Another word you might use for it is "looting".
"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
Imagine a world where Americans were smarter and didn’t applaud when reactionary idiot Ronald Reagan made a show out of removing the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House. We wouldn’t now have to worry about affording to fill gas tanks next month.
CHRIS HAYES: “are you a yes, or no on the supplemental appropriations bill to continue to fund this war?”
SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: “I’m a hell no on any more money for this war.” 🔥
I appreciate Senator Van Hollen’s clear-cut answer here. No gameplaying!
For this administration, it’s not about doing good, it’s about looking good...even when American lives are on the line.
Putin couldn't have dreamed a better scenario.
That’s 3-4 days global supply/demand….
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
JUST IN: Democrats have flipped a Trump+9 seat in the New Hampshire House, per reporter Kevin Landrigan.
Republicans outspent Dems by a considerable margin.
This is now the 10th special election flip for Ds in Trump's second term, versus zero for the GOP. sos.tn.gov/elections/20...
Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.
If @drannieandrews.com can’t make hay out of this…
If George Soros is gonna get blamed with everything, he might as well buy up a social media site and major newspaper.
This presser is fucking insane.
Trump threatened to target Iranian electricity production and “hit them so hard that nobody can ever rebuild in that location”
That’s not a thing. Even if we nuked them.
He also said we’re bombing Iran to help China. Batshit crazy.
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?
Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Great assessment of Trump’s overall situation by @gregsargent.bsky.social:
“Americans are seeing the real “America First” agenda up close—militarism, imperialism, malign nationalism, unabashed authoritarianism—and they’re recoiling.“
AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
So, Trump has two bosses now: Putin and Bibi.
What could go wrong for America and the world?
www.timesofisrael.com/trump-to-tim...
Jesus, Japan’s Nikkei index is down over 4,000 points, over 7%
South Korea’s KOSPI is down 8% and hit a circuit breaker.
Tomorrow is gonna be brutal, but it will probably also eventually make Trump TACO.
Long time thrifter here with a hot take. These tiktokers in my thrift stores are wrecking the vibes. Like, you don't need to record your treasure hunt, ok? And, like the sense of desperation and urgency you bring into the store is uncool. Way uncool. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
It’s been downhill ever since
What he said: "we hope it never comes to this."
What he means: "we are already planning for a draft."
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
This is *nothing* dignified about wearing a cheap baseball cap that promotes yourself to the otherwise solemn ceremony to receive the bodies of the troops you had killed to distract from your bad economy and rampant pedophilia.
A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.
Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.
Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.
NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...
