If Pete Hegseth tells you to get in a boat DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES GET IN A BOAT

Exactly. People see all the corruption and assume there are no rules. They don’t know there’s only immunity for Trump family members and top allies.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court

Governor Tim Walz — "We are sick of this. A weak, reckless, Idiotic president just threw us into a war nobody asked for. No threat existed. No objectives were set. No exit plan exists. This is pure fascism." #cdnpoli

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It should be the new term of art for purchasing reinsurance for a fake CGL policy on a zoo.

Yesterday my spouse asked if I'd heard about the "bear suit insurance fraud." I assumed that phrase meant something non-literal (maybe similar to "pig-butchering scam"?), but no. abc7.com/post/3-south...

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

This unreliability of delivery will not only damage allied trust, it will also incentivize diversification away from U.S. suppliers.

Barely more than a decade ago, Florida proudly and with a bipartisan vote passed in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who had been brought here as children and grew up in Florida. DeSantis’ Lieutenant Governor was actually a champion of the bill. Things changed fast.

big ruling from the Montana supreme court. as bolts reported last year, this court in Montana has been a backstop against all sorts of conservative policies: boltsmag.org/montana-supr...

Many of the criticisms in this report are true or partially true, but the biggest problem that's brought down U.S. colleges is indeed the 50-year crusade by the right to wipe away any notion that higher ed is a public good, massively cut funding for publics, and create the student debt crisis

So proud of Senator Tina Smith who is holding the Senate Floor right NOW to protect the Boundary Waters. Watch here www.youtube.com/live/omq2Jyg...

The centuries-long history of human liberation ends here: threatening to guillotine people until Taco Bell makes the cheesy bean burritos a dollar again.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

We have such talented members, it's an honor to sport their design 😍

How is bombing schoolchildren “pursuing a path of peace”?

I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

How did this dream team not come back with the gold

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)

One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.

I converted to Catholicism last week. Here’s why it’s necessary for the United States to invade Vatican City and install its own pope.

Oh good, he’s still up

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Oh man. His hearing is going too.

Open the Fuckin' futures market, you crazy bastards.

I know I shouldn’t laugh but “Praise be to Allah” cracks me up for bathos reasons.

Crazy things Pete Hegseth did YESTERDAY alone: 1) Fired head of the Army 2) Changed rules to allow military personnel to carry personal weapons on bases 3) Fired head of the Chaplain Corps 4) NBC reports he blocked promotions of a dozen Black or female officers All further evidence for my column:

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

Anyone watching that speech has no idea whether Trump is escalating or deescalating the war with Iran. But to be fair, neither does he so🤷‍♂️.

Again with the cards.

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

I snagged a button AND a bumper sticker last night. Great message.

The USS Cole was attacked by al-Qaeda, not Iran.

Didn't we already see a rebuttal to the claim that "every family" of a slain soldier asked Trump to "finish the job"?

The U takes its very plenary land grant powers seriously so this really is a call for the Board of Regents.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

Funny bit after that when Gorsuch asks if Native Americans are natural born citizens and the SG says "uhhhh I think so"

Sauer just had to say that slaves had an "intent to remain" in the US. Motherfucker WHAT??

Sauer appears to be invoking the underpinnings of the Fugitive Slave Act to bolster his argument about the domiciles for enslaved persons in the pre-Emancipation South, which is really jolting.

Genuinely sad what happened to Randy Barnett. When I was at Georgetown Law he held plenty of fringe beliefs but was respected as a creative and independent-minded scholar. It's painfully clear that his sycophantic adoration of Trump—combined with a Musk-era Twitter addiction—broke his brain.

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.

Ukraine ‘Demands Justice’ After Russian Gymnast Turns Back On Ukrainian Flag www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...

“then we won”