Not Norm—Law

They invited a guy mixed up in human trafficking to the White House Easter Egg Roll

@MeidasTouch FCC has no jurisdiction over cable.

Trump’s FCC chair now seems to be giving MAGA the green light to physically assault people on cable tv when they are losing arguments

@ReviewsPossum Dummkopf.

If Obama was as good of a president as you all pretend he was, Trump wouldn't have won in 2016.

Took a video of this cool shell formation on my beach walk. If all of you repost it as many times as you can maybe some journalists will see it and do something about it

@CharlesPPierce Thurgood Marshall was.

Clarence was. Poppy Bush said so.

Nope, just a seat in Congress.

DEAR GOD THE WHITE HOUSE LOOKS LIKE A CHEAP RUSSIAN 80S WHORE HOUSE 😬

@robbystarbuck Ever heard of a guy named Clarence Thomas…???

Clay is 100% correct. Kentaji Brown Jackson is an illegitimate Supreme Court justice who was hired on the basis of race, which is illegal in the United States. She should be replaced. If I had a job opening for a new assistant and I said out the gate: "I’ve made no decision except one: The person I hire will be a Black woman" — I’d be sued the minute I hired her and I’d be on the hook for major legal damages. But this is EXACTLY what Joe Biden did. Here’s his own words on how he’d pick his Supreme Court nominee from BEFORE she was chosen (and keep in mind he said this during the campaign, after his election AND during the selection process): “We talked about the Supreme Court. I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a black woman on the Supreme Court." "I’ve made no decision except one… That person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court. It’s long overdue, in my opinion." “I’m keeping the commitment I made during my campaign for president—I will nominate the first Black woman to the United States Supreme Court.” That’s hiring on the basis of race. It’s illegal for any of us to do and the highest court in our land should be held to the same standard.

L - North Korea R - Miami

@Timodc @Leahgreenb @ezralevin Multiple grounds.

No Kings should sue @Leahgreenb @ezralevin

@FoxNews @NMalliotakis Which State? Name the names. Where are the indictments?

NEW: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins reveals that 14,000 individual SNAP recipients in just ONE state have been exposed for having luxury vehicles. - 3 Bentleys - 3 Ferraris - 11 Lamborghinis - 59 Maseratis - 141 Porsches - 244 Alfa Romeos - 306 Land Rovers - 2,098 Teslas "And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system." "These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with VP Vance's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW." | @MorningsMaria @MariaBartiromo

@jaysbookman It is more than “rebranding” — it’s violations of multiple laws. Please don’t bury the lede.

Trump sees the Trump Ballroom, the Trump Arch, Trump money, the Trump-Kennedy Arts Center and Trump passports as powerful symbols. Indeed they are. The American people see their country being rebranded; they recognize what it symbolizes, and are not happy with it. #NoKings

@Microinteracti1 The ability to appeal to emotion over reason and induce people to make decisions against their best interests is called Fraud in the Inducement (not genius) and it is against the law, i.e., illegal. A lifetime of defrauding isn’t smart—it’s nihilistic criminality.

Tariff refunds will total billions of dollars. Now, you might reasonably ask who looked at all this and cheered. Good question. Allow me to introduce you to them. Two thirds of Trump’s voters in 2024 did not have a college degree. That is not an insult. That is a Pew Research finding. The gap between college graduates and non-graduates voting Republican was 13 points in 2024, wider than in 2020, and wider again than in 2016. It is a chasm that keeps getting bigger.  These are the people who watched a man promise that China would pay America’s bills, nodded thoughtfully, and voted for him anyway. Twice. In some cases three times, if you count the primaries. States where fewer adults hold a college degree are almost all reliably red. States above that threshold are almost all reliably blue. It is, at this point, the single most reliable predictor of how a county votes. More reliable than income. More reliable than religion. More reliable, frankly, than common sense. And when the bill arrived, when $166 billion turned out to have been paid by American businesses and passed directly onto American families through higher prices on strollers, brake pads, and olive oil, these same voters did not pause for reflection. They went on social media and explained that actually, the deep state had rigged the Supreme Court. One in four Trump voters agreed that God had personally ordained his election victory.  Not metaphorically. Literally divinely appointed. This is the electorate that was asked to evaluate a 50-page trade policy and determine whether tariffs are paid by the exporter or the importer. They got it wrong, obviously. But here is the thing about Trump’s genius, and I use the word with the generosity I normally reserve for describing a broken lawnmower as “retro.” He did not need them to understand the policy. He needed them to feel it. And what they felt was that someone, finally, was sticking it to the foreigners. The details were irrelevant. The foreigners were laughing. He was going to make them stop. The foreigners are still laughing. The Americans paid $166 billion to fund that particular fantasy, and are now watching Walmart collect the refund. You really cannot make this up. Though apparently, you can make them vote for it. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@TheCinesthetic It’s Sunset Boulevard.

