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"Not enough to say you're for something. YOU MAY ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING" - Barack Obama

THIS is what Republicans have been focused on doing since Reagan, while they try to get you mad at immigrants and trans people

Michelle Obama: You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding health care, ending a war, ordering the bin laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize.

Middle East analysts say Trump's deal with Iran is a humiliating defeat for the United States. A guy who shits himself in public and thinks windmills cause cancer says it's an amazing foreign policy triumph. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

Trump is really crashing out on social media today. Mother’s Day must be tough for him. His latest screed: “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives.’ I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Definition of Orwellian

Caine: "Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships. They've attacked US forces more than 10 times. All below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point."

Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. An elderly convict who regularly shits himself in public says it's open. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Zelenskyy to JD: Thank You!

“A fine performance — 3.3% inflation, and you smiled all the way through.” Hassett clowned on Fox 🤡

Watters: Are you happy that there is a ceasefire? Where do you stand? Jessica: I stand in reality that there is no ceasefire.

* ISRAEL MUST OBSERVE CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON - ANY CONTINUED ATTACKS WOULD COMPLICATE SITUATION AND HAVE CONSEQUENCES, SAYS IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UN IN GENEVA @reuters.com

TACO Tuesday!

2 weeks! Drink!

Is bombing an entire civilization an upside risk or a downside risk? 😑

CAMPAIGN TRUMP: “Child care is child care. You have to have it. We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people. America first.” PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We can’t take care of daycare. Just military.” 🤔 🤷🏼 #StopTheWar

Trump at wartime

I’m just going to make shit up as I go.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

When you set aside all the gaslighting, you are left with two inarguable facts: 1. Iran was not an imminent threat. 2. Since Iran was not an imminent threat, Trump’s actions were illegal and unconstitutional. It really is that simple.

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

Minnesota should halt all tax dollars they send to the federal government.

Minnesota needs to halt their tax dollars they send to the federal government.

Dow 50,000 seems like an extraordinary headline, until... you add some context. The aggregate stock market return during the second Trump presidency ranks as 21st out of 23 developed countries. Here's my youtube-splaination. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

I only met him once. Disgusting person, never wanted anything to do with him. Well I stopped by his private island. But only because I was boating past it. And did business with him. Disgusting person. Good businessman. Nice island.

Strip away the futurist gloss from Oz’s answer, and the message to 60 million rural Americans becomes stark: Your suffering is rooted in disconnection from other human beings, and the federal response is you should talk to a robot. trib.al/V4rjLOn

Trump is now a Vietnam vet.

"Certainly, it was a very strong post in terms of voter fraud" -- i was out and about last night, but want to note that Trump's defense of his blatantly racist Truth Social post is totally demented

"Wow, Susie Wiles has been really ineffective at reining Trump in." Come here. I'm gonna hold your hand while I tell you this. She was never trying. It was all a lie.

A group of people, appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Senators representing a minority of Americans are unhappy that their ideas are so unpopular and are reverting to secrecy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Judge in his order: “With a judicial finger in the constitutional dyke”

So weird that the guy they chose to direct the Melania Bribe-Umentary was a Me Too-canceled has been pictured with Epstein and another Epstein-backed child sex trafficker who also *killed himself* in prison So many coincidences!

ICE currently has a code of professional conduct. Among other things, it requires agents to be "professional, police, respectful, considerate, helpful and patient in all official activities ... even in the face of considerable provocation."

Mayor Frey: “It's important that we aren't silenced, that we aren't put down. This is not a time to bend our heads in despair or out of fear that we may be next. Because if we do not speak up, if we do not step out, it will be your city that is next.”

Trump wants to appear eager to minimize clashes between his government militias and protesters. But he doesn't want them to stop doing the things that are causing the clashes in the first place. The "pivot" is really about getting Dems to back off in budget talks. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Mad King demands guards search homes of everyone who said he didn’t have clothes

I wrote about embracing impeachment 2 weeks ago, reacting to the ICE killing of Renee Good. Many thanks to @editorialboard.bsky.social for the chance to discuss my change of heart and Dems' growing openness to impeachment—at least for Kristi Noem. Next, RFK Jr? www.editorialboard.com/moderate-dem...

Protest songs have always been the soundtrack of American conscience. Bruce Springsteen’s new song about the Minneapolis shootings reminds us that art can still speak truth, stir empathy, and push us toward justice. This is what using your platform for the public good looks like.

New in PN: The investigation is the coverup "At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot,' it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted."

"We are being lied to... The level of anger I felt when minutes after we saw the video, the federal government lying to us, I said, this is not the truth. We have to let people know. I know his character, I knew who he was. The truth has to come out."

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

welcome to america, the country that makes you watch executions in the street frame by frame a few times a month just to stay up in current events