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The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

I do hope someone asks her about the Comey case and how terrifying and threatening the seashells were.

Where have I seen this look before. Oh yes

What began as an attempt to relitigate Jack Smith's two indictments against Donald Trump during a hearing on Capitol Hill today ended in embarrassment for Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Watch @nicollewallace.bsky.social's coverage NOW on YouTube:

This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like

This. The whole thread.

¿Cómo se dice «Schwarbomb» en español?

We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

Wait… is there a Trump body double?

The Republican president of the United States just paid $5.62 million to a woman he raped. Here's my 850-word essay on the Democrats' Platner problem.

I’m so tired of these rich, narcissistic, arrogant, entitled jerks from great inherited wealth polluting our politics while claiming they understand the struggles of working people and care about them. It’s about their ego and desire to manipulate, not about us.

Oh. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...

If you undermine independent judges, media and civil service, shroud decisions in secrecy and let it be known that government is for sale.... Then corruption is what results. America and Zimbabwe in this sense are no different.

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

I invented a word. Well, probably not, but new to me billmckibben.substack.com/p/scilencing

(1/X) I wanted to say one more thing about dealing with narcissistic sociopaths. People generally do what narcissistic sociopaths want them to do because they think it's the smart move (Tessio was always smarter). To put it simply, they're more afraid of crossing the narcissistic sociopath...

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

1. This week, Trump said that the extra money that Americans were spending on gas due to the Iran War was "peanuts." We did the math, and the increased energy costs for Americans is equivalent to 14.5 million pounds of peanuts That's 110 pounds of peanuts for every American household

This guy nails it. 🎯

While America may emerge relatively unscathed from the energy crisis it started by going to war with Iran, the long-term implications for its oil-based economy could be profoundly destabilizing. Our expert @gbrew24.bsky.social explains for @nytimes.com:

Cartoon by John Deering 💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯

Democrats really should sue CBS for big bucks, as @brianbeutler.bsky.social proposed here. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Federal agents “took off his pants and shirt, handcuffed him, and drove him 65 kilometers to the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he was fingerprinted, photographed, and jailed.” Sounds… fascist.

This Earth Day, keep it simple. Protect what you love from a changing climate. Act now: reverb.org/love #ProtectWhatYouLove

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

1. For $500,000, you can have a one-on-one meeting with Trump tomorrow, according to an email solicitation obtained by Popular Information. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

Bloomberg now says investors are talking about $200 barrels of oil, which is $6-$8 per gallon of gas. Trump has been lying to keep prices low (“this war has been won”) but the “illusion of coherence” is breaking. Thread.

Krugman does a recap on the insider trading yesterday open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

WHAT IN THE ABSOLUTE FUCK IS THIS HOLY WAR SHIT

How it’s playing in France. 🤡

We don’t need a revolution,,, We need a functioning IRS, capital gains taxed as income, and the death of the carried-interest loophole. bit.ly/4blFkfo

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Statements like this from Trump will make the oil market reaction *worse* No one who has any idea how the oil market works is buying it—all this does is make it seem like Trump believes it, which means the base case length of this disruption is growing ever-longer. Tick. Tock.

Michael de Adder, Counterpoint

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

anyone who bought this shit absolutely deserves it -- remember when those dopes got invited to a dinner at Trump's club - it was 9 months ago yesterday and Trumpcoin is down 78% from the top tick (and last chance to dump the bags) that day

oh.

"Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population. 'War' is the operative word here." @jvl.bsky.social on what he saw in Minneapolis: lnk.thebulwark.com/46kVMuT

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl? Desi Lydic Foxsplains why that's no bueno