No one hates Trump because he's a Republican. We hate him because he's a shitty human. Some of us knew that long before he entered politics.

The new acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, who is replacing John Pelan, is a theocratic loony who thinks California is infested with witches. The only thing the Trump administration shows *any* aptitude for is filling its job openings with unqualified kooks.

WATCH: “Do trans people exist?”

Rep. Aron Maberry (R-CLARKSVILLE) just passed a bill targeting what honorifics trans educators can ask to be called at work, saying kids must be taught “objective truth” — even as he concedes the truth is trans people do exist.

James Comer Is Effectively Killing the Epstein Investigation A House Oversight Committee memo shows Representative James Comer plans to make big changes to the hearing process, including not requiring witnesses to swear in.

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MILITARY PURGE: Navy Secretary John Phelan has been FIRED, effective immediately.

Hung Cao will take over as Acting Secretary. Prior reports raised questions about his claims of being “blown up” in combat, with his Navy record lacking a Purple Heart or Combat Action Ribbon.

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Trump always appoints questionable people.

Former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan never served in the military but did fly at least twice in Epstein's plane.

His successor, Hung Cao, claims to have been “blown up” in combat. But there is no Purple Heart or other evidence to support such claim.

JUST IN: Virginia court blocks voter‑approved congressional map backed by Democrats reut.rs/48j2uT9

We have an unhealthy unspoken media agreement in this country that you can’t point out that someone harbors objectively insane, delusional beliefs that should disqualify them from being anywhere near a position of power if said beliefs are colorably linkable to a mainstream religious worldview.

NEW MEMO from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee memo shows Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer plans to make big changes to the hearing process, including not requiring witnesses to swear in. trib.al/rjIltID

Phil gets it 👇🏽

I love Lina Khan and her tenure at FTC was a great example of government actually working and doing great things

Israel just killed another Lebanese journalist, Amal Khalil — then reportedly bombed rescue workers trying to help her.

(Although from the @wsj headline you’d never know who killed her🤔)

See full statement from AG Jones below:

Wednesday's ruling was not Hurley's first attempt to stop the amendment. He issued similar rulings blocking the measure in January and again in February — and both times, the Virginia Supreme Court stepped in to allow the process to move forward while it considered the underlying legal questions.

BREAKING: A GOP-appointed Virginia judge has struck down the Democratic-backed redistricting amendment in full, ruling it unconstitutional and “void from the start.”

AG Jay Jones says he will immediately file an appeal.

Believe it or not he is an improvement over his predecessor

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23 April 1923 | Czech Jew, Vilém Lederer, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.
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The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you an entitled a$$hole.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

Hmm, I wonder why…

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.

Grim but useful read.

Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
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Trump crossed over into "Worst President Ever" on January 6, when he instigated a riot in an attempt to overthrow the government. All the terrible, terrible things he's done this term are just putting even more distance between him and the second worst.

A pandemic plan was in place. Trump abandoned it — and science — in the face of Covid-19 The Covid-19 pandemic is a crisis that must be understood and addressed using science. We are failing to solve it because America is led by an administration that not only isn't scientific but is acti...

100%. Not on the verge! He was the worst president already when Covid hit. Trump threw away the pandemic plan George Bush left!
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BLAMING PREVENTABLE DISEASE ON IMMIGRANTS IS SOME NAZI LEVEL BULLSHIT.

When we say that RFK Jr. is a eugenicist...this is what we mean.

Tapping the sign.

LETTER from journalists to the WHCA: “TAKE STRONGER ACTION”

Wearing pins and handkerchiefs at the dinner isn’t enough as Trump wages war on the first amendment.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

I'm in! ::waves frantically::