Charlotte Clymer

In case you missed it: last night, CBS News awarded the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship to Santiago Campos, a high school journalist. In accepting, he took the time to condemn the direction of CBS News to much surprise and applause from the audience.

We ask our young people to enlist in our all-volunteer military to protect our nation, and in exchange, we promise to never send them into harm's way for stupid reasons. Susan Collins did send them into harm's way with only politics in mind. This is an atrocious thing for her to say.

A month before Josh Turek struggled through a denial that he wasn't a D.C. insider during the Iowa Democratic primary debate for the Senate, he took $20,000 from Senator Chuck Schumer and allies. This is a Schumer candidacy. It has been a Schumer candidacy.

One of my all-time favorite moments from Colbert’s show — this exchange with Dua Lipa on faith and grief.

Literally me after three vodka crans.

Leader Jeffries makes it clear Supreme Court reform is part of the vision to restore America in service to the people. @americanprogress.bsky.social IDEAS Conference

Students at the University of Central Florida booed the pro-AI comments made by Gloria Caulfield during her commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for UCF’s College of Arts and Humanities this past Friday.

On the difference between the National Guard vs. ICE. (Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, April 15th, 2026)

Some thoughts on the Second Amendment and Alex Pretti. (Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, April 15th, 2026)

Goddamn, Aziz Ansari took belt to ass last night on Kash Patel. I’m not even kidding when I say this might be the actual tipping point in Trump firing him.

A few words on legacy media. Conference on World Affairs University of Colorado Boulder April 15th, 2026

“Get your fucking hand out of my face.” Hey @adammockler.com, you rock. This is superb.

Shenna Bellows is running for Governor of Maine. Listen to this great answer during her primary debate tonight when she was asked to talk about her opponents and contrast her governing vision. This is so refreshing. Perfect answer. Follow her: @shennabellows.bsky.social

The artist Mark Winklemann, aka “Beeple,” has a new art installation in Berlin depicting tech billionaires on robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone faces. They poop images taken with their visual sensory mechanism. I am both laughing and dreading the nightmares I will have from this.

This is, hands down, the most uncomfortable two minutes I’ve watched in a long time. Russell Brand is asked to identify a Bible verse relevant to his, um, legal battles and spends a few minutes clumsily thumbing through Scripture and arrives at nothing.

Every day, I think: there’s no possible way it can get dumber and more embarrassing. And then Trump does something like this. And yes, this is real. It is all too real.

It’s gonna be a pretty solid weekend if social media is flooded with clips of Laura Loomer getting her ass handed to her in-person by Indian journalists. Shout-out to Rajdeep Sardesai for kicking off the festivities.

[WARNING: This is a bit graphic.] A Marine Corps veteran protesting Trump’s War on Iran had his arm broken by Capitol Police and GOP Senator Tim Sheehy. It appears to be a compound fracture.

Congressman Al Green holding a sign in front of Trump that reads: “Black people aren’t apes” — referencing Trump posting a video that depicted Pres. Obama and First Lady Obama as apes.

Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

LOL, these fucking people. Just shameless. “But as you know, it is not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.”

The Republican Party is now against the Second Amendment. “You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words: you are going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you are a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.“

“Before I thank God, I wanna say: ICE out. We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are human, and we are Americans.” — Bad Bunny

Joe Rogan: “What ICE is doing, like fucking shooting that lady, seems kind of crazy. Grabbing people that happen to be American citizens and fucking dragging them out onto the snow and asking them for their papers. That seems kind of fucking crazy,”

Reporter: “Do you have any moral or ethical qualms about detaining a five-year-old on his way back from preschool?” Bovino: “I’ve got no qualms about making America a safer place when we arrest those illegal aliens.”

“You don’t turn the Titanic around overnight.” This is J.D. Vance’s pitch to working class families while his First Class billionaire friends fill up space in the lifeboats.

Trump is now openly referring to himself as a dictator.

The dipshit who wants to invade Greenland just mistakenly called it “Iceland” in front of an audience of global leaders and then claimed Greenlanders are calling him “Daddy.” I ask again: when will Republicans push for removal of this demented clod?

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy… The powerful have their power. But we have something, too: the capacity to stop pretending.” — Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, basically announcing divorce from America and receiving a standing ovation

“But more recently, Great Powers have begun using economic integration as weapons…You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” — Canadian PM Mark Carney calls for end to compliance with American hegemony at Davos

“When even one person stops performing… the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.” — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney opens Davos remarks with very clear shot at Trump

Abigail Spanberger was told to throw trans youth under the bus during her campaign. She refused to do so. She won the election by 15 percent. A dominant victory. A landslide. She was just sworn-in as the 75th Governor of Virginia, the first woman to lead the state.

Greenlanders respond to Trump wanting to take over their country. God, I’m so embarrassed to be an American right now.

I’ve never been a fan of John Bolton, but I’m definitely loving Dark Bolton in this moment.

I don’t know who this Minnesota man is, but he absolutely speaks for me.

Trump visited the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan today. A worker there shouted “Pedophile protector!” at him from the floor. Trump said something and then flipped him off while walking away.

An extremely rare moment: Fox Business runs a segment criticizing Trump for attacking Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and publicly urges him to “quietly drop” the investigation.

Flashback to this past July when Jerome Powell corrected Trump’s math on national television, live, and called out his disinformation.

“I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.”

“Please hear me clearly: you belong. Your service matters. Our country is better because of you.” — Congresswoman Sarah McBride, addressing five retiring trans service members in a ceremony hosted yesterday by the Human Rights Campaign @mcbride.house.gov @hrc.org

This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban. “I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.” Full remarks:

Mike Johnson is so completely full of shit.

“To ICE: get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.” — Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey