“No alternative but to take his word” motherfucker you’re a lame duck who got turfed out of your own party in favor of an actual felon because you were insufficiently groveling to these guys. You’ve got plenty of choice. You’re free. What you’re lacking is courage and dignity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃

Every time I across one of these I watch the entire thing three times in a row

The easiest possible layup for a President at war with another country would be to explain that they are attacking us. Trump won't do that because he views Minnesota as a bigger enemy than Iran.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this

This is it, the entire conspiracy: In early 2020, Fauci and a bunch of scientists thought the virus could be engineered. Then they did more research and found that it didn't show any evidence of that. Nothing we've learned since has overturned this finding.

link.slate.com/view/689a0e5...

OK Molly. Why is everyone talking about Anthony Fauci and Rand Paul?

link.slate.com

This hearing is driven entirely by Elon Musk's algorithm. Not a single normie voter alive today has thought about Anthony Fauci for at least five years. On X this is a pressing issue - maybe the pressing issue - of the day. It doesn't matter at all.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

This is the American president talking about American cities. American people. His own country. Then the motherfucker has the gall to call himself patriotic.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "When they take something over, it's always dirty. The sidewalks are dirty. The people are -- I hate to say this -- not clean, okay? The curbs are loaded with you know what. The smell is terrible. I mean, I see it happening to cities. Blue cities. They're all blue."

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation

theguardian.com

Public health experts estimate that only to this present moment, a half a million humans are now dead who would otherwise be alive because this shitpiece "got carried away, frankly" and cut aid from the world's richest nation to many of the poorest. Glad to see him take pause and be so reflective.

Suddenly, as His Empire Crumbles, Elon Musk Admits He Made a Huge Mistake With DOGE

Musk lamented that he "got a little too involved in politics" and "got carried away, frankly," after helming DOGE last year.

futurism.com

An unrepentant draft dodger cynically putting self-serving words into the mouths of fallen soldiers. This should be career ending. Instead, it will barely register.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...

WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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The same "Never Comply" crowd that won't change their thermostat, wear a mask, or use a paper straw turns into "comply or die" the second masked federal agents start gunning down people on American streets. Don't let them gaslight you into thinking they stand for liberty.

Krugman. Interesting. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/suddenly-h...

Suddenly, Hormuz is Less Crucial Than It Was

Why? Because the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war

paulkrugman.substack.com

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Imagine the hubris necessary to have this kind of baggage and still run for office

this bitch already got kicked out of chicago, no?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump: "I wish Chicago would call me. If Chicago would call me, I would wipe out crime so fast. We would remove the hardcore criminals like I did in Washington DC."

It’s going to make your fucking head spin how many mainstream publications and voices sound the alarm over the threat of leftism as it gains popularity and support. We’re inching up on a major battle and the lines are being drawn every single day.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last mo.

From the Editorial Board: Find your voice, centrist Democrats and fast. The socialist brigade is already on the march.

Here we are in 2026 and we still have right wing demagogues ranting about imaginary “commies,” while the GOP strips the country down for parts.

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

There’s something interesting about billionaires, who all basically crave to be liked and adored and worshipped by the public while refusing to do anything at all with their wealth to make that happen through good works for the public

ME: *points at my "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* CO-WORKER: *points at his own "World's Greatest Dad" shirt* ME: *takes a sip from my "World's Greatest Dad" mug* CO-WORKER: *sips from his own "World's Greatest Dad" mug* ME: [eyes narrow] *draws "World's Greatest Dad" sword*

On behalf of parents of special needs children everywhere, I would like to invite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go fuck himself.

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Guardian: Trump Treasury chief Bessent called Ukrainian leader fighting existential war against Russians "a 'little f**ker', a 'special-needs child' and 'Mr Bean on crack.'"

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter