A sickness. The statements I’ve seen from Dem officials about Charlie Kirk are putting the victim first, condemning the violence, and telling people to think about his family & children. Like humans. Republicans are transparently capitalizing on his death and openly using him.

Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server

NEW: The Trump administration invokes the state-secrets privilege, saying it will give Judge Boasberg no more information about deportation flights to inform his decision about whether the gov't defied his orders storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome. Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people." www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...

Fascism Fascism Fascism Fascism

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

Our country is being run by an MLM full of Frank Abagnale’s. Trump, Musk and so many of MAGA’s “thought leaders” are always one step ahead of having their cons exposed to the people they’re grifting. Still amazes me that a combination of big tech, capitalism, and lazy reporting gave them the edge.

"US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms" Trump and the GOP “will likely impact civic freedoms and reverse hard-won human rights gains around the world.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What has Musk been up to up north? Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles at four locations in Canada in three days - resulting in $43 million in government EV rebates - just before the government stopped those rebates. A single Toronto showroom claimed over 1,200 sales in a single day.

"A government in a nation this big is going to be big. It is also going to be, for the most part, useful and even essential. And yet, with no vetting or assessment or common sense, a lot of it could vanish in a couple of months"

“Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson summed up the threat this week at a hearing on the future of the [CFPB] … She said she feared it would be “choked out of its very existence before I get to rule on the merits.” In other words, Trump and Musk could outrun the rule of law, rendering it irrelevant.”

We need these stories.

NEW: Trump has fired dozens of officials who run the immigration courts—even as he taxes the already broken system with mass deportations. Former officials tell @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social it's causing severe strain. They worry that under Trump “the entire system will collapse"

Basically using the government to try to prop up the value of an unregulated security that is often used for criminal activities. Trying to strengthen the illusion that crypto, broadly speaking, is more stable than it is. Enabling future scams. And using highly misleading means to do so.

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

Sometimes, there’s a man. I won’t say a hero, ‘cause what’s a hero? But sometimes, there’s a man.

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

This is an Executive Order issued from the White House, attacking a single specific law firm, openly retaliating against them for perceived slights against Trump in 2016, and rewriting public history with lies. Banana republic dictator shit. Who is next?

Long story short, Section 230 seriously needs changes, but the time to do that was like 15 years ago, or maybe 4 years ago. Not right now, when the most damaging social media platform in the country is run by a guy who is basically co-dictator, and who will ensure it only targets his competitors.

BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

SCOOP: FEMA's top lawyer was forced out yesterday after less than a week on the job—and sources tell me it was because of his unwillingness to write a memo providing legal cover for the agency's impoundment of $80 million from NYC migrant shelters. Full story:

New from me: In the days after George Floyd’s death, Ben Shapiro said conservative and police calls for Derek Chauvin’s prosecution was proof that they weren’t racist or oblivious to police abuse. So what should we make of the fact that he and other right wingers now want Chauvin to be pardoned?

Current and former officials said they were worried by DOGE’s request. “This is private, confidential data, including Social Security numbers and earnings, of virtually all people in the country,” said Vicki Turetsky, who led the child support office during the Obama administration.

This shouldn’t need to be said, but you don’t win elections by compromising your own core values. No one will ever respect that. This Dem hyper-focus on the ‘swing district golden child’ model will look more and more cowardly as time goes on. It isn’t a plan; it is a backbiting path to conceding.

Importantly, nothing changed. No “concessions” were made, and no benefit has been gained by anyone. But a bunch of people around Trump probably just siphoned hundreds of millions out of the economy through insider trading.

Notice how quickly “deport the illegals” slid right into “lock up and expel campus protestors who have the wrong opinions?” When it happens to someone you know, you will be disturbed by how many people make a noncommittal noise and find a way not to think about it. Don’t be those people.

NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

Come on guys, let’s just meet the wrecking ball in the middle and “normal politics” our way out of this multi-front war against the Constitution, America, and pretty much everything we believe in. Come on, let’s join with them and chastise our own allies. That’s how we win elections and stuff.

“This is private, confidential data including Social Security numbers and earnings of virtually all people in the country...” "Federal law restricts access 'to authorized persons and... authorized purposes' such as child support enforcement..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

We will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's and Musk's circles who have an hour of notice about the daily swings in tariff policy or the occasional announced *expectations* of such swings.

I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

📣 D.C., our truck is back. Today at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired workers were given just 15 minutes to pack up their desks. As always, we're here to listen and meet people where they are. 👉 Reach out at propublica.org/tips or on Signal at 917-512-0201.

Gee I wonder why it was necessary for the President to tell his [checks notes] Senate-confirmed cabinet heads that they, not Elon Musk, are in charge of the federal departments that they were selected to run

BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

“Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.”

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error. "Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.

NEW: The Defense Department is considering a 75% reduction in workforce targeting employees who work to prevent the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, according to a draft proposal obtained by WIRED. 😕

This is what weak, flailing leadership looks like. His inability to make meaningful change in areas like this explains the desperate, authoritarian bluster of his largely illegal Executive Orders. This is the sort of leader who opposing politicians should definitely NOT cater to.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of NLRB board member Gwynne Wilcox, and has some choice language for Trump, whose self-depiction as a king "fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Senators are asking the DC Office of Disciplinary Counsel to look into the torrent of abnormal and rule-shattering statements Jan. 6 organizer Ed Martin has issued since Trump gave the conservative activist his first-ever prosecutorial job: DC US Attorney. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

This new complaint against DOGE is truly cranked up to 11 from start to finish. What a way to start a lawsuit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... h/t @mikesacks.bsky.social

ICYMI: We identified the operator of one of an anonymous Hitler-quoting self-described ‘Aryan' that is followed by Vice President JD Vance. His name is Geoff Martin, and his father is the president of Trinity Western University, a private Christian college in Canada.