sorry, but since they murdered at least 3 people in Minneapolis I’m not going for that “Malevolence tempered by Incompetence” thing any more.

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Clarence Thomas is delusional.

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Music by Brian Jonestown Massacre.

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?

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

On Israel’s Memorial Day Palestinians and Israelis meet together to share the anguish of their mutual loss and hope for peace, but have to do it in secret.

He’s just making sure we all remember that there are more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists in this world. By far

No way. Lutnik should be immediately after Musk. No way does that sanctimonious grifter stay out of the top 10

But I went and found the video, and it's just him waving. Regular waving. There's enough real stuff people can criticize him for; inventing controversies is unnecessary.

It’s to War, again

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

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This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

it would be a wild thing to say if that’s what he said

I cannot believe you people are making me defend Chuck Schumer but lying about what people say is bad.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

ha ha ha good shabbos everyone ha ha!

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

This is not a new or original observation but nearly all of the Trump guys seem not to have realized that running the country is an actual job. They do not want to do the hard, draining work of a real and important job. They *want* to be short-form video content creators with taxpayer-funded jets.

At least we now know for sure we’ve achieved “regime change” 😩

Something about a broken clock

Art of the Deal

The Giant Pool of Money - This American Life The surprisingly entertaining story of how the U.S. got itself into a housing crisis.

www.thisamericanlife.org/355/the-gian...

The promise of early internet platforms was to provide “frictionless” access. Maybe we’re finally realizing we need a bit of friction.

Seriously guys, come the fuck on.

On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.

Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

We're over half way through the Fed fiscal year.

AHRQ FY26 appropriation: $345M
Amount obligated to date: $0

New AHRQ funding curves up at Grant Witness:
grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

AHRQ supports work to lower healthcare costs and improve outcomes. This is what Trump is unlawfully gutting.

Good luck with that. Data centers - gigawatt-sucking, pollution-spewing slop houses of mediocrity — are ravaging the environment, consuming all the water and electricity and supercharging utility bills. It really makes those midnight chats with the love bot sort of bittersweet to know that the orgasms are measured in metric tons of melted glacier. Do you realize how much water and power it'd take to replicate the average writer's narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It'd drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can't afford it.

“It’s bittersweet to know that the orgasms are measured in metric tons of melted glacier”. Is how I’ll think of A.I. forever

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Subscribing immediately!! Great to see @pbump.com landing here. And it’s only .25¢ for the first 3 months.

Philip's new job is writing about local issues in Connecticut, but -- unsurprisingly -- he's able to use his remarkable skills as a data reporter (and as a gifted writer) to connect the local to the national.

Erica Payne, founder of @patrioticmillionaires.org: "Doing it around the edges is what got us this freak show in the WH sending out memes about him being Jesus & getting in a fight with the Pope in a country that prides itself on the separation of church and state. For heaven's sake! Enough already"