Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

Did you even know this was happening? I didn't, and It is nutter. Lawless, pricey, ugly and very dangerous, not just to border crossers and wildlife, but imagine a major flood breaking these loose or piling debris behind them. Utter stupidity. No environmental review. Via @insideclimatenews.org

They are charging the journalist who discovered government espionage *with* espionage. This is the model of authoritarianism that Trumpists promote as the ideal.

This is actually a specific plan that groups like Heritage and FAIR want put in place, rocket dockets to expedite mass deportations (to reach "1,000,000 deportations")

After Nikita defended this plan agressively for hours, Musk has stepped in and "suspended" it.

ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M. abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-t...

Khalil Lee must've figured he wouldn't be caught because OCF lacks the resources to investigate this sort of corruption (and the shadiness of Trayon White's 2022 mayoral campaign might have reinforced that belief), but surely listing random people as contributors was going to come out. #DCElections

When twitter was perceived as liberal it was a bubble and people should not take it seriously. But now that it's a cesspool of right-wing propaganda it's the Soul of America and the libs ignore it at their peril

My null hypothesis: Trump is the one doing this, and the purpose of his market-manipulating alternating declarations of war and peace are simply to make money.

A ton of attention has been paid to the $75 billion that ICE got for mass deportations. Less attention has been paid to the $46.6 billion that CBP got for border barriers, which will now apparently include these hideous orange things running along 500+ miles of the Rio Grande.

I hate it here.

Let me be clear. I don’t support AIPAC. Quite the opposite. But I also have major issues with Track AIPAC. It’s a shady project.   Track AIPAC isn’t a neutral watchdog. It’s a political operation with its own PAC and a very clear agenda. 🧵

Thune told Trump that Senate Republicans would support funding all of DHS except ICE, ICE funding could be handled later in a party-line reconciliation bill and Democrats would accept the offer. But Trump said no, according to multiple sources punchbowl.news/article/sena...

Rufo made himself famous and powerful by lying in order to stoke white victimhood and grievance, and now is shocked, shocked, that the people committed to white victimhood and grievance believe things that are nonsensically false.

Federal agents used cell phone data to place her near the protest (she was picking something up nearby), compared her d.l. photo to footage from the demonstration and concluded she resembled a participant and, 6 weeks later, stopped her car, cuffed and detained her for hours in a federal building.

Empathy is a sin and therefore we should only commit it in service to Donald Trump, the Lord of Sin.

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

4/ Epner said. "That says a lot about what the impact of this is on recruitment." . . . The agency's latest recruitment efforts ultimately could lead to hiring lawyers who may be less experienced and less talented, which could further clog the criminal justice system . . .

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

"Just come here the right way" www.cato.org/blog/banned-...

NEW: Virginia lawmakers just passed a bill that'd forbid sheriffs and local police from contracting with ICE, if ICE doesn't say it'll follow state laws and agree to let its agents be prosecuted. Everyone seems to agree that'd spell the end of ICE contracts in Virginia: boltsmag.org/virginia-bil...

God, this is amazing. I wish a single US city had this vision or courage.

If the federal criminal justice system becomes a vehicle for war by other means — a mechanism to use military force for “criminal justice” against foreign leaders for regime change, as in Venezuela — then aren’t federal prosecutors and judges military targets? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/n...

One plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion last year was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport. (Published Jan.)

It is absolutely insane to me that this case is still going on after all these years. This was an incredibly obviously bullshit censorial case that the First Amendment should not allow... and yet courts keep reviving it every time it seems like it's been killed.

There's no president. There's no hospital ship. There's no tariff shelf. There's no tariff rebate. There's no tariff refund. There's no health care plan. There's no prescription plan. There's no invisible plane. There's no big, strong guy "with tears streaming down his face." None of it.

The deadline for nominating petitions for the DC primary and the special election was yesterday, so we now have a better idea of who will be on our ballots, though of course some people might still be removed by petition challenges. #DCElections

Hard to think of a bigger heel turn from Informative Blogger to Twitter Crank that Noah Smith. Krugman used to cite his posts favorably! Now he’s blathering that the next caliphate will arise in London.

