"A meteor heading towards Earth"

1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran. Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

Sacramento estimated 10,000 strong. #NoKings @50501movement.bsky.social

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I wrote more about Florida, how to think about naming, and big-picture strategy for pondering your own interventions to be sand in the gears of the many abominations we'll be faced with in the coming months and years.

#NoKings #NoKingsSacramento thousands at the state capitol. Proud of CA for standing up to Trump and his fascist regime

Deep (Russian) State corruption. Now in charge of the FBI.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

If you haven’t seen this, you need to! Trump is short-selling America—deliberately tanking the economy so that businesses and entire industries bend the knee and beg him to save them. Thanks, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, for sounding the alarm. Now, what is Congress going to do about it?

This is fast turning out to be one of the most serious human rights violations in our times. Not just this case, but all of the Venezuelan males, deported for just being Venezuelan and having tattoos. there are plenty of effective legal options for actual gang members. This is just racist.

This OPSEC Special Bulletin went out to the Pentagon during the same time period that SECDEF was using an unauthorized Signal chat. You can’t make this shit up.

Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable. But history will remember it as Black Saturday—the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. In this essay, The Intellectualist explores what this means—and what comes next. theintellectualist.com/black-saturd...

Holy f*ck

File this under great investigative journalism on the long history of Trump corruption - Wayne Barret, David Cay Johnston, Seth Abramson. Looking forward to reading "Gilded Rage".

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

There’s no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election.

📄 NEW: "A Constructive Approach to the American Meltdown" We're past the point of warning about impending authoritarianism — it's here. As we cross the event horizon into becoming a failed state, a new kind of citizenship is required. My latest. america2.news/a-constructi...

#FiftyFiftyOne Sacramento!

@50501movement.bsky.social Sacramento!!!

@50501movement.bsky.social Sacramento!!!

Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

amid all these socal fires and our ongoing drought, one thing we don't talk enough about is stewart & lynda resnick (via @motherjones.com) www.motherjones.com/environment/...