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Kennedy's goal here is consistent with all of his other policies aimed at undermining proven health interventions: he believes the people who benefit from them are defective and he wants them culled from the population. It's comic book villain logic, specifically Viltrumite logic.

Not much of a mentalist. WHCA Dinner

My favorite part of going to the doctor is when he touches my forehead holding the glowing orb of light

But the mass murder of children is necessary in order that adults own as many guns as they want…

this stupid shit is all they have, they are incapable of governing because they only care about exploiting culture war bull shit to accumulate power and wealth among their inner circle

uniquely American experience to be detained by ICE in some shitty facility and then shot by a mass shooter

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

Donald Trump's unhinged posts over the past 24 hours makes clear that he believes Republicans rule by right and those who engaged in election fraud on his behalf are martyrs. This is why the 14A bars anti-democratic insurrectionists from holding office and Trump should be on trial in Fulton County.

Like sending ICE officers to amble around the National Mall, or the Border Patrol to raid an empty park in LA, the Alaska summit appears to have accomplished nothing other than making Trump look tough and to get b-roll for White House social media. What a waste of time and money.

Andrew Clyde has some words for Frost as Frost leaves the room

It really says something that Minnesota still showed out like this even with their lives under threat, with a politically motivated killer who reportedly had materials relates to this event in his vehicle. Incredible state and incredible people.

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

It’s obvious but worth drawing out what raids of Home Depot’s of all places is about. It’s rounding up people who are really eager for work and for whom there is work, peoples whose labor is in demand. We know this but shows just how far it is from rounding up just the bad guys.

the government is intentionally manufacturing the conditions for violence against its own citizens, grim stuff

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically *because* he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

At 1:34 AM Trump called for DOJ to investigate Kamala Harris, Beyoncé, Springsteen, Oprah and others for crimes, he then made another deranged post about it at 9:11 AM, and the lead story of the day on MSNBC and CNN continues to be Joe Biden in 2023.

Trump is the first US president to lose a Canadian election. #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #NeverPoliviere #never51state

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Five and a half years ago now. And here we still are.

The Washington Post is out with a nice profile of my friend @acyn.bsky.social

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

For too long, Democrats have understood public opinion as something to fear as opposed to something to shape.

The average American voter genuinely did not understand who Trump was after his first term, because the legacy Republicans staffing his administration largely managed to confine his reputation to "Average Republican plus mean tweets". There was also an astonishing degree of mass amnesia about 2020.

Crockett: When you're at war, you’re not worried about your outfit. If he was walking around in the fanciest suits, I'm sure that they would accuse him of taking our dollars and spending it on his wardrobe

Putin will pocket Trump’s naive concessions and demand much more. Appeasement makes a wider war more likely, not less.

Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk have made clear who they are. Only fools - or Kremlin tools - would abandon NATO, side with Russia, and demand Ukraine surrender in the face of Putin’s brutal aggression.

Is this about personal freedom or the free market

It was never America First. It was always Trump First.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. [kottke.org]

It was NOT a shouting match. Zelenskyy did not shout. This is the Russian-Republican Axis in plain sight. It was a premeditated attack on the Ukrainian president on behalf of Vlad Putin, by Putin's servants.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

Zelensky, the ELECTED leader of a free country, should not be expected to kiss the ass of the toddler. His people expect Him to be strong. Trump would have fled where Zelensky stayed and fought. Trump is the worst negotiator

Trump, and by extension the American government, has sold out our ally and is now on the side of Putin’s despotism. This is what 77 million Americans voted for in pulling the lever for him. Trump’s fondness for Putin was no mystery. It’s a stain upon our country and a disgrace.

Trump and Vance showed a level of crassness and vulgarity never seen before in the White House with a foreign leader and guest. They were the worst kind of ignorant disgusting bully. They’ve turned our nation into a global embarrassment. And a global threat.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP AND ZELENSKY CANCEL PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER HOSTILE WH MEETING Absolutely shocking, appalling and disgraceful behavior on the part of Trump and Vance

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.