Absolutely gutted to learn my friend, Shelly Kittleson, has been kidnapped in Baghdad possibly by Kataib Hezbollah, according to initial reports. Shelly is incredibly kind, talented, and cares deeply about the region and its people. Praying for her safe return.

Reup: I think we're being treated to pics of Bryon Noem's boobies bc Corey Lewandowski threatened to expose Stephen Miller's ties to the murder of Alex Pretti. emptywheel.net/2026/03/31/d...

*sigh* It is never aliens. I know. I know. If there was ever to be a time for humanity to discover aliens, it would be now because it would like the 10th headline of the day, and inconsequential. Project Blue Book was declassified in 1970s. Likely something more interesting ppl will know in decades

This cartoon from 1986 would work quite effectively as a MAGA meme. The organization that published it in 1986 was the Citizens Bar Association of Medford, OR...a paramilitary, Posse Comitatus-linked, anti-tax group that called for liberation from the Jews who supposedly controlled the US economy.

BREAKING: Judge Richard Leon enjoins Trump ballroom construction in suit by National Trust for Historic Preservations. Order stayed for 14 days to allow for appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I appreciate Judge Leon’s thoroughness! His clarity of explanations is also helpful! It’s good for judicial decisions to be engaging and readable even to non-lawyers! His citations are sparing and not intrusive! His harmonizing of the Constitution and laws is persuasive! Read the decision!

Yes, this is real.

📚 “I stand by my decision. I will not change my mind.” RUTHERFORD COUNTY library director LUANNE JAMES 🦸‍♀️ was just fired for refusing to move kids books into the adult section simply because the board doesn’t like what they’re about. Full: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

Trying to profit off sending U.S. service members to fight and die in Trump's war with Iran is a new low even for Pete Hegseth. We need an investigation — and it’s long past time to ban stock trading by top government officials.

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

Tim Miller, with a deadpan delivery, sharing his thoughts on Lindsey Graham at Disney is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhOH...

NOTUS on TMZ's decision to get into politics, including it's big scoop on Lindsey at Disney. www.notus.org/congress/tmz...

when you've lost Fox News ...

the U.S. navy is 4x the size of the Royal Navy by number of ships and we have almost 6x as many aircraft carriers (11 vs. 2)

When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power. www.nber.org/papers/w34990

"Conversion therapy" doesn't work. It never has and never will. All it does is teach a young person to feel shame for who they are and that repression later manifests into unhealthy behavior. Today's Supreme Court ruling will result in a generation of shame and subsequent harm.

$65B seems like a fair down payment to ask the individual corporations to pay for the damage Trump does. Plus fines for specific bribes like those funding the White House. What the individual oligarchs get fined is another thing. Nationalize the Nazi Bar!

Rumsfeld, 2002: Watch out for unknown unknowns Hegseth, 2026: We are the unknown unknowns

Viktor Orban’s “achievement” was using the state to prosecute culture war. He pushed out the top ranked university, killed off the free press, treats migrants and LGBT people harshly, made Hungary poorer, weaker, and more corrupt. Look at how Trump/GOP/MAGA have governed. It’s what they want too.

From the libertarian CATO Institute: How Viktor Orban eroded free markets and the rule of law. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

"All this time Putin had, and still has, a mole in all European and NATO official meetings. If the integrity of these meetings is to be maintained, it would be appropriate to ban Hungary from all of them. Every generation has a Kim Philby” theins.press/en/inv/29091...

Read why the EU has started to exclude Hungary from sensitive discussions: bc their foreign minister is sharing everything back with Russia. vsquare.org/kremlin-hotl...

Origin stories on the court preparing to hear a case about birthright citizenship: Roberts grandfather Albert Podrasky was born before his parents were naturalized, but he was nevertheless an American, guaranteed by the nation’s principle of birthright citizenship. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

I spoke to Prof. Anna O. Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) about her upcoming book on birthright citizenship and why the attack on the 14th Amendment is an attack on multi-racial democracy. www.theredoubt.net/birthright-c...

It turns out that banks allowing him to walk away (really, how do you fail at a business where the house always wins) consequence free from multiple bankruptcies , taught the president that his failures are always someone else’s problem.

contrary to popular belief, i do want to make new friends on here, but i guarantee from experience it is not going to happen from thousands of people being able to say whatever they want in my mentions haha

In this post, I argue Trump's conflicting statements (he's invading, no he's not, he could care less about Hormuz, but MbS will pay to open it) is not much different than his bullying of Starmer. Q is whether MbS will tolerate it in the same way. emptywheel.net/2026/03/31/h...

It’s genuinely a challenge for legal journalists to cover the birthright citizenship case, because one side’s argument is “the Fourteenth’s Amendment intent and text and a century of uninterrupted Supreme Court precedent all support birthright citizenship,” and the other side’s argument is “nuh-UH”

we said what we said @anthonymkreis.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Admin wants you to forget the history of why birthright citizenship is in the Constitution. Here's the history of birthright citizenship and consequences for under-classes of people, particularly imported enslaved people, who lacked citizenship. By @garrettepps.bsky.social

Ah, they're putting boots *in* the ground. Much better.

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

If we're talking about Mark Levin's nasally voice, it's time to pull out the clips of his voice played over Master Shake clips.

Oops, you buried the lede: “On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Donald Trump, Defendant Trump tied me to a bed, exposed himself to me, and then proceeded to forcibly rape me.” —13-year-old Jane Doe from FBI filing

He started a war with no reason and no plan, sending the world into a crisis solely of his own creation, and now he's angrily bitching that other countries need to clean up his mess.

It was called the Iran nuclear deal. You threw it out because it was negotiated by a black president.

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

My cat’s Patreon (daily pics of Heater to support my work and her vet bills) just hit 400 members everyone say good job Heater

the most vile pieces of shit

It feels like Congress should be demanding answers on why Trump is building a massive military complex underneath his ballroom.

this is bizarre. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

ICYMI:

Political science research on thermostatic politics suggests that the best strategy for the midterms is being not-Trump. This is *especially* true given Trump's abysmal approval ratings and the state of the economy.

One of the more engaging citations I’ve received in awhile. Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence By Shay O’Briena in ASR journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

This has been happening for decades - I remember in the 2000s there was an absurd piece of widely held conventional wisdom that NASCAR was the second most popular sport in the country and would soon challenge the NFL for first

Some news: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is opening an on-site child care facility inside the Dinkins Municipal Building that will be free to city workers. It's a model for the universal child care program that is on track to hit full capacity by the end of his first term. prospect.org/2026/03/30/m...