Just once would love Congress to exercise their oversight duty of the DOD to maybe keep us from things like “autonomous nukes” or whatever

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

this is an absolute bald-faced lie, these were the exact consequences of the OBBB, there was a whole, separate side negotiation for an insufficient bail out for rural hospitals in order to get the bill passed and it is not to much to ask the press corpse to remember basic details

This should be a front-page scandal.

This. More of this.

Pulling this shit while the president extracts billions for his family and is currently demanding taxpayers give him $10 billion is pretty goddamned rich.

The president doesn't give a flip about Medicaid fraud. In June, Trump commuted Lawrence Duran's 50 year sentence for filing over 860,000 fraudulent Medicaid claims worth about $200 million. He had commuted one of Duran's co-conspirators' sentences in his first term. share.google/iShrzItOsCas...

“Viewing the satellite imagery and monitoring the Iranian nuclear sites, we don’t see any evidence that they are trying to reconstitute their nuclear-weapons program,” said David Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Blatantly, blatantly illegal and authoritarian. Weaponization of the state.

Breaking news: A federal judge in Boston ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to countries where they are not citizens is unconstitutional.

holding a press conference to announce an illegal shakedown intended to punish a state who has refused to bow to them i think they lose this, and probably quickly, fwiw

and then what?

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Total inability to accept alternative views as legitimate or to acknowledge the pain and suffering others might experience.

In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.

the scumbag trying to tear al green's sign out of his hands is texas rep. troy nehls, a former sheriff, who afterwards asked the president to sign his tie like he was a beatle.

NPR had it first

Important these words are repeated again and again.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. A ridiculous & astrategic claim as 'victory' must be measured against a declared objective -- something the administration has expressly refused to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

For the United States, the Middle East is a great power trap.

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

Look at this bullshit. If I was the parent of a victim, I’d be livid.

Your free speech rights end where billionaires’ feelings begin.

Of course, Apple News features plenty of center-right publications that are serious news outlets. What she means by “bias” is that they don’t treat right-wing propaganda factories as equivalent to legitimate newspapers. Because, of course, they aren’t. “Bias” would be pretending they are.

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

thehill.com/policy/inter... Scary stuff reminiscent of the lead up to US invasion of Iraq (2003); NSA Rice warning of mushroom clouds & admininistration relying on advice of the Iraqi exile community (e.g., Chalabi). Here Witkoff claiming Iran weeks away from nuc bomb & discussions w Pahlavi.

Excellent overview of the constraints holding Trump back from starting a war with Iran. Shorter: there aren't any. Recommended.

With the Board of Peace and Trump's other direct, personal deals with foreign governments, he is setting himself up to not only profit from, but also steer and undermine US foreign policy after he's no longer president. I don't think that's being fully appreciated in FP circles.

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

solid analysis 👇 How To Flunk Coercive Diplomacy 101 open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

solid analysis 👇 danieldrezner.substack.com/p/how-to-flu...

excellent article 👇 "Trump fundamentally fails to grasp that Iranian weakness will not lead the country to capitulate at the negotiating table." www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Putin wrecked his own country to satisfy his imperial dreams and NATO nightmares: "Nearly 40 percent of Russia’s federal budget is now devoted to the military and security. Another 9 percent goes to interest payments on the debt that Mr. Putin has decided to take/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/w...

Great piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the dangers the catastrophic successes in Iran last year and Venezuela this year may have created.

Putin started against Ukraine because, he claimed, of the need to stop genocide. As a result, Russia has been waging a war designed to completely erase Ukrainian identity, language, and culture, including stealing and indoctrinating Ukrainian children.

Putin has failed on a monumental scale in Ukraine. For four years he’s been dependent for survival on a war he started but which Russia cannot win. In the process, he’s turned Russia – which he desperately wants to be a great power - into the dependent of an actual great power.

But if Putin has failed in Ukraine, he’s succeeded extraordinarily in Washington. Since January 2025, Russia’s failure in Ukraine has been limited by the Trump administration, which has aligned with Moscow to try to force Ukraine into capitulation.

“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department Of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes." - Rep. Robert Garcia in a new statement

I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.

It would have made a lot more sense to debate these risks BEFORE the massive and costly deployment of US forces to the region Just the latest example of the rash and personalized decision making in this administration

Charlie Kirk repeatedly pushed the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory and regularly made racist comments in his public statements. If we can't call someone so explicitly racist "a racist" without getting fired, who else is off limits? Donald Trump? Nick Fuentes? David Duke?

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

Breaking news: The Pentagon’s top general has cautioned President Trump from an attack on Iran, saying that shortfalls in critical munitions and a lack of support from allies will add significant risk to the operation and to U.S. personnel.

This is an extremely important piece by @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social about the evisceration of legal norms and processes (and workforce) within DOD. Similar things happening at DOJ, the IC, etc., but the effects at DOD are as calamitous as anywhere. www.execfunctions.org/p/the-decayi...