The principle of the matter is of course more important, but it's not even a case of principle vs. politics. This is idiotic on the politics. There's no good argument, grounded in any sort of real evidence, that forcing votes on impeachment would be unpopular or backfire or anything of the sort.

The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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On Saturday, the US and Iranian teams are expected to sit in separate rooms, with Pakistani officials carrying messages between them.

They're flying halfway around the world to have a meeting in separate rooms? Return to office ass policy

I do find it ironic how we have to have all these delicate conversations about what to do about ICE when Trump and co. have executive fiated USAID, DOE, the Wilson Center, institute of peace, CFPB, and now the Forest service

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war.

This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does.

It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

shrouded figure on CBS

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:

In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else.

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Hall of fame FT correction

vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it.

Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it.

Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

just following onto this — trump picked up the phone from an *msnbc* reporter *in the middle of a war meeting* but sent jd to voicemail twice 😂

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts.

If a Supreme Court justice is willing to publicly call out Brett Kavanaugh as a silver-spoon doofus who has no idea what life is like for people who aren't rich white guys, I promise you that the justices are saying some WILD stuff about him in private

>Will Stancil had a network of honeypot informants who’d get ice to dump operational information to them
>if cover blown, would forward the chats to the guys wives to ruin their marriages

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
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“Reports”???

He’s got access to the best intelligence in the world. He doesn’t know?

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

Trump attacks Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones and others in a long post calling them “NUT JOBS”

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Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

dad: so whats the deal with the war

me: *speaks for 5 min*

dad: wow that is an impressive analysis

me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert

dad: oh whats their name

me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts The OpenAI CEO reportedly confuses basic coding and machine learning terms, numerous insiders have admitted.

"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."

An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.

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Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia