Trump says, "Who the hell signed these deals? They're so bad," about the USMCA trade deal. Trump is the one who signed the deal.

In every budget battle of the last 30 years, proposing cuts to cancer research and food safety was the moment Republicans lost

Surely it’s not this stupid, right? Right?

I like Angie quite a bit personally but she's not really suited to the moment. Peggy is one of our best.

Great thread. The lawmaker two-step is: First, make your tax cut temporary so that it requires offset only up to the expiration date. Next, cancel the expiration date - with no offsets of the extended cost - because "extending current policies doesn't count as a new tax cut."

Somebody needs to gather all the nepo babies in a room and explain to them that nobody’s claiming they landed a particular role “just because” they’re whoever’s kid, we’re saying they *got the audition in the first place* because they’re whoever’s kid

the breathlessness of this post combined with what follows is hilarious

We’ve actually lived in a Boomerocracy since the 50s, because there’s *so many Baby Boomers.* They’re a freakishly large cohort which warps everything around them. When they were teenagers, youth issues dominated, when they were young adults, etc. and now elder issues dominate.

Overall U.S. imports at -64% has got to be one of the most insane numbers in economic history. I don't think people quite comprehend how disruptive that's going to be.

What would be the funniest thing to put this on I’m thinking a copy of Mein Kampf

My favorite is this moth (Macrocilix maia) with a representation of two red-eyed flies eating bird poop on its back. It also smells bad, like bird poop.

I once attempted to publish a breaking news story and found out that I had sent it live without including the body of the article. It was posted to social media, people argued for and against the headline, not a single person noticed there was no actual story.

“I work in medicaid”

We fixed air pollution and now people think the sun turned evil lol

Pretty long moment, IMO, most of my life. Though I agree there is some kind of upswing lately

You can actually see the exact moment at the 32 second mark where his brain catches up with him and he realizes he said that out loud, it’s incredible

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rep ilhan omar has just announced a slate of endorsements from minnesota leaders from gov tim walz, attorney general keith ellison, and senators tina smith and amy klobuchar 🧵