Irony is dead. Trump will continue to his efforts to oust Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve, saying that he would “take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!”

"All honor to the people of Minneapolis, who, with the Trump administration at the height of its power and presumption, stood up against Trump and his army of goons, and who stood with their neighbors, for our country, and in defense of its principles." -William Kristol in The Bulwark

“the UFC event…captures something about this moment in our history. After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump.” -William Kristol in The Bulwark

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"The American people broke something when they gave Trump a second chance in office. And there is no going back to the Union as it was. If Democrats hope to lead the nation to any kind of recovery, much less renewal, they must understand and internalize this fact of the matter." -Jamelle Bouie

“When the rich get extra money, they tend to save it, which simply pushes up asset prices; when the poor get extra money, they spend it, which creates all sorts of real economic activity.“ -Carlos Cuerpo, Spain’s deputy prime minister, as paraphrased by Rogé Karma in The Atlantic

"Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public." -Greg Ip, Wall Street Journal, per Axios

"Donald Trump’s Iran “strategy” is less a foreign policy and more a hostage negotiation with his own attention span." - Steve Sack

The weekend event showcased "the MAGA iteration of the faith..., an uneasy amalgam of rudimentary Christian doctrines summoned up to bless smashmouth Trumpian politics." -Andrew Egger in The Bulwark

"If America ditches Trumpism and goes back to the principle of upholding territorial integrity, we’ll see our military fortunes improve, because we’ll associate ourselves with causes that people want to fight for." -Noah Smith

“If we defeat Trumpism we will need both reform and accountability. I am not convinced that the Democratic party (or the American people) are serious enough to demand either of them. And I am almost certain that our political system is no longer vital enough to achieve both.” -Jonathan V. Last

'Trump’s...threats against Iran leapt...from...war crimes...to outright genocide...and the bosses in Tehran ran that through their Trump decoder...to reveal the true message: “I am terrified by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and have no idea how to get myself out of this mess.”' -K. Williamson

“Online activists might dream of [race war or religious war], but they’re small in number…Most actual Americans just want to get along with our neighbors and live our lives together. Ultimately, that’s all assimilation is — living our lives together until we become one people.” -Noah Smith

”[Trump] celebrated Easter Sunday by bleating an F-bomb laden threat to commit war crimes...We are inured to the vulgar and the psychotic. But, on the ever-shifting continuum of derangement, this may actually have been the most demented utterance in the history of the presidency…” -Charlie Sykes

“Smartphones are above all an information-delivery system—a relentless, inescapable IV drip of news, connection, outrage, friendship, conspiracy, solidarity, and garbage—whose effect on any individual depends significantly on what’s in the drip.” -Derek Thompson

Whether it's Republican Pete Hegseth intervening to make sure Black people don't get to be 1-star generals or then-Democrat Strom Thurmond running on a segregationist platform in 1948, both parties have racist behavior to answer for.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

"Trump presides over an administration built in his image: Careless, thoughtless, blunderous, sloppy, arrogant, and foolish, it approaches every situation as a squeeze play no matter how many such squeezes blow up in its face." -Andrew Egger in The Bulwark

“the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre…argued…that modernity had destroyed the shared moral language once supplied by traditions and religion, leaving us with only the language of individual preference. Virtue did not disappear, [but] died and was reincarnated as the market.” -Derek Thompson

"To think clearly about this war, we need to hold two sets of ideas in our minds at the same moment: the Iranian regime is evil, and the Trump administration is dangerously amoral, corrupt, and incompetent." -Sam Harris

“Any head of state who can say [what Trump said about Muller] in public…is a moral monster. Either he has no ability whatsoever to empathize with others; or he has no sense whatsoever of a leader’s duty; or he has no remaining cognitive ability whatsoever to “filter” what he says.” -James Falows

"Although President Donald Trump says he has ‘destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military Capability’, the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.” -The Economist

“Never…believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that any one…can measure the…hurricanes he will encounter. The Statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of…uncontrollable events.” -Winston Churchill

"The filibuster is also a democracy-destroying tool. It makes it virtually impossible for politicians to keep campaign promises, while diffusing accountability for why those promises cannot be kept." -Ryan Cooper in The American Prospect

"Brendan Carr’s authoritarian warning — that networks risk their broadcasting licenses for Iran war reporting that the government doesn’t like — is outrageous. When the government demands the press become a state mouthpiece under the threat of punishment, something has gone very wrong.” -F.I.R.E.

