I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."
Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with President Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night. The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said.
According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.
Seen from above: black/tan dachshund lying on its back, asleep on a round grey/white bed, its face covered by a grey blanket.
Black/tan dachshund asleep sitting on a round grey bed, while leaning against a sunlit grey sofa.
Black/tan dachshund asleep on its back, in a small space between a wall and table leg. In front are 2 round grey dog beds, with part of a tan dachshund seen curled up on the L bed. R bed is empty.
Black/tan dachshund asleep, sitting like a human and leaning on person in black sweater on L of image. Grey blankets seen behind, and to R.
Louie insists EVERY space, can be a sleeping space.
So the most important state in this country had to go grovel to the president and then took a 50% cut in the money that they are owed. Once we get rid of this ghoul we are going to need to do state reparations for all the money he stole from blue states. Fucking outrageous.
Short term I want “ruthless”.
HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.
Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.
10 dogs - a variety of breeds, but all small - sit on a sofa in an outdoor shelter. Many are wearing raincoats because its a stormy day. they are all adorable.
I never get sick of seeing photos from Delta's doggy daycare (where he goes twice a week). I feel like this one could be an album cover for some experimental music collective 😂
Delta is the one standing at the back, wearing a burgundy raincoat with a reflective stripe along it.
#dogsofbluesky
Let's be very clear about what's going here: this is Trump using contrived and fictional litigation to pay off his retainers out of the US Treasury for alleged wrongs they suffered. It's theft. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
I assume this was expected since they said it would go to VA Supreme Court but I haven’t been able to find anyone explaining.
Everything about this reeks.
DOJ had to warn FBI they had no legal basis to proceed against a journalist.
Plus use of FBI HQ instead of field offices. (Note hypocrisy: Team Trump complained that this approach allows for political influence on investigations like Russian election interference.)
North Carolina, a 51 percent Trump state
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
White people know exactly what reparations are and how to give them to themselves 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
Because I'm still on this. Imagine you have Country A frothing at the mouth for a war, and Country B saying "no, we don't want violence, we don't like killing." And then Country A invades, so Country B of course defends itself. And then the NYT calls that a "head-spinning reversal." Come on, guys.
The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond.
He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.
Trump knows that everyone understands what "Low IQ person" means when he says it but the press isn't willing to write it. He knows they will always cover for him and he loves that he can get away with it. He's used so many old timey racist terms he hopes no one knows but he also does this
Goddamn fuck this
Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women
Priceless post from the official White House social media
Screenshot of an online opinion article by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "The Texas gerrymander freakout," with the subheadline, "What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy." The publication date is August 20, 2025.
Screenshot of an online opinion article from The Washington Post by the Editorial Board. The headline reads, "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss," with the subheadline, "The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.
Any Dem who runs on a platform of ending every single government contract with Palantir, then hiring a team of experts to undo the damage these fascist dorks have done to our infrastructure, communications and personnel, not only has my vote, but has my donation checks and volunteer hours as well.
There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.
Read and share:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...
L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it. Image 8:04 PM · Nov 2, 2025 · 444.4K Views https://x.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1985151099527942517
I swear to god if we do anything even resembling a bailout for the UAE, one of the richest countries on earth and a major corrupt crypto donor to Donald Trump and the key backer of Sudan genocide
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
Did not disappoint lol
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The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
Big one left is Florida but from what I’ve seen, they could really fuck themselves. Hopefully they rethink.
Hats off to you, Virginia! Love, a Californian, whose state also responded to Texas mid-census cycle redistricting ❤️❤️❤️
In the immortal words of Virginia’s L. Louise Lucas…. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m gonna have to go Twitter to watch Louise Lucas rip on these fools. Our redistricting queen.
