It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.

“The pope should be careful before talking theology” is just extraordinary stuff. Top-shelf. You write one book that gets turned into a Ron Howard movie and suddenly you’re nailing your manifesto to the cathedral doors.

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The wealthiest 1% own 50% of stocks and the top 10% own 87%, per Federal Reserve.

The bottom 50% of Americans owns only 1%, but we hear about the stock market constantly in media (even NPR and MS NOW). Seems like we could hear more about the opportunity costs of not providing universal health care.

“Sending abrasive dickhead to negotiate with Iran has backfired”

Because women and girls are believed or not believed based on the political party of their predator, this is why we choose the bear.

“Oh but Republicans would…”

Lemme stop you right there. I know that Republicans are okay voting for men accused of sexual assault. Republicans are also okay with voting for racists, child rapists, genocidal maniacs, and whatever the fuck pathology is a “Ted Cruz.”

So miss me with that argument.

Here we fixed this for you, @wsj.com

We see you trying to help JD pretend he doesn’t have to wear this war when he runs for president. Nope.

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On the substance of the day, and as I’ve made clear here and in the piece, today was truly a crisis akin to January 6. What happened today is not sustainable and Trump must be removed from office. When the clock was ticking, I explained how 25 could be used bc of its immediate effect.

I haven't been following the birthright citizenship case, but after spending the last year writing about fetal personhood, it strikes me that the right is trying to read birth out of the 14A in both directions. Immigrants born here shouldn't get rights but fetuses not yet born should.

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Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video.

“It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?”

This lady’s response is🔥

In this Ohio diner, Houthi still means Darius Rucker. But they do know this: if a blockage of the Bab al-Mandab Strait causes oil prices to soar, the Democrats who released the Epstein files will pay at the polls in November.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.

ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.

The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty.

Budgets are moral documents.

ICE agents deployed to nation's swamped airports to stand around and do nothing: defector.com/ice-agents-d...

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

The God of Garbage.

Messianic!!!

i emit a pheromone that signals every uber driver to tell me epic tales with no context and no ending

I know it's some peppermint candy in there

Very on-brand for Gingrich to seek out a new, younger canal the moment the current canal starts having health problems

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"I draw inspiration from those who came before me in the fight against tyranny when I say, 'Give me liberty or give me the chill life of an expat in a foreign city that has a similar climate to San Francisco.'"

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Kristi Noem was DHS secretary approximately the same amount of time the dog she murdered was alive.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it