Five C-17s delivered King Donald the Mad’s Secret Service motorcade to Ireland: Cadillac SUVs, anti-drone systems, assault vehicles and emergency equipment – all for a 2-day trip including the Irish Open at his own Doonbeg golf resort.
And US taxpayers pick up the bill for his private event.
While Trump wants everyone to focus on his fake cash giveaways, this is the single most consequential story of the moment.
Iran-backed Houthis just took effective control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints.
I wrote about the irony of Platner and his campaign trying to convince journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it:
What the fuck are you talking about? If I'm going to have a problem with Dems when it comes to the Supreme Court, I'm going to start with the Democratic Leader in the Goddamn U.S. Senate and not some fucking mayor who bothers people because he's Muslim.
If all the nobles could just get out of their exposed positions in the countryside—where all sorts of trouble can ensue—and live near and attend and party with the sun king on the well-guarded premises of Versailles, I think it’s a great investment for the French people.
Ernst simps for Trump's ballroom: "The correspondents dinner where the president, cabinet, & all of our correspondents were put in jeopardy by a gunman -- if we can move those social activities on the premises of the WH, make sure it's secured, I think it's a great investment by the American people"
When I read articles that talk about Iran's nuclear "capabilities," most of them don't mention that there was a deal in place to prevent Iran making nukes and everyone agreed it was working but then Trump just decided to shitcan it because the Black guy had made the deal and now we're here.
Billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis: The homeless should “live in Uganda for $8.13 a day. We'll give them the check for $8.13 a day, let them live somewhere else.”
We should reckon with the idea that Americans are so fucking dumb that we booted out the party that saved the country after Covid and created the best economic recovery in the world in favor of a con man who said he would use racism and magic to make everything cheaper and jobs plentiful.
Breaking News: Lawmakers voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The vote, 24 to 19 with five Republicans joining all Democrats, marked a rare case of a Republican-led panel compelling a member of the president’s cabinet to testify.
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
The most shocking thing about SCOTUS' tariffs case is that 3 Justices would have let Trump use a statute that doesn’t mention tariffs to impose ones that are unrestricted. Fortunately, the other 6 said no. Here’s the background you need to understand the decision: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.
@peters.senate.gov When they run out of immigrants to put in these warehouses they will come after those of us who oppose them!
Let's NOT give ICE money to build Concentration Camps! Instead, Let's Abolish the Agency of Evil and Impeach Trump and Noem!
Impeach, Convict and Remove!
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?
Trump: “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT … and quickly put an end to the travesty”
Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?