Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

unrelated by D/DIA looks straight out of 1987

BREAKING: here we go in the Kennedy Center case New order puts us on a ROCKET DOCKET to litigate renaming & closure of this precious "living memorial" We will build on our TRO win allowing @repbeatty.bsky.social to confront Trump at the WH--& that gave her the docs to do it Fasten seatbelts!

Trump is aiming for dictatorship. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

You can't have one without the other. "Mullin gave no indication he would stop pursuing a White House goal of arresting 3,000 migrants a day, but he appeared to back away from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s more controversial tactics." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Steve Bannon emailed Jeffrey Epstein that Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was “my hero” — after Epstein joked Bannon should “dress like Adolf.” Epstein wrote first: “sean can dress like adolph and you like leni” Bannon replied simply: “Leni my hero”

Jerome Powell, President of the FED: "Job gains have remained low. Inflation remains elevated" "High inflation largely reflects the price of goods, mainly due to tariffs" "Short-term inflation expectations have risen in recent weeks due to the situation in the Middle East"

Our travels with German colleagues, as we delved deeply into the connection between how we remember history and where we find ourselves today, were a profound and moving experience. We must teach, and learn, the truth of our history in order to avoid going down the same dark paths again.

The current effects of anti-DEI efforts harm historically marginalized groups and degrade institutional capacity to address bias, harassment & inequities. Our #IntelligenceProject report examines the internal institutional disruption & worsening educational disparities 🔗: https://bit.ly/4usMRC8

Sickening. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

All that story was missing was "Sir," and "with tears in his eyes." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/a...

Oh man I can't possibly imagine how good that felt

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So the president is sending in 2,500 Marines as the first ground troops deployed in this war, but that's not going to lead to any further escalation? We've heard that exact same claim before, right down to the specific 2,500 number -- Vietnam, March 1965. Remind me, how did that wind up working?

Congress can stop this madness any time they want to. This is on them.

Critical aspect of the Gabbard tweet and the admin in general is that there has been *no* effort to actually factually substantiate that Iran posed an imminent threat. Having to resort to “POTUS decides and that’s that” is incredibly damning. If they had a good story to tell, they would tell it.

Trump continues to illustrate how not wage war.

SCOOP: One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

No serious or decent lawyer wants to go to work for this administration's DOJ. So it looks like we are in for a massive wave of incompetent prosecutions, which are likely to both entangle innocent people and let the guilty walk away.

Majority of Canadians say it’s better to depend on China than on the US under Trump. In other key allies - Germany, UK, France - a plurality say the same. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Never have so many fought so that so few could make so much money.

Hoo boy. They say a stopped clock is right twice a day. That would be giving Joe Kent far too much credit, but if his resignation letter had stopped at "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation," he might've really had something. Continue for info on Kent /1 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/w...

Trump withheld $250 million in Minnesota's Medicaid funds (likely illegally) claiming rampant fraud, even as the feds own data show MN has a 2% payment error rate, compared to 8.7% in South Carolina. Meanwhile Trump is buying luxury jets w/taxpayer $ and pardoning perpetrators of Medicare fraud

Make it three. That way, we can get past this fucked up admin and avoid a re-opening with his ego front and center. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/a...

Trump admin: give us your minerals or we will let people die terrible, preventable deaths. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

He’s just a completely irredeemable excuse for a human being.

New in PN: The real affordability hoax "When Trump fails, he simply lies. And when that doesn’t work, he claims up is down and consumer pain at the pump is actually good if you look at it from the perspective of the bloated oil executives who donated tens of millions of dollars to his campaign."

Remember the first term verdicts of his top staff? Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Trump had the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader”. John Kelly, Rince Priebus and Steven Mnuchin: “an idiot”. National security adviser H.R. McMaster: a “dope”. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: "a moron".

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

In a statement, the Simmons family encouraged the public to take their grief to the ballot box in November. “Vote for Tyler and the five others who lost their lives recently and for all those serving our country,” the statement reads. -The Daily Beast

ABC: Can you say why we're sending 5,000 Marines and sailors? TRUMP: Shhhhh. You're a very obnoxious person

“The Alabama Solution” doesn’t need an Oscar. It needs Alabamians who will act on the truths in the film, Alabamians who will hold their government accountable.

The running subplot that nobody is noticing right now is America’s allies gradually waking up east to west on Monday morning and announcing that they’re not coming to help Trump fix his problems

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them. A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

Bribe farm. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Well done 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Wall art at Union Market in DC reads, “OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY.” Look closer. Fallen soldiers’ names: Nicole Amor, Declan Coady, Noah Tietjens. Each marked, “DID NOT HAVE TO DIE.” And at the bottom, the gut punch: “FIGHTING IRAN FOR THE EPSTEIN CLASS.”

WSJ: The likelihood of Iran closing the strait was discussed, Gen Caine predicted it, and Trump decided “Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait — and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

We all have Trump to thank for a fresh wave of terrorist attacks and threats from groups that have been activated by the pointless war in Iran. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.” edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.

JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

LANDERS: Why did the FBI seize election records in AZ? TRUMP: They probably thought the election was rigged LANDERS: It wasn't though TRUMP: Oh really? How do you know? LANDERS: Your own AG said it TRUMP: If you say it wasn't rigged, you're a rotten reporter LANDERS: Where's the evidence?

Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.

Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Delighted to share that white nationalist antisemite Jeremy Carl has withdrawn his nomination. x.com/realjeremyca...