Fox Business on tariffs: "The manufacturing jobs have not materialized yet, and while inflation did not spike, some studies show American households paid more for goods -- roughly $1,000 more last year."

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

To interpret the hesitation of NATO allies to join in Trump's unilateral and incoherent war as abandonment is to misunderstand the alliance entirely. Which, of course, is what the president is doing. New from @markhertling.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/419I3Eg

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Is this a war crime @markhertling.bsky.social? If so why did the military do it and what can we as citizens do to prevent further war crimes?

The Trump DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term — abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.

@jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social @samsteindc.bsky.social I was thinking about why he gave the speech now. Straightforward thought is someone told him it would help his poll#s. Devious, conspiratorial is JD encouraged it to prep the base for using the 25th. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

1. Unsurprisingly, regime media channels are already weaponizing this post. Even some Iranian monarchists who support Trump are slamming Hegseth for it.

Wallace: What is happening to these criminal cases? Are they just dismissed and the criminals go back out into the community? MacFarlane: In so many of these cases, they're not launching the prosecution. They're declining what federal agents are bringing them.

I think the “bomb them back to the Stone Age” comments already ruined the pro-American thing Pretty good way to send the Iranian people back into the arms of the regime.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Trumps kids are being pulled into all sorts of schemes on the assumption that the government will provide favorable treatment, which could be loans or regulatory treatment. Jr is also an advisor for both Kalshi and Polymarket which are barely being regulated open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

What a way to prove the point. Three prompts: -Please stand if you know a victim of sexual assault -Please stay standing if that person reported it -Please stay standing if the perpetrator was punished www.instagram.com/reel/DWl-QGM...

Polling worse than Carter on the economy is bad.

A modest proposal: Absent congressional authorization, presidential uses of force amounting to war should automatically raise the top 3 tax brackets by 50%. You know, to pay for the war.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

The US military is well on its way to becoming a partisan political rogue federal agency just like all the others, largely because retired Republican veterans in Congress and elsewhere betray their oaths to the Constitution by remaining silent.

Based on past performance, we’re never leaving. 🤦🏻‍♀️

What if the White House ballroom is a metaphor for Iran, tariffs, fiscal policy & the Fed. Bulldoze a treasured national institution before making plans. Hide the rubble. Unveil a grandiose and self-aggrandizing vision. Prevaricate. Squirrel! Dither. Discover it was unconstitutional all along

We’ll be back in a few months because “total obliteration” ain’t what it used to be.

@jvl.bsky.social's Triad @thebulwark.com was nominated for a Webby Award for the best email newsletter. Voting is open until Thursday, April 16th. Vote now: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

We are going to see an accelerating tide of these admissions and conversions as the coming weeks and months pass. And the job of those of us who have opposed Trump for years is to resist saying "I told you so," or "you knew better," but rather to say "thank you for seeing the light"...

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Again, there is a literal term that stock brokers use for the predictability of Trump backing down.

What the hell does that leave. Not regime change Not a nuclear agreement Not freedom in Iran Not a safer Middle East Now not reopening the strait these asshats closed We’re on the verge of the stupidest “mission accomplished” in history

New in PN: Tucker Carlson is not your friend "Unlike Ta-Nehisi Coates, Carlson doesn’t criticize Israel because he opposes ethnonationalism in any form. He *is* an ethnonationalist."

"Sometimes it’s helpful to answer the question—even if the answer isn’t very nice—because it is instructive about what sort of reforms and reckoning are needed."

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

The MAGA movement is going so poorly, even Pizzagate proponent Mike Cernovich is turning on Trump. My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/even-the-p...

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Two-year-old Kaleth is being locked away at the Dilley trailer prison. He is getting sicker with each passing day. He will not eat the food CoreCivc serves, which detainees have said sometimes has mold and worms. He now has a fever.

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

This is the beauty of the Unitary Executive: rampant corruption & patronage. Thanks, SCOTUS! Thanks, @FedSoc ! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

NEW: DOJ Inspector General refused to investigate whistleblower Erez Reuveni's misconduct complaint against Emil Bove & other top officials, as watchdog accused of failing to probe political scandals under Trump news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A new investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.

THEY have an "apocalyptic vision of the future???" Hegseth literally told the military their goal is to fulfill a prophecy to bring about the End Times!!! Everything Rubio said sounds like he's talking about the Trump admin.

We use it. If they ban vote by mail? We turn out in record numbers and vote in person. If they pass the save act? We read the law to the letter, make sure we’re in compliance, and vote in record numbers. Basically, when someone is trying to suppress your vote, you give them the opposite effect.

Attacks on Stephen Miller getting far more specific in this Daily Mail (why are the best right-on-right hitjobs always laundered thru the UK?). 1) He ordered confrontation w/protestors b4 CBP murdered Alex Pretti. 2) He countermanded Trump order not to focus on farmworkers.

Bit of a deep dive with a handsome economist (me) on how America's economic vulnerability undermines its military advantage. youtu.be/QekPlseiJ7M

My latest video essay: Listen closely and you'll hear it... The White House admits that immigrants aren't taking your job after all. Lemme youtubesplain: youtu.be/9ZVJQ-bgfU4

What better way to begin the weekend with a podcast exploring -- hopefully in plain English -- the economic consequences of the war with Iran.

Epstein lawyer Roy Black died in 2025 -- and the search for Epstein's computers may have died with him. Why didn't prosecutors get them to begin with? My new substack: open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

No ICE. No war. No Kings. #nokings

#NoKings New London, CT Heard estimate of around 2500 people. Lots of people driving by and honking their support. @angrystaffer.bsky.social