Eric Melley

In the grand tradition of George Foreman and his sons, I think the next step is to re-name all of the Great Lakes "Lake America."

c.org/Yz5TstJz6v A fitting tribute for the Colossus of the Tenor!

Everybody...EVERYBODY!! Don't worry, he's crazy, not stupid. Wait - I mean he's stupid, not crazy...oh...crap.

Can someone who's better than I at making gifs put Trump's face on Bilbo and have him holding the Western Hemisphere?

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Speeches like tonight's presidential address are so important. I feel like they should be required by law and enshrined in our Constitution. Right about this time of year, we should have a summary of achievement and a game plan for what's to come. Trump innovates again!

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

As an exercise, try to imagine Ron Johnson being wrestled to the ground in Wisconsin; or Tommy Tuberville in Alabama; or Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Yeah, neither can I. charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-kings-n...

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

Liberal arts majors rise up www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

“Joe Biden did nothing to fix the system that they knew was broken.” He did nothing — except pass a $105 billion program to fix the system. Reporters, Sean Duffy thinks you’re incapable of a simple Google search.

This is our whole trade negotiation strategy

Here's a glimpse into the world of extra limbs and how they could reshape the future.

"Be cool" has the vibe of the friend who picks you up in his car and lurches forward every time you try to open the door. Except in this case the car is actually the world's most powerful economy.

It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Well, here displayed in the words of the "Colossus of Independence," history sure rhymes.

Sen. Michael Bennet: "Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this thread, were you aware of that? Are you? Are you aware of that today?" Ratcliffe: "I'm not aware of that."

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Oh crap. Can we fast-forward to the "find out" phase? Ouch.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

I tweeted about this guy last night and got all these replies from random people who said he'd saved their baby's life. Fuck being rich I would love to have been this guy, imagine how cool it would be to know you'd helped so many people. We need to name an airport after him or something

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

Saw a screening of a few of David Lynch’s short films. I miss seeing art made viscerally, cheaply, and for a small messy audience. It actually makes the world feel bigger and more interesting. Mass appeal shrinks it all down. Shit inspired me. Glad I saw it.

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

Honestly the best thing you'll see today. @questlove.bsky.social - goodness gracious, thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDxY...