This looks pretty permanent. Built around the doors.

Journalists sitting on massive scoops about important people in this country—stories the American people deserve to know—just so they can sell books later is everything wrong with journalism today.

Today is @realDonaldTrump’s 80th birthday—so we wanted to remind him of his favorite card. May every day be another wonderful secret.

“over the last thirty years, the cost of college has increased at five times the rate of inflation. Even with this rising tuition, over 150 non-profit public and private four-year and two-year colleges have collapsed in the last ten years” students.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin…

Syracuse announced a financial deficit this week after missing their enrollment target. They cite demographics geopolitics, but the answer is much simpler: There are 5.7k higher ed institutions in the US, charging way too much for something that is worth less than ever

I hate to break it to you - but the United States is an absolute, incoherent shitshow. The idea that we have ‘representative government’ is ridiculous. If that were true we would not have wasted billions killing Iranians for no reason at all. Some people wanted this - but the voters who elected this government did not. Let’s go further. When Trump goes to China - he brings our ‘great billionaires’ with him. I can’t think of any more obvious symbol that we live in an oligarchy that does everything it can to manipulate outcomes - and that voting is a bit of a joke. It’s like he’s bringing with him ‘the ruling elite.’ Because that is what he did. We have at least 40 million illegal aliens living here. Our business ‘leaders’ engineered this by bribing politicians to keep the border open - because they wanted to pay low wages and make mucho $$ for themselves. When people objected because their incomes were falling - the business leaders accused them of racism and funded Barack Obama to become POTUS. The USA is $40 trillion in debt - and no one has a plan to solve that problem. Absolutely no one. This will blow up one day - and it will destroy normal people who save in dollars - because the unspoken plan is to destroy the currency and save the rich and destroy the rest. But people who own our homes - like Blackstone or Blackrock - won’t care because their assets will follow inflation. Everyone else will be reduced to paupers renting from them - their bank accounts gone. The United States today is hopelessly dysfunctional. It lacks a coherent population that can even agree on anything. It is bankrupt - but the rest of the world is propping it up because they are also scared of what happens when the dollar collapses. It doesn’t have any smart leaders - and we have to watch insiders doing oil trades to make $$ on the Iran war - and the administration itself sells shit coins. Our foreign policy is a total joke - not strategic in any way at all. It is driven by special interests, and then not even followed through. And people are actuality making money on it - pump and dump coming straight from the White House. This is a hell of a way to celebrate 250 Years! At least we can have a cage match on the White House lawn that degrades our entire history and underscores just how bad and ridiculous things are! Thank you for your attention to this matter! Enjoy the circus! If you’re lucky you will be dead when the music stops!

*taps the sign

Here is what I've learned today. MAGA is nuts. I've never really interacted too much. I just stuck to writing. And I can attest that so far, I love all you guys so much! For the most part, people on here are good people. But the "BUT OBAMA DID THIS!" people have fucking lost their minds for a bloated orange Caligula who fucks children. I've been writing about the Reflecting Pool and the danger of algae to wildlife, pets, and humans. Obama used $34 million to fix the Reflecting Pool 16 years ago. He did a LOT to it. And it helped a LOT. He put a state of the art filtration and circulation system in it and pulled better water from the Potomac River, then shallowed the pool to conserve water. The pool still leaked a little but that's because it was built on mud 100 years ago. It was determined many years later that the pipes installed could be larger though. Still, no algae problems. No wildlife hurt. It was a great project and it was successful. Then here comes MAGA screaming, "OBAMA PUT THE WRONG PIPES IN AND DESTROYED THE WHOLE POOL!!!!" Fucking, really? Really!!? No, he fucking didn't. No one was upset at all after Obama's restoration because we could afford eggs, milk, gas, rent, and have a more joyful existence. If all you have is "Obama destroyed the pool", then you don't want to comment on my tweets...because I'll let you know the soiled slob who destroyed the Oval Office, Rose Garden, and East Wing is an abomination to humankind. Jack the Ripper had more dignity than Donald Jennifer Trump, the thin-skinned false prophet with an infant's hands at age 80 who has never cracked a Bible open because the idiot can't read above preschool level. If the black man must be PERFECT, while the white orange-tinted man wearing a full face of makeup can be the most vile person on the planet, you're a fucking racist. Full stop.

