If you’re protesting on a college campus and think Che and communism are cool, I invite you to spend some time with Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Castro.

There it is. Marge is going to bring the Motion to Vacate Johnson to the floor now and every Republican who votes against it will get roasted by Bannon, Kirk and the entire right-wing podcast and social media echo system.

1/11 Trump's trial in Manhattan is providing more evidence of his dementia:
Chauncey Devega interviews Dr. John Gartner in today’s Salon
“Can you remember a criminal defendant repeatedly unable to stay awake at his own trial? I can’t.'
salon.com/2024/04/29/the…

No, Ted Cruz isn't as big an asshole as you think he is.

He's much, much worse.

shame on you Ted Cruz

Dear Girl Dads,

You good with his? The government monitoring your daughters' lives?

Woah. Trump tells TIME he would “let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.”

This is the future we’re looking at if he’s elected in November. time.com/6972021/donald…

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Cartoon Tuesday: “Get Out of Jail Free”

By Kevin Necessary

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Not a drag queen.

If you want chaos and war, vote for Donald J. Trump.

If you want peace and continued prosperity, vote for @joebiden.

See how easy that is?

H/T Robert Kagan from his book The Ghost at the Feast p. 147

Crucial point from Amanda Carpenter: You can't dismiss Trump's unhinged comments overheard by Bill Barr about targeting foes as just rhetoric. He and his allies are drawing up *concrete plans* to do this in a second term!

We dug deep into this on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/181060…

The students (some out of idealism, others out of hateful bigotry) are doing what adolescents and young adults will sometimes do.
These faculty, however, are abdicating multiple responsibilities, as mentors, scholars, and officers of instruction of the university.

Undecided Women Voters Savage Trump in CNN Focus Group: 'Put Him Under the Jail!' mediaite.com/a/xcuuk via @mediaite

Americans like chlamydia more than they like politicians.

.Elon Musk, how long til Chapter 11 for X?

Listen and learn. Learn to listen. #democracy

Clear analysis, as ever, by Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺

Correct

Dammit.

Good morning all & OTD in 1975, the last Western diplomats & personnel are evacuated from Saigon as South Vietnam's government, denied military help, collapses amid the Communist onslaught. Within hours, Saigon will fall to the North Vietnamese Army. Approx 2m refugees will flee