Trump signs order directing creation of a national voter list, a move sure to face legal challenges apnews.com/article/dona...

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

“DOJ highlighted the department’s use of contempt of cop arrests noting “these incidents . . . are propelled by officers’ belief that arrest is an appropriate response to disrespect.” Not only do the officers believe what they are doing is lawful, but supervisors explicitly condone it.”

Our Asshole System: Contempt of Cop Charges and the First Amendment journals.law.unc.edu/firstamendme...

President Donald Trump has spared a Biden-era program that promotes renewable energy, one of his favorite targets for cost cutting. But USDA won’t disburse the funds? www.eenews.net/articles/thi...

"Even if Trump declares unilateral victory in the Gulf, Iran would still have more influence than him over US inflation. Iran's regime has stumbled on a weapon that can induce Taco." Me on Trump's declining fortunes at home & abroad. as.ft.com/r/c336f5ca-a...

Private equity has moved on to another game: selling companies to themselves, keeping valuations high, and often screwing over their own investors in the process. Some investors have cried foul, but the big extend and pretend game continues. prospect.org/2026/03/31/a...

The big problem is private equity is saddled with zombie companies that they don't want to take losses on. There are more than 31,000 unsold companies stuck on balance sheets, with more than half of them held for more than 4 years, the highest level ever recorded. prospect.org/2026/03/31/a...

Private equity is depicted as a ruthless, unstoppable force destined to slurp up every company in the country & bleed them dry. In reality, the industry made a huge mistake in 2022 by overvaluing their portfolio companies, and now they're desperate for a way out. Me and Moe Tkacik tell the story. 🧵

I wrote about Trump's war on wind power for @rollingstone.com

Why didn’t this get more interest two years ago? Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy helping oligarch’s efforts to seize Russian oil Exclusive: Sergey Kolesnikov has supplied building materials to Russian military and for use in occupied Ukraine www.theguardian.com/business/202...

France says no to overflights for Israel military supply.

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

The allies spent a lot of time playing the five D's of dodgeball to avoid offending Trump. Those days are now over. Refusing overflight/bases is as big an FU as it gets. And, yes, this is almost assuredly playing well in these countries' domestic politics.

🇪🇺 No good news yet on €90 billion aid for Ukraine – EU chief diplomat Kallas

@ksadjadpour.bsky.social: "If all we get, all the president gets from this very costly war is that the Strait of Hormuz has been reopened, I think that's going to be viewed as a major strategic failure."

Worth repeating…

Hegseth on when US objectives will be achieved: "He said four to six weeks, six to eight weeks, three weeks -- it could by any particular number. It will be the president's determination."

🤬 Russia said that Ukraine has 2 months to withdraw from Donbas, otherwise there will be "different conditions for peace," — Zelensky.

Donald Trump is incapable of installing a puppet in Iran.

God's second Optional Suggestion is thou shall not worship idols, except maybe if you really like a politician, I guess that sort of worship is cool, build idols to him and bow down if you want, it's up to you.

BREAKING: This is the 'junior airman' who "simply looked up at [hegseth] with a sly smile on her face and said, more bombs, sir, and bigger bombs."

Hegseth: "As far as President Trump and boots on the ground, I don't understand why the base wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute on this. Look at his track record."

If I were Trump, I personally would fight like hell against the notion that you get the death penalty for lying. 🤥

FOX & FRIENDS: When you hear people say the Big Beautiful Bill only benefitted the rich, what do you say? MIKE JOHNSON: It's exactly the opposite. The Big Beautiful Bill-- the hardworking, the Working Families Tax Cut was written for lower and middle-class earners.

Maybe we can even get a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and convince another five countries to sign onto it.

Never heard of a bigger paradox than “growing the workforce through AI”

REP. RICH McCORMICK: This is one of the amazing things about President Trump -- you don't know what he's going to do. As you know, he's announced probably several plans BERMAN: We are quite aware that he's offered several plans. Sometimes they conflict each other

Nikki Haley: "I think Russia is probably the biggest winner"

Here’s how they voted on Mark White’s FedEx “corporate welfare” bill that surprisingly died last night:

Not legal advice for any particular client, but as a general rule, federal criminal law is not being enforced unless you are a political target of Donald Trump. “For my friends, anything. For my enemies, the law.”

Some research suggests that diagnostic errors stem from failures in thinking. But one doctor set out to learn if diagnostic excellence is a skill that any clinician can achieve. Alexandra Sifferlin explores his findings in her new book:

“Same crime, different penalty. That is not justice, it is one more step toward apartheid. The world cannot remain silent.” Spain’s prime minister reacts to the new 🇮🇱 law to allow Palestinians to be executed for “acts of terrorism” — as Ben Gvir sips champagne👇🏽

☠️ Russia has lost 89 thousand soldiers since the beginning of 2026, — Zelensky Now Russians are losing more on battlefield than they manage to mobilize. 💬 They had a plan to mobilize 409 thousand this year. They mobilized 20 or 22% as of March… That is, a fifth is 80 thousand. They lost more. 💬

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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."

“.. Bankruptcies across the freight transportation and logistics sector continued to mount in March, with trucking companies, logistics providers, last-mile delivery firms and marine operators filing for Chapter 11 protection ..” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.freightwaves.com/news/freight...

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that." The post ⬇️

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."

Setting aside the Churlish American Guy shtick and the Looney Tunes-level of understanding of maritime operations, this is a big dump on the British security partners who suffered more than 600 deaths and 10,000 injuries in the US-led Iraq and Afghanistan wars

No matter what Trump tells people, if this happens America would be handing a key choke point in the oil based economy to Iran-inexplicably both losing the war and elevating the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism to an economic superpower It would be a disastrous outcome, all caused by Trump

That face you make when you are 55 and still go by Kid Rock.

The Israeli military suspended a battalion of reservist soldiers after they detained a CNN crew that was reporting on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians. An IDF solider put a photojournalist in a chokehold and damaged his camera, the network said.

Sharpie parent company is Newell Brands (NASDAQ: #$NWL)

Netanyahu on Newsmax scaring Republicans into supporting a war on Iran he has been pushing for nearly 50 years— even saying they’re “still trying to kill Trump” Playing us all for fools

Imagine that. www.ft.com/content/744e...

Share this with the knuckle-dragging, fossil-fuel obsessed science deniers in the Trump regime who have spent the last year and change rolling back all the progress Biden made on solar and wind - and all we have to show for it are massive spikes in energy prices for everyone. #ResistTrump