Most of us “liberals” believe that humans are rational actors and not ignorant vindictive assholes.

You’re right, we *do* keep fucking that part up.

Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Wonder what the president will make worse today.

Georgia O'Keeffe Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Trump likes saviors that *weren’t* crucified.

This Pope acts like he doesn’t even care about the stock market.

House Democrat: ‘Trump is not well’ Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said President Trump is “not well” following a Wall Street Journal report that said his advisers limited his knowledge of rescue operations for two pilots dow…

A Wall Street Journal report said Trump’s advisers and the Joint Chiefs limited his knowledge of rescue operations for two pilots downed in Iran due to the President’s erratic behavior.

“The CIC was excluded from commanding a military operation,” Goldman (D-NY) wrote.

thehill.com/homenews/hou...

WH insiders report that Trump demanded the nuclear codes over the weekend and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said No. There was apparently a big blowup at the meeting. There's your 'madman strategy' for you.

Trump is not just a dotard, he's a colossal security risk.

We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.

5/5 And now Trump is taking a complete sledgehammer to everything. Honestly I can’t name a single economically helpful thing he’s done, it’s all either ineffectual, malignant, or actively malevolent, as you’d expect from a person who is being paid to actively harm the institutions of the USA.

4/5 Biden got the economy under control again after Trump's first term. If anything was a little too aggressive in stimulating the economy, resulting in inflation, but would you rather have a job and money and inflation, or no job and no money and no inflation? Yeah, most choose “jobs.”

3/5 Thanks Obama helped rescue the economy after the Great Recession, then Trump proceeded to act like the traitor he is, fomenting disruption and discord and mismanaging virtually everything about the pandemic-related economic slump.

2/5 Then GWBush’s administration literally said “deficits don't matter,” and the economy crashed under that administration - twice, arguably. First the dot-com bubble and then the mortgage securities crisis.

1/5 I just want people to be aware of how long this fuckery has been going on:

Reagan ran on a balanced budget platform, but got into office and tripled the deficit. Clinton that balanced the budget and actually ran a budget surplus in 1998.

“Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”

Marco Rubio

These guys will literally blow up money just to make sure it can’t get spent on the working class.

🫤

This defense budget, if passed, would be, even when adjusted for inflation, the United States’ largest defense budget ever—larger than the amount spent (again, adjusted for inflation) in any year during World War II…

…WHEN THE NATION’S ENTIRE ECONOMY was geared to war.

This is ludicrous.

I accept your proposal! lol

Is it just me or does “good news” come out on Friday which allows the market to jump up, followed by the Iranian position negating the “good news” after the market closes but still giving Trump the weekend to come up with new bullshit so the market doesn’t completely tank on Monday?

I wonder if there has been a spontaneous combustion of the literally hundreds of news pieces yesterday speculating on how quickly the price of gas at the pump would drop now that the Strait was open…..

Like, maybe we can power a renewable economy with the conflagration of these shit articles.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard could never have resisted a bunch of extremely sexy foxes and kitty cats.

Operation Epic Furry would have been more fun.

The whole world besides MAGA now understands that renewables *are* national security.

He likes saviors who weren't crucified.

I’m expecting Orangeanus to start tweeting that he’s better than that Jesus Palestinian far left extremist. And there’s a decent chunk of MAGA who would gladly go along.

And I’ll be ready with some wood and nails.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

This is a huge fucking problem.

“Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This is in the top 5 of things that bother me about Trump. Somewhere between “pedophile” and “murdering innocent people in unnecessary wars.”

It won't be $10 Billion. It's probably going to be in the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.
It's just the blatantness of it, the president suing his own government, in talks to settle for money with his own government, his own agencies, run by people he appointed, just right out there.

April 17 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president’s $10 billion lawsuit against the tax collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media in 2019 and 2020.
So this means that some level of money will be paid to Trump.

Fine.

Fundraising idea for Democratic candidates: top donors get the right to personally fire specific people from the Trump administration. Imagine the bidding war for the right to fire Patel, or Hegseth, or Vought, or….

We could finance the entire campaign by selling the right to fire Miller.