Blending family and governance

We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.

If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.

Democrats say Donald Trump molests children. As president, he's been far more likely to starve or deport them. Two Pinocchios.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I was just detained by ICE for 10 days despite being a citizen carrying Real ID. But at least I know the Oberlin Student Senate won’t be doing land acknowledgements any more.

I still believe in popularism - talking about your best issues in the most popular way is good actually - but doing it while Trump is president is like trying to cure a gunshot wound with diet and exercise

Analysis | Trump is finally giving us the recession that Biden could never deliver.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Obviously the Democrats do not get rid of their (significant) toxic dead weight, either. But we are living in the wreckage of the conservative movement getting everything it wanted, and that is dipshits like this and luridly predatory influencer psychos in cabinet-level roles wrecking daily life.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I had to drive my parents 200 miles to a Social Security office, but at least I know that immigrants are getting sent to torture prisons in El Salvador.

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Last week, I wrote about how explicitly and vigorously sociopathic this version of The Trump Experience is, and the urge to defeat or devour every other person and thing on earth. The tariffs literalize that in a way that's easy to see, but also it's everywhere you look. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

In this Ohio diner, 36% still means court-ordered child support, not a tariff on Chinese goods. But they do know this: while daily necessities will get more expensive, you can't put a price on banning trans swimmers from the Ivy League.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Report: DOGE staffers energized by potential invasion of Canada because so many of their girlfriends live there.

Trump’s trade wars have decimated their exporting business. Faced with staggering losses, they say that getting out of this mess will require a strong leader like Trump.

I legit think the cynical promotion of this this is one of the most brazen acts of public evil I’ve ever seen because there is *no tradeoff* in any way that counts, there’s no complicated externality, it’s just fucking letting people, mainly children die for the hell of it.