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Trump was never truly interested in the presidency as a responsibility. He was interested in it as another construction project in tribute to himself. ms.now/opinion/trump-…

Trump's presidential library is a scam. Meatball Ron sold 2.6 acres of prime real estate assed at $67 million, probably worth more, to the library for $10. Trump is going to build a hotel there. $63 mil from a "non-profit" disappeared. This one doesn't even involve crypto!

Probably the most accurate nailing of the MAGA base I have ever seen.

A tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house that could impact the habitat of Florida's endangered scrub-jay. So now he's suing to strip the bird of its federal protection. orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/01/flo…

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent says they’re being pulled off child predator cases to hit immigration quotas instead. In this phone call, an HSI Special Response Team agent… who works child exploitation cases… says agents are being pulled off investigations into predators, to go round up immigrants instead. He says it outright: The government is “letting legit criminal investigations go by the wayside.” Why? Because leadership is demanding numbers, and they don’t care who. He explains that with policies pushed by Stephen Miller, agents are being forced to work hand in hand with ERO to hit immigration quotas, instead of doing the job they were trained for. And the number of agents being reallocated are staggering… Out of a child exploitation unit of 8 to 10 agents, 6 to 7 are reassigned… leaving just two agents to investigate crimes against children. So, while DHS goes on TV claiming these immigration surges are helping fight crime, protect Americans, and cracking down on predators… Their own agents are saying the exact opposite. They’re not going after the “worst of the worst”… they’re stripping resources from the very investigations designed to find them. And while agents are busy chasing quotas, real predators are left to continue preying on children. And here’s where it gets even darker… We’ve seen with the Epstein files: abuse is ignored, predators are protected, and investigations are stalled, while children continued to be trafficked… But now, under Donald Trump, this isn’t just negligence… it’s a government-run operation. Agents are pulled from investigating real predators to hunt parents and children… children who are then trapped in detention centers where the government profits off their captivity. Meanwhile, the kids, who are U.S. citizens, are separated from their parents, and left exposed to trafficking and abuse. The system that claims to protect children is, in fact, exploiting them.

I don't have to think this through—Native people aren’t just citizens, we are the original peoples of this land. Our sovereignty and identity aren’t up for debate.

As someone who grew up in the Church and who spent three decades ministering within it, there’s something particularly distressing about the expansive hellscape we’re all stuck in right now: it’s all because of white, professed Christians who are committed to being terrible. They’re the ones persecuting trans people for existing, the ones working incessantly to deny people the right to vote, the ones attempting to take body autonomy away from women, the ones trying to purge America of immigrants, the ones attacking birthright citizenship, the ones warring against our public schools, the ones cheering the brutality of ICE, the ones celebrating wars and genocides. Every day, I look at these people, and I wonder, "Don’t they ever get tired?" Doesn’t it wear them out to spend so much time and energy monitoring the genders, orientations, bodies, homes, families, and relationships of people they’ve never met? How does it never get old: always being that deeply entrenched in someone else’s business?” Honestly, it’s a miracle more white Evangelicals don’t pass out from sheer exhaustion. It’s incredibly taxing work, policing the world instead of, ya know, loving it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/praying-for-…

Trump: "We're gonna bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong". Keep in mind that an initial justification for the war was to "help" Iranians.

@NBCNews Hey @nickshirleyy why don't you investigate this, dipshit?

A man pardoned by President Trump for his actions on Jan. 6 has been sentenced for possessing more than 100,000 child sexual abuse images and videos discovered in connection with his Capitol riot case. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

An astonishing number of Trump's paramilitary forces from January 6th have turned out to be pedophiles

@MysterySolvents That's his milkshake. It will bring Lindsey Graham to the yard.

Trump right now in his live address: "We're going to hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks, we're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong." Pure savagery. And textbook genocidal: saying the Iranian people "belong" in the stone ages means he's targeting them as a people, which is the definition of genocidal intent. That's where letting Gaza happen without consequences gets you... Also pretty ironical to call others primitive while sounding like a barbarian king on bath salts.

Trump’s entire platform right now is voter suppression: - Passing The Save Act - Revoking birthright citizenship - Revoking mail in ballots The Republicans have to cheat to win.

#ETTD Iran is now in charge of the Straights of Hormuz. They weren't before. they're going to charge $1 million a ship as a toll. Nice job Jared. And oh, the Epstein files are still coming out and there's new evidence about Trump and a 13 year old. And oh, gas is $4 a gallon

Might be worth nailing Trump to a cross for the weekend, see what happens by Monday…

Perhaps my favorite Supreme Court exchange in recent memory: Solicitor general: “It’s a new world." John Roberts: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." Into my veins 😌

I did not think this was real, but he really said it.

The U.S. has money for everything except its own people. Wars? Trips to the moon? Ballroom? Done. Healthcare? Childcare? Food? Get fucked.

If you didn't grow up during the Cold War & the Cuban Missile Crisis, or practice bomb drills in school in case Russia attacked us, you can't really understand the slap in the face that Trump & Republicans embrace of fascism is to those of us who did. #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice