"Here's why it's good to make a deal and hand Iran $20 billion but it was bad when Obama did a deal and gave them $1.7 billion of their frozen assets" - headlines from the near future www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/p...
ICYMI, the most definitive account of how President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
Come have a beer at the brewery?
150/ "One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation." #MinabSchool
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Hope... from poor, red, rural New Mexico.
Protestor sign "regime change"
Protester sign, "Dogs hate trump"
Protester sign, "This is a love America rally"
A crowd of people attending
Almost 6% of the entire town showed up for #NoKings in Truth or Consequences, NM (population 6,000) today.
absolutely incredible. Trump might have done more damage to American imperial power than anyone ... ever?
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
75-year-old relative, a veteran, daughter of immigrants: "all my life I've watched things and expected things to get better and better... But now... "
Sad elder years reflection
It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.
One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.
🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/
They bombed a girls school you pricks
THEY BOMBED A GIRLS SCHOOL
Journalists, I really want a deep dive on the bombing of the girls' school.
Flip. Him. Off.
Big challenge for political pundits:
Discuss the speech the president actually gives tonight, and not the one you maybe thought you might have seen if you squinted just right.
Compare that real speech to the real world around us.
Already bracing for the "Trump seemed so presidential" coverage... 🤮
Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
And small time donors like me are receiving dozens of daily requests from hundreds of different house districts across the nation, it's impossible
for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations
See also, "comeback' by Steven Fish
we haven't really been in that business for about 130 years. and they've been a pretty good 130 years. and we've got plenty of stuff now, however we might have acquired it. also acquiring Greenland is wildly absurd. so basically stfu
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
I would wager that Trump will bomb or invade five more (new) countries in 2026. Because he's an insane megalomaniac.
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
