Steve Turner

mudhoney guitarist, author of Mud Ride, dad, skateboards bikes records cats squirrels.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “I think people have been addicted to the chaos of it. Addicted to the cruelty of it, the dopamine that it gives them to hate the people, to be a part of the vitriol and hate that he so easily expresses”

[Steve Turner @SteveTooner]

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @WajahatAli Such a smarmy pos

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Hi, My Name Is Gandalv, and I Have Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It started innocently enough. Someone announced that a 50 percent tariff on imported goods would be paid by the exporting country, and I opened my mouth and said that this is not how tariffs work, that the American importer pays it at the border and passes it on to the American consumer, and that a president who does this is essentially fining his own voters for shopping.

The reply came within seconds. TDS. That was the diagnosis.

Not an argument, just three letters and a shrug, the way a doctor might say “terminal” and leave the room.

So I have decided to stop hiding. I am standing up in the church basement with the bad coffee and the folding chairs, and I am saying it out loud.

I have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and the first step is admitting that you find the following things deranged.

I find it deranged that a man imposed tariffs on Heard Island, a territory inhabited exclusively by penguins, and then explained the formula on a cardboard chart in the Rose Garden.

I find it deranged that he wanted to buy Greenland, threatened to take it anyway, and then acted surprised that Denmark, a NATO ally that lost soldiers in Afghanistan on America’s behalf, was not flattered.

I find it deranged that Canada, the country that shares a continent, a hockey rivalry and a nine thousand kilometre undefended border with the United States, was told it should be the 51st state, and that this was meant as a compliment.

I find it deranged that a hurricane forecast was corrected with a Sharpie, that disinfectant was floated as an internal remedy on live television, that windmills were accused of causing cancer, and that the Gulf of Mexico was renamed.

I find it deranged that the men who beat police officers with flagpoles on January 6th were pardoned as patriots, that the Defense Secretary posted strike timings in a group chat that happened to include a journalist, and that a foreign government offered a 400 million dollar aircraft and the answer was not no.

I find it deranged that the East Wing of the White House was demolished for a ballroom, that Zelensky was shouted at in the Oval Office for not saying thank you enough, and that NATO allies were told their protection is conditional while the actual adversary was told he was doing a great job.

And yes, I find it deranged that all of this is defended by people who will pay more for their groceries, their cars and their phones as a direct result, and who will call you sick for noticing.

Here is the thing about TDS. The symptoms are reading, remembering and doing arithmetic. There is no known cure, and frankly none of us are looking for one.

So if you have ever winced at a tariff, sighed at a Sharpie or asked what exactly the penguins did wrong, you belong here. You do not need to whisper. You do not need to hide behind a burner account. Come out of the closet. There are more of us than you think, we are not ashamed, and we saved you a folding chair.

Proud TDS sufferers, welcome home.

Stay deranged, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

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@donwinslow

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who agrees that we haven't engaged in nearly enough harsh, universal ridicule of the Treasury Secretary who doesn't understand how oil prices work. Like, WTF.

That is insane levels of incompetence.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

1 US milk is illegal in Europe
Too many chemicals

2 US bread is considered cake in Europe
Too much sugar

3 US eggs are illegal in UK
They wash off the natural protection

4 US meat is banned in 160 countries
Due to hormones

5 US apples are coated with wax also used for cars

6 In US, 60% of food contains stuff banned in other countries
-@SydesJokes

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

Is he gone yet?
Wake me when it's over.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

trump's big, ugly bill gave the WEALTHIEST people a tax break they didn't need, drove up our debt, and stuck the rest of us, struggling to buy groceries, with the bill.

Don't let anyone forget: that's the trump debt.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump: “You don’t pay the tariffs.”

Also Trump: “I’m suspending tariffs on beef so you can have cheaper prices.”

MAGA is so fucking stupid.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

So Trump has picked a fight with the democratically-elected prime minister of Canada but calls the communist dictator of North Korea his friend.

