"DOGE Hater" stat guy

*patting me down after banging my head on the hood of his patrol car*

"Do you have anything dangerous in your pockets I should know about? Any subs, heros, gyros, hoagies? Anything open-faced?"

“Must be real proud of your job if you can’t show your face.”

One more time -- are district attorneys and local police departments just turning a blind eye to all this?

Seems like a gang of masked goons speeding around your city recklessly and snatching ordinary people off the street might be a bit of a concern for the "law enforcement" crowd

CREW sues Trump administration for hiding federal spending information from the public - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington OMB took offline information that shows how OMB directs agencies to spend taxpayer money—information that OMB is required by law to post.

BREAKING: After we beat them in court, Trump's OMB has restored the apportionment website that it removed in March.

This is a huge win for transparency! The public deserves to know how their taxpayer money is being spent—and now they can.

Mamdani is literally walking around talking to people in his community and he is leaving everyone in the dust. You are showing off your leisure time and performatively working on *yourself.*

Young men don’t love manosphere celebrities because of gym photos, they love them because they’re fascists.

The biggest toughest men, tears in their eyes, etc.

How does this make anyone safer?

Been trying to figure out the expression here and it’s when a dog has a grape in its mouth and you have to be like spit it out Ranger, Ranger you can’t have grape, and Ranger is like no I love grape

Howard Lutnick on CNBC demonstrates why people call him Nutlick

on my way to pick up lunch on H street and... it's also becoming very clear that seeing a bunch of tow trucks nearby means the police are intending that people in the area won't be driving home in/on their own vehicles

Having apparently run out of wall space on which to jizz gaudy golden decorations, Donald Trump has now crammed golden plates into at least one of the two Oval Office recessed bookshelves (left, how it looked on April 30; right how it looked yesterday).

Is Trump compensating while decompensating?

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

By the time we get to Nov. 2026, Trump will have federal agents and the national guard in many, if not most, blue cities.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

A large sculpture in a park, possibly, or at least an area of grass by a road, in Poland. An enormous pale blue stand, with four prongs, holds up a gigantic (metal?) potato, complete with knobbles

Today, apparently, is National Potato Day in America, so if you’d like an absurdly long thread of root-vegetable-native-to-the-Americas content, you’ve come to the right place. We begin with the potato monument in Biesiekierz, Poland, because, well: look at it. Of course we do

"As flaccid as a boned fish, Donald Trump crumpled quicker than even Vladimir Putin probably anticipated. The former KGB agent currently indicted for war crimes felt no need to negotiate with the man-child. The president’s thunderous demands — a 50-day deadline, a 10-day deadline, 'severe consequences,' a ceasefire before negotiations — all were just noise."

"As Mark Twain said, thunder is impressive but lightning does the work. Into Trump's post-Alaska vagaries about progress and agreements on 'many points,' an old question intrudes: Can the phrase 'insipid beyond words' be applied to words?"

"Alaska clarified what was unclear only to the obtuse: Putin wants to win the war, Trump wants to end it, and as George Orwell said, the quickest way to end a war is to lose it," Will argued. "Putin insolently did not suppress his smirk while on the red carpet that Trump rolled out for him. He almost certainly already had dangerous clarity about Trump. For a nation, more dangerous than an enemy’s hatred is his contempt, which makes him reckless and implacable. Speaking to some of his generals in August 1939, Hitler said, 'Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.' And the war came days later."

George Will, my friends.
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lol if you think any of that is real gold, you don't know Donald Trump.

It would have been great if folks had rallied to his side and asked more questions at the time, but now is as good a time as any.

The only explanation for this is that’s some kind of practical joke, where staffers sneak in and replace normal objects with a gold-plated ones everyday until the room is too blinding to even enter.

This is what he truly believes. It's Ukraine's fault for refusing to immediately surrender. Think of it this way: He sees Russia as the man and Ukraine as the woman.

As a recovering antitrust lawyer, I find this utterly appalling and I hope the courts will stop it in its tracks.

"Misguided" is putting it mildly. "Perverse and unconstitutional" would be more like it.

trump's fundamental view of international relations is that of a rapist, but the field is extremely hostile to leader psychology and also to gender studies and so has been largely incapable of dealing with him in any realistic way.

Economic Data Has Taken a Dark Turn. That Doesn’t Mean a Crash Is Near. Inflation is up and job creation down, but the U.S. economy could still pull through without too much pain.

When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:

They hate us because we fight.

For the love of fucking God, stop writing profiles about white nationalist Sherman and Mr. Peabody here.

"Say what you want about the Brownshirts (no, really, they were Nazis, say whatever you want about them), at least their kind of government-approved brutality was hard to pirate by someone with an extra $50 and overnight shipping."

How fortunate we are that the United States is so bereft of serious crimes that we can afford to have FBI agents standing around the Metro all day watching for turnstile-jumpers.

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much In 2024, one data center in Iowa consumed 1 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the state’s residences with water for five days.

Your water bill is going to spike, too.

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