Carolyn Allen

They know they don't have a viable successor. They're packaging 2028 as Trump because they're not certain Vance can keep the clown car coalition together.

The craziest thing is that it took her *2 weeks* to create something that monumentally bad.

I love that if you look at this photo from afar, it looks like he's holding up an empty tray of lasagna to demonstrate how Cascade removes even stuck-on messes.

This is Bannon's flood the zone strategy on steroids. It's designed to shock and make us spin and changes the subject from all the other horrors. En-f*cking-raging.

He is literally bailing out his mill/billionaire buddies who invested heavily in Argentina.

I realized this the last time she testified before Congress and hoped that SNL writers were paying attention.

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

"Questions remain about the legal justification"!? Let's imagine there's evidence the people *intended* to traffic drugs to the U.S. Is blowing these 21 people out of the water the legal punishment under U.S. law for the alleged crime? No. It's straight up murder.

I find it particularly *galling* that Biden went out of his way to put projects in red rural areas (as an attempted bulwark against GOP defunding, which obvs didn't work, and because Dems CARE about putting economic dev where it's most needed) and yet the GOP can get away with hurting blue states.

This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Top 10 American Fears of 2024 (Chapman Survey) Horizontal bar chart ranking the top fears of Americans (percentage “afraid” or “very afraid”): 1. Corrupt government officials (65.2%, top fear for years). 2. Loved ones becoming seriously ill (58.4%). 3. Cyberterrorism (58.3%). 4. Loved ones dying (57.8%). 5. Russia using nuclear weapons (55.8%). 6. Not having enough money for the future (55.7%). 7. U.S. becoming involved in another world war (55.0%). 8. North Korea using nuclear weapons (55.0%). 9. Terrorist attack (52.7%). 10. Biological warfare (52.5%). Red bars display percentages; small arrows indicate change from 2023 rankings.

Top Public Worries in the U.S. (Yale & GMU poll, May 2025) Stacked bar chart of worries among U.S. adults. Categories ranked by share “very worried”: • Government corruption (54% very worried, top issue). • Other leading concerns: cost of living (48%), the economy (47%), state of democracy (44%), disruption of federal services (44%), cultural/social divisions (36%), treatment of immigrants (35%), global warming (29%), crime (26%). • Lower worries include job security (17%), health (16%), and being targeted because of identity/beliefs (15%). Green shades show “very/somewhat worried,” yellow/orange shades show “not very/not at all worried.

Perceptions of Federal Government Problems (AP-NORC poll) Bar chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who consider various issues in the federal government to be a major problem, minor problem, or not a problem. • Corruption: Overall 70% major, 22% minor, 7% not a problem. Higher among Republicans (78%) than Democrats (63%). • Inefficiency: 65% major overall, with Republicans (81%) much higher than Democrats (55%). • Red tape (bureaucracy): 59% major overall, with Republicans (73%) higher than Democrats (47%). • Civil servants unwilling to implement president’s agenda: More partisan split—Republicans 56% major problem, Democrats 20% major problem; overall 34% major, 36% minor, 28% not a problem. Title: “Majority of the public believe corruption, inefficiency, and red tape are major problems in the federal government.

Word Cloud of How People Describe American Government (Berkeley Democracy Policy Lab) Large central word: “Corrupt.” Other prominent words: Broken, Chaotic, Dysfunctional, Shit, Clueless, Divided, Inefficient, Crooked, Hijacked, Justice, Woke, Bloated, Untrustworthy, Hopeless, Frustrated, Disastrous, Messy, Sneaky, Turmoil, Delusional. Smaller scattered words include both negative and neutral terms such as Crap, Important, Poder, Resilient, Unfocused, Needs Help. Visual emphasizes “Corrupt” as the dominant public perception.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data…

—Top Public Worry: Corruption

—Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption

—Top fear: Corruption

—What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt”

It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

Bessent Says US in Talks With Argentina Over $20 Billion Lifeline The US plans to extend a $20 billion swap line to Argentina and is ready to buy the country’s foreign bonds, providing much-needed financial support to President Javier Milei as he tries to regain inv...

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election.

Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs.

“America First.”

8am: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? TELL US, GODDAMMIT

9am: Pete Hegseth's Warfighting to the Oldies

10am: K.A.$.H.

11am: Quack Tales with RFK Jr.

Noon: A Charlie Kirk Remembrance (no quotes allowed)

4pm: The Most Dangerous Game ft. Brian Kilmeade

5pm: Sean Duffy Cries on the Subway

Or tailbone. That impact looked painful.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings

Man, I am hugely impressed by Jessica's ability to soldier on in the face of the constant barrage of Fox BS. She makes a valid point and they can't engage on it, so they make a joke. Happens every f'ing time.

We are in an upside down world. “I think Putin wants peace” with his drones in Poland 🙄. How stupid do they they we are?!

I would pay a lot of money to a journalist who asked Trump, "Do you hear yourself?" after he said something like that.

First season.

Being a reader of Trouser Press in my youth during the golden age of rock journalism, so happy to hear the name Ira Robbins!

OMG 😂

Agreed. It's a grammatical mess. "After decades of toiling for low pay," should we followed by "L.A. garment workers..."

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

God, I love that bit.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Abrego Garcia seems to have a strong defamation suit against the Trump admin

They are all just content creators now.

Super Hans!