Anne Applebaum said to read this thread over on the other place and I can’t find it on Bluesky so here you go 🫡 @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Russell Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

#MorningVibe Miranda Priestly explains the patriarchy to Karoline Leavitt. Comedy as activism, courtesy of Lisandra Vazquez.

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

Alright, you heathens, here's an mp4 file of the entire Nine Inch Noize set at Coachella: Don't say I never did nothin' nice for ya 🏴‍☠️

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

@lawyeroyer.com has details on tRump’s efforts to hide his corruption by eliminating the Presidential Records Act. Her #CupOfJoe is full of “open your eyes and pay attention to everything coming from this regime” energy. #DemsUnited

At a packed Budapest metro station, crowds of Hungarians are chanting: “Russia, go home.” It’s our turn now. #Vote

WE HAVE A CALIFORNIA PRIMARY PROBLEM Attention California voters and friends. Watch this, share it. Folks need to understand how our jungle primary can screw us if we’re not paying attention. There’s no separate Dem vs. Republican primary. It’s one pool, top two advance, period. 1/2

I think it's super that the president of the United States is a dementia-ravaged diva who swings wildly from threatening to wipe out an entire civilization to rambling publicly about how the executive producers of "Hart to Hart" were extremely rude to him at Spago in 1983.

A must listen to what #BruceSpringsteen has to say, “this is happening now.”

Greta Thunberg: "The President of the United States just said that a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again & no one is reacting. This speaks for itself: what the fuck is anyone even doing at this point? We have normalized genocide, total annihilation of entire people."

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Garcia: Well, it's clear that President Trump would rather listen to Benjamin Netanyahu than his own people or to his own advisors and the public that are actually struggling.

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Just in time for Trump's scheduled war crimes, Bellingcat has updated our tool for identifying damaged buildings and structures in satellite imagery, ideally for investigating atrocities in Iran. Full details here: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

NEW: Rep Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) says she’ll file for impeachment articles vs. Pete Hegseth "Hegseth’s reckless endangerment of US servicemembers & repeated war crimes, including bombing a girls’ school in Minab, Iran and willfully targeting civilian infrastructure, are grounds for impeachment"

Reporter: Are you willing to end this conflict with Iran charging tolls for passage through the strait? Trump: Us charging tolls? Reporter: Iran. Trump: What about us charging tolls? Why shouldn’t we? We won. We’ll charge tolls.

Liam Conejo Ramos' father says his son now regularly sees a psychologist. Liam's mother, Erika Ramos, said he's been exhibiting signs of psychological trauma, including hypervigilance and isolation.

Man it sure would be a pity if people flooded J.K. Rowling's hate fund with fake applications, I hope no one does that. jkrwf.org/check-eligib...

Sane-washing thread. Just a handful of choice responses to Trump's "open the fuckin' strait you bastards praise be Allah" Easter message. NYT: 1/

Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?

Frost: What Blanche said, I think he was fed that by the administration. He's been told to say, hey, listen, we're moving on beyond this…. but we're not going to move on because the law has been broken. The law that was voted on by damn near every member of congress to release the files

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

“These countries are under enormous pressure to buy from the sons of the president so he will do what they want. This is going to be the first family of a president to make a lot of money off war — a war he didn’t get the consent of Congress for.” - Richard Painter

One way or another, this country is going to learn that accommodating white supremacist ideology will destroy this country. It did so once before and is doing so again. Is this country really prepared to allow our military to be DESTROYED by racism & sexism. Are we watching this like a TV show?

BREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.

UPDATE: Some new entries on our running list of judges who have ruled for (43) and against (413) ICE's mass detention policy. -William Dimitrouleas switches sides to become 1st Clinton appointee to side with admin -Justin Olson (Trump) opposes admin www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

it speaks to the criminal nature of Trump 2.0 that nobody close to him is ever actually fired because it's too risky for them to be fully on the outside. Instead, they get reassigned to cushy fake jobs to keep them onside.

Gupta: Medicare and Medicaid are federal programs, He is now saying that these are the responsibilities of the states. That means that purple and red states are likely going to struggle a lot more to provide basic healthcare to their Medicare and Medicaid recipients than blue states

JUST IN: FBI agents who worked on Trump probes have filed a class action lawsuit, saying their abrupt firings violated due process and civil service laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

It’s hard to overstate how immoral and wrong it is that Trump is likely sending American soldiers into harm’s way for no good reason. Every American who voted for this man to lead America have aided and abetted this tragic mistake.

No Kings. St. Paul, Minnesota. March 28, 2026. 📸: Pam Springsteen

You can't make this shit up!!! Aghhhhhhhhhhhh More to say later when I process this bull...

At the same time that the U.S. is relaxing standards for recruits to prepare for ground war in Iran, it's doing something far more unusual: forcing out tens of thousands of highly qualified service members, including women, Blacks, and transgender people.

Trump has denied most disaster aid requests from Democratic-led states.

Bravo to whoever made this happen!

🚨 NEW: Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran. The plan is waiting for Trump’s approval. So Trump is saying the war is ending… while prepping to escalate it.

Where will you be tomorrow? #NoKings Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org

Bondi: "Being a citizen in our country is a privilege, not a right. And Donald Trump is going to have everyone in this country who deserves to be here who is a citizen."

Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, a highly unusual move that has prompted senior military officials to question Hegseth’s decision — two of the officers are Black and two women

Trump: "They have to open up the Strait of Trump-- I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me. Such a terrible mistake. The fake news will say, 'He accidentally said--' No. There's no accidents from me."

TRUMP TO 🧑‍🌾 FARMERS: “I just gave you $12 BILLION — you make enough money it doesn’t matter to you, right?” Reminder: His trade war crushing farmers is why the bailout was even necessary.

heh

"If they try to put boots on the ground, force the Strait of Hormuz, you will see imagery of burning American warships in the next couple of weeks," he advised. "And I don't think people are really prepared for that." www.rawstory.com/erik-prince-...