If you don’t see by now that they never wanted to go after “the worst of the worst” but instead just wanted to go after everybody who isn’t white who can be deported, the reason is because you don’t want to. Probably because you don’t care because you think it won’t affect you.
why are sanctions never in play?
Embarrassing is too light a word for what this is.
Mass shooting in Winston Salem NC kills 2 kids and 8 injured Schools nearby all went on lockdown all day! Not even a blip on the radar really. 😔🤷🏻♀️ #NC #NCpol wlos.com/news/local/m...
he has never done any of the fighting, but he has sent others to fight and die--for what, exactly?
Same two choices: humiliation (framed as victory which it very much won't be), or escalation.
and you can't report on a psychopath like this without pointing out that his delusional claims have no basis in reality (not *you*, Reuters...)
true, but my memory is that everyone--even Bush--quickly recognized this was a mistake. But that is my memory, I could be wrong...
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trump is the ring leader and head bigot, of course. I will not run thru all of his disgusting comments here (it is neither possible nor decent), but trump has enthusiastically and unapologetically made his gutter bigotry absolutely clear.
The purportedly pro-life movement has made an alliance with racists and eugenicists.
I hope it is. One problem seems to be trump's lack of shame. GW Bush didn't insist his response to Katrine was some great win--he seemed to understand at least on some level that he had screwed up and didn't demand praise. Since trump has no sense of shame, maybe more depends on how elite Rs act
Hey, folks, remind me—did the JCPOA cede any go-forward control of the Strait of Hormuz to Tehran?
Impeach, convict, remove
Then ratify the Rome Statute and extradite to the ICC
“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition
He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.
This is the same clownishly corrupt trump admin that will not help *US* cities hit by disasters if those cities are seen as political enemies of the admin. not America first, but trump first
This is a snapshot of the failure of MSM and the concomitant ignorance within the American electorate about what is happening in and to their country.
also, those all sound like *opinions*, which can't be the basis for a defamation lawsuit. Sanctions ought to be in play if this lawsuit is as baseless as it seems (admittedly, I can't say for sure based on what I have seen, but it sure smells bad).
"This couldn’t be a simpler scandal to sum up for the American people, if anyone cared to do so: This is Donald Trump ordering the looting of the public treasury for his own benefit." @vermontgmg.bsky.social (from article linked below)
I can understand that someone as profoundly amoral, greedy, & self-promoting as trump exists. What I can't understand is why so many people are fine with this, even like it, and are happy to see him on the take, on the constant grift at *their* expense. the guy knocked down part of the White House!
agreed--American Jew here who despises Netanyahu. No country is perfect, no country can be immune from criticism. Criticizing Israeli govt is not inherently anti-semitic.
i am going to repeat this again. It is not antisemitic to oppose Netanyahu and his war in the middle east. In fact a majority of Jews in America oppose Netanyahu and his war.
This is national failure. Other countries take action when something this horrible happens. In the United States, we know nothing will be done, and we just wait for the next massacre. The first step toward sanity is describing what this is.
The fact there was a mass shooting with EIGHT dead today and it barely made the front page of any news site tells you everything you need to know how fucked up we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/shreveport...
I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.
Lindsay is doing the best analysis I've seen of the back and forth on talks. This is from the middle of one of her threads.
I don't know what it will take to make Trump get serious. Probably a major market crash.
But he'll announce something tonight and his marks in the market will do his bidding.
But holding Netanyahu personally responsible for selling Trump the strategic snake oil is fine. It's still on Trump that he gave Bibi the floor in the Situation Room and on Trump that he believed Bibi over the CIA, his Secretary of State, his VP, and his chairman of the joint chiefs.
I just read Alex Karp's 22 points, and what most stood out to me was the ignorance about many things.
I guess some people see a chance and take it...I knew an ambitious student like this as well who changed from very left wing to pro-trump. Maybe there is some other explanation, but ambition seems likely...
