Trump is betraying our Afghan allies, sending them to Congo to die. And, in contrast independent vets like Seth Bodnar are stepping up to lead. And @indyvetsofamerica.bsky.social will have more. youtu.be/9rukjp8Zjuo?... Morning Joe w Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist, David Rohde & Jonathan Lemire.

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

George Washington looking on, head in hands

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

I'm so glad this brave law enforcement officer is OK after being violently smirked at. Praying for him and his family

In France they call it a "Prayer Royale"

I think this is best explained by Brad Lander’s “folder or fighter” binary. Spanberger and Mamdani are both fighters, willing to go after the GOP overtly, and most centrists are afraid of alienating even one moderate swing voter, ergo folders

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

This is a death blow to US universities, which export billions of dollars of educational services through students from abroad who *pay full price* for college tuition, something only the very richest Americans do.

The most important story in the world is STILL that Trump can do anything he wants with the most powerful military the world has ever seen. And nothing is stopping him. As his Forever War rolls on.🚨🇺🇸

“Applying total systemic friction on the cartels.” Orwell, Politics and the English Language: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

This is extremely upsetting and it is possible in part because of the mainstream merchants of doubt who undermined science and scientists during the pandemic.

Murderous fascist ghouls

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

what do you MEAN my flight will be late, i just watched something from THE MOON land on time

If you wonder why students protested loudly under Biden but aren’t as visible under Trump, it’s because they thought they had some margin of safety to speak on campus then. Even before Trump 2.0, they learned administrators and political leaders were willing to harm them instead. So here we are.

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

He's promising actions that almost certainly constitute war crimes. He's a head of state. Use the fucking full quote.

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Taken literally this is the Times saying it doesn't have an opinion on if women should vote and I for one do take it literally

Blasphemy from a president who has built his authoritarian political movement on the heresy of christian nationalism, as reflected in his post.

The problem isn’t that two aircraft were shot down. The problem is that we aren’t psychologically or politically prepared to suffer any losses, because this entire war has been sold as a video game set on “easy” and not as a cause worth sacrifice.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

i’m glad the Supreme Court said what we’ve all been thinking: lawyers should be in charge of medicine

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

This is not a normal statement or appearance by an FCC chairman. This is a would-be authoritarian lackey bragging about creating a Thought Police. Don’t be okay with this.

Axios demanding more than an apology for Israel’s military assaulting a CNN cameraman in the West Bank👇🏽 (They also just killed 3 more journalists in Lebanon)

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Elizabeth Banks

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The “goal” of the Iran war is now reportedly to open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war began

TSA is against this. The TSA union says it will make their jobs harder, not easier. The American public is against this. And Dems have offered seven times to pay TSA and Republicans have refused to come to the table. This is about fear tactics, not long lines. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

If ICE in the airports does materialize this should be yet another sign to journalists to stop using terms like "immigration enforcement" or "immigration crackdown" with regard to ICE. They are merely Trump's paramilitary force to be used as he pleases.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...