Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Some unfortunate truths:

1. The paranoid style of American politics trends towards conspiracy theory
2. Belief in one conspiracy predicts belief in others
3. All conspiracy theories trend towards antisemitism
4. You can't build high trust policy on low trust politics.

one of the defining traits of the conservative movement is how ready they are to destroy the lives of completely random nobodies if it helps serve their lies and propaganda.

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

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When the actual president gave marching orders to disenfranchise 40% of Texans so he can corruptly cling to power, that was it. Gloves off.

This is very much where I'm at. I'm actualy deeply opposed to partisan gerrymanders. I'm also opposed to stabbing at people with knives. But if a guy is coming at me with a knife, I'm absolutely picking up a knife and stabbing back.

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

This is horrible

It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

I had some thoughts about where this was coming from but I did not expect it would be “fantasizing about watching everyone die in the apocalypse.”

Holy shit

like many, I avoided publicly complaining about staying home during the peak Covid years because I didn’t want to be associated with the MAGAs running around infecting everybody at the time.

but it’s been 6 years and I’d like to believe we can now talk about how it was both necessary AND hard.

This could be very funny

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS UPSET WHEN SHE SEES SLUGGO LAYING ON THE GROUND, HIS BACK AGAINST A ROCK NANCY: SLUGGO--- YOU'RE THE LAZIEST BOY IN TOWN P2-NANCY POINTS TO A BEE SITTING ON A FLOWER … BZZZ BZZ NANCY : HERE, TAKE A CLOSE-UP OF THE BUSY BEE IN THAT FLOWER-- NANCY HANDS SLUGGO A MAGNIFYING GLASS P3- NANCY: IT MAY INSPIRE YOU TO BE MORE AMBITIOUS SLUGGO GETS A CLOSER LOOK OF THE BEE WITH THE MAGNIFYING GLASS P4- SLUGGO SEES THE BEE, BUT ITS NOT BUSY, BUT LAYING ON ITS BACK TAKING A NAP

i love starting with "lots of strange reactions to this game" and following that up with the strangest reaction yet

I can’t believe it finally happened.

“They talked for years about what they were going to do to us and then did it” is not a recipe for “so we can’t blame them.”

This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.

And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.

The zombie lie about voter fraud needs to go away forever.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

The Pete Hegseth experience is revitalized when you realize that he's Mac from It's Always Sunny

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Would you believe that this guy's website has a very long narrative about how the leaders of the LDS church and other shadowy figures conspired to legally prohibit him from seeing his first two kids? Yeah, you would? It seems pretty obvious?

It's a really lovely space.

In this case, they came to Salt Lake City because they converted to Mormonism in the 1840s.

The replacing of headstones for 19th century burials is pretty widespread here. I'm not sure exactly how those come about, if it's family-led (probably) or some sort of preservation society.

Oh, so David Hogg, like, *really* sucks, doesn't he?

Remember how that one rallygoer in Butler, PA, actually did get killed and then Trump made a ghastly joke about that to his wife?

UCLA looked at USAID and it’s awful ph.ucla.edu/news-events/...

Gore probably shouldn't run, but there would be a certain literary elegance to him being the next president.