A plot. It's hard to describe. There are lots of lines flowing into specific regions on the plot. Some are red, some are blue. The red and the blue all flow in the same directions. It's very relaxing to look at.
Every now and then in my line of work you make a plot that is very odd.
We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.
Went to a workshop this morning & one of the “fireside chat” speakers was former CDC Director Dr Mandy Cohen & it was painful to hear her say it’s going to take “generations” to undo the damage & rebuild CDC—she reflected on the amazing outbreak experts, eg Marburg experts, at CDC when she ran it
I think it’s an underdiscussed problem that all the people put forward as the Important Thinkers these days are dumb as dogshit and have more issues than Mad Magazine.
This should be a much bigger story.
The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵
No, it's much worse. They burned our fucking money like the Joker, for the lulz.
The stuff they stole is a fraction of what they've flushed down the toilet forever.
And since they can't pay us back in money, they must pay for every goddamn penny with their freedom and their futures.
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
Smith and Huntsman approached Scott and grabbed his arms. Scott repeatedly pleaded “please” and “what are you doing” in a distressed voice, while Smith and Huntsman pulled him to the ground. At first, the officers held Scott’s arms at his sides while he was lying on his back. In this position, Scott screamed, struggled, and pled with the officers to leave him alone for over two minutes. The officers then eventually rolled Scott onto his stomach, repeatedly ordering Scott to “stop.” With Scott on his stomach and with his hands restrained behind his back, Huntsman put his bodyweight on Scott’s back and neck for about one to two minutes. At the same time Smith put his weight on Scott’s legs, restraining his lower body. Scott’s pleas turned increasingly incoherent and breathless as Huntsman applied his bodyweight. After handcuffing him, the officers attempted to roll Scott on his side, as he continued to incoherently cry out that he wanted to be left alone. When they rolled Scott over, his face was bloody from contact with the ground. Scott stopped yelling and thrashing around after a few minutes. Scott did not respond when Smith and Huntsman tried to wake or revive him. Shortly after, when the paramedics arrived, Scott was still unresponsive. Scott was pronounced dead after paramedics removed him from the scene. Plaintiffs’ expert found that Scott had died from restraint asphyxia.
One might hope that the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority would at least explain why it tossed out the lower court ruling against these officers, who seemingly murdered this man for no reason. Alas, we get nothing.
Here's that now-vacated ruling: cases.justia.com/federal/appe...
Per whip notice, Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in tonight, which will bring the party breakdown in the House to [actually checks notes] 217 R - 214 D.
This is a boringly accurate, purely factual description of events.
And again, this is simply not receiving the same breathless BIDEN FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN type of coverage, even though this is orders of magnitude worse on every dimension. The two parties simply are not held to the same standards.
1. As Jared Kushner heads to Pakistan to represent the United States in critical talks with Iran, the media is ignoring a historic corruption scandal.
Kushner is serving in this role while on the payroll of the Saudi government.
Let's look at the data.
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The U.S. military struck another boat in the Caribbean, killing three people.
Every couple years we count how many people want economic and racial justice and they always say very clearly that they don't. More than any other group they don't want those things.
Send-Bernie-to-Kentucky-to-make-one-(1)-speech-about-M4A-and-we-can-beat-Mitch-McConnell-ass take.
The fucking Teamsters went all “step on me Daddy Trump” for chrissake
Yeah I was also struck by how bizarre this line was (a moment later they are gonna complain about the libs being too tolerant of everything!) - I think the explanation for it is really as petty as they don't like everyone making fun of Peter Theil's weird anti-Christ schtick. Not deeper than that.
I'm on the executive council of my union and you can't fix problems if you won't acknowledge they exist.
Recall the Supreme Court held there was a constitutional right to stand on a public sidewalk and scream homophobic rants at a soldier's funeral as long as you're a bunch of right-wing religious freaks, but apparently it's a crime to stand on a public sidewalk and smirk while Black.
its worth noting too that every US president — even Dubya — stopped short of going to war with Iran after the 1980s. Trump is the only one that has bucked the trend and he had advocated for doing so even before he was president
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade
What did he know?
Last year, Hogg told a podcaster that his PAC would only back pro- gun control candidates. Platner is not that.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite's intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
This bullet point from Alex Karp/Palantir’s latest diatribe strikes me as the best representation of the whole project.
“The elite’s intolerance of religious beliefs…”
Let me stop you right there, Alex. You just made that up. That isn’t a thing in 2026 America.
“We don’t need another Fetterman in the Senate,” says Graham Platner.
Irony just choked to death on a clam strip.
Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy
For that matter any time any Dem tries to abandon their liberal commitments to bribe the hicks this website starts screeching about how they’re all traitors because lefties refuse to acknowledge that their vulgar Marxist caricature of Based Trans Rights Blair Mountain Redneck does not fucking exist
“The rurals love the idea of the Feds paying for their everything, they’re just tired of liberalism and its insistence that queers and coloreds get better living conditions too” yeah, we know, everyone knows, we’ve known it for the last ninety years, why do you think this is a mark in their favor
“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com
The thing about "starve the beast" as a right-wing political strategy is that it works, in a catastrophic way, and we allowed them to do it. In full.
The mighty beast that is the fiscal power of the United States has now been starved, and building it back up will require very unpleasant sacrifices.