“If you’re president of the United States and you start a war, you should have enough of a sense of decency and dignity to treat it as a serious matter. To make this obvious point isn’t to be woke or even antiwar. It’s to be adult and civilized.“ -William Kristol in The Bulwark

open.substack.com/pub/noahpini... Elements of urban revival, by Noah Smith.

”over the past 25 years, lawmakers have repeatedly cut taxes and increased spending…[I]n…2024…we estimated that 37% of GDP of our current debt can be explained by major tax cuts, 33% of GDP by major spending increases, and 28% of GDP by recession responses.“ -Committee for Responsible Federal Budget

Great overview of Social Security by Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget www.crfb.org/sites/defaul...

“Christian nationalism is not a type of Christianity; it’s a parasitic form of nationalism that infects Christianity, eats it from the inside, and creates a zombie nationalism that wears a Christian skinsuit.” -J V Last in The Bulwark

Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Our city continues to attract construction and investment. Minneapolis surpassed $1 billion in construction in 2025. Learn about the city’s top construction projects of 2025: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/march/top-10-projects/

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

James Fallows on Trump’s “nasty, brutish, and long” State of the Union speech: “Before the speech, I’d done a set-up article about how SOTU’s “normally” work, and where I thought Trump’s might diverge. It turns out that my imagination was not nearly dark enough.”

I've sat through every one of these SOTUs since high school. Between the racism, the lying, the incoherence, the time-wasting ramble, the pandering, the preening, and the performative sycophancy, I think I've had enough of this one.

"Once Trump’s threats are overtaken by the [primary] calendar, Republican ... [d]efections will feed on themselves... [A] growing volume of court losses...along with broad civic outrage against police-state excesses [will further erode Trump's power]. This Republic may yet hold." - Robert Kuttner

"We now understand that there is a baseline threshold of character below which the powers of the presidency become toxic...Trump has exposed...a danger we had not previously noticed...none of the occupants had been so wicked, corrupt, malicious, and ambitious in their thirst for power." -JV Last

The wisdom of George Washington, in stark contrast to the current debasement of the presidency. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Eloquent account of the motivating power of the Declaration of Independence. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“You can just decide that you don’t know things, it turns out, even if you do know them. You can simply decide to forget progress...You can simply decide to burn coal and witches and books again. Be especially sure to burn the books.“ -Alexandra Petri on Trump climate change policy

“ ‘Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they’ll never sit under.’ There’s an inverse to that wisdom. Great societies decline when old men chop down forests meant to provide shade and oxygen for future generations. Donald Trump is…clear-cutting American values.” -Scott Galloway

“Taking slavery seriously in American history is not anti-American. The story of slavery in the U.S. is about an ancient institution that…thrived here, and [then was destroyed]...The destruction of slavery is one of the great American achievements,” says Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton

James Fallows on administration lies about El Paso incident: "Aviation safety depends on ruthless honesty. To put it in terms Donald Trump prefers: In aviation you learn the danger of lies the easy way, or you learn it the hard way. Team MAGA seems determined to keep teaching us the hard way."

Good long read on Democrats’ challenges, and hopes. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

“To sympathetic ears, [Stephen] Miller [saying the world is governed by force] sounded refreshingly unsentimental and cleareyed. But the “niceties” he disparaged…are the values of Christianity, the faith the Trump administration purports to defend and uphold.” -Leighton Woodhouse in NY Times

“Progressives often [oppose transit] fare gates…[based on] the idea that eliminating society’s rules serves as a…welfare benefit for marginalized people. But…[the poor] are the chief victims of the tiny number of chaotic individuals who…make public spaces and public services unusable.” -Noah Smith

"Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." -Jamelle Bouie