Scott Stevens

Charlie Sykes on Trump's proposed new gaudy ballroom plans:

"Designed in the style of Late-Stage Ceausescu Meets Liberace".

Peerless.

“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors

And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this

Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

So I fired my bathroom scale. Next I'm gonna fire the nutritional label on a pint of ice cream.

39th & 40th Congress: we are writing these constitutional amendments to give the federal government the power to address racial inequities and enforce a set of national civil rights

Roberts Court: but what if you didn't

are all the wannabe dictators on some kind of signal group chat or something

MANOSPHERE: Being a man today is too hard. There are too many choices and the world seems unfair.

ME:

How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin In the 1990s, reformers adopted a radical economic program in Russia. It devastated ordinary Russians and created a new class of oligarchs. And it explains the rise of Putin and the leader he is today

There is a playbook here they appear to be following:

1) Break apart the government.
2) Crash the economy.
3) Sell government assets and bankrupt companies to billionaires for cheap.
4) Cement power for oligarchs and fascists.

But we the people will not allow this—we will resist, and we will win.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin is a conservative former Congressional Budget Office director, chief economist for McCain 2008, and president of the American Action Forum, a conservative advocacy group. William Beach was Trump's former Commissioner of Labor Statistics in the first term. They're furious about Trump firing the BLS commissioner.

Operating the U.S. economy without reliable statistics is like flying a plane without any control panels.
Even conservative economists are terrified of this.

i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him

Conservatism is the deeply held belief that you, a random asshole parachuting into any conversation, are so unmatched in your genius that you instinctively know more than any expert could hope to.

Solar engineers forgot about sunsets until Doug arrived; they sob, now, as they realize the mistake.

Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

"At this very moment, UNRWA alone has 6,000 trucks waiting just beyond the border with enough food to provide for the entire population of Gaza for three months."

"No evidence has been provided to substantiate any of Israel’s countless...weaponized allegations against UNRWA"

Holy shit this is real Soviet/N. Korean style stuff. After the dismal jobs report Trump is going to fire people who compile the data and replace them with hacks. The markets and American people will never be able to trust these numbers again.

I think the central premise that young men searching for information on how to have a sex life will invariably encounter just an absolute avalanche of right wing misogyny peddlers and very little actual helpful advice is a genuine problem.

Trump spent every day for 4 years saying that Biden was about to start World War 3 and if he got elected he would end the war in Ukraine and we would have peace with Russia because he has a great relationship with Putin. Here is today’s update on all that.

A Brief History of Republican Behavior 🔵: Trump held secret meetings with the Kremlin

A BRIEF HISTORY OF REPUBLICAN BEHAVIOR

New blog post:
open.substack.com/pub/dreamwea...

As I predicted for months, all the attacks on Jerome Powell were part of a premeditated plan for Trump and Republicans to blame him if the economy went south because of their policies. When have they EVER taken responsibility for anything?

Two posters are seen draped from barbed wire-covered concrete. The posters say 100,000,000 meals delivered with a flying US flag. In the background are people awaiting food aid and in the foreground is a soldier.

Mike Huckabee has actually posted this photo himself, apparently proud of the view.

Funding a genocide whilst claiming to be the victims’ saviour.

This photo will haunt the US in history books.

Judges Are Begging People To Take Trump’s Attacks On Them Seriously Federal judges wonder if they can’t keep themselves or their families safe, how are they expected to uphold the rule of law?

Sitting judges targeted for impeachment or misconduct complaints by the Trump admin are speaking out publicly — some for the very 1st time — because the danger to judicial independence, they say, is now “unprecedented” and growing terrifyingly and intimately violent.
www.huffpost.com/entry/judges...

How John Durham and Chuck Grassley Covered Up Getting Ass-Handed by Russia - emptywheel John Durham (with Chuck Grassley's help) tried to obscure that on the same day as the Russian spy report that drove his entire investigation, Russian spooks discussed seeding conspiracies about "dark ...

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history.

With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

While someone explains to him what each country is, shows him what continent it is on, as he picks random numbers to tariff commodities and products essential to US businesses despite the fact that he has no idea what we get from where or how to replace it domestically.

Again this was the most insightful
political science article of the era theonion.com/admit-it-you...

Any reference to “damsel tied to the tracks like a silent movie” gets this still

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo @Claudiashein. 29m Tuvimos una muy buena llamada con el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump. Evitamos el aumento de aranceles anunciado para mañana y logramos 90 días para construir un acuerdo de largo plazo a partir del diálogo. Me acompañaron Juan Ramón de la Fuente, secretario de Relaciones Exteriores; Marcelo Ebrard, secretario de Economía, y Roberto Velasco, subsecretario para América del Norte.

Mexico has defeated the United States again.

Trump has been forced by President Sheinbaum to extend his previous tariff freeze by another 90 days. Previously Trump declared he wasn't going to extend it but after one phone call with the Mexican President he folded.

“jeffrey epsteins best friend is using the government to examine you kids genitals” is just sitting right there, you could say that and defend trans people…or you could chase that mythical trump voter who will vote for you instead if you just throw trans people under the bus a little harder

These fucking people really think everyone needs to tolerate their presence. Being a douche canoe isn't a protected class