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Synthesis here is that Americans think Trump's actions in response to the protest has compounded the chaos, rather than done anything at all to fix it. Polls consistently suggest that voters may not necessarily like the protests, but they hate his response even more.

Most Americans: Rosa Parks drew attention to the immorality of segregation through civil disobedience. Chris Cillizza: Woman created embarrassing scene on a bus.

I wrote this stupid piece making fun of Chris Cillizza almost a decade ago, and somehow it *still* pales in comparison to the absolute moral vacuity of the real guy. mcsweeneys.net/articles/winne…

Trump's own DOGE staffer embedded at the VA said waste, fraud & abuse was "relatively nonexistent." This is a smokescreen to keep cutting VA benefits. Trump's already tried to slash crisis line operators, cancer trials, and treatment for traumatic brain injuries. What's next?

In just one week: A GOP president deployed Marines in a U.S. city, called for a Democratic governor’s arrest, the GOP Speaker called for him to be tarred and feathered, a Democratic senator was handcuffed, and two Democratic legislators were shot in their homes.

WH and LAPD may be sharing AI-generated pictures to smear the LA protests substack.com/inbox/post/165…

The president spent $45 million on this instead of homeless veterans.

*This* is how we celebrate in Maryland.

The speechwriter's nightmare: you put "thousands" in the prompter, but forgot to change it when only a handful of people turned up.

Tweeting absolution to the White Sox; you love to see it.

It’s Father’s Day, and you’re spending your time tweeting lies about a tragedy to run cover for a right-wing domestic terrorist. Pathetic.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full email below

We've always gone to extraordinary lengths to signal to the Iranian people that our beef isn't with them, it's with their leaders. An order like this -- directed squarely at 10 million Iranian civilians, whether empty or not -- undoes so much of that.

Masked ICE Nazis kidnap man going to immigration court in NYC….how do they expect people to do right thing when they snatch you when you show up for court hearings

How would you negotiate with a person like this even if you wanted to

What is there left to say or do about a political press this irretrievably lost?

Obviously using chatbots makes you more dumb, everyone is skipping over the funniest part: the study authors are such dedicated LLM haters they set up traps to expose AI users lol

.Punchbowl News: "A big, beautiful bust" "The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s agenda is polling like garbage." "And Democrats are doing a good job branding the bill – a fact even most Republicans concede."

China just laughing and waiting with open arms. Very happy to be the lone energy superpower of the 21st Century, and since we won’t have enough energy to keep up they’ll be AI superpower too. Would be one of the great self-destructions of world history, all for oil & gas donors.