Truly the highest praise you can get from Trump is that you always kissed his ass, but not too much, and only occasionally annoyed the fuck out of him

False. LeBron previously played in a playoff game with his father at the time, Delonte West.

Delonte West at least deserves an asterisk here for playing with LeBron while basically being his father.

And if one were actually concerned about killing plants as well as animals, eating plants would kill fewer of each.

Seems like defamation might be challenging when the list of sources be like:

"Literally anyone who came in contact with this man in the past year and enough FBI agents it would be easier to list who's not a source."

@notmyfaceleopards.bsky.social

Exactly one year ago today:

God knows how much we’re paying back to the donors in favors.

Property taxes are the scariest thing she’s seen

I think this fear is part of it. But I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's beef with Pope Leo is driven by jealousy too.

The pope is revered by a billion-plus people around the world. He's treated as infallible and chosen by God. He gets to rule indefinitely.

That's basically what Trump wants to be.

Was the announcement remotely connected to reality?

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

And he's so good at this.

He's getting his followers to think he didn't commit blasphemy by saying that he is either the world's biggest idiot or has no idea what depictions of Jesus look like.

Yet his followers don't for a second consider the implications of the excuse itself.

if only anyone had known candidate trump might attempt to end birthright citizenship

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It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

2 men charged with attempted murder, hate crime involving Danville alderman PARIS, Ill. (WCIA) — Two people that were arrested following a “disturbance involving a firearm,” in Paris earlier this month are now being charged with attempted first-degree mur…

3 white men in their 20s attempted to lynch 3 Black men for....fishing last Friday. The only reason it's an attempted murder charge is one of the Black men was armed and a better shot. It's not about the year someone was born, it's about the racism

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The red line shows homicides between 2018 and 2025. The blue line, the number of local government employees. They are mirror images. The blue line trends w/ARPA, a $350B investment in local government. The red line trends down as 1 million teachers, counselors, and clinicians enter the workforce.

"everything he did over the past 10 years and in fact his entire life was entirely consistent with my Christian values until this specific thing" is a hell of an argument

Trump’s budget for 2027, a breakdown Polygraph | Newsletter n°339 | 13 Apr 2026

80% of Trump’s budget goes to war and policing.

www.stephensemler.com/p/trumps-bud...

Literally in the hospital with dehydration. You are on point as always.

It’s one of my few solaces.

Aide: sir you were supposed to choose ONE of the talking points

The reason it feels hard to get ahead right now is because it's hard to get ahead right now. Wages are barely keeping up with prices, and prices are just starting to heat up.

Around 50,000 U.S. troops are deployed around the Middle East. If they file disability claims at the rate of the short 1990 Gulf War — 37% — this alone would add around $600 billion in costs over their lifetimes.

Hi! I’m the inventor of bathroom stalls. The important thing for me is that everyone walking by a stall is able to make eye contact with the person sitting on the toilet inside. This is a critical design feature.

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-...

I want to scream, but I just can't anymore.

This is SO common. "Tough on crime" types always get the credit, even if we need time to flow backwards and sideways to give them the credit.

Always. Over and over.

And smart policies never get credit, and any success is framed as strange and tentative.

I just think it's also important to, like, remember how, how bad it was like, as someone said to me recently, like, I don't know whether we'll call this trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase t, but it definitely like it was to have everyone crying in the office all the time. People had so much anxiety that we would kind of like have to take turns working for. The last few months I was there to be like, All right, you can't handle Today. Today. I'm okay. I can handle today, but you might have to handle tomorrow for me, because I might not be able to handle tomorrow. Like, I've never seen such a thing. You know, one of our younger designers had asked, because it was their first job out of grad school. Like, is this what it's like in the private sector too? Because this is so terrible. And someone's response who worked in the private sector was that, no, like, I've been terrible places, like I've worked at Amazon, I've worked other places where they didn't care about us, but we never felt like our leadership hated us just for existing. And that's what those months felt like, like, not our direct leadership, but anyone above that, and especially the highest levels, just hated us for existing, and that was really hard when, like our we had committed our careers to serving the citizens public.

Coding interviews of technologists who were purged from government under DOGE, and the sense of trauma is really palpable. Compared to the private sector orgs like Amazon, the jobs meant more and the way they were treated was way worse.

It "felt like our leadership hated us just for existing."