I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.
Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.
Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.
People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.
Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.
He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.
That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.
There is a name for it.
So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.
The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.
And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.
Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.
And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.
Just another joke at our expense.
The Trump administration has announced plans to sell waters surrounding American Samoa for deep-sea mining, right in the habitat of the endangered hawksbill sea turtle.
This comes less two weeks after the Trump administration legalized the destruction of endangered species' habitats.
Guaranteed paid annual leave days:
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It is long past time for the United States to join the rest of the world and guarantee paid annual leave and vacation days.
ICE detains children.
In the video, the kid calmly tells agents he can go inside and get his ID to prove who he is. The agents refuse. Instead, they say they’ll “take pictures at HQ" and then force him into their SUV anyway.
That is deeply alarming.
🚨ICE pulled Arturo Quinonez Solis out of his bed 3 weeks after open heart surgery and detained him🚨
He is being denied his medication, despite having it in their possession.
Arturo Quinonez Solis is a Gulf War-era Navy veteran, currently detained at Camp East Montana inside Fort Bliss.
His father is a U.S. citizen. He and his legal team are working to establish that he acquired U.S. citizenship at birth through his father.
Despite intervention by @repescobar and his family, he is still facing deportation to Chiapas tomorrow morning! 👀
He is in no condition to fly. The scheduled deportation flight alone could kill him.
🔗 Link in bio on how we can take action now.
ICE detain Indigenous young woman—for standing on public sidewalk.
Protest started after reports of an ICE raid—on Warm Springs Reservation land.
Agents claimed they only stopped on Tribal land to "use the restroom"—and deny targeted enforcement.
1855 treaty with Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs remains legally binding—yet has historically been violated by the U.S.
The woman has a red handprint painted across her mouth and cheek.
That is a symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives movement.
Arrest occurred outside the South Portland ICE facility in Portland, Oregon.
Kawthar Nukshai doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
BREAKING: The warden of the jail where Andrew Tate is being held has asked people to stop mailing bottles of BBQ sauce addressed to Tate’s cannibal cell mate with the label “Tate Sauce.”
@KylofireBaker@hell_line0 That's absolutely horseshit. Medical professionals are taught that if the woman gets a cancer diagnosis to expect the man to walk.
I told a guy that 70% of women that suffer from breast cancer are abandoned by their male "partners". He replied that we women would simply have to pick a guy that fits the 30%. To him, the problem totally is NOT the guys abandoning their wives at one of the most BRUTAL moments that a woman can go through. The problem is SHE is not picking the guy wisely. I swear to you, men are completely allergic to accountability.
A Texas court today tossed out an injunction against a Houston-area midwife accused of providing illegal abortions, saying Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office hasn’t presented any direct evidence that she violated the state’s ban.
We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.
Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.
The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.
The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.
Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.
The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.
But sure. My paintings.
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, just said we lost 200,000 people in Vietnam.
This is profound stupidity, and one more indication of why he's an incompetent Commander in Chief.
BREAKING: All 212 House Democrats have joined my motion to force a vote blocking President Trump's taxpayer-funded slush fund for convicted criminals and other allies and to nullify his family-sized Super Pardon for any criminal, civil or tax offenses committed by him, any of his sons and all of his businesses.
Now looking for six Republicans who say they oppose this illegal insurrectionist slush fund and want to protect the taxpayers to join us to end this corrupt self-dealing once and for all.
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Trump is under fire after funneling $620 million in taxpayer funds to his son's company.
Commentators are now calling this the most brazen act of corruption in American history.