BREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.

If I read “ here’s the kicker “ or here’s what is interesting” or any of the obviously AI LLM generated slip, I stop reading. Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s latest included here’s the kicker. Not reading anymore. Yay to Scott MacFarlane who writes like he speaks. robot writing sounds idiotic. Don’t do it.

Going LIVE tonight 10 ET / 7 PT War tensions rising. Voting rights under attack. MAGA cracking. The economy feeling it. We’re breaking it all down, plus what they’re hoping you miss. Jump in the comments and join the chat. See you soon. www.youtube.com/live/ROlaufQ...

“The most corrupt AG in history”: @robertgarcia.house.gov responds to Trump’s firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Pete Hegseth is a white supremacist who is trying to re-segregate the military

PM of Armenia Pashinyan told Putin that his country has elections and no restrictions on Internet. Putin looked grim, scratched his head and clasped his hands. Russia is now at a stage when Armenia mocks it.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

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

The whole Iran war is looking more and more like a gimmick to drop energy sanctions on Russia and pressure Europeans to do the same. A war to make Russia’s much larger war easier and possible to sustain.

If we don't discuss the history of the Holocaust, or if we treat it as an event outside of history, then it can be vacuously dismissed, as the judge does here. I try to explain the usefulness of seeing historical patterns in "Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning."

Someone needs to tell the American people what's going on in the Pentagon, and it obviously won't be Pete Hegseth, who is at war with America's senior military officers. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Everyday I want this Pete the Cheat gone. So badly

this is a brilliant idea honestly

Wait, Hegseth fired the ARMY CHAPLAIN too? That's a career-defining scandal for any cabinet secretary in any other era. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Army’s top officer in the latest shake-up of military leadership amid the war in Iran www.ms.now/news/hegseth...

According to the Times:

Trump said the quiet part out loud: His presidency is more about bombing other nation’s kids than taking care of our own. Hey Congress: End this illegal war and use those billions for universal childcare.

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The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

Bill Browder: Putin is losing 1,000 to 1,500 men a day in Ukraine. The Ukrainians have really figured it out — they now have a drone wall. Anyone who tries to penetrate it dies. Simple as that. Russians are making zero progress. In fact, in some parts of the front line, Ukraine is pushing them back.

We can't pay for daycare because we are fighting too many wars. Not sure that's a great framing for the president.

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

Not a drag queen Robert Morris, the well-connected megachurch pastor and former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, was released from prison in Oklahoma on Tuesday after serving a six-month stint for child sexual abuse charges. www.ms.now/news/former-...

Semafor reporting Bondi about to be fired

I didn’t begin this week thinking I would be writing about the Iran War, Chuck Norris, and Kid Rock, but one of the “joys” of living through the Trump era is that every week seems like the worst game of Mad Libs you’ve ever played: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

Zelenskyy: "We have confirmation from my intelligence that Russia shared and shares intelligence ... Russia helps Iran"

Wired credits this earlier unmasking from @unraveledpress.com. Putting together IDs of goons involved in MN in January--the aftermath of Good's killing through withdrawal--is the sweet spot of accountability IMO bc DOJ is still prosecuting ~15 of those people. unraveledpress.com/identified-t...

Rural and tribal communities are leading on water management but asked to do more with less for too long. Thank you Chairwoman Flores and the Town of Parker for showing me around. I'll keep fighting to get these communities the resources they deserve.

NEW: Colorado Court of Appeals upholds Tina Peters’ conviction while ordering that she be resentenced by the same judge, with the Court of Appeals finding that her nine year sentence was “at least partially based on Peters’s protected speech”

The Court of Appeals rejected Peters’ arguments that President Trump’s so-called pardon on state charges has any power and that she was immune from state prosecution “for actions taken in service of the federal government.“

Oil prices soared and stock futures fell sharply during Trump’s Iran war speech last night. Investors aren’t buying what he’s selling anymore than we are.

Good. Israel is murdering Palestinians as quickly as possible and doing the same to the people of Lebanon. Netanyahu and his cronies are bloodthirsty killers. While Republicans seem bent on killing everyone else.

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

Major update: White House concerned as Trump’s address ridiculed and falls flat. Trump moves close to firing Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard. Trump says he cannot focus on Medicare or Medicaid because of the war. And he compares himself to Jesus. Subscribe to support my work:

The President isn’t acting in the best interests of the American people. Instead, he’s focused on what’s best for his own wealth & power.

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A CNN review found that of ~72,000 people who self-deported through Project Homecoming, more than half were in ICE detention when they signed up. Suffering inside facilities functions as coercion, pressure to leave rather than fight. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/u...

Chlorine dioxide, a chemical used for disinfecting and bleaching. Pressurized pure oxygen. Raw camel milk. Under RFK Jr., the FDA took down a webpage warning about these and other dangerous remedies claiming to treat autism.

The House took no action this morning on the Senate-passed DHS funding bill during a brief pro forma session, then adjourned until Monday, when another pro forma session is scheduled.

"One agent is married to a TV news anchor who reports on the Border Patrol. Another, who also engaged in a gun battle with a school shooter in Uvalde, Texas, has posted in an online gun forum with thread titles like 'Whipping Haitians.'" amazing work by @awinston.bsky.social + Maddy Varner

PIERS: “Israel has gone way too far in Gaza. The initial defense I made of 🇮🇱’s right to defend itself has been desecrated. They won’t even let journalists in.” Also: “How can Trump claim they’ve stopped 🇮🇷 from developing nukes when those tools remain exactly where they were?”

A list of Jews. No problem at all. For crying out fucking loud.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed several bills aimed at protecting immigrants last week. The reforms ban local partnerships with ICE and require federal agents to show their faces and provide ID before making an arrest.

That’s funny

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LUNATIC LINDSEY: “He’s gonna blow up everything they got. I’m very happy tonight.” The only ones winning here are the warmongers and bomb makers