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Bossy pants, but mostly just a big ol' softie. My latest album is "Flying on Instruments" and boy, aren't we just. www.vanessapeters.com
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Get your popcorn ready.

There is simply no reason any government official — much less the vice president — should be taking time to meet with a self-obsessed conspiracy theorist.

Magnificent piece of writing open.substack.com/pub/louispis...

“If Trump and his supporters can defame others,” writes David Frum, “they can dull voters’ awareness of the astounding and horrible uniqueness of Trump’s corruption”: https://theatln.tc/8YM3Hqab

This sociopath destroyed countless lives and made life worse for millions of Americans, sneering at them as he indulged his narcissistic impulsivity. But now he has feelings. What are they and will he feel better soon? We asked in a six-part series. Today in the New York Times

😹 trump having a day

it's pretty damning when it's all laid out like this www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Dear Tim Cook, Extortion is a continuous process. Hope this helps.

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

I hope legacy media covers the connection between last night's memecoin dinner and this morning's social media tariff threats. He's manipulating the stock market.

It’s time to turn the lights out on Lauren Boebert

due process

NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

fun interview where you can listen to an ostentatiously devout catholic justify sending innocent people to foreign gulags www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

While Elon Musk’s DOGE is taking an axe to the federal workforce, the group itself is hiring. Seems fair, right? The US DOGE Service—formerly the US Digital Service (USDS)—has been interviewing candidates and offering salaries at the top of the government pay scale.

Blumenthal to Noem: "Some of the expenditures your department is making- $200m for an ad campaign fawning over Trump's supposed accomplishments...none of these expenditures are in your budget...you're just spending recklessly & it would seem wastefully without authorization. That's against the law."

Senile man with blue tie: fumbles a debate Senile man with red tie: fumbles the global economy, trashes the federal government, revokes reproductive & civil rights, creates gulags, threatens war against two NATO countries incl Canada US media: we're not done talking about the blue tie guy

from @propublica.org: State Department officials campaigned to force Gambia to license Starlink, even threatening to cancel development projects. US diplomats now work on behalf of Elon Musk? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

A new report finds the bottom 60% of U.S. households—or *two-thirds* of the population—can't afford a “minimal quality of life": housing, health care, and other necessities. "Indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving. But they don’t reflect the reality of most Americans."

Hunger Games. These people are so evil that I literally cannot fathom it.

And obviously the Sky Palace is the same.

It's wild how many people fail to understand this.

Don’t forget, Chauvin’s state crimes can’t be pardoned - and that’s the longer of the two sentences. Also don’t forget the people who support that murderer.

Dereliction of duty.

I would argue that they are both cruel AND out of touch. One leads to the other.

Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman

Congress should be speaking out about this every single day

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

Your friendly reminder that Stephen Miller is not a lawyer, just a sad, small, shell of a human being

I know Pope Leo XIV to be a kind, open, humble, modest, decisive, hard-working, straightforward, trustworthy, and down-to-earth man. A brilliant choice. May God bless him.

One thing that Trump will not tolerate is the heads of agencies saying publicly that their agency should exist.

This whole thread should be required reading.

So, back in the 70's and 80's there were a number of campus activist groups: CISPES, CUSLAR, Amnesty International -- trying to get the US to stop backing fascist regimes in South & Central America by writing letters to congresspeople, educating fellow students, holding peaceful demonstrations. 1/N🧵

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

he's doing emoluments on the blockchain

And there you have it.

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.