats/liberals had responded to gop ideas with a lot more "that's the fucking stupidest thing ive ever heard, shut the fuck up" instead of "that's an interesting idea, i have a different take..."
This is probably the most successful 4chan /pol/ hoax of the past decade outside of QAnon — still going around years after a 4chan user made it up in December 2020 — & very few probably know about it.
“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”
For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".
Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.
So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.
Commentary: Cities Church’s distortion of the teachings of Jesus goes much deeper than Easterwood’s hypocrisy in claiming to be a follower of Jesus while ignoring his teaching. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/21/c...
Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X
I believe The Onion can and will actually turn the frogs gay
ok this was great and VERY satisfying
I asked AI who the 49ers should draft in the 1at round and one of the 4 players it suggested is a projected 4th round pick
For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question:
When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?
