Barack Obama’s post on X with Zohran Mamdani with NYC mayor Mamdani with kids: “Great spending time with New York City’s Cutest. And thanks to @NYCMayor for giving me an excuse to break out my best “Wheels on the Bus””

President @barackobama.bsky.social had an incredible appearance w @mayor.nyc.gov at a school. So heartwarming and therapeutic for the times we live in.

He x-posted it on platforms belonging to Elon and Zuck - but didn’t bother to share w the progressive community here.

On brand for him tbh.

She's got that weird Mr. Beast smile

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Reporter: If you don’t have a deal by Wednesday, will you extend the ceasefire or restart attacks? Trump: Maybe I won’t extend it… and we’ll have to start dropping bombs again.

Peace when markets are open

War when markets are closed

I don't think they could've pulled that off so well. The ear thing is weird, but my guess is that he was hit by shrapnel, like glass from the teleprompter. The quote in the article from Revelations about the antichrist getting a head injury that heals will have an impact among the crazies, I think.

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter.

And I think today was an important turning point

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Lucas Tomlinson @LucasFoxNews Х.com Vice President Vance's final offer delivered to the Iranian delegation in Islamabad, which represent 'red lines,' according to two U.S. officials: 1. End all uranium enrichment 2. Dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities 3. Retrieve highly enriched uranium 4. Accept a broader peace, security and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies 5. End funding for terrorist proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis 6. Fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage 12:38 PM • 4/12/26 • 80K Views

Reading these “red lines” makes it clear the talks with Iran were basically theater from a US perspective.

(I’m only surprised they didn’t go ahead and throw in “Convert to Christianity”…)

ORBAN CAN STILL WIN IF MIKE PENCE HAS THE COURAGE

PLATNER IS LITERALLY STILL OPENLY USING THE "R" WORD IN CASUAL CONVERSATION. TODAY.

The reality is that a significant number of Dems/Lefties would go for a mirror image of Trump on the left, too. Much fewer than on the right, IMO, but MAGA cultism is an outgrowth of some defect in fundamental human nature. We're seeing some of that with Platner and Swalwell defenders.

Chart showing massive rise in deficits under Reagan/Bush from Carter levels, then going down to surpluses under Clinton.

Lmao. Yeah, how were those "balanced budgets" under Reagan/Bush? The only economic difference between MAGA and Reagan is that Trump likes tariffs, but that's really just a lever for him to exert power, not actually part of his economics.

If they have no cards, why is he negotiating?

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

Why do people call it the malaise speech if he didn't use that word? Did everyone just adopt Republican propaganda?

They cheered when someone tried to do that to Paul Pelosi

The right is intentionally buying avenues for community on the left in order to destroy those communities. Twitter is the biggest example, but it's stuff like this too.

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge.

I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass.

Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

Israel reacts to reports It bombed synagogue in Iran The Jewish representative in Iran's parliament said Israel had shown "no mercy" to his community during Passover.

Just to underscore a point: Israel does not "keep Jews safe." Iran is home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the ME outside Israel, yet Israel is bombing the very neighborhoods where most Jews live. This week they bombed a *synagogue on Pesach.*

www.newsweek.com/israel-react...

Sounds like something AI would do

So he admits they control the SoH:

Assuming the ceasefire holds (lol)
- we've solved the artificial crisis we created
- 13 American servicemembera KIA to say nothing of unknown WIA
- Hormuz no longer free to transit ($2M/ship)
- Iran gets $$$ and benefits from taking the strait
- Iran assumes they can keep their uranium and enrich it

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

What about Jack Smith for AG?

merrick garland dead enders are really annoying and I think harmful.

Garland dragged his heels prosecuting trump because he didn't want to look partisan. his overriding priority was not justice, but legitimacy in the eyes of republicans and the media.

Taxes are good, in fact, & Democrats should stop granting Ronald Reagan's bad premise about government:

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Trump running roughshod over the legal restrictions on his power, combined with SCOTUS giving him absolute immunity for official acts, should be a wake-up call as to how restrictions on presidential power must be crafted. Some things can be stopped in court & reversed. Things like this cannot.

physically requires someone not under POTUS's authority to share the launch key. That would lead to an immediate court challenge, and would probably fail, but better to do that up front than after launch when it doesn't even matter.

The bill has no preventative or enforcement mechanism and wouldn't stop any president crazy enough to a nuclear strike. Even setting aside that the current SCOTUS would likely strike it down bc of POTUS's constitutional CiC authority.

The only possible way of doing this is to set up a process that