Putin has been very clear he wants to wipe Ukraine off the map so he can annex their land & would kill anyone who stood up to him if he could. He does not believe Ukrainians have a right to exist. This is pathetic & spineless. What else would you call that if not genocide?

Trump Moves Up Forbes Billionaire Rankings Crypto cash and court rulings have combined to make America’s billionaire-in-chief much, much richer over the past year.

Trump now worth $6.5B (+$1.4B since taking office).
Don Jr. & Eric Trump each went from ~$40-50M to $300-400M range via crypto. Broader Trump family wealth has nearly doubled to as high as $10 billion. All of this wealth has been acquired leveraging the power and authority of the White House.

China just issued a Nipah virus treatment guideline no human infections, but fruit bat antibodies detected in southern provinces. Nipah has a fatality rate up to 75% and no vaccine. This is what public health surveillance looks like. The US just gutted the agencies that would catch this on our end.

Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC The racism is not subtle.

"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."

Young Republicans clubs are really leaning into fascism; the party is going to be a massive source of political violence in the coming decade or so.

I get emails like this a lot from folks who are clearly in need of mental health assistance.

I really think that we should start thinking about holding election results until they are all counted, rather than releasing them minute by minute.

the gop was not "winning"; it's not a horse race. the election is over. you're just counting ballots. 1

This period of politics should be known as the "you kids get off my lawn era!"

Gaming elections like this is why we need ranked choice voting.

I'm sure this guy is treating himself as a victim (and getting treated by such by some).

And in addition to her hurt and self-doubt these rural areas are super lucky to get highly qualified prosecutors like her; racism hurts the racists and everyone in their community, too.

I was going to give him some credit for a decent apology and commitment to never say or write that again.

And, then he said:
1) he was raised in the backwoods
and
2) this was the first time he'd ever used the word

And...

They (if you mean republican propagandists) understand this very well, and also understand that the rank and file are highly susceptible to bullshit and will believe what their leaders tell them, no matter how easily it is debunked with a moment's thought.

Six months to clear the Strait ahahahahahaha he's so fucked aaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

Oh also do any travel on ya'll's schedules like right the fuck now

screenshot of fact sheet from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (c3) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (c4) with first bullet point highlighted in yellow: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/68/a6/68a6c411-5e28-4112-b7ec-ce3bc3043574/fact_sheet_c3c4.pdf Republican Lawmakers and President Trump are Decreasing Access to Birth Control and Dismantling the Health Care Safety Net H.R. 1 [the "Big Beautiful Bill"] and its provision “defunding” Planned Parenthood to try to block patients from using Medicaid at Planned Parenthood health centers — combined with the months of withheld Title X funds in 2025 — left entire communities without access to basic care. As attacks from the Trump administration and its backers in Congress continue, health care costs are rising for patients and communities, as other providers cannot fill the gap left by Planned Parenthood health centers. IT’S EVEN HARDER TO GET BIRTH CONTROL Taking away access to birth control and basic care creates contraceptive deserts in more communities *In 2025, over 50 Planned Parenthood health centers closed across 18 states, including over 20 closures since H.R. 1 was passed. Nearly all closures occurred in contraceptive deserts. • When people cannot afford the full cost of contraception, they rely on a network of publicly funded providers that offer free or reduced-fee care through public funding, primarily Medicaid coverage and Title X-funded services for individuals living with low-incomes or uninsured. *Planned Parenthood health centers serve one-third of all female patients seeking contraceptive care at publicly funded health clinics. • Over half of the counties where a Planned Parenthood health center closed now lack any Planned Parenthood provider. In those counties, these centers provided the majority of contraceptive care for low-income women in those counties

The war on birth control access is well underway, it's just less explicit

Planned Parenthood says 50 of its clinics closed last year as a result of an anti-abortion budget provision—and nearly all of them were in contraceptive deserts (link in alt). Translation: it's now harder to get birth control

A brief history of presidential oil price jawbones through the Hormuz crisis.

Feel free to add your favourites below.

Electing this guy will go down as history's greatest unforced error.

One of the worse effects of the current president's stupid, stupid war is the bonanza it has given to horribly repressive government of Iran, which is now coming across as the wise and reasonable party in this dispute.

Well, I thought it was appropriate to ask when I read: "I hate these chuds *for even existing*
its their own ethical & moral failure for them to be as stupid as they are & i would force all of them through nuremberg* if I had a say."

* Nuremburg did yield death penalties for 12 offenders.

Is being stupid, if you mean literally low iq, a moral and ethical failing? Does it mean that these people are less human than others? Thank you? Less deserving of life?

These people have been failed by our culture.

The institutions we'd set up to preserve our democracy and serve our people failed to provide the basic sense of being part of a whole that would have prevented a lunatic like the current president ever becoming an appealing prospect to anyone.

I haven't suggested otherwise.

But the current president and congress are *not* going to agree to that.

And, THAT's why our just calling it a day is highly unlikely to bring this to a close.

These trigger happy idiots have really stepped into it and the whole world is going to pay for it...

And our system and culture has failed them, right?

Alas the consolation prize for Cassandra is the same as her punishment: being unable to convince people to act.

The Trump Admin Wants To Test Drinking Water For Abortion And Birth Control Pills Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is demanding answers from the EPA after an extreme move that could hinder access to abortion and birth control pills.

The Trump admin wants to test drinking water for abortion and birth control pills -- a “backdoor attempt to strip access to reproductive health care,” says Sen. Ron Wyden.

Alternatively, we could just learn to accept that this is a thing that is true of some people and it's almost certainly none of the rest of our, and also none of the government's, business.

The way to not lose this war was to not fight it. But Trump decided it would all work out on the basis of assurances from people he had no reason to trust, because he’s the greatest fool in modern history

Even as this administration frequently uses "low IQ" as a racial slur, they also make these kinds of arguments with a straight face.

That might be an obvious beginning of the end, but Iran gets a vote and they want to be compensated for their losses (and have great leverage to make that happen).

What a pathetic crybaby.

Which is an incredible discount!

But the current president is so mush-brained that percentages under 100 don't sound good enough to him.