TRUMP IN ONE SINGLE EVENT - "They won't be there for us" - "We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already" - "This isn't 'need'" - "If we need anything, they should be jumping to help us" - "We want them to come & help us w/the strait" - My attitude is we don't need anybody"

I toured the border last May to report on this circular logic: The administration essentially created invisible military bases to establish grounds for military "trespassing" arrests, inventing a back door to use the military for domestic law enforcement on US soil: www.huffpost.com/entry/milita...

I wrote about Kat.

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

introspection started in the 1920s apparently bsky.app/profile/dave...

This is a performative war of macho posturing by third rate figures who mistake the audience of social media and right wing cable TV for the gravitas (?) of diplomacy and foreign policy. It would be comic if it was not so painfully tragic.

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

Russians really thought that the Ukrainians would turn against their leadership if they'd just bomb the shit out of civilian targets. These people seriously underestimate how resilient Ukrainians are.

This administration has managed to find a way to make the National Flood Insurance Program even more of a shitshow. Unbelievable stuff.

With Nebraska burning, it might be time to post some historic images of fire control on the Plains. Start with firebreaks installed in the Sandhills - double plowed lines with the interior burned out.

An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.

“The court knew how badly I wanted this” is insane

Ukraine's airborne forces drove 10-12 km deep into Russian lines on two axes, recapturing 400 km2. It's the first net territorial gain since the 2024 Kursk operation Russia's goal was a buffer zone in Dnipropetrovsk Obl 2 launch its spring offensive. "That was their plan," said Maj. Gen. Komarenko

Well, then. This is even more shameful & inexcusable.

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

Here’s my plea to the national security press: don’t report what he announces at face value. You’ve been suckered over and over to cover his fake trade deals and ceasefire “announcements” like they are real. He’s desperate to look like he’s got a plan. Make sure it’s not fake.

Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar drew a huge crowd stretching from Budapest’s Heroes’ Square along Andrássy Boulevard. While Orbán’s parallel rally relied on hundreds of buses bringing supporters from the countryside and Romania, Magyar’s crowd was genuinely enthusiastic.

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Incredible scenes from today's pro-Magyar, anti-Orban rally in Budapest. Only 4 weeks left until the most consequential election in the EU this year 🇪🇺🇭🇺

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

Afghan man dies in ICE custody Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal was legally evacuated out of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul and had served with US forces for ten years. He leaves behind six children, one of whom is a US citizen.

I'M SORRY I MEANT IT AS A JOKE

Luttig: Every single time Donald Trump opens his mouth or takes an action, the American people are forced to go into court and litigate. That’s the tragic place America finds itself in today. It is only the Supreme Court that is standing in the way of the American people saving their country.

When Mike Lee says this, we rightly hear him admitting to what they’ve doing. But when most Republicans read this, they hear Mike Lee calling for fair elections in which Democrats can’t win by cheating, like they did in 2020. Mike Lee knows he’s lying, but he also knows his audience will believe him

OK, this Tucker Carlson impression on Saturday Night Live last night is uncanny! Has all the verbal tics and go-to phrases down, and nails the high-pitch cackle.

Omfg

California doesn’t miss 💥 Sending the forwarding address.

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New: As another wildfire season looms, insurance companies have even abandoned California neighborhoods at low risk of burning, forcing tens of thousands of homeowners to obtain bare-bones coverage from the state’s insurer of last resort, a Bloomberg analysis shows. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Q: “So, hundreds of millions of dollars in grants were terminated from the NEH. The deficit didn’t change much. And you were paid $150,000 to do that job of reducing the deficit. Do you feel like the $150,000 paid to you was wasteful spending?” A: *Laughs, frowns….long pause*

Absolutely the dumbest people

Check that, We have a new contender:

WELKER: If you were prepared, why is the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed right now? CHRIS WRIGHT: Because it's right near the Iranian shoreline

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

I have not see any really substantive analysis that support's Lee's claim: the SAVE Act will target women, who lean Democratic, but especially married women who have changed their names, who lean Republican. But it is telling that this is clearly the motive. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Turning it around by making it much harder to vote

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

How many ways can you say “We used ChatGPT” without actually saying “We used ChatGPT”?

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

Remember when they declared they had restored free speech and ended federal censorship on Trump's very first day back? Well, now they're openly bragging about all the journalists they got fired for saying the wrong thing and all the companies the federal government forced to make changes.

NOW Trump decides the US needs allies other than Israel: “This should have always been a team effort” Too bad he burned so many bridges.

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

This move is so incredibly dumb, and ultimately so destructive to our understanding of extreme weather and of climate change, that it could only have come from the Trump administration. Truly dangerous idiocy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

Russell Vought is breaking apart the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which has led advances in whether and climate science. Some of its components will transfer to private companies, part of larger efforts to privatize science. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

An important thread. But something is missing. The refusal of Republicans to hold Trump accountable AND ALSO to exercise the least little responsibility on confirmations would have mitigated this risk. Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Murkowski and Collins all KNEW Whiskey Pete would push war crimes.

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.