Henry Burke of @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social just got back from the centrist rally. "Though the affirmative vision for the world may have been lacking, confidence in their diagnosis of the problem was not" prospect.org/2026/03/10/c...

I saw someone here warn against anthropomorphizing Trump, and it's the best description I've seen of the way the media covers him.

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Quick note: I'm traveling through Saturday, but I've read the FBI interviews with the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child. Significant redactions (and redacted dates for some reason?) and these aren't original FBI case files. We don't know what else is in her file

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

The DOJ ‘Forgot’ To Mention The Law Restricting Searches Of Journalists. The Judge Is Not Happy We wrote recently about the FBI's pre-dawn raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home, in which agents seized two laptops, a phone, a portable hard drive, a recording device, and even a…

“Leadership rarely comes out and says they oppose these votes outright, because they know the underlying issue is popular with the base... Instead, you see process concerns, timing objections, and caucus-unity arguments used to slow things down or keep members off the record.”

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

Happy Presidents' Day. No, not him.

Great investigative reporting by the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi. They linked other related articles at the end. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Full video of Zelenskyy awarding him, with English subtitles

#Ukraine President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy awarded Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the country's medal of freedom after he was disqualified from the #Olympic skeleton competition over his "helmet of remembrance," which depicted athletes killed since russia's invasion reuters / Instagram

Instagram just suspended our account with >137,000 followers with NO explanation or evidence of a violation.

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

After 6 months of oversight visits to Camp East Montana, the $1.24 billion immigration detention facility in El Paso, it's clear the company running it is defrauding taxpayers, preventing detainees from talking to lawyers, and DHS is assisting them by obstructing Congress. Long thread incoming 🧵

new nightmare to prep for

1/ An authoritarian government begins rounding up people it sees as targets, using a rapidly expanded paramilitary force known for brutal tactics. Because of a lack of detention spaces, it warehouses people in requisitioned facilities. The year is 1933, the place is Germany. ⬇️

Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

We know what heroes look like. Alex Pretti was clearly a hero: saving lives, serving veterans, protecting community. Secretary Doug Collins, who disrespected Pretti by flippantly saying that this is what we should expect when locals don’t cooperate with Trump’s gestapo, should resign in disgrace.

LRADs project sound in a straight line ahead of them that can be heard from hundreds of meters away. The sonic beam is super narrow though. If you get caught in one, cover your ears and immediately move SIDEWAYS. Stepping directly to the side will leave you unaffected.

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

[Excellent work by AP about an intolerable situation.] @apnews.com: Doctors in Minnesota decry fear and chaos amid Trump administration’s immigration crackdown By Tim Sullivan and Claire Rush

All but one have AIPAC as their biggest donor. (And it's their second biggest donor.) Israel loves ICE. Massie is one of few congressmen in either party who refuses money from AIPAC.

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.

Be careful people. Note ICE is using apps on their phones & drones for facial recognition. This works by measuring the distance between your eyes, nose & chin & can be easily disrupted with a-symmetrical makeup. Don’t make it easy for them!

1/ Donald Trump's aggressive tactics over Greenland are causing consternation among his far-right allies in Europe. With European publics overwhelmingly against surrendering Greenland, leading European far-rightists have come out in opposition to Trump's plans. ⬇️

1/ Donald Trump isn't the first person to be given someone else's Nobel Prize medal. The last recipient of an unearned Nobel medal was none other than Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, at the instigation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. ⬇️

We had a very well functioning customs agency and visa agency prior. Do you think it was a free for all before DHS was forced on the citizenry before September 11, 2001? Be serious. Everyone would do well to revisit the, middle of the night, passing of The Patriot Act, in light of what’s happening

Employment is temporary Calling the president a Pedo to his face is forever.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

He really does deserve his own super special section in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

My thoughts about the tragic shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis — and why this is what happens under authoritarian regimes that socializes its agents to wage war on the public.

Could someone please replace all the Mercator maps in the White House with Gall-Peters maps before Trump orders an invasion of Greenland because he thinks it’s bigger than Africa?

Chuck Schumer’s Ridiculous Strategy For Trump’s Illegal War: Hope Republicans Come To Their Senses I've criticized Chuck Schumer plenty over the years, generally for being bad on tech policy, but also for not understanding the moment we’re living through. Yes, he’s the leader of a minority party…

"Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire" @juddlegum.bsky.social for @popular.info

"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."

Suburbia implementing Trump foreign policy.

Cuban intelligence has a reputation for being one of the most formidable in the Western Hem. Yet they were seemingly caught off guard by an elaborate and long-planned Maduro op, in spite of controlling Venezuela’s security. I have questions: open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...