Oh my God.

The world will be worse off without Ben Sasse. He would've made a great President.

Words aren't violence.

There's a fundamental rejection of free expression baked into this. The idea that anyone critical of a president bears responsibility for political violence reduces the First Amendment to a conditional privilege. /1

I recognize this is just another example of big MAGA influencers synchronizing their responses after taking marching orders from the group chat. But, as a response to what happened last night, this is just bizarre.

Political violence has no place in a free society.

It's easy to joke about InfoWars being acquired by satirists. But it's worth remembering why this is happening at all, and that the parents of Sandy Hook children, who've received nothing for what Alex Jones put them through, are finally about to.

@timheidecker.bsky.social has officially confirmed the worst. Satanists are about to take over Infowars.

Tucker Carlson is a sly opportunist, and always has been. He was in on Trump from the beginning, his most effective propagandist for years, and he knew exactly what Trump's character and administration were. /1

“As a result zoning rules favor the interests of insiders in a way that limits the supply of housing, keeps housing prices high and makes it generally hard for anybody to afford a home. What can you do about that?” — @mattzwolinski.bsky.social Listen to the full episode: hubs.la/Q04b_TM80

This has the potential to become the funniest thing that's ever happened.

Ossoff: "Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption." That's the message. Every faction of the anti-Trump coalition, however divided, can rally around one thing: Accountability, investigation, and when convicted, jail time. Make this the focus.

The ancient Romans had a word for it: “ambitio,” the shameless pursuit of approval at the cost of one's integrity. Tom Palmer distinguishes that corrosive hunger for power from ambition rooted in merit, character, and the creation of genuine value. hubs.la/Q04cp8Qk0

God bless every member of the American Red Cross who puts their safety on the line every day to serve those in need. Picture unrelated.

A good talk, I thought, with @andycraig.bsky.social. The case for impeachment. www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-case-f...

Trump last week: "Praise Allah" Yesterday: "I hate the Pope" Today: *posts image depicting him as Christ* Your friendly reminder that the separation of church and state isn't simply to protect the state. It's to protect the church from the corrupting influence of power.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Finally, Hungary we will be sovereign, not a vassal of Russia

Be hopeful. Orban's defeat will weaken right wing authoritarians around the globe.

Days like today have me wondering if Viktor Orban said “thank you.”

Congratulations to Fidesz. Today, one more link in the global authoritarian network has been shattered. 2026 will be an inflection point for the entire world.

Mark my words. In about a week, Americas are going to wake up in the morning and feel what this chart actually means.

Before the war, the Strait of Hormuz was open. We bombed Iran, achieved none of our "stated objectives" on uranium enrichment, lost lives and military assets, and now ships permanently require Iranian authorization to pass through. Normal passage has not resumed. Trump is declaring total victory.

Every day, Trump humiliates America, weakens us, alienates us from our friends, and makes the world our children will grow up in exponentially more dangerous.

"Two weeks." It's TACO Tuesday again. Every day I'm reminded how lucky we are that the most dangerous man in America is, fundamentally, an incompetent child. Incapable of long-term planning, thinking, or leadership. For now, that's our best hope of surviving this moment.

Why are we talking about the 25th Amendment? In no reality should we lay the responsibility here on JD Vance to act. He's a sycophant who's complicit. He'll do nothing. Congress needs to reconvene and vote to impeach and convict. This is their Constitutional obligation.

"If the family is so critical to liberal thought, why have liberals neglected it? Partly it’s because social conservatives have so aggressively claimed the family for their own; it seems that some liberals may assume any serious engagement concedes ground to traditionalism. This is a mistake."

It only takes a handful of Republicans in the House and Senate to end this nightmare for everyone.

Call me crazy, but an American-funded extermination of an entire civilization strikes me as worse than the existence of gender-neutral bathrooms.

Artemis II is 170K+ miles from Earth today. But yesterday, Pilot Victor Glover was asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter. His response is worth listening to. And his advice is worth internalizing in advance of a difficult year ahead.

It's Easter Sunday. Here's what the President has to say this morning.

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

Something last night reminded me what the old America felt like. /1

I feel no need to unpack last night's speech. I'm glad most people are waking up to the fact that we have a deranged madman, an incompetent president surrounded by sycophants, running the world order into the ground. But saying so would be a repeat of everything liberals have been saying for years

Even during periods of great chaos, frustration, and uncertainty, Americans can still do incredible things.

When East Tennessee sends our representation to Congress, we're not sending our best.

"It's a new world with globalization, so birthright citizenship has to go," This argument from the Trump Administration this morning is a template for gutting the Bill of Rights entirely. Think about how this logic would apply to any other issue. 🧵 /1

SCOTUS is arguing birthright citizenship today. SG: "We're in a new world..." Roberts: "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution." A perfect admonishment of the Trump administration's routine effort to use any political crisis to justify undermining the Constitution.

Trump torched the world's most critical international trade choke point, then blamed the allies he claimed he never needed and is now signaling that he's going to leave them to clean up the mess.

In criminal justice, incentives matter. As @radleybalko.bsky.social shows, misaligned incentives can undermine fairness at every level. hubs.ly/Q048WhzP0

The New York Times did an architectural analysis of the upcoming White House ballroom. The symbolism of this addition is incredible. You couldn't make this stuff up.

The commanding general of the Marine Forces Reserve just distributed this letter to reserve troops. "Prepare your family." The Trump administration is preparing young American men and women to face combat, and potentially death, for another pointless forever war.

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MAGA's commitment to "free speech" was always a smokescreen. They didn't want free speech. They wanted to weaponize the federal government to centrally plan culture with censorship and suppression. We're now at the point where they're comfortable saying the quiet part out loud.

“The most important insight in the liberal tradition is that by spreading power out you can mitigate its harmful effects.” — @mattzwolinski.bsky.social

Today.

This piece touches on something I've been wrestling with for a while. If liberals harden themselves to fight (as they should) what happens to the habits that made them worth fighting for?

Immigration policy isn’t just about borders it’s about freedom at home. @ilyasomin.bsky.social explores how restrictions impact Americans’ rights and opportunities. hubs.la/Q047KNMb0

If not supporting this makes me deranged, then I'm proudly deranged. If American society considers moral degeneracy normal, I reject it.

Exactly right. The success of liberalism simply requires that liberals provide—and implement—solutions that improve people's lives. This is how we win. Thankfully, liberalism does offer real solutions, while most ideological alternatives can only offer scapegoats.