NYC's response to the Knicks' run is an explicit rejection of Trumpism. Civic engagement is at an all-time high. Fearmongering about public safety was crushed by the hundreds of spontaneous watch parties. Unimaginably diverse groups rallying behind a sense of collective identity.

Imagine if Barack Obama promised to fix everything on day one but instead he started a war, almost doubled the price of gas and the inflation rate, stole billions of dollars for his family and then decided to have a dunking contest on the White House lawn.

Trump mocked JPowell over a building renovation while his own team spent $14 million turning the Reflecting Pool into a national chia pet. They filled it with clean city drinking water. It looked blue for a few days. Then algae showed up like it had a White House visitor pass. Don’t worry, though. Trump knows pools. The Mar-a-Lago pool area was so secure he trusted it with nuclear-adjacent bathroom paperwork.

No they won’t. The tech oligarchs are the most useless set of elites imaginable. No set of rich people in American history have been as useless a drain on society as they have

Musk is the leading example of an illegal immigrant living off public welfare in human history and the man spends every day pretending the real problem is a woman cleaning motel rooms in West Murfreesboro Our species has let this evil man prosper and we will pay the price for it

Everything Trump touches turns to shit: Because conman Trump awarded a $14.2 million taxpayer-funded no bid contract to an incompetent friend to makeover the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the water is now a putrid smelly swamp of stinking algae.

Today is Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, representing eight decades of a man who has done more than anyone to hurt the West, elevate its enemies, and trap us in a post-truth nightmare. While he is certainly a symptom of a deeper political illness, he has actively made things much worse. Let us be clear that there is nothing to celebrate today, because Trump is the most traitorous, deeply corrupt, and overall worst president in the history of the US. He is a compromised, horrible human being who has lost the respect of anyone with half a brain. His deep ties as a best friend to Jeffrey Epstein prove he knew exactly what was going on behind closed doors. He is the lowest of the low. He has spent years threatening American allies, appeasing foreign enemies, and losing the reckless trade wars he started. His leadership has left Americans poorer, more stupid, more polarized, and trapped inside a decadent, ever more authoritarian joke of an administration that hurts the whole world. He is a traitor. His alignment with autocracy is clear in how he sides with Russia over Ukraine and China over Taiwan. He even systematically undermined domestic safety by installing a Russian asset as the Director of National Intelligence and an anti-science, anti-vaxx Russian asset as Health Secretary. No one is better than Trump at sabotaging the US. The only bright side to his birthday is that he is old, ensuring he will not be able to stay in power forever. He will never be missed by anyone with a brain and/or a heart, and if I believed in hell, I would seriously doubt it is bad enough for him

“We voted for him because of the economy” was always a lie. They support Trump because they are racist

Very true. You really saw this with the Mamdani scavenger hunt last summer. Many Millennial and Generation Z New Yorkers have a really passionate civic pride in NYC – even though (or maybe because) they're much less patriotic about the U.S. in the Trump era.

Kyle Kulinski: “Elon Musk is a parasite, he’s a welfare queen, he’s stolen $38B from US taxpayers to do fraud and make a bunch of dumbass rockets explode instantly. This guy’s a ketamine addict, he’s a fucking Nazi, he’s a genuine low IQ dipshit and total con man. And now he’s worth $1T”

actually hilarious the only game the knicks lost is the one trump was at

I think between the Knicks joy and the local/visitor “we like each other” vibes of the World Cup, Americans are experiencing something wholly patriotic, fun, accepting, insane, and without meanness or ego driven. The UFC timing couldn’t be worse for Trump. This ship has sailed ⬇️.