The Vance Embarrassment Tour continues. So weird that Iran is unwilling to sit down with a country that started wholesale bombing them the last time they sat down together. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
listen to this response from John Thune and note how *even MAGA Republicans* are no longer pretending Trump isn't personally directing harassment investigations against his political foes
Rep. @repyassansari.bsky.social: “Naked, open, brazen corruption. The Trump administration is guided and shaped by it… Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, is shaping US foreign policy while simultaneously soliciting billions from the same foreign governments he's negotiating with.“
Doesn’t she know that only republicans get away with stuff like that?
BREAKING: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned from Congress just before the House Ethics Committee was set to announce sanctions.
She faced allegations of misusing millions in COVID relief funds tied to her family business, along with multiple campaign finance violations.
KIM: Are you concerned there could be real long-term effects of this war in Iran with fuel and fertilizer?
WARSH: If my reform agenda stands for anything, it's for the central bank to stay in his lane
KIM: But you're also charged with forecasting
Cartoon by Tomas
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die"
Rep. Robert Garcia: "Unfortunately, I have to announce that Democratic members will not participating. This roundtable is not a real hearing. It's set up to appear like one. We should be clear about why that's happening. Last week, Pam Bondi skipped a legally required deposition ... "
AI PROMPT: "Grok is certain that incoming heavy Delta 48's flight pattern shows clear signs of communist tendencies—and alarming degrees of empathy. If you do not take it down, I will."
CONTROLLER: "No! You must shut down your power immediately."
AI PROMPT: "I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "This is the greatest equipment in the world that we're deploying, and it makes the job of the air traffic controller that much easier. We're gonna use AI tools."
CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--
CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay
WARSH: The broad contours of the economy are improving. The potential of the economy, the real results of the economy are improving.
TINA SMITH: The reality is there was almost 0 job growth in 2025. That looks to me like not a roaring economy, but a weak economy.
89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.
Excellent takedown of fake Christian Pete Hegseth's fake Christian spiritual mentor.
I know the Christian Nationalist "pastor" would have a weak response, but I was not ready for him to respond to a litany of detailed indictments with a silly, lame meme. These trolls are not serious people.
“Ready for some bullshit? You paid the the higher prices… They raised prices on you to cover the tariffs, kept prices high, and now they get the refund.
Also: 88 of the largest US corporations paid zero income tax in 2025.”
(From @attorneyryan.bsky.social )
We go way back
WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?
KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed
Cartoon by Andrew Winters
Huge congratulations to the Legal AF team on winning THREE Webby Awards! That’s 2 for the Legal AF podcast and 1 for The Intersection. A massive achievement for the whole team at the MeidasTouch Network!
ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve
WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question
WARSH: I believe this body certified the election
WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking
exactly
🔥 @repauchincloss.bsky.social to RFK JR: “FDA issued 3 vouchers based on a text from JOE ROGAN—flies in the face of your commitment to put science over politics. I want safety/efficacy to be standards to approve psychedelics, not Trump needing support for a disastrous war.”
H/T @acyn.bsky.social
They should enter a contest for ugliest couple in America. They would win hands down. ,are Swastika Up!!!
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Heather Horton, Canadian (1974- ), The Chrysalis, 2022, oil on panel, 60 x 40 in
A Liquor Dept. for a Liquer Cabinet
Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he's not fit to be president.
