N.S. Dolkart, Purim spiel author

If there was any deficit left after his COVID response, he wiped it out and then some in the first three months of his second term with DOGE and the dismantling of USAID. Now he’s gone on an international killing spree too, and started some wars for good measure.

Old enough to remember when it wasn’t just bullshitters like Vance pushing this idea, when actual Democrats were telling me it was wrong to call Trump the worst president of our lifetimes because George W. Bush was responsible for more deaths.

State charges? State charges tonight queen?

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

I maintain that simply arresting Elon musk and making a real example of him is the quickest way to global stability

this is exactly right

the majority of the working class in the US is female

a disproportionate percentage of the working class in the US are people of color and/or immigrants to the US

these pundits and consultants just want a Tough White Daddy

If Platner had otherwise stellar achievements, I wouldn’t be okay with the tattoo but I’d at least get other people’s desire to explain it away as youthful stupidity or a dark period. But there’s not a single thing in his resume that makes me want to give him power. The whole thing is a dark period.

Very true but also there are a LOT of issues besides the Nazi tattoo! The Blackwater contractor thing, the fact that he played at being a war protester *before* joining the military to fight the same war, despite having many other choices as a rich kid, the tattoo is the tip of the iceberg.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

To add onto this, I need people to stop pretending like white working class people are particularly prone to having their Nazi phase. ie it’s not a signifier of his working class roots that he has Nazi tattoos. This does not appeal to and recruit the working class.

Trans New Yorkers Deserve Better Than Mamdani's Inaction On Trans Youth Care Closures The mayor has immediate steps he can take to ensure continuity of care for trans youth.

1. Its been a week since NYU Langone ended its trans youth care program.

Then Sinai followed a few days ago.

There are immediate steps Mamdani can take, and he refuses to do so. When asked about those steps, his office has chosen not to comment repeatedly.

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I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

just to be clear, I think the best way to go is:

1. very strict school vaccine mandates
2. end parent's ability to deny kids vaccines
3. a massive public health information outreach campaign explaining to parents why vaccines are necessary.

none of this involves scolding or yelling at parents.

The Rowling tax on female athletes is a a wake-up call to all women.

The gender critical are tearing up the rights of ALL WOMEN.

Rich and powerful men are using the gender critical to facilitate their goal of the complete subjugation of ALL WOMEN.

No one who did that will see this or realize this was in any way predictable, because they do not follow politics in any meaningful way. Voting “for the economy” is all vibes-based. It means “I don’t like the economy right now,” not that they have compared economic plans.

Which people. Name 3

A fun place to get pulled over and get your windows chopped in by ICE! You can buy cute garbage bags to clean up all the chopped up glass!

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.

damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord

Post from bevimac, @bevimac.bsky.social: Did you know that child marriage is legal in the United States of America. People, what the fuck!!!!?!!! I think the missing link in the US is the complete lack of Education. Reply from Loreduck (butterfly emoji) Blue (Italian flag emoji) Net, @loreduck22.bsky.social: Translated from Italian: Because they follow the Talmud.

This had nothing to do with Zionism. The lies here are the claim that the Talmud sets US policy, and the implied claim that the Talmud requires child marriage.

If it did have anything to do with Israel, I'd point out that those lefties in the Israeli rabbinate set the minimum age for marriage at 18

Oh yeah it never actually changes people’s *opinions.* That’s why we keep getting more financial crises.

Aren’t they ALWAYS mad at the president about it? If they’re mad at someone else this time, it’ll be a huge break from precedent.

We are so broken, as a whole generation

Pete Hegseth loves war crimes, it's the entire reason he has the job in the first place.

Scary situation in downtown Boston, as delivery person falls 20 feet through roadway grating It was a scary situation in Boston on Friday morning as a delivery person fell 20 feet through a roadway grate and had to be pulled out of the hole in the ground by firefighters. Shortly after 7 a.m., Boston firefighters responded to a report for a technical rescue for a cave in on the side of the Omni Parker…

SCARY SITUATION: A delivery person fell 20 feet through a roadway grate near the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston this morning and had to be pulled out of the hole in the ground by firefighters. See exclusive images from the scene. on.nbcboston.com/31RhJDs

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

“As a judge who sat in child abuse court, sometimes kids [lie about sexual abuse for personal gain]” well first of all I’d like a review of all your child abuse decisions ma’am!

the part where the Meta attorney just gives up on introducing the exhibit because he's clearly too skeeved out by how the judge is judging *his adversary* over it

In the 2002 midterm congressional elections, the Republicans regained control of the Senate. During the new 108th Congress, Senator Orrin Hatch, R-UT, the new Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, began to process previously blocked judicial nominees. California's two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, announced their opposition to Kuhl's nomination. Contrary to Feinstein's and Boxer's wishes, and the tradition of having the approval of the state's own Senators, Hatch gave Kuhl a committee hearing, and passed her out of committee. 13] Kuhl's nomination was filibustered on November 14, 2003, when the Senate failed to end debate with a 53-43 cloture vote, which fell 7 votes shy of the 60 needed to overcome the filibuster. In December 2004, Kuhl withdrew her nomination. 14) In 2006, new Bush nominee Sandra Segal Ikuta was confirmed to the seat to which Kuhl had originally been nominated.

Oh ok so she’s super duper bad got it

The judge in the bellwether social media trial in Los Angeles barred Meta's defense from introducing a document where the plaintiff said she had suffered "sexual abuse during childhood."

Kuhl asked to see the application and scoffed, telling Schmidt, "It looks like she's lying here. She's bringing up autism, she's bringing up sexual abuse that never happened," said Kuhl.

"In this document, she's exaggerating. Common logic says she's got to find a place to go, she's trying to convince [the housing] that she's an abused child so they can help her, said Kuhl. "She's making it as 'that' as possible."

"I don't know how you don't get a sense of the document that I get. As a judge who sat in child abuse courts, sometimes kids do that," said Kuhl.

Uh what the fuck is going on with the judge in the Meta trial

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CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.