The Person Playacting as President May Be Getting Addicted to Snuff Films - emptywheel Everyone, from Trump himself to his aides to access journalists to experts, are packaging up Trump's moods as rational actions of a President. That makes his increasing fondness for spectacular videos...

Which I wrote up here.

emptywheel.net/2026/04/20/t...

That's not even USDA Sec. Rawlins's piece of chicken, piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla & 1 other thing.

PRIORITIES

Trump’s planning his ballroom but isn’t planning how to feed our shipboard troops.

You know who else had a fancy ballroom?

"I'm doing a ballroom now" -- Trump is now ranting about his ballroom on CNBC

I noted yesterday that we would do well to describe what role the actions Trump is performing, rather than assuming he is functioning as President.

Mostly, Trump is an old man retreating into his lifelong hobbies: construction, cons, and corruption. With lots of golf.

Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats. 

Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.

Not a President……a terrorist!

And #wethepeople have paid millions — upon MILLIONS — of dollars so this unfathomably depraved SELF-PROFESSED sexual assaulter can golf.

The most expansive cover-up in American history must END.

STOP. PREDATORS.

#stoppedos
#protectourdaughters
#protectchildren
#releasethefiles
#epsteinfiles

watching the last university standing in Gaza get pulverized by bombs on this screen is so real and so sobering and i hope every influencer at Coachella dreams about it tonight.

Stone effigies of an armoured knight and a lady on top of a tomb in Benington church, Hertfordshire. Both figures lie on their backs facing upwards and are shown at prayer. A large candlestick is visible in the background,

Faces of power from long ago fashioned most finely from stone. Here, Sir Edward de Benstede and his wife Joan Thornbury at Benington, Herts. Edward successfully navigated the end of Richard II’s reign to serve under Henry IV. Remarkably, he was around 77 when he died - a grand age. #TombTuesday

I think this might be the latest in the season I've seen #northernlights here in #iceland. Having excellent weather now in Reykjavík.

Taken this morning in the city after midnight. Not the best photo, it was just a quick snap from my balcony; Twas not prepared for #aurora! #midnightsun is coming...

Raading people talking about Weird AEW vs Weird WWE fans like they're two comparable things. Weird AEW fans are just whiny nerds. Weird WWE fans are like strange fandom-liches who have been undead for 30 years, whose phylactery is a some playdough ass looking new-in-box habro hulk hogan figure.

So jealous of you Illinois folks today. Outlawing book bans is a hell of a step forward.

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My sister: Aren't you glad that you and I had no skills so that we can just study and work really hard and become doctors?
Me:

Americans Are Losing Confidence in Having Enough for Retirement, Survey Says Poll shows the lowest confidence in nearly a decade, partly because of concerns about inflation and government programs on which retirees rely.

Americans are getting more worried about having enough money for a comfortable retirement, because of rising costs and fears about the health of entitlement programs.

www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

My friend's cat had one kitten. Just one little perfect kitten. This is so cute

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This doggo was adopted at the age of 18, after 17 years of living in a shelter, to at least experience the warmth and love of a family. And now, he just turned 21! Happy birthday, baby! ♥️

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No… Tucker,

you are not welcome, forgiven, excused, or given the benefit of the doubt.

You laughed on TV while children suffered and you did it for years, because the money was good.

You can rot.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is grounded after launching satellite into the wrong orbit Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is blaming a bad engine for a failed launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it.

Turns out Bezos is not a rocket scientist

Blue Origin rocket grounded after launching satellite into wrong orbit

flip.it/uR9Ykh

Jug of cast and engraved bronze (Spain, Andalusia, Late 10th-early 11th century) Davids Samling (The David Collection), Denmark

Jug of cast and engraved bronze (Spain, Andalusia, Late 10th-early 11th century)

Davids Samling (The David Collection), Denmark

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God damn it. Will a reporter please ask lying #Trump to name the 8 #Wars he keeps saying he’s ended?!

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

The "public comments at the hearing before the vote left little doubt that Monterey Park residents overwhelmingly disdained not only the prospect of a massive, noisy, and polluting infrastructure project being erected in their backyards, but who that project would benefit, at their expense.”

Is this why we went to WAR???

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Heather Horton, Canadian (1974- ), The Chrysalis, 2022, oil on panel, 60 x 40 in

Y'all I made my first two major purchases for my bakery.

A convertible refrigerator/freezer and a Bosch mixer with an extra bowl.

I'm excited. I'm also a nervous wreck.

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