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So once applications open for the $1.7B slush fund, we're all going to apply and break their portal, right?

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

Staying informed on current affairs can be overwhelming and depressing. Do it anyway.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

At what point does the name change to the Trump files?

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

Scotland’s signs are delivering. Y’all understood the assignment. 😂

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.

Our mighty military hardware – revered and feared by nations all! – assembled in the capital, parading by the Mall. But the whole “Dear Leader” vibe really casts a pitiful pall. It screams: His daddy didn’t love him and his d*ck is really small.

Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

This is a great point I hadn’t considered: Trump is asking for shared sacrifice (economically speaking) from the same folks who refused to wear masks and get vaccinated for the greater common good during COVID. His base is comprised of me-first chuds.

Oof.

What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

h/t @peff.com

Appeasement is what Trump wants. Fuck that, and fuck him.

Who made this. 🤣

Protesting in front of a Tesla dealership is not terrorism. Gutting American soft power by abolishing USAID is terrorism

The markets are crashing, we can't afford eggs anymore, the economy is shrinking, our allies are abandoning us... But we'll always have the Gulf of America.

Zelensky must have been surprised. He went to Whitehouse and ended up speaking to Kremlin.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

It's almost funny to watch Starmer and Macron, in their own way, fact check this chuntering moron, to little effect. Truth means nothing to him. He engineers his own crybaby reality.

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As Maya Angelou has so eloquently stated: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. This is who they are. Believe them.

What a start to the day seeing Mr. @markhamillofficial.bsky.social as a follower!

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

Not fun geopolitical times to live through but, as history teaches us, this era will pass and better people will rise.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Repeating myself, but the idea of Trump & Musk as "masculine" remains bizarre. They're just the toxic and immature parts with none of the traditional "masculine" virtues. They're whiny, entitled, unreliable, dishonest, self-absorbed, never take responsibility, never put duty over self-interest, etc.

How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p...

If Elon can do for America what he did for Twitter, we should be an illiterate Nazi chatroom by the end of the month.

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