| THG: What's important to Trump is not the cost of living. It's that they put his face everywhere.
State Department finalizing plan to put Trump picture on U.S. passports
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| second: The Trump administration is effectively waging war on contraception. The apparent political consensus of the last 60-plus years is a thing of the past. One of the nation’s oldest culture war battles is raging once again. Social conservatives argue that birth control threatens marriages and families. The Heritage Foundation, which has taken a hard-right turn under Trump 2.0, has asserted that the chemicals in birth control pills have polluted the groundwater, potentially exposing boys to estrogen and compromising their masculinity. [go to link] |
6ixStringJack: I wish somebody would love me as much as you love Donald Trump.  |
| second: “Just wait for the opposition to screw up enough” is not the world’s greatest political strategy, but it’s often a good enough political strategy.
Last week, Fox News released a poll showing Democrats are more trusted on the economy for the first time since 2010. This is pretty clearly not because Democrats pulled off some incredible transformation of their public image.
What happened is that Donald Trump has made a hash of things.
He won office largely because of mass public outrage over high prices. He explicitly promised to make prices go down, setting himself up for trouble since this is not an achievable promise.
But he hasn’t even delivered on the pretty banal goal of “make the inflation rate go back down to the 2 percent target level.”
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| second: Trump’s most fervent supporters justify his approach in terms reminiscent of Caesar’s. The White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has remarked that “the whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president.” Many Republicans argue that Trump’s policy preferences deserve support because he has a “mandate,” and they heap scorn on the “unelected” judges who have had the temerity to rule against him.
This is not American democracy. The central premise of the Constitution is that liberty requires divided authority. The accumulation of power in one branch of government is, as James Madison warned, “the very definition of tyranny.” [go to link] |
| second: I wonder if there is a secret law that Republican Presidents don't pay taxes? It required an act of Congress to learn that Trump reported millions in negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020, and he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. The couple paid little in federal taxes during Trump's presidency and appeared to owe none in 2020 after reporting large deductions and expenses that resulted in a net loss of $15 million. Trump then claimed a $5 million refund, according to the return. Since then, Trump has released no information but his net worth has increased by $4,000,000,000. That’s billions with a B. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up, loser. |
| second: By Week’s End, Trump’s War Will Be Plainly Illegal. President Trump’s war with Iran is almost certainly illegal: Congress hasn’t declared war or authorized it by statute, and it wasn’t precipitated by an imminent attack or a national emergency. If the war continues through Friday without congressional approval, it will clearly be illegal, having passed the 60-day threshold and the 48-hour notice period that the president is given, under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, to conduct this kind of military operation. [go to link] |
| second: Question: who's a bigger coward, RFK Jr, for leaving his wife Cheryl Hines in the dust as he runs from the shooting, or Stephen Miller, for using his pregnant wife as a human shield? [go to link] |
| THG:
Trump calls CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell a ‘disgrace’
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| second: Funny how history repeats itself.
President Trump declared, "I am not a pedophile," during a televised Q&A session on April 26, 2026.
President Nixon declared, "I am not a crook," during a televised Q&A session on Nov 17, 1973, with newspaper executives at Disney World, becoming a defining, controversial, and mocked moment in his presidency. Funny how history repeats itself. |
| second: Oh, do you think he was referring to you? Interviewing Trump:
O'DONNELL: In the suspected shooter's manifesto, he wrote that “I’m no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.” What's your reaction?
TRUMP: I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you're horrible people. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. I'm not a pedophile.
O'DONNELL: Oh, do you think he was referring to you?
TRUMP: Excuse me. You read that crap from a sick person. I was totally exonerated. You should be ashamed of yourself, reading that. You're a disgrace. [go to link] |
| second: Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy. For some wealthy offenders, clemency is just a golf game, or a million-dollar plate at Mar-a-Lago, away. When I asked Osler which pardons bothered him most, he said, “It’s those that have gone to the people who are fabulously wealthy. These are the people who have been advantaged by so much. With my students, we’ve told the stories of people who are fabulously poor and are being ignored.” Clemency, Osler continued, “has begun to take the form that the worst parts of government have already had, which is to be dominated by lobbying. It’s been O.K., if you are a polluter, to hire people who are connected to the President to inveigh on your behalf and pay them tons of money. That wasn’t how clemency worked. But now that kind of ugly fog has floated over to what’s supposed to be about mercy.” [go to link] |
| second: Woman seen snatching wine bottles in aftermath of White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting [go to link] |
| second: At his press conference after yesterday’s attempted shooting, President Trump cited the attack as proof of the need for his wished-for White House ballroom. Trump cares a lot about his ballroom. People who seek his favor have learned to care too. But still, attempted murder as an after-the-fact justification for a home renovation? It seems not only radically beside the point but also quite a humiliating climb-down from last fall’s project to use the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk to consolidate MAGA’s political domination. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: You just tried killing Trump again last night. And you failed again. Like you always do. Because you're nothing but a bunch of losers. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nobody cares what you activists think of J6. That's just something else that will be appealed and Trump won't pay a dime of it. You people are so pathetic, and you all need to grow up. |
| 6ixStringJack: Nobody cares what you activists think of J6. That's just something else that will be appealed and Trump won't pay a dime of it. You people are so pathetic, and you all need to grow up. |
| second: On March 31, 2026, U.S. District Judge Mehta ruled that Trump. Is. Civilly. Liable for the damages he caused on January 6, 2021. Judge Mehta’s cautious 79 page ruling (found here: [go to link] ) denied Trump civil immunity through a careful analysis largely devoted to distinguishing between Trump’s criminal actions as an office-holder (official-acts immunity), and his actions in seeking office, which were not official acts and therefore are not immune. The decision carefully followed the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, and will allow claims against him from members of Congress and capital police officers to proceed to trial. Proving damages will be easy: [go to link] |
| second: Senior State Department officials delivered an ultimatum to Cuba's communist government during a secret meeting. U.S. diplomats told their Cuban counterparts that they had a small window to meet U.S. demands before circumstances irreversibly worsened. The Pentagon was asked to draw up contingency plans in case Trump decides to launch a military operation: [go to link] Trump did not slap down the notion that he was considering military action when reporters prodded him to comment. |