80 year old congressman David Scott has died after serving in the House for 23 years.

He is the fourth Democratic congressperson age 70+ to die in office since 2025.

may he rest in peace

And I’m sorry if this comes across as tactless, but this also really can’t keep happening, esp in states where Rs can appoint or slow walk specials

Stakes of congressional control are existential and margins in both chambers are often extremely narrow

Just the dumbest people in the world

it's so crazy that we funneled billions in environmental subsidies to Tesla, only for it to become one of the most rampantly polluting companies in business today

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

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Exclusive: Trump’s son Eric to join father's state visit to China By Reuters April 14, 20263:33 PM GMT+1Updated 16 mins ago U.S. President Trump departs the White House in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Eric Trump as they walk together to depart the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 10, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump ​and his wife, Lara, will ‌accompany the president on his May trip to China, a ​spokeswoman for Eric Trump ​told Reuters on Tuesday.

I hate to whatabout, but this was literally the core of what right wingers wanted to impeach Biden over.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

It’s called the Cycle of Abuse or the Walker Wheel: calm followed by rising tension, the explosion of violence, the reconciliation, the incremental intensification of violence over time.

Alarmed by President Trump's threat to eliminate a whole civilization" in Iran on Tuesday, more than a quarter of congressional Democrats have called for Trump's removal from office, either through impeachment or by his cabinet stripping him of power through the 25th Amendment. Many raised concerns about the president's soundness of mind and said his post to social media threatening widespread civilian destruction was evidence that he was not mentally fit to hold office.

It should be 100%

Impeach Trump.

do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”

let's be clear about what's happening: donald trump and benjamin netanyahu, whose countries have been committing genocide in gaza since 2023, unilaterally started a war with iran, and are now threatening genocide there.

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It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

This isn’t a “could face” situation.

It’s a “are facing” situation. And brain drain will continue to happen as long as we undermine science in the US.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

Wow this war we've already won that we didn't need to get Congressional approval for because it's not actually a war against a country that was two weeks from getting a nuclear weapon that it will never have because we destroyed their nuclear program last year is really going badly today.

Someone sent me this.

Great speech, dude.

So, unfortunately, I have a lot of experience with loved ones with cognitive decline. This is what people with cognitive decline sound like at 9 pm.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I wonder how many US folks talk to people outside the country consistently. Like, chat with them.

I'm the only US person in this meeting and their pity and fear for me is so striking and touching.

it's come to this ...

on its 250th anniversary, America is now begging the Royal Navy to help out.

The essence of all the Russia stuff from the first campaign and first term
was that Trump was an insider threat to the US, NATO, the UN, etc.—a manifest danger to the whole complex of post-WWII arrangements to defend free societies, stave off world wars, and advance the cause of human rights.

folks they’re calling it a suicidal mix of isolationism and interventionalism the likes of which the world has never seen

The two options now, so far as I can tell, are "ground invasion that turns into bloody quagmire, which you will eventually lose" and "walk away and leave Iran in explicit, de-facto control of the Strait." There is no magic third one except "do not get into this situation," which we've blown way past

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Correct.

Trump at wartime

Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are