Fun fact: Mike Rogers is literally registered to vote in Florida *right now* #MISen

This is less than one hour of Truth Social activity for Trump. Insane volume of posting.

'I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be...At a time when our world is at history's turning point...Freedom and democracy are currently under threat around the globe.'

— Japanese PM Fumio Kishida addresses Congress

The library, it’s not just for nerds anymore.

Fox News will routinely do clips of New York City denouncing it as some godless hellscape full of debauched fentanyl addled pedophiles but if any Democratic affiliated entity so much as whispered a harsh word about rural folks it would be a five alarm national scandal

Presidential debates are worthless if the earth being round is contested ground. Biden is right not to share the stage with someone who objects to reality. cjr.org/the_media_toda…

Bizarrely meek WaPo follow-up to story about how the guy lied about getting wounded. wapo.st/4auU0rf

Kari “Tossing My Previous Position In The” Lake

Perfect encapsulation of what I refer to as 'subjunctive whiteness.'

…and *this* was a large part of why Norm was removed as Weekend Update host & later fired

Free speech in America is too free. (You can change the speech bubble to 'I told you so' after America, via media manipulation, talks itself out of democracy and free speech.)

Michaelah Montgomery, the person who hugged Trump at Chick-fil-A, runs a conservative group, was a Republican Party intern and former Blexit city director. Blexit was founded by Candace Owens.

These Trump photo ops are pre-staged with supporters prior to his arrival.

Trump War Room LIARS!! As usual. Tell Michaelah Montgomery we see her!!

This is a BFD!

Senate Democrats subpoena Leonard Leo in Supreme Court ethics probe amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/11…

Any of the Imperfect Messenger Times editorial all-stars want to weigh in on how the sitting Speaker of the House is groveling in front of a private citizen with no authority? To set his legislative agenda? Surely there’s some handy Roman General’s quote that covers this.

'I don't care what the data shows.'

She doesn't want to 'live like this.' Turns out the 'this' refers to Earth 2, a terrifying false construction fed to her every day by rightwing media.

🧵 Here's a violently nauseating story about the Republican mindset.

We have a friend in a red state who has suffered three miscarriages. Each time, she needed mifepristone to help expel remaining tissue to avoid fatal sepsis.

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I've become convinced that the billionaire (and adjacent) class globally and especially in America suffers under a delusion I'm calling 'oligarchical utopianism.'

Once people could get paid a lot of money for lying and being stupid on television, things took a turn.

Dwight D. Eisenhower My general observation about the current failure mode of the American system is that a vibrant democracy requires an educated, well-informed, involved population capable of at least a modicum of critical thinking. /2