bessent's bullshit here feels close to criminal

The way Tucker is talking about Trump is the way Trump talked about GWB, the way Pat Buchanan talked about GHWB, the way the Reagan boosters talked about Gerald Ford in 1976, and the way the Goldwater fans of 1964 spoke about Nixon and Eisenhower. This is just the right wing ratchet at work.

Look everyone, Gov Reeves is just honoring an old tradition that stretches the whole way back to…1994, 129 years after the Civil War had ended and, just coincidentally, a year when the Gingrich-led GOP cemented its hold on the white voters of states like Mississippi.

💥Hungary's first post-election poll: Péter Magyar's Tisza leads Viktor Orbán's Fidesz 66–25 among certain voters — a 41-point gap. On April 12 election night, the margin was just 15 points (53–38).

Orbán's party is in freefall.

As both the former chief mathematician of the Senate Budget Committee and more importantly as a proud graduate of elementary school, this is,,,, not how it works

@davidjroth.bsky.social this is the absolute peak of male breathing. you can only achieve this level of breathing through 70 years of intense focus, eating various rare animal glands, and replacing your sinus cavity with the carburetor of a 1985 Chrysler LeBaron.

bro what

Death rates at ICE detention facilities raise concerns about health standards: Study Death rates in immigration detention are nearing record highs, raising concerns among physicians regarding the health service standards at federal facilities.

At least 17 people have already died in ICE custody this year—outpacing every other past Administration.

ICE has a shameful & egregious record of violating people's rights, traumatizing children, & killing our neighbors.

They believe they are the only authentic Americans. Everyone else is visiting. So when anyone else tries to limit their power, they react as if a foreign entity were stealing their sovereignty.

It's stupid and evil and often illegal -- and far FAR too many liberals choose to play along with it.

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts told NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.

Thirteen federal workers who were laid off during the DOGE cuts tell NBC News they struggled to find work, had to move or took major pay cuts after their agencies were gutted.

Trump administration sued for approving first BP project in Gulf since Deepwater Horizon disaster Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its approval of the first British Petroleum drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago this…

Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over its approval of the first British Petroleum drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago this week.

via @lailluminator.com

The USS George H W Bush carrier strike group will arrive in the Middle East within 3-4 days, presumably ready for Trump’s deadline for Iran.

Interested to see if he’s prepared to deplete the entire stock of munitions and leave the US defenceless. Of course, Iran knows this.

In Medicaid fraud crackdown, feds now looking to audit all 50 states | Alabama Reflector Thus far, the Trump administration has focused almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, even though fraud involving government benefits isn’t any more prevalent in Democratic-led states than in Republican-led ones, according to federal data.

Via Shalina Chatlani and Stateline: Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said Tuesday that the Trump administration will require every state within 30 days to turn in a plan to revalidate their Medicaid health care providers.

Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals.

He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining.

And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels.

He’s a danger to our planet and our health.

The Scale of Iran’s Advantage Comes Into View The country is beginning to wake up to the sheer level of...

Josh Marshall: "The mainstream press is now saying more openly what's been clear almost since the beginning of the conflict. Trump started this war on an impulse. In strategic terms he lost almost immediately."

Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before

Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before theonion.com/disney-promises-star-war...

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

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...

As of 2026 Clarence Thomas is the most interesting figure in American politics in much the same way that COVID-19 is the most interesting virus in epidemiology, and for pretty much exactly the same reasons

If Republicans hate the CA and VA redistricting, they can thank the person responsible - Donald J. Trump.

None of it would’ve been possible without his leadership on this issue.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Texas republicans illegally gerrymandered their maps and never once asked voters how they feel about it.

California and Virginia let voters decide.

That’s the difference. They started this fight and Democrats are going to fucking finish it.

it’s never been about protecting women

it’s always and only ever been about policing women

an attack on one is an attack on all. fascism gets its foot in the door the minute we forget that.

Williams says that the bill wouldn't apply to "appropriate drag," and said that it's written in a way that obscenity could be determined by individual law enforcement.

Conservatives *want* the vagary inherent in the law because it makes them, and their police, the arbiter of morality. They don't like the idea of justice being blind.

"Of course we won't go after Shakespeare!" they say honestly, and they're correct.

They'll decide what drag is "appropriate."

“My wife had an unfortunate encounter, and she went into the locker room to change, and there was a man in there changing,” Pastor Van Holloway said.

i’ll take things that never happened for $1000 alex

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UBI is worth doing REGARDLESS of the degree of unemployment that AI may cause. Productivity growth stopped being widely shared via wages in the 1970s. For 50 years, the fruits of our collective labor have concentrated at the top. Only UBI can directly distribute those fruits equally to ALL.

"It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps... Now one of the answers it seems to me, is a guaranteed annual income, a guaranteed minimum income for all people, and for our families of our country."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I’m the consumer. I paid higher prices because of Trump’s tariffs. Do I get a refund?”

“No.”

Heads they win, tails we lose.