This is utterly extraordinary. If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more. The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. Gets worse as you read it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

engagement bait prompt: what's your favorite Onion article? I think mine has to be this one theonion.com/new-subway-p...

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

Any Democrat who votes for the first part after they've announced the plan for the second part needs to be tarred and feathered.

He's Scalia Law's tech/innovation guy, and his bio says "his research has been relied on by the Supreme Court, by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and by federal agencies." 🤦‍♂️ (BTW, the whole "Hamas cheerleader" brouhaha is about *someone else's* social media posts, not Duwaji's.)

This @nytimes.com examination of former Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino includes the fact that he personally lobbed tear gas at members of the public; it does not mention that a federal judge found that he lied, under oath, about why (1/2)

"By making everything a daily story instead of telling a broader one about this guy being out of his mind & a danger to us all, journalists show they’re still worried about coming across as partisan. They’d rather write down what he says & assume people can figure it out. But obviously many can't."

I will repeat that the Graham Platner story is less about Platner than it is about Mills. Platner would not be competitive in, i.e., Michigan. He's leading because Mills is 8,000 years old, has no energy, and is a Chuck Schumer stooge at a time when the base is rebelling against precisely that.

"You can't vote out the mafia" -- @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, years before it was obvious to the masses, back when we could have maybe done something useful about it substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Just for the record, these were Sean Duffy's stated priorities:

DHS shutdown causing travel delays? Worry not: Some of America's least-trainable gym felons are stationed over by the Gordon Biersch looking at Kalshi on their phones

Mystery solved by @reuters.com: SEC's new enforcement chief bailed -- after 6 most on job -- after getting pushback for pursuing charges that touched Trump's circle. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

ICE agents getting paid to stand behind working TSA agents who have not been paid. #TrumpsAmerica

All these outside actors arriving in Hungary to support a PM whose bread and butter for a decade has been railing against outside actors interfering in Hungary's national sovereignty.

If ICE doesn't speed up the lines, Trump will send in the National Guard. And if that doesn't work, he'll put a few Humvees in the airports. And if that doesn't solve it, maybe park an F-35 in the food court or something. Eventually they'll have enough force to solve the problem.

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

The first two points are fairly obvious. But if candidates like Talarico want to air concerns about The Groups, a more constructive one is that they were established to tee up policy whenever Dems win trifectas. But the next Dem trifecta can’t be like the last two. www.offmessage.net/p/james-tala...

Horrifying. Sickening. Monstrous. Why aren’t more people demanding he be removed from office?

US Marines should be proud to make the ultimate sacrifice so that Jared Kushner can build a resort on Kharg Island.

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Every day Trump announces in the morning what the topic of the day will be for corporate news media and then they gladly cover that topic. This is how state/oligarch controlled media works.

Any use of genAI always reads to me like: “We just used a little bit of shit in our cake because we couldn’t afford chocolate.”

If you see ICE agents at an airport without masks, take their picture, and tell them thanks for helping with the database.

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The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

President declares "sike!", DOW immediately jumps 5%

Airlines are bracing themselves for an oil crisis — and experts say they’re a canary in the coal mine for the rest of the global economy:

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

If you believe you see ICE at any Chicago area airports this week (🚬), please message us anonymously on Signal at unraveled.66

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.

Major League Baseball in bed with Polymarket? Pete Rose would’ve taken that action also fuck right off MLB

"60% of the time, it works every time" war planning.

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

When you forget about the bottle of water in your backpack

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned Tim Walz for comparing children hiding from ICE in Minneapolis to Anne Frank. Meanwhile, a council member at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is out here saying Trump "prevented another Holocaust" by bombing Iran. Who gets to make Holocaust comparisons?

“Everywhere I went in New York people openly loathed the very sight of me. So naturally I concluded that the entire city had gone crazy and I left. There was no other possible explanation.”

When you abandon your friends because they didn't have as much money as you do, do you really expect them to come to your aid when you go broke?

His fury at our NATO allies is wildly incoherent. He keeps saying that reopening the strait is easy and that we've already "won." But if so, why hasn't he done it yet himself, and why does he need help? He obviously wants to spread around blame for this fiasco. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Save your job by getting Fetterman in line, or pass the baton.

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Oh, there's potentially a simple fix: agree to terms with Iran, including binding a commitment to forswear military action against Iranian territory and shipping. Problem is, Trump's word is worth dog poop, and he's characterologically incapable of taking an L.

Area dipshit: I could marry my partner of 20 years, the mother of my kid, at least so she doesn't get deported OR I could post about sex parties until she finally leaves me and then use my Trump connections to try to get her deported

Somehow I feel like a sitting congressman on some kind of military mission in Jordan or Syria coming under fire and getting rescued by the king of Jordan‘s personal helicopter is something that would’ve come out at some point in the last ten years.

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-top-...

From @dceiver.bsky.social: "Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity’s biggest asshole were the same person, and that guy was president. Then imagine he started a war with Iran. Now check the news." trib.al/6eeMzpD

Nashville reporter Estefany Rodríguez is free

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.