Hegseth firing Generals who wouldn't go along with his purge of Black and female officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

we have to get to the bottom of this mystery!

Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal.

Researchers now turning their attention to determining whether the Pope is Catholic.

Trump says such grotesque things about Somali-Americans I don’t even know which lie to focus on in a given clip. He also claims here that Somali-Americans have “94% unemployment.” What the fuck man

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

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

Neil Gorsuch, most cases: In the case of Protester vs. Tank, I find the protester's family liable for stain damage to the treads Neil Gorsuch, in any case involving Native American law:

/4. Fourth: Advocacy does have a moral component. Lying about law and history in an effort to make millions of people stateless is not “doing law the right way.” The notion that advocacy is morally neutral or even inherently good if performed according to cultural ritual remains vapid and harmful.

/2 Second: it’s a travesty this bullshit was treated this seriously — and it did real harm to the nation and democracy that it was indulged. Third: It’s a very bad sign how many absolute amoral shameless hacks are willing to conjure up bullshit to support it.

Lots of good coverage of today’s argument to choose from, like @elienyc.bsky.social or @atrupar.com or @mjsdc.bsky.social. A few points. First: it looks good for the rule of law winning, but I thought that before the immunity decision, so I am not 100% sure. /1

Trump delivered everything for Putin. abcnews.com/Internationa...

Is it good if the federal government’s attorney is stumped by the equivalent of “does an orange count as a citrus”

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

Funny bit after that when Gorsuch asks if Native Americans are natural born citizens and the SG says "uhhhh I think so"

This has really bad and dark ramifications.

I'm expecting a wheelbarrow-full of pardons for insider trading on January 19, 2029. Note that the prospect of those pardons helps to keep subordinates in line. Corrupt-cop style, make sure that lots of people get a little taste, then make clear that the pardon depends on continued loyalty.

incredible claim to make a couple days after he backed down from his 48 hour "ultimatum"

I have literally no idea what beliefs this man holds besides “I should be President”

I would rate the chances of Dems winning a trifecta in 2029 and frittering it away on tax cuts and penny-ante affordability stuff as "distressingly plausible." not guaranteed, but definitely the status quo path

I think this is a great idea that will be even more amazing when floated by someone whose hobbies don’t include covering up murder

It’s cool that the highest level of our government is basically a Make-A-Wish program for middle-aged losers

The vibes are increasingly like a mixture between “Veep” and “The death of Stalin”

Viktor Orbán is backed by Trump, Putin, and now Netanyahu. Authoritarian scoundrels may not care about the people in their countries, but they *do* care about each other.

I am hard pressed to think of any prior President who was solely responsible for causing such immediate unambiguous, and completely foreseeable economic pain. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

This is fucked

Trump was elected largely because he was seen as "the best on prices" and immediately then adopted every single inflationary policy he could imagine. I don't think we appreciate just how much The Apprentice permanently shaped low info voters' images of Trump.

If an actual former American president said those words to Trump he’d blurt out the name immediately

I don’t know how to tell you this but the president just pulls things out of his ass

Yall are really gonna spin your wheels on this

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Taking

Premeditated war crimes but depraved heart energy crisis is a really hard set of crimes to commit in a single scheme.

“[Trump is] making a terrible situation worse; his inability to conduct any sort of diplomacy at any level is harming his own ability to prosecute the war. He will have a harder time declaring victory & going home because he’s not using American diplomatic resources and in fact has dismantled them.”

lmfaoooo they're so cooked

Is this good?

Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

Truly a perfect news alert

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Brian Kilmeade this morning to oil tanker captains: "If you want to diminish the Iranian threat, if you want to make sure this ends with complete Iran capitulation, show some guts and go through that Strait."

The increasingly large hectoring section of the newspaper

Nikkei is down about 6.5%

People who love war are sociopaths.

@marnieshure.bsky.social Marnie! I am taking one of my oldest friends to In-On Thai this weekend (their first time) and am super excited about how much they’re going to love it. A reminder that I would not have come across it if you were not such a relentless, indefatigable champion of this place!