China is going to come out Trump's second term a HUGE winner on the global stage. Trump is destroying U.S. economic, military, scientific and technological capabilities at such a fast rate that China can just skip over their next Five Year Plan as unnecessary.
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We all know how this ends: Discovery, and Patel quietly drops the lawsuit under cover of darkness ...
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This man is the son and namesake of Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., who was a rare racial liberal in 1960s Atlanta. If you've read WHITE FLIGHT, he was one of the leading voices against the Peyton Wall and one of the few legislators to back seating Julian Bond.
Now his son is building a monument to a racist
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
Eighty Percent. That Is How Often Trump Wins the Supreme Court's Secret Docket.
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Deportation on Demand / Deportation as Revenge - it's all the MAGA rage.
The husband's sons rerouted the wife's mail so that she did not get her immigration notices, and then one of them, a police officer, had ICE arrest and deport her.
www.rawstory.com/ice-26767586...
This dude is clearly insane
(You have to wade through some John McCain stuff first - not sure oi its relevance - and I read the whole article - but the core portion about Robinson is significant)
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A quick reminder to Trump and the Evangelical MAGAs: Jesus can read through the redactions.
Someone needs to ask Trump or Leavitt, as seriously as they can pull off, since Trump has promised mass pardons for everyone in his administration, what sorts of crimes should we be looking forward to seeing over the next 2 1/2 years?
Trump casually dismisses Epstein survivors as 'victims or whatever'
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Criticizing someone's theology, let alone coming from the U.S. with its First Amendment, is like the biggest non-sequitur you could imagine. There are 200+ Christian denominations in the U.S. (and something like 45,000 worldwide), so if you don't like someone's theology, you go start your own.
"The only metaphor better than a billion-dollar gilded ballroom for understanding MAGA’s corrosion of moral authority would be the image of the antipope standing next to Trump in the Oval Office after his ascension to the Mar-a-Lago papacy."
newrepublic.com/article/2091... via @newrepublic.com
Justice Thomas has replaced the Divine Right of Kings with the Divine Right of Conservatives
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"One gets the sense that most evangelical influencers weren’t really angry so much as they were embarrassed that Trump said the quiet part out loud: He has supplanted Jesus Christ as their lord and savior."
www.salon.com/2026/04/15/t...
I don't understand why the media isn't questioning the fundamental legality of this. An EO tells the fed govt what to do. In order to tell the rest of us, including businesses/banks, what we can and cannot do requires legislation, which only Congress can provide.
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"The services that are supposed to protect us – nuclear stockpile monitoring, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism, public health, vaccination programs, food safety, clean air and water, social services, civil rights– are being undermined, understaffed or trashed."
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Love David Byrne….hope the kids at Coachella were paying attention and appreciated the genius they were witnessing last night
"Love and Kindness are a form of resistance"
MAGA is doing Nazi book burning without the fire.
The intention is the same - to silence ideas they don't like by declaring them degenerate - as is the desired outcome - to make those ideas utterly inaccessible to the public they seek to control.
US Consumer Sentiment Index. Lowest ever recorded. Lower than COVID, lower than 2008.
"Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya, who also leads the NIH, is delaying the publication of new findings within the health agency showcasing the strong effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent emergency room visits and hospitalizations."
truthout.org/articles/cdc...
Democrats reaction to the Swalwell story is appropriate.
If he was a Republican, he’s go up at least 5 points with their primary voters.
“Hegseth mentor Doug Wilson's vision for a Christian nation means married women can't vote *** During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women” 4/10/26 … 1/
I think sometimes the reason why Trump contradicts himself so much each day is because he forgot what he said yesterday. The other times it’s because he lies so much he can’t keep the lies straight.
Twice the impact as 1973, which I remember (odd-even days, lines around the block). We're no where near done with this - the global financial impact is going to rival 2008. Unless he drops a nuke, in which case gas prices are going to be the least of the planet's worries ...
