"Fewer than half of all Christians surveyed — and just 55% of Evangelicals — felt the administration's first 100 days reflected Christian values."

SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project. The project's goal, he said, is to automate work that's currently performed by 70,000 federal workers. w/ @telliotter.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

Animating too much absolutely sensible outrage at Trumpism is an appeal to parental figures who aren’t there. “He should not be allowed”; “He should be arrested”; “This can’t be permitted.” Passive voice, all of which begs, “by whom?” It’s an appeal to an order that has already broken.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I wrote a Disney Princess Anti-Fascism Fight Song. #doyouheartheprincesssing ht @jeffsharlet.bsky.social suno.com/song/60891f8...

Every retailer in America should display the original price of an item along with the new tariffed price. Let it sink in for the slowest in the herd. Tariffs are a tax. You're paying for them.

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

Also of note as Feds & even Democratic governors are pushing mask bans: 5 of the 6 plainclothes government agents are masked.

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

I don’t understand why Vance’s wife would go to Greenland. It’s really just an opportunity for Greenlanders to protest her, and could expose her to an attack by an inflamed nationalist, providing a pretext for counter-action by US forces…oh. Archduke Usha. (NOT a call for violence. Just pondering.)

Julia Louis Dreyfus: “So they just ADD him on the chat?…no…too stupid. Rewrite it.”

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

July 28, 1932. The U.S. President ordered the Army to attack veterans in the streets of D.C. General MacArthur personally led the assault. Many of the men he attacked had served under him in WWI. This is the story of the Bonus Army. 🧵

Christy Walton stands up!

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

“Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to call for a new ceasefire in Gaza and to protest against what they say is an attack on the country’s democracy by the rightwing governing coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu.” 3/20/25 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.

Here's the list of former NatSec people who want to submit an amicus describing NatSec risks of shuttering USAID. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

Holy fuck

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

I wrote a short explainer for my Substack of the biggest (but strangely under the radar) corruption of the Trump White House: the Trump crypto coin. A conduit for secret, shameless bribery of the President. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/trumps-big...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

Charlie Kirk, once nearly sidelined even within the far right for his antisemitism, redefines antisemitism as failing to kiss his antisemitic ass.

Which country is offering immigration to the best and brightest of American science, education, and other fields? Because some enterprising nation can have a massive impact by scooping up all our scientists, researchers, engineers, professors - leapfrogging their national progress by decades.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

U.S. Mint takes Jan. 6 coin honoring officers who protected the Capitol off its website www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

We’ve got ‘military opens fire on US civilians’ and ‘woman stoned for having a miscarriage’ still to go.

I think the average American is unable to comprehend the horrors that will come of eliminating USAID and all the death that will result because it's just alien to their concept of what life is like. We are a spoiled, sheltered people. They will only start to care when the US economy collapses.

Trump isn't playing chess. He is too simple. The problem is the Project 2025 people and tech bros are playing chess. They realize that they can manipulate Trump however they wish & pull the strings, so long as heaping praise & telling him how great he is. In such, he will do whatever they suggest.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

This is evil. Pure evil.

I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes. The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

"It will replace the gross simplifications of bureaucracy with incomprehensible abstractions that have been filtered through the “hidden layers” of artificial neurons that allow it to work. DOGE’s artificial-intelligence-fueled vision of government is a vision from Franz Kafka, not Friedrich Hayek."

someone has added a banner to the FCC Complaints page so that anyone going to file a complaint first gets asked if they want to join in a complaint re: “investigating news distortion at 60 Minutes” consumercomplaints.fcc.gov

I'm ONLY interested in solutions: 1. Former presidents holding press briefings 2. National strike 3. Rotating strikes in every govt dept 4. Fired workers holding rallies 5. Some LEADERSHIP from congress 6. Allies, Generals, Dept heads holding a meeting I am SICK of people stating the obvious.

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

Now let's see the rest.