We need to move beyond, "Look at this idiot" and directly to "Look at the assholes keeping him in power." The rot is deep.

Q I've not gotten answered: AIPAC Tracker has started attacking candidates as "Pro-Israel" even if they don't take AIPAC money, selectively. Van Hollen gets a green $0 from AIPAC image despite being backed by J Street. Dan Biss getting J Street support = red "money from Israel lobby" graphc

This part of RFK Jr.'s big legal defeat largely slipped under the radar. Trump DOJ argued that no judge could question RFK Jr.'s policies — even if his CDC wanted to promote "measles lunches" to spread the disease. What you missed in the ruling, at All Rise News buff.ly/IyfIbmF

forwarded from @xodanix3.bsky.social

In 1901, Congress outlawed “duelling” [sic] in DC. Then in 2004, the DC Council repealed it along with other anachronistic offenses. In 2023, Congress rejected the District’s attempt to modernize its entire criminal code. So fighting in public remains punishable today as “affray.”

Turf replacement at Malcolm X Park is WAY overdue. But closing the entire lawn without community engagement has rubbed a lot of folks the wrong way. I'm working closely with local NPS leadership to find an alternative plan that preserves some access to DC's vital town square. wapo.st/4t0b1Cx

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

@winwithoutwar.bsky.social Each pair of shoes or backpack represents one of the 168 children killed in the February 28 U.S. strike on a girls' school in Minab, Iran.

If you ever need evidence when some clown tells you it’s no biggie to produce proof of citizenship: I can’t find my birth certificate so I needed to order a copy. Florida’s only approved online vendor charges their own $7 fee on top of what FL charges and the only shipping option is $17.50.

I don't know how to say this more plainly but getting news from breathless clout farmers on the other site is just going to lead you back to this place over and over and over again www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I look forward to voting in the next NYC mayoral election, since I have visited the city as a tourist and therefore should have a say in its governance and operations.

@eleanornorton.bsky.social is now speaking and pointing out that Republicans have been trying to repeal DC's automated traffic enforcement since 2014. She also correctly points out that DC Councilmembers are accountable to DC residents and Congress is not.

Every councilmember except Trayon White signed this letter opposing the congressional attempt to ban traffic cameras in DC.

How did the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee manage not to have all its members fired or replaced by Trump? I guess because it was easier to just ignore them.

Big day for people using gambling sites as sources of data to tell how a race is going

🚨🚨Judge Lamberth orders USAGM, by March 23, to bring back all 1,042 VOA employees, who have been on paid admin leave for a year and resume full broadcasting. The court also rules all the actions Kari Lake took to reduce US international broadcasting to a supposed "statutory minimum" are vacated.

The White House’s defense is they left in a position of senior authority someone they now claim was a “known leaker”, who had been cut off from various accesses, and who they had ordered to be fired? And they left him in place with all kinds of access to sensitive classified information?

This NYT article focuses on the theatrics of a judge tossing a DOJ official from his courtroom for speaking without permission, but the transcript reveals much worse govt wrongdoing: DOJ cut a plea deal w/ a child sex abuse material (CSAM) defendant before the FBI finished searching his devices ...

From the Point of View of a Cat ~ Karel Capek (translated by Dora Round - originally published in Intimate Things, 1935)

I think you could find a lot of Dem politicians who would love to do this but there's a critical mass of Dems in every state who look at an industry that gives $1,000 to Dems and $100,000 to Republicans and thinks "i need that $1,000 tho" bsky.app/profile/kevi...

After hearing this, my grandfather would’ve taken a bullet for this man. Just a crazy skill of making great speechwriting (written by and with others, I’m sure) sound conversational.

Not only is racism poisonous to your soul, it also makes you stupid. This Republican senator just said that the Quran (which dates back 1400 years) "preaches death to Americans" (a country that's 250 years old)