Sure, bring back all the marble for that great soul. Just because he whipped his slaves when they tried to run away, then rubbed brine in their wounds to make sure they got the message is no reason not to admire the man.

I still say if Noem had gotten Trump’s face on Mt. Rushmore she’d still have her job.

Homan: "We're not gonna stop doing this job. They want ICE not to operate in sensitive locations. Here's what I said from day one -- there's no sanctuary. There's no safe zone for significant public safety threats and national security threats."

GEN. MATTIS: “.. Iran right now, if we declared victory, they would now say they own the strait. .. You’d see a tax for every ship that goes through. .. We’re in a tough spot, ladies and gentlemen. .. I can’t identify a lot of options.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

“Money smuggling” like people carrying $50,000 cash in a Cava bag? Just asking for a friend, you know.

Homan on ICE: "We're doing a security function at the airports. We're gonna arrest criminals going through airports, we're gonna look for human trafficking, sex trafficking, money launder-- ah, you know, money smuggling"

What’s wrong, Sir? Cava bag caught your tongue?

Given that Kennedy is airing all this on Fox News, it seems like that status quo is politically unsustainable.

It won't happen, but every headline tomorrow should emphasize that Trump is the one blocking a solution to the airport crisis. He owns the shutdown now.

By calling on ICE officers to drop the masks, Trump appears to understand, even narrowly, the inherent theater of his mass deportation agenda. But like ICE’s theater of war, which uses optics to inflict real violence, it seems like a matter of time before trouble will start at airports.

What happens when you break stuff

I hate how stupid everything is.

As a retired airline Captain I flew into LGA and NY airspace hundreds of times. It is some of the world’s busiest airspace. To have only one ATC in the tower at LGA is criminal negligance. Not only is the airspace crowded and chaotic, so are the ground operations. Sean Duffy’s FAA owns this 100%

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

"Trump’s decision to back down from his threat to destroy Iran’s power infrastructure came after US allies and Gulf countries privately warned the president of the dangers of following through" bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/trump-s-market-driven-reversal-buys-time-but-skepticism-abounds

“.. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is now eager to re-establish deterrence and is close to a decision to join the attacks, the people said. It is only a matter of time before the kingdom enters the war, one of the people said.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Iran Is Setting the Pace; Trump Is Reacting. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-n...

NEW: Trump now open to funding DHS without funding ICE. This would: 1. Force republicans to fund ICE without any help from democrats via reconciliation 2. Allow Dems to vote to fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, CISA etc www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

It might be time soon to say the R-word, or even the D-word

Here is where we stand in 2026: We are defending a Mississippi law from attacks by the RNC in the U.S. Supreme Court and there is a chance that a conservative majority might rule in a way that millions of Americans would have their otherwise lawful votes through in the trash.

Newly uncovered records show right-wing outlets, including the Daily Caller and Townhall, were paid hundreds of dollars to run glowing, ghostwritten coverage promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency that duped investors out of real money. @willsommer.bsky.social follows the money.

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

First Mike Davis gets DOJ's antitrust people fired to benefit his clients, then SEC enforcement chief leaves over sweetheart settlements with people--Justin Sun and Elon Musk--who've paid Trump hundreds of millions. Bribery in plain sight. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Mullin then imitated his daughter Larra: “She’s like, ‘No, Daddy. No, Daddy, No, Daddy, No. I’m sorry, Daddy. I’m sorry, Daddy.’ …She just couldn’t bring herself to even bend over for me to be able to bust her butt.”

Markwayne Mullin: “My two beautiful twins that are sitting down there. Guys, I tell you right now, I do spank. I have no problem with that.”

At a church in 2022, DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin defended hitting kids with a belt: “We must be willing to discipline our kids too. …I was raised by the fear of a belt. …The discipline was just, wasn’t overreacted. …So I learned respect from the discipline.”

Whatever your views are on corporal punishment for girls, this is a bit concerning. bsky.app/profile/patr...

Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran. Gift link ⤵️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the Trump Administration to turn over records about a secretive “voter data agreement” between staff and an outside political group. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Y'all who called TSA security theater look pretty foolish now the real thing turned up

a. Trump isn't announcing a pause on strikes. He's saying he's postponing a possible war crime - strikes on Iran's civilian energy infrastructure. b. Also, this isn't a message to Iran. It's a panicky message to the markets: "No war escalation until markets close on Friday".

To be clear, ICE agents are still being paid. TSA agents are not. A gut punch for these folks who have to work under this reality. 📌 Senate Dems tried 7 times to pass standalone funding bills specifically for TSA pay and operations during the partial DHS shutdown. Republicans blocked each attempt.

Our @wbaidlaw.bsky.social FBI clients filed protected disclosures to DOJ OIG abt unlawful firings. Instead of investigating, OIG declined bc of "limited resources" & wants to send to FBI, i.e., investigate itself. The oversight system is broken. My statement: whistlebloweraid.org/doj-inspecto...

NEW: A new lawsuit seeks to force the release of records related to a secret “voter data agreement” between DOGE and an outside political group. The government still hasn’t revealed who was involved — or how personal voter data may have been misused.

It is absolutely imperative to stop reporting this war as if Trump has primary agency. Thus far nothing he has tried to do except murder a shit-ton of people has gone as planned (and even then, Trump had avoidable casualties, and Israel has been killing people the US might want to keep alive).

Because press has LONG been trained to repeat anything Trump says, no matter how crazy, it is unable to distinguish Trump's dick-waving on Iran from reality. It doesn't help that key journos are being fed by blithering idiots like Kushner and Witkoff. So what happened w/utility threat may be fake.

Trump, a bully: I will destroy Iran if they don't do what I can't make them do in Hormuz!! Iran: Okay then, we'll retaliate. Trump, a bully called out: WE'RE IN PEACE TALKS! Iran: No we're not. Press: Trump delays strikes (that may have been entirely bullying).

I've spotted a sleeper cell.

"The fact that anyone at the top is shocked by snaking security lines at airports is of a piece with the administration’s rather cavalier approach to contingency planning. (See also the war in Iran.)" I wrote for @theatlantic.com about aviation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Vietnam, Bangladesh and the Philippines will all run out of oil in three weeks, said a U.S.-based Asian diplomat." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

So the Republican strategy is to hope that people believe the party that doesn’t control the presidency, senate, house, or supreme court is responsible for government dysfunction?

Never let them tell you you can’t.

I hope Trump is inspired* by his visit to Graceland *to die on the toilet

2/ false claims of the President of the United States that there's a totally new plan and things are about to become awesome again. Whatever the intent, it's practically an ATM machine now for market gaming.

As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...