Menu for the White House Correspondents' Dinner:
/ Gulf of America shrimp cocktail
/ Leni Riefenstahl salad, sanewashed and served with normalized onions
/ Quisling stew
/ Quiet Piggy pork roast
/ Sauvignon Blanc, very blanc, imported from South Africa
/ Orange sherbet
/ Let them eat cake
Theme of this year’s dinner: “Beatings will continue until morale improves.”
Why do journalists debase themselves just for “access”?
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Oh wow, this is huge. You used to have to go to the Library of Congress to get most of this.
It's essential, but also a fitting punishment for someone who spent so much time and energy protecting the statues and memorials of the white supremacist traitors who came before him in the Confederacy.
Sorry I can't offer a gift link, but this portrait of an incompetent, unhinged Trump at war is something. He knows he's in over his head. They've kept him out of war meetings.
Screenshot of the closing: He wants a Medal of Honor for being in a plane that landed safely.
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And will claim their “we need laws” statements inoculate them from the inevitable lawsuits. We warned you, they will say…
Come for the insane Patel details; stay for the wreckage caused by personal-loyalty purges, common across this administration. So many have been fired, an FBI veteran said, "the instinctive level of muscle memory or discernment that is necessary to identify and counter a terror attack is missing,”
So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.
I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant
Nuremberg Trials 2.0 are gonna be lit.
Hey @npr.org and @pbsnews.org, are you attending?
Hope not if you have any self respect.
Catalog under: Beatings will continue morale improves.
Remember we have been told to not believe our lying eyes and ears, and only believe the words of Great Leader.
After all these years, learning to fire back. Who’d a thunk? Better scale it up pronto.
Just another blackmail grift, the calling card of this despicable crowd
But of course.
Catalog this event under: “Beatings will continue until morale improves”
Growing up in Eastern Europe, this specific feeling was such a big reason why our folks wanted to leave their home countries for the West, in hopes that it wouldn't be *like that *.
S.R.O. Amazing crowd, none better.
Had to look up reply guy, am so out of touch. But yes, a perfect summation of this hollow, shapeshifting, chameleon.
Front page of Washington Post newspaper, picture shows Trump talking by Oval Office door. Relevant text quoted in my post.
"I thought it was me as a doctor:"
Underline: President Trump, on sharing what appeared to be an Al-generated image on social media that triggered immediate backlash
Headline below: President’s post appears to depict him as Jesus
Washington Post April 14, 2026
Brilliantly played, sir
Viktor Orbán pioneered a system of legalized autocracy that became a model for aspiring strongmen all over the world. On Sunday, he was voted out of office. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Grampaw didn’t take his meds today.
More power to Rory. A long time coming.
JD cast as Biff, aimless son of Willy Loman, in Arthur Miller Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
Same with the starter house. Where did they go as the flood of McMansions and mega Classic Cottages reshapes the housing land. Not everyone is a wannabe billionaire.
“‘Because the names change, I think most Americans have no idea what’s going on or how many of these differently named groups are the same through line with Leonard Leo at the sort of center of the spider web,’ Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of…True North Research, told NOTUS.”
“We use 40 yrs of global data to demonstrate that TCs experiencing Rapid Intensification during Marine Heat Waves resulted in 60% more billion-dollar disasters… produced consistently higher maximum wind speeds, storm surges, and precipitation rates.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
