“We Assume Flows Through the Strait of Hormuz Start to Recover in 5 Days and Fully Recover by Mid-April” - Goldman Sachs, just a few months ago

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Interesting piece, but I resent how Peter Thiel is represented in the Gawker saga. Thiel didn't "emerge from the shadows" to magnanimously tell the NYT he funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker. He did it because my colleague and I exposed his involvement. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.

US Spy Flights Surge On Cuba, Mimicking Pre-Venezuela Action

This guy nails it. 🎯

Starting to think he doesn’t have the cards

explain to me again why jack palance is considered the villain in "shane."

Renee Good should be remembered today along with all of the other mothers whose lives have been either taken or ruined by ICE goons. Heartbreaking photo. #uspoli #reneegood #uspoli

After making massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP to fund Trump’s deportation agenda, the GOP is trying to give ICE and Border Patrol billions more for detention camps, raids, and militarized crackdowns. It’s extra important for Republicans to hear from their constituents right now. 👇

Note how this isn't some off-the-cuff misstatement or exaggeration. He has an entire dishonest chain of reasoning built on misrepresenting VAERS data and dubious extrapolation from the Harvard Pilgrim study. This is a planned lie that would not survive any scrutiny; he knows he won't get any.

This is a party asking to die

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

Lynx held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti and Renee Good ahead of the season opener at Target Center:

what a dream

this is wild

Finally got around to looking at @gillianbrockell.com third-country removals tracker. A litany of human rights abuses. Chain refoulments, brutal conditions both in transit & on arrival. Its also just 3rd country removals. Not all the returns directly into danger (Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos etc)

Officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.

Some Democrats and anti-MAGA Republicans think Marco Rubio would restore normalcy after Trump. Under no circumstance should any member of the Trump regime be allowed to stay in government, Marco is part of the regime, criminally aligned, and serves the same masters Trump does.

A lot has happened, but not much has changed.

Every day there's another news item destroying the reputation and standing of the once stellar US science and research system. Seems we are not far away from the moment when not a single well qualified junior researcher from abroad will want to go there anymore 🧪

Virginia is "a wakeup call to Democrats across the country - in NJ, NY, MD, IL, OR, WA, CO - this is the time to start fighting back... Republicans don't believe that Democrats have the right to exist. If we don't start fighting back, we're going to good government ourselves into obscurity."

MTG redemption arc has been really revolting. People memory-hole the thing she said and done. Like, she literally sponsored this bill www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

The current regime will use the charge of child sex abuse materials to deport people with no due process, while literally protecting child rapists. Children are more at risk under this administration than any other time in modern history. @jennbudd.bsky.social

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“I felt dreadful after my detention—not only because it happened once but because I knew it could happen again. I was afraid to return to work.”

It is admittedly ridiculous, but it's also a national tragedy that is costing us in lives, treasure, and international credibility. All this to stop a nuke that didn't exist and open a strait that wasn't closed. #ResistTrump

Considering how many times White House claims of imminent peace have proven false, maybe media shouldn't make their claims the headline? But I guess that ship has sailed. (Metaphorically. The real ships aren't sailing, which should be a bigger factor in describing the situation than "Trump says").

We'll get ships through Hormuz in "Project Freedom" Pausing Project Freedom due to progress in talks Actually Saudis denied airspace 1-page US peace sheet, Iran response imminent No response... Project Freedom II? Came under fire but it doesn't count "Lasting truce elusive" All in one week!

The ballroom should be taken along with the Triumphal Arch and Trump's face being stamped all over DC. It all adds up to a declaration of authoritarian and dictatorial power that's an affront to our republic. Dems can't play dumb about that larger story. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2101...

The ballroom saga is one of those things that has unexpectedly broken through to low-info voters. Indeed, it's all these subtexts (Trump's corruption, megalomania, and dictatorial rule) are probably a big reason why it broke through. We can learn from this. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2101...

Black Americans had more voting protections in Aug 1965 when Voting Rights Act was signed then today. Lesson is progress is not permanent. We must keep fighting to move our nation forward because the right will never give up on their goals. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/former-con...

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

In other words, he lied.

The US military has killed at least 192 people in strikes that have destroyed 59 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says — WITHOUT EVIDENCE — is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States

U.S. forces fired on and disabled two Iranian oil tankers on Friday after exchanging fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz overnight. The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, reported another Iranian missile and drone attack. https://to.pbs.org/4uBEX8A

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

The First Amendment is clear: The federal government can't punish media organizations just because it doesn't like what they have to say. By fighting back, ABC is sending an important message: Our rights are worth fighting for.

President Donald Trump handed a nearly $7 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to a contractor he said had worked on his private swimming pools — but the company's own website shows no expertise in swimming pools whatsoever.

NEWS: Virginia Dems have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.

NEW: In this majority-Latino city in California, the GOP had long maintained an iron grip on local government. But that all changed this spring: Anger toward ICE raids, immigrant organizing, and surging turnout for local elections, it all made for a Dem sweep—& flip. Check out the story:

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

So the war was quite literally pointless. All around the world they're rationing energy, there are food shortages, people are suffering and dying, all for absolutely fucking nothing.

Most people will blame John Roberts, Samuel Alito or even Donald Trump for SCOTUS eviscerating the Voting Rights Act and ushering in a modern Jim Crow era But it was Mitch McConnell and his MAGA Senate traitors who stole two Supreme Court seats Were his actions based on racism We may never know

BREAKING: VIRGINIA’S TOP COURT OVERTURNS DEMOCRATS’ REDISTRICTING REFERENDUM talkingpointsmemo.com

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.