Defense secretary openly states that a pro-Trump billionaire taking over a news network (following regulatory help from the administration) will result in coverage more favorable for the administration.

Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

If he'd said this just a few months ago I would have opened my book with it. "I feel good about the Republican Party. We’re killing all the right people and cutting your taxes."

Thank you @harvardpress.bsky.social. I’m so grateful for my AMAZING editor Emily Silk!

We are a nation of morons, embracing and elevating the most ridiculous coterie of submorons to lead us from the last shards of the American Century into the deepest chasms of ridiculous, absurdist moronity. This is unbelievable even as farce.

“The Republican Party (. . .)sees the Gospel as a story of masculine dominance and power and an authorizing narrative for a politics of misogyny, racism, and tyranny. Only the weak fail to see this. And only heroes, the protagonists of the story, can ever be wronged”

If the state has a rational interest to compel adults to “appreciate their sex” I shudder to think about the possible implications for the autonomy of any and all persons. How far might such sex appreciation interest & enforcement extend?

For all these dudes’ blustery fist-pounding about strength and masculinity, at the end of the day they are fragile little man-children.

Proud of my Cato Institute colleague David Bier who stood his ground at a hearing today and talked back to bloviating Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana). David responds to the clip and furnishes receipts. @cato.org

Once again: this is @davidjbier.bsky.social, of the [Even the Conservative...] @cato.org, an expert on immigration policy who has been providing data based expertise on the issue of immigration for a while now.

What could possibly go wrong?

🗓️ March 19 @ 2 PM ET join experts @aflor017.github.io, Kelsy Burke, Ph.D., and @melissadeckman.bsky.social for a lively discussion about new survey findings exploring Americans' views on LGBTQ rights across the U.S. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The College Republicans of America just appointed a groyper as their political director. Kai Schwemmer was in Fuentes' inner circle in 2021, & since then has strategically downplayed his support to avoid controversy. CRA claims over 300 campus chapters across the country

The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

Good conversation with @csmonitor.bsky.social's @sophiehills.bsky.social on Democrats and religion this fall. Look to see much more coverage as some hi-profile Democrats are leaning into their faith more prominently. www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/...

Check out @guthriegf.bsky.social 's new op-ed at @ms.now on what Talarico's win means for religion and politics. www.ms.now/opinion/jame...

Mike Johnson says Iranians have "misguided religion"

Somehow, in despite 10 years of increasingly deranged behavior from Trump and co, they find creative new ways to surprise me with their depravity.

It's a pretty high bar to clear, but I think this may just be the most Islamophobic election cycle in US history FWIW the most insidious part in this clip is not the cartoonish AI slop, but the opening scene that merely shows two girls in hijab going to school This was never about "sharia"

Unfortunately, support for the beliefs that undergird this kind of action aren't fringe in the US. Surveys shows that 1/3 of Americans—and ~2/3 of White Evangelical Christians—hold Christian nationalist views, and similar numbers believe that we're living in the end times, with Christ's return near.

A year into the second Trump administration, @prri.org's latest data show that 36% of Americans hold favorable views of Donald Trump, down from 41% in September 2025, while six in ten Americans view Trump unfavorably (60%). prri.org/spotlight/tr...

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

This is an ESSENTIAL thread here.

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

“Do you favor or oppose the United States initiating an attack on Iran under the current circumstances?” 21% favor, 49% oppose, 30% don't know UMD Critical Issues Poll with SSRS, fielded February 5-9, 2026.

Melissa Deckman (Public Religion Research Institute):

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

Here’s the image of Howard Lutnick palling around with international child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that Donald Trump & JD Vance’s administration has deleted from the release in their coverup of the Epstein files. www.thedailybeast.com/howard-lutni...

The Trump administration has just deleted this photo of Trump Cabinet Secretary Howard Lutnick with Jeffrey Epstein on what appears to be an island.

We've had a busy month at @prri.org ! Check out the latest summary of our work, and consider making a donation to support continued analysis of the role of religion in understanding our politics today. prri.substack.com/p/how-many-a...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

remember when david klion gave the marshal petain speech about how we should return to Twitter because the masses are still on Twitter

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Christians are told, often in the same breath, to 'welcome the stranger' & to 'respect the rule of law.' What does a distinctly Christian perspective on immigration actually demand?

The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith. n.pr/4rB8gap

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Thanks to @mikepod.bsky.social for hosting me today at his Weekend Reading Substack Live to discuss @prri.org's new 50-State Survey Report on Christian Nationalism. Check out our convo below! open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Savannah Guthrie had to miss the Olympics because her mom was kidnapped but the guy who’s supposed to be leading the search for Savannah’s mother is partying at the Olympics without a care in the world.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Pure evil.

ICE locked up a 65 yr old white woman named Karen. It can happen to anybody. It can happen to you.

You can pretend these people are fringe and irrelevant all you want, but Doug Wilson led worship at the Pentagon today bsky.app/profile/bria...

It's an absurd press conference because they have to pretend that the crap pouring out of his mouth has meaning. But the main takeaway is that he is accusing the Supreme Court of disloyalty to the United States and is ignoring their ruling.

Who needs electoral legitimacy? Trump’s authoritarian ambitions go global. His new “Board of Peace” carries $1 billion membership fee. Trump is the chairman — not just while he's president, but for life! He can invite new countries to join or expel others. Via @nytimes.com