The vibe of this address is very much like his middle-of-the-night speech on the night of the 2020 election: a lot of greatest hits mixed with various claims about how, actually, he won easily.

What is “a nuclear weapon like nobody has ever seen before”? Is it in a funny shape or something?

… BBC News similarly unimpressed. Called it a bunch of Trump’s Truth Social posts strung together.

ABC News analysts are pretty harsh on the speech. Saying he still did not articulate objectives to be met towns the war; that he said nothing new for the American people; that he further confused the question of why we’re there and what we’re doing; etc

To me the economy is a cartoon dog with a single tear dripping from his oversized eye and there’s sad music playing on the soundtrack. What are we doing here?

This kind of explicit gutter racism goes beyond what Buckley would have been willing to publish in his pro-Jim Crow days

I watched all but the first seconds of that. Honestly any press person on truth serum would have to say that’s a speech he shouldn’t have given. It was terrible. A bunch of incoherent nonsense. They’ve decided to leave Iran in control of the strait. Iran war, not nearly as long as ww2. lol. Fail.

I agree. And I think it was important to have the justices have to look over and see him expecting them to kneel. Alito and Thomas will probably be okay with that, but others might not be.

The Chief Justice would be wise to cajole his justices to go 9-0 on birthright. It would slam shut a door that never should have been opened.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Yes, I'm gonna watch the speech. Yes, I'm gonna write about it. You don't have to. You're welcome.

Maybe you should all stop committing crimes, Todd.

As someone whose American heritage 100% predates consistent record-keeping, I could not prove my right to be a US citizen except by birthright, or weeks to months of painstaking research at county historical societies up & down the Great Appalachian Valley. This is not a reasonable standard.

He made a serious mistake going to the Court.

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

"Will Artemis 2 be a unifying event for a divided nation?" Political scientist who studies space politics & policy here. Answer: No, it will not.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

sam alito’s only real belief is that he’ll do anything for daddy trump

congrats to the worm man. you did it. and i hope people remember your name.

the domicile rule, if it existed, would exclude from citizenship the children of escaped slaves that left the country

news to the enslaved!

seriously though, “domicile” is nowhere to be found in either the amendment or the debate around it!

the “my girlfriend lives in canada” of legal argument

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

It's hilarious because the premise of America is literally "fuck Europe" but all these people suddenly care what the Europeans are doing. I don't. Long live the United States.

Ian Wurman today:

[Steve Miller busts into Supreme Court like Kool-Aid man, runs full speed at Sauer, shoves him to the ground, leans into the microphone] Miller:

POTUS returns to office, gives analysis of the legal arguments he has just witnessed at the Supreme Court

Marco Rubio has taken to releasing video statements filmed at this set, and I am now convinced that we need to increase the State Department’s budget

There are a lot of cases challenging his elections order last year, and many adverse rulings. One of the first came in just weeks. www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

Some (non-April Fool's) personal news. pbump.net

Mail-in voting is very popular, with 58% approval which would be higher if not for Trump’s ridiculous campaign against it. Millions and millions of people voted by mail in 2024 without issues. The problems he cites are myths. Oh and it’s a state responsibility, not federal. Get outta here with this.

This is someone that Track AIPAC is still calling a wholly owned product of the Israel lobby

Today is Trans Day of Visibility and I’m thinking about the trans people in my life- their courage, joy, and defiance in the face of a hostile government bent on erasure and elimination. Trans people deserve so much better. We all need to demand better for them.

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

There seems to be a small-ish but extremely committed subset of people on this site that really want to prevent it from being useful for seriously discussing or even analyzing current events

once again for those in the cheap seats no matter how real and deep your trauma is it's not a license to be an asshole

I want to put this as plainly as possible: This site has way too many self-righteous, underinformed assholes looking to pick a fight. We need fewer of them and more people with Mark's expertise.

I think this falls under 'scary flailing' - it's insane that he's trying this, he's trying to grab power he isn't even close to having, but the chances it actually works (yes, even with this supreme court) are very low this is not the action of someone who has a grand plan for stealing the midterms

1. Having been bullied does not give you free rein to be a bullying asshole to other people 2. I guarantee if I quoted something from this person's account and other people then "said mean words" to them repeatedly, they would be absolutely furious

Some people here act like small accounts are akin to juveniles in a court of law, that it's unfair to treat them the same way as larger accounts, that they just can't be held accountable for any insults or harm they've brought to others. Sorry, no. We're all (presumably) adults here.

Cobie Smulders is part of the amazing SHRINKING cast this season, so I'd just like to say that my wife and I were seated next to her and her husband Taran Killam at an event several years ago and they were absolutely the nicest, most normal, completely chill celebrities I've ever met.

A lot of small accounts insisting that big accounts should just be able to shrug off a mob of strangers wishing them harm and accusing them of insanely hateful shit AND asserting that they themselves are just little birthday boys who should be able to shit all over other people without any blowback.

The Supreme Court’s decision today in Chiles v. Salazar is a devastating step backward that will cause real harm to American children and families. By weaponizing the First Amendment, the Court has elevated anti-LGBTQ+ bias over the safety, health, and wellbeing of young people.

I recognise the world is on fire and also I'm posting at 4am, which is rarely a *healthy* sign, but I've also just managed to submit the manuscript for my Unannounced Book Project exactly on deadline day. And no, it's not a prank. An actual major publisher set me a deadline of 1 April.

You had ONE JOB

Man. Bruce Springsteen is on an absolute mission with this tour. Called this a Treasonous and corrupt regime, and welcoming in fans to the Land of Hope and Dreams your, asking to choose peace over WAR, and launching into a blistering version of “war”. Here. For. It. ✊🏼 🎸 🔥 👊🏼

looking forward to reading the part where vance condescendingly explains that his faith commanded him to be a vicious racist demagogue