On a scale of medieval skeleton, how’s everybody feeling today?

Adopted an emotional support puppy to get me through this fun new authoritarian phase of the American experiment, as one does. Everyone, meet Agnes. She’s a Very Good Girl.

Amen.

The way fake Christians lose their shit when they meet a real one

The most corrupt thing that has ever happened in US government. It's not only how much money Trump is making - literally billions of dollars overnight - it's how he just laughs it off, as if making a billion dollars overnight is a big nothing no one should care about. Impeach.

Great idea! Let's have an actual conversation about it on a podcast or Substack Live. What do you think, Eric Levitz Matthew Yglesias? (cc Adam Jentleson)

I can only assume Congressional Democrats have thoroughly studied how to operate as an opposition in the face of an authoritarian regime, so that they can avoid the slightest appearance of it. There's no other explanation for how they can be so effective at being ineffective.

May they tear each other to shreds. 🍿

You mean the violence being perpetrated by masked men in uniform who are disappearing people off the streets and shipping them off to foreign concentration camps? One sec, let me grab a mirror—

New messaging guidance just dropped

Never in the history of the world has someone so devastatingly stupid held so much unchecked power. Netanyahu played Trump like a fiddle. And mark my words: it won’t just be Iranians who pay the price.

I'm sure the Iranian people are crying out for leadership from the dude who spent his childhood riding ponies around Niavaran Palace while his dad’s secret police tortured dissidents in the basement — and who hasn't set foot in the country in almost 50 years. Democracy at last!

DC weather has me realizing I’m not cut out for hell. Gotta turn my life around.

We’ve never seen it before because it can’t be done — but the Trump regime is doing it anyway. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress wring their hands about rules and norms and decorum.

I expected collapse to be terrifying. I didn’t expect it to also be this dumb. From Trump’s new EPA chief: