Right, MAGA takes Trump's infidelities as a sign that he's a real macho alpha male. Harp being another mistress wouldn't cause a problem at all. They'd probably applaud him for it. But if Harp is there to cater to a feeble old narcissist who's too fragile to handle the news? Oof.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h ago

What folks miss is MAGA doesn't care if people think Trump cheated for the 1900th time. What worries is the image of an 80 yr old man wildly dependent on a clincially fangirlish 30-something who he appears to use as a kind of human emotional support blanket as his faculties & political power fade.

We've enjoyed the privilege of not having to understand how international monetary economics works for decades because every other country the US trades with was happy to accept USD

“I need a win, Kim. I need a win real bad. Will you do me this kindness?”

Absolutely not a fan of Schumer but I see nothing wrong with this quote given that Schumer endorsed El-Sayed the morning after the primary.

“Until further notice, U.S. troops shall not allow this gorgeous woman to pass,” said an irate, slurring Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth Orders Military Blockade Of Woman Attempting To Walk Away From Him

WASHINGTON—Saying he would not hesitate to use force if she continued to disobey his orders, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered a military blockade Monday of a woman attempting to walk ...

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There is zero chance that they actually found 24,000 non-citizens voted illegally. There is a non-zero chance that 24,000 legal voters have the same name as an immigrant. He will lie about this endlessly, but it will never be backed up by facts.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 8h ago

Trump is using taxpayer money to have the Census Bureau attempt to prove his 2020 election denialism claims.

NEW: The Census Bureau did not immediately respond to NPR's questions about analysis that President Trump said in a social media post the bureau is conducting about non-U.S. citizens illegally voting in the 2020 election, which many past studies have found to be extremely rare

god, there's just nothing like making someone so mad that they start freaking out and saying shit like "my phd is for all women"

Another banger from the man behind one of the stupidest paragraphs I have ever read about transportation: www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...

ben fryback@bfryback.bsky.social · 23h ago

ODOT: we can't afford to maintain the roads we have Cascade Policy "think" Tank: we need a new freeway and also no new taxes

Anakin Skywalker being edged: now this is rod pacing

*pat*

the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes

This is an article about how Fortune's Weave is only on Switch 2, something we have known literally since it's announcement. It's cool how 99% of video game news sites are just complete garbage now.

an indulgent spider-man comic by any other name

this is way too funny to be true. it *can't* be that high.

29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · yesterday

HOLY FUCK MAN zeteo.com/p/scoop-trum...

it’s not quite downfall hours, but both trump and his comms apparatus sound sweaty and panicked this week and it’s only monday

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · yesterday

A reporter asked the president to respond to an accusation from a Democratic senator. Totally fair question. In response, the White House calls the journalist a "scumbag,” “callous and vindictive,” and says her minor children will be embarrassed of her one day. What??

Discursively, I think it’s interesting that these folks are now invoking communism because socialism no longer carries the foreboding connotation they’re going for.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Mike Johnson: "The next Congress will not be arguing over marginal tax rates, we will be arguing over whether or not we are going to maintain our republic, or if you will go down this dark dangerous deadly road to communism."

The head of the Border Patrol has paused all border security construction work in remote sections of Big Bend National Park in Texas, after criticism from Texas lawmakers.

I don't really think it's possible to be "racist" against white people but I do think it's possible to be extremely mentally unwell about us.

Having worked as a psychiatric RN in one of the very highest-end places that handled such care, I can tell you exactly what would have happened were he (beyond belief) 2PC’d: he’d have rejected the care and attempted to first sabotage it, then escape it. (1/n)

Ian Miles Schlong@tedcruznipples.com · 2d ago

He’s in the attic talking to Mother again Donald is a very sick guy. He needs to be under 24/7 supervision by a team of trained psychiatrists and medical professionals. This is not ok.

no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d ago

lol come the fuck on

The evolution from "well the guy Luigi killed was the CEO of a notoriously bad health insurance company" to "anyone with the title of CEO, including at a liberal nonprofit, is homo sacer and can be killed without regret" is uhh Uhhhhhhhhhh

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2d ago

The origin of this exchange is someone telling me I should be killed and have my corpse mutilated. Another commenter thought that the corpse mutilation was excessive but that I should nevertheless be killed. A third commenter agreed.

"Although exact figures are scarce, the number of people cutting off close kin — particularly children cutting off parents — appears to be rising." you have to stop making fun of this stuff. don't you care how we don't know this is happening but it seems like it might be according to this guy???

lol come the fuck on

It's infuriating how Kushner is in fact the right person to send because America's federal government has collapsed into one man's whims, and thus that man's son-in-law speaks with greater authority on U.S. policy than all of Trump's Senate-confirmed appointees combined.

Kushner has hourslong meeting with Netanyahu on Gaza a day after talking with Hamas

Mideast negotiator and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days after the premier rejected the U.S.-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza...

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