Americans, Trumps foreign policy makes no sense! It’s completely irrational.

Do you even know why we are fighting with Canada?

Do you know what we get out of befriending the communist regime in North Korea?

I don’t know the answer to either of these questions.

[Steve Turner @SteveTooner]

Fuck these Nazis

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE/Border Patrol agent approached a U.S. citizen at a gas station, in Lake Worth, Florida, demanded his ID, and when the U.S. citizen asked why? …

The agent’s said, “Because you’re an immigrant.”

Except that is not how the Constitution works.

In the video, the U.S. citizen is standing at a gas station when an agent walks up and says, “Let me see your ID.”

The man asks a completely reasonable question, “Why?”

The agent responds, “Because you’re an immigrant.”

And before the man has even been identified, the agents grab his hands and puts him in handcuffs.

People standing around immediately start questioning what is happening…asking the agents how they can arrest someone when they haven’t even identified who he is…

But the agents ignore them and walk the man to their vehicle.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Supreme Court has held that roving Border Patrol agents need reasonable suspicion, based on specific circumstances, to stop someone and question them about immigration status. And apparent ethnicity, by itself, is not enough.

So, what was the actual legal basis for demanding this man show his ID?

Because if the answer is literally… “because you’re an immigrant,” that should piss off every American.

You should not have to prove you’re a U.S. citizen before the government decides it has the right to put you in handcuffs.

And this is just another reminder that constitutional rights don’t mean anything if federal agents can violate them, over and over again, with no accountability.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Our closest ally. Our critical trading partner.

And Trump is hitting Canada with 50% tariffs.

What the actual fuck are we doing?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @MarkJCarney

Don't negotiate.
Don't compromise.
Don't surrender.

BREAK DONALD TRUMP.

And EVERY SINGLE DAY GO ON INTERNATIONAL TV AND SOCIAL MEDIA AND TELL THE WORLD HOW MUCH EACH DAY IS COSTING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

EXPOSE TRUMP.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Whether it's a trade war with Canada or an actual war with Iran, the pattern is the same: Americans are paying the price for the President's choices.

[David Doney @David_Charts2]

Since 1965, there have been 6 fiscal years when federal spending fell relative to the preceding year:

🔵1965 - LBJ
🔵2010 - Obama
🔵2012 - Obama
🔵2013 - Obama
🔵2022 - Biden
🔵2023 - Biden

No Republican president in the last 60 years has cut spending vs. prior year.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: They hunted the vice president to kill him. They built a gallows on the Capitol lawn. They assaulted police officers with flagpoles and bear spray, and they tried to seize the presidency for Donald Trump.

And to this day, Mike Collins supports that violent attempt to overturn the election. He honors and defends them. He went to visit them in jail.

[Dittie @DittiePE]

Doris Miller had no gunnery training. He was a mess attendant — that’s all the Navy let Black sailors be in 1941. When the bombs hit Pearl Harbor, he ran toward the guns anyway, dragged wounded men to safety, and fought back until he ran out of ammo.

He was the first Black American ever awarded the Navy Cross.

Donald Trump got four draft deferments and a “bone spurs” diagnosis nobody can find a doctor’s name attributed to. He has never worn the uniform, never taken fire, never done a single thing that required courage. Ever.

The Navy named a future carrier after Miller in 2020 — first ever named for an enlisted sailor, first for a Black American. Now they’re reportedly considering stripping his name off it to put Trump’s on instead.

A coward’s name, on a hero’s ship. That should make everyone sick.

[aintmizbeehavin @aintmisbeehavin]

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

This is the full letter Natalie Harp sent to Donald Trump. This is some freaky stuff. Anyone with a brain can see that

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Anybody who watches Fox News willingly is signing up to turn on the television and say: lie to me. I’m an idiot, lie to me. I want lies. Gaslight me and lie to me. How stupid are the Fox News viewers?”