The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Friday night Tequila Tweet: Here’s the sad, fucking truth: Iran’s leadership is more believable & more trustworthy than the President of the United States. Hey America, that’s the price we pay for electing a president who lies as he breathes. We. Can’t. Believe. A. Fucking. Thing. Trump. Says.

Day #453 of the ClusterTrump

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It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

In a corridor aboard the USS Discovery, we see "Weird Al" Yankovic and Captain Christopher Pike leaning in toward the camera and acting silly. Al sports a goatee and sunglasses with his hair pulled back, as well as an all-white suit. Pike is wearing the blue Discovery uniform with gold accents.

Day 12 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot

#WeirdTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery #WeirdAlYankovic

NEW: The DNC just passed a resolution condemning dark money donations - including those to AIPAC. A member of the DNC proposed a resolution condemning dark money through AIPAC, but the DNC panel rejected that and expanded it to include all dark money donations.

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Most likely, and of course, all speculation right now, this is why Melania did her 6 min statement today.

Amanda Ungaro was brought here as a 17-year-old model. She flew to NYC on Epstein's private plane.

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A Message From Amanda: The Epstein Survivor Who Was Deported By The Trump Administration Speaks Out "My paperwork and history of work for The United Nations did not stop the government from treating me like an animal."

bekahdayyy.substack.com/p/a-message-...

A man this crazy cannot have nuclear weapons

Why do we understand that when it comes to North Korea but not when it comes to Washington

Honestly, after that Trump post, I’m begging @nytimes.com, @apnews.com, @reuters.com, @washingtonpost.com, @npr.org and all of the other newspapers and media outlets to take this seriously. This is not normal and we need to stop pretending. This is a crisis.

Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with “very little” off the table. "If happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country,” he said. I asked if there’s anything off limits. “Very little,” he said.

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

In every other modern democratic country in the world, this statement would result in the immediate removal of the president or prime minister. 😳👇

"Happy First Contact Day" The images features Zefram, Commander Riker, Lieutenant La Forge from the Star Trek Movie and Dr. Eleanor from the movie Contact as a crossover, sitting in the Phoenix's cockpit, where the first ever warp flight and first contact between Humans and Vulcans happened.

a man in a blue shirt with a black collar Alt: a man in a blue shirt with a black collar. Spock from Star Trek

happy first contact day!

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

This is absolutely fantastic.

ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

America, we really need to have that talk.

One of the greatest successes of Star Trek TNG was that it credited its audience as intelligent people capable of challenging established norms, exploring the space between law and morality, and evaluating new ideas with a critical mind.

I hope this ethos has not been irrevocably lost.
#StarTrek

"No president can decide to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval."

—Marco Rubio in 2023

"It's the president's decision if we stay in NATO."

—Marco Rubio in 2026

Think about it. Trump spends the first year of his second term alienating Europe. Then he starts a war that Europe wisely refuses to participate in. Now he and Putin have their “excuse” to withdraw the United States from NATO.

Everything he does, Trump does for Vladimir.

In a scene from the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "The Serene Squall," we see Spock crouching down behind a wall in an Enterprise corridor with a phaser rifle in his hands. Standing just behind him is Captain Angel. They are both peering down the corridor where "Weird Al" Yankovic is standing, playing the accordion. He has a shocked look on his face--it seems he has spotted the other two.

Well, it finally happened--I'm burned out on the Muppets. So, that whole series is done. But what the hell am I without a gimmick?

Day 1 of inserting "Weird Al" Yankovic into a Star Trek screenshot

#StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #WeirdAlYankovic

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

What he says…

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."

(graphic from Daily Kos)

What he says…

We had elections during the Civil War.

Trump has no mechanism to delay, postpone, or suspend elections—legally or otherwise.

Accountability is coming.

And there's nothing that can be done to stop it.