Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.
Share far and wide.
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Is this ALT MAGA math part of the curriculum now?
Hung Cao—who compared abortion to the Holocaust on the campaign trail and claimed combat injuries with no documentation—just became Acting Secretary of the Navy. This is what the collapse of institutional standards looks like in real time.
CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
@SecWar: The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately. 21 Apr 26
Washington ordered smallpox inoculations for the Continental Army beginning in 1777.
Hegseth, therefore, is taking a mid-18th century, pre-Industrial Age approach to medicine and warfare.
Pete Hegseth does not have a Ranger tab. I'm trying to find a way to express the comically preposterous nature of this to non-Army people and my brain keeps shorting out.
Imagine a non-doctor taking over HHS and then revoking the medical degrees of distinguished physicians. Something like that.
Americans should prepare to hide these people in attics and basements, like Jews in World War II. We owe it to them.
Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.
New York Attorney General Letitia James in court ruling BLOCKING Nexstar—Tegna merger:
“Consolidating hundreds of local TV stations under one corporate owner would mean higher prices and lower quality programming for consumers”
Brandon Friedman Report Finds Yale Deserves Blame for J.D. Vance, Scott Bessent, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and George W. Bush
I think it is a source of endless frustration among the wealthy that people like Mamdani's parents are cool, and all the money in the world can't purchase that. This fact drives them crazy.
Exhibit A: Elon Musk
THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS COMPLETELY OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS AND FULL PASSAGE, BUT THE NAVAL BLOCKADE WILL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT AS IT PERTAINS TO IRAN, ONLY, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN IS 100% COMPLETE. THIS PROCESS SHOULD GO VERY QUICKLY IN THAT MOST OF THE POINTS ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! PRESIDENT DONALD J.TRUMP 2.52k ReTruths 10.4k Likes 4/17/26, 8:27 AM
President Trump referred this morning to "OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN." This is, of course, interesting because the last time the United States struck a deal with Iran involving a transaction, Republicans completely lost their minds.
Let's take a trip down memory lane. 🧵
Tom Cotton’s letter to the "Leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran" should have been enough to have him expelled from the Senate, but that’s hard to do when 47 Republicans signed on to it as well:
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Crème de la crème..😱
The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday
“In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side… At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.”
This is a momentous story in a lot of ways. One incredible little detail: the Roberts clerk and the Alito clerk who wrote the key memos creating the shadow docket, Joseph Benjamin Tyson III and Barbara S. Grieco, ended up getting married two years later.
this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept
Let him try to take the money.
1. See you in court.
2. Gina Hinojosa, his opponent in November, can now run ads saying Greg Abbott defunded the police.
"Amateurs talk tactics, professionals study logistics" is a military quote that's gone around in various forms for several thousand years.
The first American Defense Secretary to ignore it is Pete Hegseth.
Rich Lowry reproducing the full White House briefing memo in the pages of Rupert Murdoch's Post.
Bravo House Dems
Jamie Raskin & many others warn that Trump is UNFIT for Office & he’s making it official—in writing, with a hard deadline, and the full weight of congressional oversight behind him
Be clear
TRUMP IS INSANE & no longer tethered to reality
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#RemoveTrumpNow
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is hosting an intimate event to honor Donald Trump’s White House, along with correspondents from the now–MAGA-friendly CBS News.
What SCOTUS’ Decision to Overturn Colorado’s Conversion Therapy Ban Means for Pennsylvania’s LGBTQ+ Youth | “This ruling sends a message, and it’s a cruel one,” Planned Parenthood Keystone's Rainbow Room Director Marlene Pray told @patlamarche.bsky.social. #BucksCounty
Faced with public health concerns about lead, 13 states, including New Jersey, Louisiana and Iowa, have passed laws requiring universal lead screening, meaning all kids would get a blood test before entering kindergarten.
But not Nebraska.
@chrisbowling.bsky.social @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social
Shocker!
Marisol Herrera and Nydia Cardenas went to the Fort Worth ISD meeting with the Board of Managers on 4/14. They wanted the board to understand how important it is to have community involvement and engagement, especially on sensitive topics like renaming Cesar Chavez Elementary School.
#fortworth
