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$300M to tear down the east wing of the White House to make room for a ballroom 🤯

I don’t know how much more of making America great again I can take. We’re gonna need a bigger No Kings event.

Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find Mike Johnson's Grindr account, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Since he only seems to want to be president of 40% of America, a one dollar Trump coin can never be worth more than 40¢

I think I’m gonna put these on my car just to bait ICE to come fuck with me

The Venn diagram of vaccine conspiracy theory supporters has a funny overlap with MAHA unprocessed food advocates (which is the only part I have overlap with) on the one side & the other side who believe the 5 major food groups are Waffle House, Golden Corral, Dunkin’ Donuts, Arby’s & Cracker Barrel

All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’ An emperor president surrounded by a sycophantic cabinet is a dangerous thing.

Bill Krystol’s journey from being insufferable right wing ideologue (albeit at least an intellectually consistent one) to truth teller about Trump’s GOP continues. And now, this.

Best. Bulwark. Article. Title. Ever!

Officials have been planning for weeks to send National Guard to Chicago as Trump seeks to expand crime crackdown | CNN Politics The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to send the National Guard to Chicago, two officials told CNN, as President Donald Trump looks to expand his anti-crime agenda and crackdown on imm...

Trump is trying to normalize the police state. Don’t put up with it!

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I’m not a John Bolton fan but this is some serious police state shit. On the scale of “somewhat” to “full” fascism, this most recent Trump administration impulse is another incremental step towards “full”

Oklahoma to require ideology test for teachers from New York and California Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology....

Oklahoma’s schools superintendent is suffering CDS (California Derangement Syndrome). Considering starting a gofundme to send the poor bastard some Stray Cats records and some legit tacos. Or is he beyond help?

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Maybe Gavin is finally redeeming himself for being so solicitous with Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon and their ilk on his podcast, his press office is on 🔥. It’s like they fed all of the Trump’s posts into an LLM and it’s pooping out critiques stylized like the Wannabe-Caesar himself.

Between turning ICE into the immigration gestapo, gratuitous federalization of national guard units and turning city policing into a federal function how is Trump _not_ turning the U.S. into a police state?

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2. Ukraine gets path and timeline for accelerated NATO membership, reparations from Russia to rebuild the shattered cities and communities
3. The U.S. gets to establish more mining / minerals in Ukraine

Russians cheer Putin’s Alaska invitation, envision no concessions on Ukraine Ukrainian and European officials met with Vice President JD Vance to coordinate a response to Russia’s proposal.

🧵1/2 - My prediction of what any viable “deal” could look like, if there’s one to be had:
1. Russia gets the Crimea annexation internationally recognized & gets sanctions relief (natural gas, etc flowing to Europe again) but must withdraw claims on the Donbas & other eastern Ukraine territory

History will not refer to the GOP legislation as OBBB. Historians will reference it as The 2025 Immigration Police State Act.

Trump says he'll host a UFC fight at the White House as part of "America250" celebrations It's going to be a "championship fight, full fight," Trump said during a rally in Iowa this evening.

Julius Caesar popularized gladiator spectacles in part for the politics and entertaining and distracting the Roman public. For America’s semiquincentennial, caesar is planning much the same. Mundus sine Caesaribus!

It’s a tale as old as immigration itself. Is anyone surprised that there broad swaths of the workforce that only immigrants are willing to populate? Stephen Miller and Tom Homan can choke on it.

Congressman Mark Desaulnier Representing the 10th District of California

I just sent this to my congressional representative @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social via desaulnier.house.gov

Regardless of how you feel about immigration, this Soviet-style "show me your papers" behavior from ICE is anti-American and must stop. Tell your representative as much.

I would like to see legislation introduced that requires ICE agents to wear identifying information, display their badge when requested and wear a body cam. We must not tolerate an arm of the federal government allowed to behave like authoritarian government's secret police.

Exclusive: DHS secretary seeks military arrests in Los Angeles in leaked letter The military is generally barred from domestic law enforcement. Kristi Noem’s request may be a step toward the Trump administration sidestepping those laws by invoking the Insurrection Act.

Save the receipts folks. Kristi Noem
is the biggest criminal in this episode of fascist aspirations.

U.S. out of California!

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social You’re trying too hard to have every conversation on your pod be copacetic. There’s no challenging or debate, no calling out utter bullshit & you’ve allowed your pod to become a platform for indulging some total dirtbags. You may as well have named the pod “This is kumbaya”

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There's no such thing as a "smart TV". If they were truly "smart", they'd know that any "news" mentions of "Diddy", "Sean Combs", "Baby Oil" or whatever the fuck it is about that whole thing that they're talking about, it's just making us all dumber. A smart TV would automatically turn the channel.

BTW, thank you for Trumpcast... it was one of my elixirs during the 1.0 regime. I kinduv think there's room for a OMGMAGAWTF pod just to cut through the dysphoria of daily distraction grenades here in the 2.0 times

The accomplishments _should_ be etched into history with celebration, I think to the extent he's despised for his POTUS time is wholly unfair. My complaint is that instead of being a transitional figure, his enablers' gaslighting fueled Trumpnesia & it put us in authoritarian shitstorm we're in now.

The dem party has a credibility problem, where people aren't _feeling_ that
- the economy is better, telling them the stats that it *is* doesn't help
- the old man is up to the task going forward, telling them he is no help
Offering condescension & gas lighting doesn't help. Don't embrace it.

@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social The recent episode starting off with a recounting of the great things about the Biden administration as if that was enough to get him elected for 4 more years was disappointing.

And apologizing to Lara Trump
Is stupid and wrong, on the right she was not raising concerns in good faith she was trying to pedal an overstated story about JB’s mental capacities.

So I have complaints about Tapper and CNN but his book is not the problem, all of the disingenuous bullshit is.

Multiple things can be true at the same time:
1. right wing media can lie that JB was senile, had dementia, etc
2. JB’s family & coterie can lie, saying “everything’s fine”

I don’t believe there was a “cover up” in the criminal sense but there was a lot of dishonesty that needs to be aired out.

YouTube video by GWAR AOC dances to GWAR (I'll Be Your Monster)

To top it off, seeing @aoc.bsky.social dance to GWAR has moved my acceptance and approval of her to a full schwing little boy’s crush. What a babe!