It just hit me like a ton of bricks The oligarchy has extracted the equivalent of 50 years of UBI from us Oligarchs stole our #ubi

Go rogue, Pam. Release ALL the Epstein files.

NEW: Pam Bondi is out — and that is a good thing. She was Trump's lawyer, and DOJ paid the price. Tonight, at Law Dork:

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"Mr. Hegseth refused to meet with General George about the matter" as SecDef Pete is a coward.

CNN: Sources are telling us that recent U.S. Intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran's missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one way attack drones are still in Iran's arsenal tonight. That's despite daily U.S. And Israeli airstrikes.

The President of the United States would like everyone to know that he is acting with criminal intent, in case there was any ambiguity.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

The most dangerous Trump corruption of US institutions is the military, and fixing the cultural rot—seen most recently in blocking promotions for Black and female officers and firing white male generals who disagreed, though there’s a lot beyond that too—will be a major challenge of reconstruction.

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

In addition to purging the Army Chief of Staff Randy George, Hegseth also fired Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains who happens to be Black. I can’t even begin to count how many Black officers he’s sacked. You can bet his replacement will be a white Christian nationalist.

www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n... Fuck the VA, Trump, and all of his lackies. @murray.senate.gov this is one of your constituents!!! Help the Lefords out!

The US Department of War Crimes.

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Hegseth just fired the Army Chief Gen Randy George. Immediately. Gen George the most competent and experienced combat leaders I have ever encountered. Courage. Integrity. Takes care of soldiers. A government of gangsters.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Of course. Trip Gabriel, NYT

Pete's grievances go far beyond policy differences with senior leadership. He generally (and baselessly) believes the Army has been too woke for his aggressive, crusader-style leadership, when the reality is that Army has been trying to get rid of him for years because he's mediocre and dangerous.

It sends a message to the brass, as well.

Our bipartisan subpoena requires Pam Bondi to appear before our Committee, whether she's Attorney General or not. She has an opportunity now to give us the full truth about the Epstein files, and we look forward to her testimony.

I would really like to see the evidence that Pam Bondi ever had a shred of integrity.

Pam Bondi will be remembered as the AG who watched videos and saw images of powerful men raping kids and decided to protect the men.

Hegseth seems to have spent the whole day trying to underscore my thesis that he doesn’t know anything about what makes a military effective — he’s a frustrated mid-level officer from the glory days of the GWOT lashing out at all those he thinks failed him: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

This entire administration is uninformed people laughing at experts, rejecting their advice, and then discovering why the experts said what they said.

Anyone at Treasury or DHS who follows an illegal order to process pay should be aware that they are placing themselves in legal jeopardy You think POTUS is going to remember to pardon each and every one of y'all?

My thinking on this case is that Clarence Thomas should have been removed from office immediately when we found out his wife had plotted to overthrow our constitutional republic

For a war ostensibly designed to reduce Iran’s military capabilities and ability to threaten the region, it would seem an extraordinary outcome to have a result…be a situation in which Iran could now export oil freely, but our allies would have to pay fees to Iran for the privilege of doing so”

Washington state passed a tax on millionaires. A lot of the usual suspects have been screaming & tearing their hair out & warning of apocalypse. But the actual rich people of Washington? Turns out they are mostly Democrats & they mostly support it!

God bless this protestor!!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

NEW: Supreme Court likely to reject Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship. As Trump sat on watching, Solicitor General John Sauer faced skeptical questions from almost all of the justices — including all three justices Trump appointed to the high court. This afternoon, at Law Dork:

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@anniedemoranville.bsky.social, @tomlevenson.bsky.social

Again, this is "well fuck they gave us two MEUs and the IRF IBCT to shut us up, someone figure out something for them to do" 'planning' vs some master plan ordered from the WH Entirely possible they end up going with it, but like this whole war it's subject to the whims of donnie trump's brain

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.

Solicitor General Sauer just said birthright citizenship “demeans the priceless and profound gift of American citizenship” which is hilarious since Trump has literally proposed selling citizenship for $5 million a pop like we have an actual price www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-...

I believe the polite term is "ladies of the evening"

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

Trump’s father, Fred Trump, benefited from birthright citizenship, the same policy Trump is now arguing against before the Supreme Court

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Even better would be for him to add “and you numb-nuts in the media: stop writing headlines that treat EOs as anything other than sharpie-scrawled letter stuffed in one of those brown interoffice envelope things. For f***’s sake: They. Are. Not. Laws.” But beating on the merits it is, I guess.

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

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.

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If you didn’t see it coming, you weren’t paying attention. And he doesn’t have to do it formally to defy Congress, he can do it with actions that they can’t stop.

I’ve long been convinced that those who loudly insist we are a republic, not a democracy cling to this pedantic, ridiculous argument because even they know what democracy demands. As the political theorist Danielle Allen notes, it demands political and social equality. On this account, they refuse.