Be prepared. It's coming.

I'm not a veteran, so I can't sign. But I can amplify. If you ARE a vet, please consider signing.

Can’t remember who said it but someone commented that while American media is still trying to grapple with how to cover Trump, The Germans for awhile have been quite plain like “oh you’ve got a real Hitler on your hands there you’ll want to take care of that or it WILL become a problem”

Fantastic news and worth celebrating. So glad we got them back, and happy for a family that gets to breathe a massive sigh of relief.

This is terrific advice. I especially like the parts about contradictions, and about war limiting moral choices. Those of us who never served have particular need for humility in our opinions: we are in the stands, not in the arena. We still have a voice, as Peter says, but hubris is our enemy.

This is an evergreen headline. Trump did [crazy thing.] Now the US could face [the obvious consequence of the crazy thing]

"Among those getting the notorious “anti-awards” for invasive, wasteful or fragile products were an eye-tracking AI “soulmate” companion for combating loneliness, a musical lollipop and new AI features for Amazon’s widely used doorbell cameras."

They’re making this woman pay $500 a month to talk to her husband.

"Georgia's most visited attraction." 😬

Those are the words of a "potential" war criminal (pushed and encouraged by his "potentially" war criminal president)

… and the next day, two American military planes are shot out of the sky. Coincidence?

Charming, hilarious, and sweet. It is nice that my government acknowledges that I am about to turn old.

“…because AI is destroying the Internet so much," she says. "You can't go anywhere without wondering if the content you're reading is AI generated or not and if it's completely inaccurate because of that.” Is anyone tracking how many women leave after being harassed? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Pete Hegseth speaking on Fox News in 2019 about an American soldier who admitted to the extrajudicial execution of an alleged Taliban bombmaker: “If he committed premeditated murder … then I did as well. What do you think you do in war?” www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

An Iranian embassy is now trolling the Trump administration over Kegsbreath’s purge of US military leadership in the middle of a war. That’s where we are.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

Received an Easter message from Congresswoman Ashley Hinson today. I have no objection to that, as an agnostic, but I don’t recall any similar messages from her about Ramadan or, most recently, Passover. Curious, that.

Six million poor households had heat because of LIHEAP last year.

Donald Trump is not the disease of our politics. He's just the worst symptom. The disease is allowing big corporations and special interests to buy and sell politicians so that the system is rigged against the rest of us.

40 nations working on the problem the US and Israel have caused in the Strait of Hormuz. The US was not invited to participate. Can you imagine that happening any time in the past 80 years? The US getting shouldered aside so the adults can get to work? substack.com/@drstaceypat...

We should all be doing this. The same with CBS and the Post.

The US Department of War Crimes.

"But now that Randy George, along with other senior officers Hegseth has fired or pushed to resign, are about to be civilians, maybe they can step forward and tell their fellow citizens what on Earth the hell is going on in ["Dumb McNamara's"] Pentagon." More than ever, America needs whistleblowers

Looks like territorial war brewing between New Mexico and Texas.

I have an aversion to showing people – including famous ones – at their weakest, for public schadenfreude. A pic of Tiger Woods from his recent accident is going around. Once an actor attempted suicide, failed, and called 911 – and someone published the 911 call. It's one thing to call out bad...

Prophets of Judgment Day for Trump are no better than prophets of doom for the rest of us. Ignore the prophets. Do the work. Do it again tomorrow. What we believe doesn’t matter; what we DO does. So we should do it Stoically, without regard for results or surrounding conditions, over and over.

Trevor and @chefjoseandres.bsky.social: it's good to pull our heads out of the muck of the Trump regime and spend time with the BEST people in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSt1...

Wait – we can DO this? Yes, please! (And anyone who says, with legal acuity, that we can't – can we break one procedural law to stop the breaking of more consequential ones? No? That seems to be a problem for . . . the entire world.)

More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump admin shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program, according to the latest industry data. That is the highest pace of foreclosures for VA loans in a decade.

Not since LBJ open.substack.com/pub/johnjmca...

This is central to it all

The relationship between statelessness and atrocity is a major theme in Hannah Arendt; I make a specific argument about the Holocaust in "Black Earth."

I finally got to listen to this very good speech by Sen. Elizabeth Warren about what a winning political party that works for ALL Americans will look like in the future. Spoiler: It is NOT a party that is more "centrist". It is a party that puts all its energy behind progressive policies that ...

Carville is my spirit animal here.

Hegseth's military purges are what I call "ethics cleansing." He's getting rid of people who might not support his war crimes agenda and might think twice if he orders American troops to attack the American people.

My thread on what we already knew about Bondi… from BEFORE she did anything as AG.

Even spending $1 Trillion on the military, Trump can't afford to help those who stood up for us with home ownership? FTG.

Those bullet points are the reasons that Trump LIKED Bondi's performance as AG.

Pam Bondi has learned her lesson. by Susan Collins

Spain. France. Italy. Austria. @reuters.com

This is astonishing, when it’s all spelled out. The Beatles were still together the last time the Democratic presidential candidate won the majority of the white vote in America. They had not yet released Sergeant Pepper. The US had not yet landed on the moon. samuelj.substack.com/p/the-last-d...

“I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” - Charlie Kirk Artemis II Pilot…

To all MAGAs with kids in the military: Which of you wants YOUR kid to be the last one to die for a mistake?

Is there a master list, so to speak, of child sexual abusers in Trump's circle (including all the January 6th guys)?

ICE needs to be held accountable. This is heartbreaking.👇