Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should

Not a single one of these is a legitimate reason for a federal investigation

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At 11am, watch @klonick.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social discuss the European Commission's announcement that they are fining X 120 million Euros for impersonation scams with “verification,” broken advertising transpaency system, and blocking researchers from its platform.

we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.

anyone from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s team follow me here? trying to get a press pass for the rally with bernie tonight. help!

I hope you’ll read my latest essay @liberalcurrents.com. It’s about the importance of virtue for any republic and whether a country willing to re-elect Donald Trump after all he’s done is too far gone. www.liberalcurrents.com/inherent-vic...

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

I'm at the US Courthouse media room. I'll try to live blog for @lawfaremedia.org the hearing in the case over the dismantling of CFPB before Judge Amy Berman Jackson. Unions claim Trump Adm has ordered reductions in force that violate her injunction even as narrowed by the DC Circuit. /1

Hey everyone. Working on a new project focused on telling the stories of the people that Trump’s policies are hurting. If that’s you, use the link below to get in touch. share-na2.hsforms.com/27abfgVgkRci...

There are some very bad stories going around about the Mahmoud Kahlil case. The hearing today was before an immigration judge — which is located within the Justice Department. They are NOT a "federal judge" in the sense that anyone reading at least one nationwide story saying so thinks of it.

In 1 hour, watch @BenjaminWittes.bsky.social, @AnnaBower.bsky.social, @RParloff.bsky.social, @QJurecic.bsky.social, and Bob Bauer dscuss the litigation against actions from the Trump administration, including the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Gracia to El Salvador, the Alien Enemies Act, and more.

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

Trump: "We're gonna get good elections pretty soon. There's a lot of clamor for it ... the states are just an agent of the federal government."

Biggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.

As a 20 year communications professional I’d like to offer Democrats my most sophisticated advice: While Trump is punching himself in the nuts, you could choose to 1. Also punch him in the nuts; or 2. Punch yourself in the nuts. I strongly advise number 1.

Markets are experiencing Stockholm Syndrome right now but at some point the real world will have to reckon with the fact that 10% universal tariffs plus 125% tariffs on China (and maybe the EU?) and sector tariffs on steel, aluminum, lumber, and pharmaceuticals are still a huge problem

Erez Reuveni argued on behalf of the Justice Department during Friday’s hearing in the Abrego Garcia case. Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave. Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:

I like it when my colleagues get angry and decide to make short, cathartic videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tCQ...

WOW. Rep. @jayapal.house.gov says CBP's internal affairs department found that a Chinese woman who had overstayed a visa was arrested by Border Patrol and hung herself in a cell. She wasn't found for two hours—even though the records reported multiple welfare checks (suggesting records falsified?).

Must read from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Rage rant about the government admitting they wrongly sent a man to the El Salvador gulag and are not going to do anything about it. youtu.be/2LScwsPP9oc?...

So many people, including the world's richest man, falsely believe that having a Social Security number allows you to vote. It does not. It is entirely unrelated to citizenship. Any person who can work legally in the country gets a Social Security number so they can pay taxes! There's no conspiracy!

Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

"Canadians driving across the border at some crossings has fallen by up to 45%" "36% of Canadians who had planned trips to the US had already cancelled them" "passenger bookings on Canada to US routes are down by over 70% compared to the same period last year" www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.

JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”

Starting to see the corporate commentary about lower-income weakness show up in charts. (via MS) $WMT

In the 12 of those cases assigned to judges appointed by non-Trump Republicans: 9 were granted (75%). Of the 8 assigned to Trump-appointees: 0 grants. 2/3 www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

An EV fraudster (not Musk!) with $2 million in sudden pro-Trump donations. A swindler of the Oglala Sioux who became a vocal Biden critic. The GOP donor who used to run Fatburger. If you're not outraged by Trump's pardons and DOJ abuses, you aren't paying attention www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

"This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now" 75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC

In coal mines worldwide, the canaries are dying www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/b...

Audience member: “What is your opinion on the Federal Reserve and do you have any intentions of doing anything with them?” Elon Musk: “End the Fed!” [maniacal laugh] “…I always wanted to say that.”

I don’t think the president should cause a recession for no reason.

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

Here's how this could play out. Imagine a roommate is someone ICE says is a TDA member. - 2 points for "residing" with him - 2 points for "closely associating" with him - 2 points for being in a "group photo" - 2 points for "social media posts" with him. = 8 points = sent to prison in El Salvador.

This is very smart www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Which brings me to the larger point. If you're a journalist getting distracted by a hypothetical 3rd term RATHER THAN pointing to all the things happening today that presume a third term, you are being badly manipulated. Report on the urgent-now, not the hypothetical-in-3-years.

NEW: Thanks very much to @itstygrey.bsky.social for getting me started down this path, but apparently nearly all of these tattoos are NOT from members of Tren de Aragua. Instead, they're stolen from random places on the internet, some nearly a decade old, and from tattoo artists around the world. 🧵

This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points: /1

So basically, David Lightman/Ferris Beuller hacks into your ICE files and erases your visa. Then they arrest you for not having a visa. zeteo.com/p/ice-manual...

#TeslaTakedown Seattle in SODO.

This needs to be said more and loudly.

pedocon theory on its way to becoming a scientific law