Cruelty is off the charts....

Mike Johnson on SNAP funding: "I got a summary of the whole legal analysis and it certainly looks legitimate to me. The contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now."

Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

President Trump said he had an MRI earlier this month, telling reporters Monday that the results had been “perfect” but declining to say why his doctors had ordered the scan. He also reiterated that he was interested in serving a third term.

Enten: "Americans have moved more against tariffs than any other major Trump policy that he's been pushing during this second term ... 60% of Americans are opposed to Trump's tariffs."

Remember that “effective altruism” is a smokescreen that looks good on the surface but effectively means they can justify oppressing anyone living today if they can make up a little story that “it’s for the future of humanity”.

That’s what he’s doing here.

See also #tescreal

Despite the state's appeal, FEMA denied Michigan's request for disaster aid following a devastating March ice storm. The parts of the state most affected, including much of Northern Michigan, are reliably Republican areas that contributed significantly to putting President Trump in power.

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

Kevin Hassett's theory of tariffs: "China has got to sell a lot of stuff to us to maintain political stability. And so if we put a tariff on their stuff, then they cut the price so that our consumer is basically still able to demand as much stuff as they need to sell to be politically stable."

Donald Trump just threw a late-night tantrum over an advertisement created by the Canadian province of Ontario, which featured Ronald Reagan’s REAL words expressing his dislike of tariffs. Trump says that, as a result, all trade negotiations with Canada are “HEREBY TERMINATED.”