Ken Warnock

The President of the United States woke up this morning and posted a 150-word personal attack on Bruce Springsteen. Not on Iran. Not on the tariffs crashing global markets. Not on the recession warnings. Bruce Springsteen. There is a standard psychological tool called the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. It has 20 items scored on a scale from 0 to 40. The cutoff for a diagnosis of psychopathy is 30.  The average person scores around 4. The average maximum security prisoner scores 22.  A panel of eminent psychiatrists assessed Trump before his 2024 sentencing in New York. He scored 36 out of 40.  The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this. Section 4 allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president unable to carry out his duties.  It has never been used. In any normally functioning democracy, the bar would be far lower. Most leaders in that position resign themselves. Instead, this one is on Truth Social at 7:58 AM calling a rock legend a dried-up prune. America is fighting a war it cannot exit in Iran. Markets are in freefall. Allies are making alternative plans. And the man with the nuclear codes is writing concert reviews. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

This is how you write a headline. Well done @TIME

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

NEW: The Marine Corps is scrambling to reassure military families that there will be no immigration enforcement during boot camp graduation ceremonies, officials said, after an outcry over plans for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to join security efforts at upcoming events.

@Marinetimes Surely, the Marine Corps Times understands the purpose of NATO even if #FascistTrump #FascistGOP #FascistRegime don’t know or don’t care?!

Trump’s rebuke of NATO allies stems from their reluctance to support American efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. marinecorpstimes.com/news/pentagon-…

Lindsey Graham tonight: He is calling for the destruction of infrastructure that allows Iran “to function as a nation.” Power grids. Water systems. Civilian infrastructure. That is not a military target. That is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Perhaps, they recognize the American people are outraged by the desecration of this American monument that’s being destroyed for the vanity of #FascistTrump!

Trump Vows 'Two to Three Weeks' More of 'Extremely Hard' Attacks On Iran in Address to the Nation mediaite.com/media/news/tru…

DHS cancels policy requiring secretary to review contracts over $100,000 reut.rs/4ck5m4q reut.rs/4ck5m4q

Trump on Somali-Americans in Minnesota: "They're low IQ. I can generalize. They're low IQ people. They're bad people." (Note that moments later he claims Indianapolis is in Minnesota)

The reassurance speech arrived 33 days into a war that started without a public case being made for it. The sequence is structurally significant. Bush addressed Congress before Afghanistan. Bush addressed Congress before Iraq. Both built a public case before the first strike. Trump struck on February 28 and addressed the nation on April 1, 33 days later, when polls showed 59% disapproval and $4.06 gas. "Necessary to decimate a regime threatening the U.S.", the retrospective justification for a war that began with four different stated objectives in the first 72 hours: regime change, nuclear disarmament, missile destruction, Hormuz reopening. Tonight Hormuz became other countries' problem and the uranium became irrelevant because it's under rubble. The WSJ's framing, "sought to reassure skeptical Americans", is the accountability frame. Presidents reassure when the original case has eroded. The original case for this war eroded in real time across 33 days of shifting objectives, expanding timelines, and ally fractures. The speech was the argument that should have been made on February 27. It arrived after the cost had already been paid, 13 dead, 350+ wounded, $4 gas, NATO threatening to fracture, and an intelligence assessment that Iran is not willing to make concessions. Reassurance is what you offer when persuasion has already failed.

@WSJ And, how did that go?! Based on the markets, not well, it appears.

President Trump sought to reassure skeptical Americans that the war in Iran is in the national interest, arguing that the operation was necessary to decimate a regime threatening the U.S. on.wsj.com/47D7f9X

The comments evoke ideas of large-scale destruction. The president has also threatened civilian infrastructure.  huffpost.com/entry/trump-he…

@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump You are a cowardly traitor, #LeningradLindsey and a disgrace to the entire country. Your legacy will be shame!! #FascistTrump #FascistGOP #FascistRegime #WarCrimes #WarCriminals #CrimesAgainstHumanity

For too long, no one truly stood up to Iran until President @realDonaldTrump. His leadership, backed by the courage of our men and women in uniform, is why we sleep safer at night.

Remember when Republicans had a meltdown when Democrats made a public statement that military service members could refuse ILLEGAL orders?! Bombing civilian infrastructure would be an UNLAWFUL order!! #FascistTrump #FascistGOP #FascistRegime #SecWarCrimes #WarCriminals #Fascism

The United States publicly admits that it intends to UNLAWFULLY conduct military strikes against civilian infrastructure and civilian populations!! This is a violation of US, international, and military law. These actions would be considered #WarCrimes! #WarCriminals

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, all these people, we're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things

Trump just cut a midterm ad for every Democrat in America.

Former JAG officer Margaret Donovan: "We weren't informed of any plans. We don't know what the future plans hold. We don't know about ground troops. We don't know about future airstrikes. We don't even know what a deal would look like."

Maybe giving this speech was a bad call. (And who wrote this mess?) Trump is clearly lost; admitting it to the rest of the world is a bad idea. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/…