Donald Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So As Trump reveals his unfitness in stark new ways, a political theroist argues that our election of this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become.

"Trump presided over catastrophic mismanagement of a global pandemic. Then he led an insurrection. And then we put him back in power again...that's damning."

On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is great on what Trump's colossal unfitness says about our country:
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling A man with HIV has gone into remission after receiving bone marrow from his brother, who has a rare mutation that prevents the function of receptors that HIV binds to

Person functionally cured of HIV after bone marrow transplant from sibling www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...

Masked gunman who menaced students at anti-ICE school protest was a cop When high school kids in Phoenix staged an anti-ICE walkout in January, a masked man with a handgun approached the students and refused to leave. Police were summoned, but for…

Masked gunman who menaced students at anti-ICE school protest was a cop boingboing.net/2026/04/13/m...

This is murder.

Rome doesn’t want the world to forget the thousands of children killed in Gaza by Netanyahu’s Israeli military.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

As Workers Struggle, Our Political Class Goes All In on Permanent War State From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence

"As programs for the poor are gutted and slashed, about half of the annual federal discretionary budget goes to the military."

@rebeccaburns.bsky.social on the sadism and violence of a system choosing war over care.

As a supreme court ruling looms, the US is dismantling Black voting power | Carol Anderson Louisiana v Callais could be the latest brick in a wall under construction for more than a decade, as Jim Crow is rebuilt in modern form

⚠️This is not isolated activity. It is a coordinated theory of power: centralize control, discredit local administration, purge voter rolls and narrow who gets to participate.
As a supreme court ruling looms, the US is dismantling Black voting power | Carol Anderson | The Guardian

The image features the words "Free the Prairieland Defendants" interwoven with a barbed wire and vine design. Blue flowers add a hopeful tone.

“It's a blueprint for how the administration intends to quash freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. The goal is to frighten anyone who dissents from organizing, finding community, and spreading knowledge.”

- @iwriteok.bsky.social on the Prairieland 9, convicted of terrorism for being Antifa

Whether it's Pete Hegseth being a white nationalist alcoholic sexual predator with a fetish for violence or Lloyd Austin being Black, the two most recent secretaries of defense have alienated segments of the American public.

Support the Prairieland Defendants | DFW Support Committee The future of political freedom in America is on trial in North Texas. Learn about the case and why it matters for anyone who cares about civil liberties.

For a start you need to get informed abt Prairieland. People making noise outside an ICE detention center hit with "ant!fa" terrorism charges. This is intended to have a cooling effect. If you can't care about this I don't expect you got what it takes to really resist
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As RFK Jr allies hailed Mississippi’s rollback of strict school vaccine rules, whooping cough surged and a baby died The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr

Three years ago, Mississippi rolled back its strict school vaccine rules after a lawsuit funded by a Texas-based group called ICAN. In a Guardian investigation, I examined the close ties RFK Jr. has to ICAN's CEO and lawyer, and how the change ICAN brought is affecting children in Mississippi

How in god’s name does an impeachment vote “distract” from the “focus” on Trump’s corruption?!

Some ambitious Dem should just go over his head. Dare him to whip the caucus AGAINST impeaching Trump under the current circumstances. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December Automatic registration into Selective Service was mandated in December 2025, when President Donald Trump signed into law the fiscal year 2026 NDAA.

If you can automatically register people for the draft, then you can automatically register people to vote. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Watching Football in 2026 YouTube video by Tom Grossi

LOL, thanks @tomgrossi.bsky.social for summing it up nicely youtu.be/yuyoiH6K6jw?... #nfl #TheHorrors

A regime of idiots: A complete inventory of Trump stooges They will remain, festering, awaiting the next opportunity for soul-selling.

"While the end point is unclear, Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken. And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day, it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime." — @davidrlurie.com

I don't want to live in a fascist country or be ruled by a dictator. Our constitution was supposed to ensure that could never happen. And so my concern is that if voting for Biden didn't put a stop to this fascist slide, what will, and how will the Democratic party ensure it?

Wouldn’t Ed Martin feel more at home facing a Nuremberg Tribunal?

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Joy Reid: Impeachment is not enough. We need to demand Trump and Hegseth stand trial at the Hague! YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show

Award winning journalist Joy Reid on my show makes case that Impeachment of Trump and Hegseth is not enough. We need to demand Trump and Hegseth stand trial at the Hague! youtu.be/Z2G3e8rU4BY?...

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."

Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.

Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.

Fucking say it!

The iconic opening credits title card of TWIN PEAKS, which premiered on April 8, 1990; one’s own mind, meanwhile, provides the equally iconic opening chords of composer Angelo Badalamenti’s theme song.

Thirty-six years ago, on April 8, 1990, David Lynch and @markfrost.bsky.social’s TWIN PEAKS pilot introduced a world both wonderful and strange to almost 35 million people. For dreamers and thinkers everywhere, it set off a most beautiful bomb in their imaginations, and continues to do so today. 🏔️🏔️

Waging a Culture War With Comedic Mediocrity The Ellison family, poised to continue dominating the media landscape with its Warner deal, signs on an infomercial-grade comic to replace Stephen Colbert.

Accommodating Nazis, sexual abuse, and transphobia were once the MAGA brand, but it’s very much mainstream culture now.
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Threatens to Murder Millions of People “At what point does ’He’s an America First warrior unafraid to ruffle liberal snowflake feathers’ turn into ’He’s a genocidal megalomaniac who is all but cer...

"The problem is the 25th Amendment doesn't provide a clear litmus test for determining when a president is 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.' Is it when he’s constantly falling asleep in public? When he says, 'Praise be to Allah'? It’s impossible to tell."
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little do they know, I am a goddam delight

Gritty is also there in some capacity but to be clear I mean this guy

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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CT Rep. John Larson seeks to impeach President Trump. A White House spokesman calls it 'pathetic' U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, in a statement said, “Threatening to obliterate a country is clearly an act of war.”

Hearst: U.S. Rep. John Larson of Connecticut has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing the president of war crimes and piracy.

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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.