REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.

There is absolutely no justification for calling Vance anti-interventionalist. He supports the war in Iran. (And he supported all of Trump’s other foreign interventions.) As the chief negotiator, he has decided the best course is for the war in Iran to continue.

The headlines about the DC Circuit ballroom order are misleading. The order does extend a stay of the injunction—which, in English, means they can proceed for now. But, that misses the point: The 2-1 ruling sends the case back to Judge Leon to clarify the scope of the order—and then implement it.

Not exactly. I really don't know what role, if any, MAVEN or any other program played in the mistaken target development & selection. What I'm describing is that the human staffers who would've checked the work were RIFed so the mistake wasn't caught before it was too late.

When your 85 pound dog charges and runs over someone’s 15 pound dog and hurts it while you are on the phone, the correct response is **not** “you shouldn’t bring a small dog to the dog park”. FFS. (There is just one dog park, open to all dogs.)

Why don’t these pundits ever face any accountability (beyond the old war crimes in this case)? Elliot Abrams saying on March 3 that the strait would be open in a week and the Iranian regime would be gone.

🚨 Brad Lander announces that he opposes the giving away of Iron Dome munitions to Israel for free, and says that the U.S "need to follow the Leahy Law and condition all of our foreign policy aid on human rights and international law compliance,”.

OOOF, all of the wage growth over the last year erased in one month

A sea of humanity at Heroes' Square in Budapest. Hungarians of all walks of life gather en masse to demand regime change, in a nation kneecapped by unspeakable levels of corruption and nepotism for nearly two decades. The winds, and sounds, of change are palpable. 🔥 @telexhu.bsky.social

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

I have never met a "logical centrist." There is nothing logical about "centrism," at all: It's just finding the "moderate" position and claiming it *bc it's centrist/moderate.* What's logical about that? In what way does that forward best practices in policy or do the most for people's lives?

25th amendment

THEY DID THIS AGAIN

This "Oversight" was predictably ineffectual. The mayor & corporate cronies want to play with $5 billion of other people's money, intended for schools and public services. The only question: can they bully / bribe APS & Fulton boards to hand it over? Maybe not? #GApol

I retire from Georgia State and then my college (Andrew Young School) moves from #3 in urban policy to #1... Putting that on my CV.

HUD chief Scott Turner “celebrating” Fair Housing Month by trashing previous efforts to do things like… ...enforce the Fair Housing Act. (which is just woke DEI after all) www.linkedin.com/posts/hud_ap...?

Well-known fair housing lawyer John Relman says the big law firms kowtowing to Trump ended up losers.

The march has reached Trump Tower. CPD directing people to move onto the sidewalk, with mixed success.

Happening now: an anti-war protest is gathering in Chicago's Federal Plaza over US/Israeli attacks on Iran & Lebanon. Iranian & US officials announced a 2 week ceasefire yesterday. That's now in question after Israel extensively bombed Lebanon earlier today, reportedly killing over 250 people.

Well-known fair housing lawyer John Relman says the big law firms kowtowing to Trump ended up losers.

HUD chief Scott Turner “celebrating” Fair Housing Month by trashing previous efforts to do things like… ...enforce the Fair Housing Act. (which is just woke DEI after all) www.linkedin.com/posts/hud_ap...?

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Why do so many "progressive" nonprofits end up acting like anti-labor oligarchs? Too many MBAs in management? Will no longer donate to @propublica.org unless management behaves differently towards workers.

Brutal.

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

NYT: Trump “desperate” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

CHICAGO!! TOMORROW!!

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

“Atlanta already has more zoning districts per person than any major city in the National Zoning Atlas database. We are skeptical that piling on more complexity in a city that saw rents shoot up nearly 60% since 2021 is a good solution.” (& even more exclusionary zoning in metro ATL is in suburbs)

Watched "Nuremberg" (2025) the other night. Seems like a lot more folks should be watching it right about now.

Watched "Nuremberg" (2025) the other night. Seems like a lot more folks should be watching it right about now.

Marge calls for Trump to be removed.

Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters

We don’t even have a declaration of war and the President of the United States threatening ”a whole civilization” with death. I would say that this constitutes an emergency that Congress and Cabinet must deal with asap before he can follow through on this insane threat.

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

Trump & Vance are eliminating the NSF's Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences Directorate & the rigorous social science research it funds. Meanwhile they're giving $8 million to OSU's activist conservative Chase Center. Like other authoritarians, Trump & Vance are replacing experts w/ ideologues.

Some news...

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

UCLA WOMEN! 🎉🎊🎈🍾

Happy Easter. (Trying to improve a terrible timeline this morning)

Motion to make People the “newspaper of record”

[Trump posts a fully nude selfie showing him smoking crack minutes before launching nuclear missiles at Iran] NYT: In a bold statement aimed at the Iranian regime hardliners and at Democrats ahead of the midterms, the President this morning sent a clear message.....

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

sign in front of the church across from my hotel: he is risen, the prince of peace bottom-screen chyron on the local news: happy easter to you and yours our president, rage-posting on the john: open the fuckin strait, praise be to allah

textbook sanewashing

"We’re watching what by any rational standard is an unhinged president of the United States.” MS NOW Military Analyst Ret. U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey slams Pres. Trump’s Truth Social post threatening Iran with "hell," using the f-bomb, and pledging to attack power plants & bridges on Tuesday.

I understand the impulse not to let this guy's statements dictate the news cycle but the fact that he can say shit like this and it barely causes a ripple in the media is a key to his ability to maintain power. Constantly pushing the bar of normality downwards, no pressure to take responsibility.

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.