Remembering William Holden (1918 ‑ 1981) on his birthday!

@Ric_RTP Adam Curtis postulated that over 30 years ago.

The world’s most respected political scientist just admitted that governments no longer run the world. Ian Bremmer's firm writes the risk report every major hedge fund, bank, and government reads before making decisions. He doesn't do hot takes. He does FORECASTS. And buried under a 90-minute discussion with Steven Bartlett, he dropped this bombshell: Anthropic built a model so powerful it could hack every bank, power grid, and water system on Earth. They didn't call Congress. They called Jerome Powell and Scott Bessent directly. Within hours, every major bank CEO was in an emergency meeting. Jamie Dimon called it a "five alarm fire." No hearings. No votes. No public debate. A private company detected a threat, called two people, and the US financial system reorganized around it overnight. That's not a "government." And this is the pattern nobody's connecting: Michael Dell just moved $6.25 BILLION to 25 million American kids using federal infrastructure Trump's team built for him. Government does the accounting. Dell gets the PR. Jeff Bezos just came out of retirement with $6.2 billion to build "AI for the physical economy." 100 researchers. Day one. No board. No IPO. Just: go. Jensen Huang told Joe Rogan that CUDA, the single technology that made AI possible, was built because ONE guy at Nvidia believed in it when the stock crashed 83%. Nobody voted on it. Nobody approved it. He just did it. Elon has Starlink turning wars on and off in Ukraine. None of these decisions went through a legislature. None of them were debated on CNN. None of them were on any ballot. In Bremmer's own words: "The most important new global leaders aren't countries. They're technology companies writing their own rules." And once you see it, you can't unsee it. There are two economies running in parallel right now: Economy A is the one you see. Elections. Tariffs. Tweets. Midterms. Iran. Congressional hearings where senators ask Mark Zuckerberg how Facebook makes money. Economy B is the one that actually decides things. 5 CEOs, 3 central bankers, and a handful of billionaires in group chats and private dinners, rerouting trillions and deploying technology that rewrites physics, biology, and labor. Economy A is theater for the 99%. Economy B is where the 1% already live. And the gap isn't closing. Bremmer's real warning wasn't about China or Trump... It was this: We're heading toward a split between "empowered hybrid individuals" with AI as a core relationship, and people we "won't even treat as human beings anymore." Not different classes. A different SPECIES. This is a forecaster who advises Goldman, BlackRock, and the White House telling you the taxonomy of humanity itself is about to fork. Meanwhile the public is fighting about who's going to win the midterms. Trump is a symptom. Mdani is a symptom. Farage is a symptom. They're all reactions to a system average people can feel has already left them behind, but can't articulate why. But the why is simple: The people making the decisions that will define the next 50 years of your life stopped asking for permission. They stopped running for office. They stopped filing quarterly reports on what matters. They just build, deploy, and inform the government after.

@CharlesPPierce So Catholics are giving up the right to life movement?

Mmmmm, Tommy loves the cafeteria

@magyarpeterMP @adammocklerr @DrTamasSulyok Boom

I have arrived at the Sándor Palace to meet the President of Hungary. @DrTamasSulyok is unworthy of representing the unity of the Hungarian nation. He is unfit to serve as the guardian of legality. He is not fit to serve as a moral authority or a role model. Following the formation of the new government, Tamás Sulyok must leave office immediately.

Not all Nigerian Princes are in Nigeria….

@EylonALevy Brilliant.

“That’s a mace, put it down.”

Dictate??