Happy birthday to Grace Jones

@scifri.bsky.social loving the appliance composers interview, they're like the Betty Comden/ Adolph Green of appliance composing!

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

Q: Are you considering going back to Project Freedom now that gas prices are more than $4.50? TRUMP: No. Gas prices have come down today. Have you looked? They came down very substantially today. The stock market is way up.

According the @thebulwark.com this is what the inside of your future passport may look like, the one on the right would appear on the back.

Maybe the President would prefer a Pope who's more like "The Bishop" youtu.be/JqG30j0FRW8?...

"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time. H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social

Um.

Per CNN: “Trump admin preparing for in-person Iran talks likely involving Vance, US officials say.“ Yeah why not, involve Mr. Personality. What could go wrong?

POTUS will claim this as a win. But I don’t that washes

No, the rescue does not help POTUS in any substantial manner.

From @ms.now : “The president’s unorthodox Easter morning message was startling, even to those in Washington who have grown accustomed to his unconventional leadership. “ Really? It was an unhinged rant. “Unconventional“?

Just a reminder that Trump hooked up with Stormy Daniels four months after Melania gave birth. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I mean…”Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”-via Wash.Post. Can this folly have been any more foolish.

Imagine a world without the Sunday TV news shows.

CNN: ”As the US tries to decimate the Iranian regime militarily, it will simultaneously be allowing the regime to benefit financially (oil sales).” Isn’t this an example of giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Isn’t THAT a treasonous act? Just asking.

On this date 03-19-2003 then President GW Bush addressed the nation announcing the Invasion of Iraq. When will reporters adjacent to Pres. Trump ask him, "Mr. President why have you not yet formally addressed the nation re: the war?"

Is POTUS now bullying NATO allies into joining his&Bibi’s war? They started this war-the US was not attacked so Article 5 does not apply here.

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

Crazy that the only address POTUS has made since he started bombing Iran is on his Truth Social cite. Is he trying to force people to subscribe?! I mean c'mon get on TV, tell the American people what you've done, what's left to be one, and what your objectives are. Ridiculous.

from @jvl.bsky.social in today's @thebulwark.com : AI is not a genie. It’s a machine. And society decides when and how it allows machines to be used. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-na...

"Hide the ketchup bottles!" - today's warning throughout the White House today.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo--- TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.

New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins says Rubio is capable of “a Boy Scouts earnest charm”. (?!?!) Was any of that charm on display today at his hearing?🤔

more from George PAcker at @theatlantic.com :"The federal government has never declared itself immune to the law and the Constitution while explicitly denying protection to peaceful opponents, until now."

From George Packer at the @theatlantic.com "Authoritarianism doesn’t disappear with the news cycle. The administration’s automatic lies about the killings and slander of the victims are less a cover-up of facts than a display of utter contempt for them. "

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

important read www.thebulwark.com/p/honor-pret...

Vance on Jan. 8: "You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy's protected by absolute immunity." Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Thanks @hereandnow.bsky.social for the Googoosh interview-she's always been one of my favorite singers.

good read apnews.com/article/delc...

Time to stop wondering/analyzing about how Trump’s actions square with his America First talk. Here’s what he told the Atlantic last year: “America First” is whatever he says it is: “Considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that.”

POTUS to the Atlantic: “We do need Greenland, absolutely,” he said, describing the island—a part of Denmark, a NATO ally—as “surrounded by Russian and Chinese ships.”

We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.

🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...

People are arguing with @radiofreetom.bsky.social , it must be the weekend.😆

This is your Senate Majority leader, Indiana.🤨

2019: President Trump said in a statement Saturday that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been defeated. Today: …after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.

The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...

From Heather Cox Richardson today: “The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain.”

Why did it take several days for Trump’s “Quiet, Piggy” insult of a female reporter to gain traction in news coverage? Because it happened on a Friday night, when many journalists had started their weekend. And because, sadly, he's trained the media to think accepting his insults is part of the job.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.