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I’m glad that the Mad King isn’t going to commit war crimes right now, while once again it is obvious this bumbling fool has no idea what he’s doing.

The Ethicist | I am a White House official who is being blackmailed by my mistress. Would it be better to ask ICE to deport her or to do some insider trading on crude futures to get the money to pay her off?

Tucker Carlson: I'II be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

[at Congressional hearing of a guy who has investments with both the president and his family, and Epstein]

DEM POLICY WONK: Thank you for coming. Let's talk interest rate adjustments.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth • O @SecWar X.com The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 08:21 • 4/21/26 • 251K Views 945 {] 1.7K 8.1K 316

h/t to @kriswernowsky.com for noticing that Hegseth made this announcement in front of a painting of GW crossing the Delaware with soldiers who, only a few months later, he would order to get inoculated.

Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War (U.S. National Park Service)

It would make for a tidy narrative arc if the US was a country who came into existence (in part) because its first military leader ordered mass inoculation, while its last one ripened the military up for defeat by discouraging vaccination. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

The Influenza Pandemic and The War The Influenza Pandemic and The War, essay by Frederick Holmes, MD

As a learned scholar of the history of war fighting, Pete Hegseth understands that flu has never negatively impacted a military’s ability to fight. www.kumc.edu/school-of-me...

A UN report says that 8.8 million people in Asia and the Pacific are likely to fall into poverty as a result of the Iran war. Maybe they should have said "thank you" to President Trump for not sending them into poverty during his first 5 years in office.

by J.D. Vance

Liberals are always railing against war. So why aren't they celebrating Pete Hegseth's destruction of the U.S. Army from within?

Trump Administration sources say that the president gave Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer 30 days to either stop abusing her office or become a man like Pete Hegseth and RFK, Jr. She did neither and was summarily fired.

My boss is getting a little perturbed about my current excuse for everything "It must have gotten stuck in the Strait of Hormuz."

And just to be clear, all of these people were always crazy assholes. They may have positioned themselves as moderate or liberals or whatever but they were always insane assholes. And they dominated a lot of popular discourse.

(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....

I didn't realize that not getting the flu was "woke."

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

Yes, JD Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner are right up there with Sec. Moniz.

That's some brain trust ya go there, Chris.

Palantir Claims Domestic Surveillance is Only Aimed at Finding Future Resistance Leader Who Keeps Sending Back Time-Traveling Soldiers to Disrupt Company Operations - Unsourced News Palantir said its domestic surveillance programs exist solely to identify the person sending heavily armed operatives back through time.

Palantir Claims Domestic Surveillance is Only Aimed at Finding Future Resistance Leader Who Keeps Sending Back Time-Traveling Soldiers to Disrupt Company Operations

Typical Trump move, he only does it when he personally benefits.

"One of Trump’s extraordinary skills is to recognize and recruit those whose greed and vanity outstrip their principles, and who are happy to shout righteously for a cause they once abhorred."

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'

What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Salute to an all-time tweet

Neither here nor there, butI watched this clip and instantly in my head heard her singing "we represent the lollipop guild."

People need to just give up waving. It's become politicized. I saw an ad for a school showing a little back black boy waving and it was this exact pose, and I thought if that were a white kid someone on social media would be claiming it was a Nazi school.

Old people tell the young everything about aging, and the young think this will never happen to me. Decades later they ask why no one told them. And then they tell young people what they have to look forward to and the youths just roll their eyes. #CircleOfLife

It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.

America has been called “the Great Experiment.” As an American, I gotta ask if it's possible to switch to the control group.

Today’s forecast calls for light breezes and a 20% chance of the Strait of Hormuz being open.

That doesn’t really narrow it down.