Vunder Brat

American elites in Washington may be natural born bootlickers, but out in the country the American people haven't learned the quiescence of autocracy yet, not by a damn sight. They can recognize corrupt fascist overreach when they see it—and they hate it

Thanks CNBC for putting his feet to the fire. Wish more people would do that.

These dudes think this is so clever.

Beyond the difference in harms that accompanies the age limits for booze and voting, there were 26,000+ arrests of minors for liquor law violations in 2019. It’s a relatively common crime.

There are functionally no arrests each year for in-person voter fraud.

Idk who needs to hear this but apologizing for cheating in a very public, international setting is a form of manipulation

We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab The nihilism of the regime is its most terrifying attribute.

While Trump rushes to place his name on monuments throughout DC before he leaves office, he’s given every indication he’s fine leaving behind a trail of utter and complete destruction.
In short, Donald J. Trump is a nihilist, as I discuss in PN.

Hassan: "What is happening here is unacceptable to the people in my state of New Hampshire and to people from every corner, and in fact people around the globe. I just got back from the country of Greenland. Their children are scared of the United States of America."

Thank you, Senate. Renee Good’s dead is not being investigated at all.

This episode has been a nightmare for my city and state, but I hope people realize it’s also a profound defeat and political catastrophe for Trump and DHS, who are slinking away having accomplished nothing. Minneapolis simply wouldn’t bend to them and they lost

"ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" is not the type of thing you say if you're winning the argument

here's video of the Keith Ellison smirk that triggered Ron Johnson

A golden age.

What's next? Encouraging people to vote?

TACO, TACO TACO. Trump always chickens out. He talks the talk, but rarely walks the walk. Trump is full of sound and fury, signifying bloviation. Trump is a coward, a moron, a convicted felon, a malignant narcissist, a demented dotard, and a pathological liar, but MAGA insanely reelected the idiot.

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Calling for his arrest? What?!?!

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

more like this

this has it all: corrupt deal with deeply unpopular rich guy to *checks notes* keep people bogged down in traffic, staring out at the pristine alternative bridge they could be speeding down instead.

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

Anti-medicine, anti-science, anti-us. Fuckers.
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

Crime plunges in major cities despite Trump's crackdown rhetoric Big cities are safer and here's what the numbers show.

The stats were yet another sign that violent crime in the U.S. was starkly different from what Trump cited as his reason for sending federal troops to Chicago, Portland, Washington, D.C., Memphis and cities in California.
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the sort of information environment where you wish the FAA was not run by a contestant on the Real World, the Department of Defense by a Fox and Friends drunk, and DHS by Corey Lewandowski

New report shows 2025 was even worse for U.S. job market than we thought A question for the White House: If Trump has created the greatest economy in history, why did job growth slow to a 16-year low after he returned to power?

We thought 2025 was a bad year for the U.S. job market. We now know it was far worse than we feared.

The question for the White House is simple: If Trump has created the greatest economy in history, why did job growth collapse after he returned to power?
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in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

Jobs Added in 2024 (Biden): 2.2 million
Jobs Added in 2025 (Trump): 181,000

Trump's *total* for 2025 was less than the average *monthly* jobs added under Biden in 2024 (186,000).

MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"

a man in a denim shirt is standing in front of a fire . Alt: a man in a denim shirt is standing in front of a fire .

Some personal news—

Today is my last day with Forbes.

Incredibly thankful to have worked with such talented colleagues.

Easily the most fulfilling 5 years of my career.

Seems like the perfect time to leave too, as Trump II has been pretty quiet on the ethics front.

A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho

Hundreds of armed agents used flash bangs and rubber bullets to detain hundreds of people — including children and U.S. citizens — at a family horserace event as part of an immigration raid that looked more like a military operation.

We're suing to get justice.