Joel Irby

Cool that you made him melt down, but you shouldn’t be making ANY deals with the openly fascist far right party. You should be doing what they’ve always done when they were out of power: obstruct. Refuse to work with them. Stop doing anything that furthers their agenda.

He's using our money to buy himself a gift.

A billion dollar gift.

The buck doesn't stop here. 🙄

At a conference in Birmingham circa 2016 I took a couple of sips of boxed beer, and it was exactly as warm and flat as you’re imagining right now. 🤮

Just before that, a Brit quaffed it to rehydrate after an intense DDR session. (This was at a let-your-hair-down session at the end of the day.)

Tip O'Neil?

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

Jason Delgado (Florida Capitol reporter for Spectrum News 13) on X: "Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz." What is shown in the picture is a long tent structure, about 50 feet wide. There is a corridor running down the middle. On each side are three rows of bunk beds. The bunk beds are sectioned off into cells which are constructed out of chain link fence, with chain link on the ceiling as well, making each cell a literal cage. It looks to me like each cell contains 9 bunk beds, so has capacity for 18 people each.

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

We don't have to pretend, but advert-funded news media do, right? Because they want to sell ads, they must bend over backward *not* to tell the American people what the MAGA-R pols are doing.

It's a case of I've-got-mine-jack, right? And many (D) incumbents do likewise. 😠 #VoteThemOut

Yup. It’s government by special dispensation from Pope Donald I. 🙄 #NoKings #ReligiousFreedom

I’m sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing those memories! 🙏

Yes, and governments know Trump Always Chickens Out because he's shooting from the hip, destabilizing the situation, without listening to expert opinions about pros, cons, next steps, etc.

With all eyes on him: Happy Trump. With no news, good or bad: Grumpy Trump.

They can outlast him. #TACO

Thus violating Molly Ivins's First Rule of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging.

Is this A.I.? 🤔

Yup! Because Trump sees power as relative, making others less able to effect change (or even just do their basic jobs competently) provides a fleeting dopamine hit that he craves. As long as he's the center of attention, nothing else matters. #InsaneCrownPosse #NoKings

a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it ALT: a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it

Yes, just like the Obamacare replacement was always 2 weeks away.

As a reward for reading, here's a Caddyshack meme for an Idiocracy presidency. Are we great (again) yet? 🙄

a man is talking into a microphone with the words `` one rule fight '' written above him . ALT: a man is talking into a microphone with the words `` one rule fight '' written above him .

First rule of Big Lie Club: Don't tell the truth about Big Lie Club.

ICE is full of thugs: agreed. DHS probably has some employees who get off on the power-trip of selecting folks in airports for extra screening just because they don't like their looks. That's just profiling: ugly and wrong for sure, but until mind-reading exists and is okayed by SCOTUS, not a crime.

Graphs show Trump's job approval rating at regular intervals from inauguration in late January until the latest poll on 16 June 2025.

In the latest poll, he's underwater with *all* age ranges, thanks to my cohort, the 45-to-64 year-olds. 👏

And don't call us Gen-X. We don't believe the hype 'cause we saw Reagan, Gingrich, & Dubya Bush start what Trump's now trying to finish: total takeover by monied interests and racists.

He knew *exactly* what he was doing. Such a tool! 😠

Yup. This is not the time for weasel words from journalists. Or maybe what NBC News is producing isn't really news? They do sell adverts, and heaven forbid they might lose some business from maga boycotts. 🙄 #NoGuardrails

I can't get the image of his tiny little hands groping the body politic out of my head now. 🤢

I hope you're happy with yourself. 🙄 (🙃)

What’s this in preparation for? 🤔

Grrr. 😡 I play ⚽️ with/against Hondurans. Sometimes they’re annoying on the field, but they’re good guys at heart, and I’m glad they’re here.

I heard it from my spouse's family in Orange County last weekend (paraphrased): "Don't go to L.A. It's too dangerous, and every time we go, [redacted] wants to shortcut thru [neighborhood] but I don't wanna do that without a firearm. I really gotta get a permit soon." 🙄

We went to the Getty anyway.

Walk without rhythm. It won't attract the worm.

Plenty of Marxist regimes have used political violence, not just against ideological foes but also to settle petty, personal grudges and win power struggles. (Think Stalin.)

White supremacy in the USA has been written into law. This is different: lawless domestic terrorism encouraged by Trump.

They're obviously throwing up chaff in a weak attempt to distract from the fact that the shootings in Minnesota were acts of domestic terrorism aimed at ideological foes. Is this who we are now? Yes, thanks to Trump's pardoning of 1/6/2021 felons. #NoKings #LawAndOrder (but from the center/left)

The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.

We the People.

I’ve been saying that I felt Trump’s dramatic escalation in recent days was driven in part by Musk’s emasculation of him last week.

I also wonder whether it’s being driven by Zelensky’s profound humiliation of Putin, and Putin lashing out at Trump for not delivering Ukraine to him.