Pretty sure the Constitution to which the VP swore an oath says to keep government out of religion…

Iran War Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Blockade’ Strait of Hormuz After Peace Talks Fail

If your goal was to drive up inflation, boost revenues to petrostates and drive US allies away from us you would be hard pressed to improve on Trump's economic and foreign policy. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

🎵Voy a cantar estos versos aunque yo no soy de aquí
Yo soy un gran pendejo de condado de Queens
Estafando y estafando he llegado a la Mar-A-Lago
El único trato que hice fue con el Diablo. 🎶

(Disculpas a Santiago Jiménez Sr., Louis Ortega, Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Augie Meyers y Doug Sahm)

Charlotte Clymer (@charlotte.clymer) on Threads Trump can only be removed under the 25th Amendment with the actions of this Republican vice president, this Republican cabinet, and this Republican-controlled Congress. So, if you're asking what Demo...

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Farewell to James Gadson, prolific R&B drummer and a master at doing a lot with a little. RIP.

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito:

If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons.

Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

Hegseth is at least as destructive, and is still in office. Ditto RFKjr.

Of course ETTD in the long run, but the boss takes a ladies-first approach to blame-shifting.

I don’t know. The markets tanked after that disaster of a speech – but firing Bondi gets that out of the news.

His lizard brain still appears to be functional.

No Kings protest, Thousand Oaks, CA, 28 March 2026

ACA began with a Heritage Foundation alternative to single payer. They can’t propose an alternative because this was their plan to begin with.

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

Say their names: Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas.

We would not know about this, and Dolores Huerta would not have stepped forward, without their bravery.

It’s not “Dolores Huerta … and the others.” It is Ana and Debra and Dolores.

A great Irish poet approves

Of possible interest to @citiesbydiana.bsky.social

Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Has Breast Cancer

Cancer knows no political boundaries. I wish Ms. Wiles a full and speedy recovery.

I also wish a full and speedy restoration of funding to the NIH and other institutions doing essential work in cancer research.

Ronan V. (@h4ckedreality) on Threads Week one: We won. Week two: We’re winning. Week three: Please send ships.

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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict

I cannot prove he is Putin’s puppet.

What I can observe is that for a man of so few fixed principles, acting in ways that benefit Russia is always one of them. Always.

A color photo of Jaffee smiling and working at his drawing table.

Today is the birthday of legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee (March 13, 1921-April 10, 2023). His career began in 1942 & ended in 2020, which holds the Guinness World Record as the longest for a cartoonist. But he is most remembered for the 65 of those years he spent as a contributor to #MadMagazine.

For the first time since the 1960s, the pay disparity between US men and women widened over a two-year period.

And International Womens Day has 23 hours this year. I’m not a fan of pay inequality, or time changes.

US gasoline prices jumped 14% this past week as a result of Trump’s elective war in Iran, according to @npr.org.

The flat-Earthers who used to post Joe Biden stickers on gas pumps have been mighty quiet for some reason.

The atrocities will continue until he fires Stephen Miller.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

The CIA really did that, and Google is your friend.

Eisenhower installed the Dulles brothers, who were not good guys.

Even leaving Iran aside, the Dulles boys also overthrew democratically elected governments in Guatemala and the Congo, and were complicit in the murder of the Congolese president.

He was and he wasn’t. Eisenhower named Earl Warren to SCOTUS, but came to regret it.

And just 4 months after this quote, he approved a joint CIA-MI6 ouster of the democratically elected government of Iran.

The quote rings especially true given that 73 years on the effects of that coup linger on.

War! Act II — Mic Farris Trump launches an unconstitutional 3 am attack on Iran. From the Decisions Newsletter

“A war without focus is a war with no tangible goals. And a war with no goals ends up a Forever War.

“Trump said these kinds of Forever Wars would never happen under his presidency. He lied. Just like saying he’d lower prices and bring back jobs, he lied.” (h/t @micfarris.com)

Best (only?) example of regime change by air strike: Libya 2011.

Here's why it's more of a cautionary tale:
♦️It was such a personalized regime that succession proved impossible. That's not #Iran.
♦️US didn't actually kill Qaddafi: A mob did.
♦️Post-2011 Libya is chaotic mess: Is that what we want?

For the Epsteinth time: There are plenty of reasons to do this now.

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