John Pauls

In which @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes with great clarity: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Today A tale of two Americas. Millions of Americans gather at local No Kings events to defend democracy. Trump speaks to a few thousand die-hards in KY, then holds court at a "Candlelight Dinner" at Mar-a-Lago with MAGA fat cats seeking favor and favors from the wannabe King.

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

David Whamond

Things that Senator Eric Schmitt always confuses: Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Atlanta Hawks. A John Deer Tractor vs. A Dear John Letter. Washington State vs. Washington DC. Gorrillas vs. Guerrillas. Duke University’s Blue Devils vs. Arizona State University’s Sun Devils.

Never forget (Scott Olson/Getty)

right now, the best hegseth can hope for is to be remembered as a staggeringly incompetent defense secretary who gutted military leadership, tried to reimpose segregation in the highest ranks, and led the military to its worst strategic defeat in at least a generation.

I’m SO tired of this exercise in American politics; the “but the other did so and so.” If two people did something shitty, one shitty thing is not less shitty because the other thing is also shitty. It’s just two shitty things.

not sure how to express this without sounding like a chair-turned-around youth pastor, but there's something so radical about having your most well-known lyric be "i will always love you" and then sincerely embodying it whenever possible

You know who currently has a nuclear device? North Korea, and they are trying to make sure that they can target the United States. Why is the President not saying anything about that?

Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now.

A remarkable essay. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds?

The Caterer Leaves by @deadder.bsky.social

america’s shame

Can I get an amen?

The reason why Trump and his cabinet officials are so crazed about hunting down leakers is simply because they don’t want the American people to know what they are doing because they are insanely corrupt & incompetent. The lengths they go to cover everything up also proves that.

Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.

America is at war with Iran and we have a HGTV President

New rule: if the indictment gets a press conference, the dismissal gets one too

We destroyed Irans military then had to go back to fighting the non existent military but had to stop because we were using too many expensive missiles attacking the not-military because we weren’t flying over the country with no military because their non military was still a threat to our planes.

All this to stop a nuke that didn't exist and open a Strait that wasn't closed

@slangsonsports.bsky.social let's see the Whee! From the Royals-Padres game!

How pathetic is Sen. Thom Tillis? Tillis: Because of my deep respect for the survivors, I won’t vote for Blanche unless he meets with them. The survivors: Well, we had a meeting and Blanche was totally unhelpful, dismissive, and disrespectful, Tillis: I’m good.

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

Warnock: "Look at this from a common sense perspective. I won two elections -- in '21 and '22. Our congressional delegation is majority Republican, so are you saying that on the same ballots that elected my R colleagues, their ballots are legit and the ballots that elected Ossoff & myself are not?"

He never deleted it.

It's really embarrassing that this man is the President of our country.

#Royals and #Mets are in a battle to see who can play the worst baseball.

New in PN: The Christian right is emboldened and on the march "America, today’s right says, may include people of many faiths, but is fundamentally of, by, & for Christians — & only Christians. Everyone else is merely *tolerated*, here at the sufferance of believers in the country’s true religion."

OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: ahahaha I have decided to scam the government by paying thousands upon thousands to an insurance company and receiving nothing in return. But will Dr. Pillhawker see through my evil plans?

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com

Trump spectacularly failed his latest cognitive test

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Roger Marshall needs to get off TV and come back to answer the hard questions from the Kansans he is supposed to represent.

Trump should reintroduce his own brand of cologne with the slogan “I love the smell of Trump in the morning. It smells of defeat.”

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history. It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Donald Trump called your wife ugly, your father a murderer, and you a pussy, and yet you lick his boots.

Remember when calling a reporter stupid merited a headline and an apology?

Arkansas fans right now. #RockChalk

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250

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