NEWS --> Now that Pete Hegseth fired another top general, Rep Adam Smith tells me that if Dems take House, the Armed Services Committee will seek testimony from people pushed out by Hegseth. Dems will also probe why Hegseth stalled promotion of black/female officers: newrepublic.com/article/2086...

‼️ Holy smoke: "After 5 weeks of military bombardment from the US and Israel, roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers & thousands of one-way attack drones are still intact." This destroys the *public* boasting of Trump & Whiskey Pete: our intel shows they're lying. 🧾 newrepublic.com/post/208593/...

Russell Vought has once again proposed eliminating lifesaving utility assistance for our most vulnerable neighbors. This, at a time when dangerous, fossil fuel-intensified heat has already arrived and bills are skyrocketing due to AI data centers and Trump's devastating war on Iran.

Dude is laying the groundwork for a pre-midterms retirement to be viewed as less an act of partisanship. But of course Alito is a Phillies fan and has spent his lifetime living up to the nickname of Phillies legend Lewis Robert Wilson--aka "Hack." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_Wi...

The Iran War cheerleader-in-chief embraces a dangerous alternate history of the 21st Century www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-mythol...

Pam Bondi’s Firing Is a Sign of Trump’s Increasing Weakness newrepublic.com/article/2085... via @newrepublic.com

There he goes again. Russell Vought prefers the shadows, but the wreckage he's leaving behind is very real. The man gutting your financial protections doesn't want to be famous, but we think everyone should know who's behind their pain.

New Corruption Calendar: Enforcement against corporate misconduct has dropped to unprecedented lows under Trump, meaning our money stays in the pockets of CEOs. The SEC is no different, letting crypto crooks close to Trump off the hook.

Can’t believe they renamed it the Department of War only to immediately go 0-1 in wars

It's rare that you get to see both a vivid depiction of the revolving door in action and confirmation that it doesn't have to be an inevitable post-government career.

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

Great battle cry!

The IRS is letting megacorporations fly under the radar while staffing cuts threaten to bury your tax season.

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Losers and the losers with whom they are friends.

Can you imagine being a fan of Tiger Woods? Like, he is a golfer. Are you going to get into darts or bowling or video games next?

Pam Bondi belongs in prison

Those 160+ Iranian elementary school girls (reportedly) killed by our tax payer funded tomahawk missile were entitled to their lives too.

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.

"That trust is frayed by the president spinning economic data before it is even released. Claudia Sahm, said that “it’s a degrading of an institution, it’s a degrading of a norm” that runs the risk of “chipping away at the integrity of the data.”" an important Jobs Day Eve read

Follow the money, kids! As someone once said, vulgar Marxism explains 90% of the world.

Transcript: Democrats’ Ambitious, Controversial New Tax Proposals newrepublic.com/article/2085... via @newrepublic.com

Trump’s new Attorney General Todd Blanche: “It’s not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.”

That's what they're calling "going back to my job as a lobbyist for Amazon and foreign countries" these days, huh

Jen Shah was in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell. She said Maxwell gets private workout sessions, special meals, and bottled water among other perks none of the other inmates get. She also says Maxwell is open about having no remorse for any of the Epstein victims: people.com/ghislaine-ma...

They used your tax money to buy a fuck jet

Yup. stringinamaze.net/p/purity-pol...

There was nothing in AP. Nothing also in @npr.org as @steveinskeep.bsky.social and kept droning on about last night's speech as if Trump delivered normal remarks without sounding incoherent, addled and completely out of it. Why are they ignoring this dynamic after how they covered Biden?

Very notable that the pincers have been closing in on Bondi’s subpoena to testify behind closed doors, a real deposition on the Epstein files. Deadline in two weeks. Her role in stalling and covering up ran out of runway and he had to just pull the plug. Seems to me she can still testify though. 👀

OpenAI has plotted a turn towards defense contracting since at least early 2024, first erasing its prohibitions on military use of their models, and then turning towards the revolving door to buy influence with the Pentagon by hiring defense insiders, our @henryburke.bsky.social writes

The Tesla stock price is such an indictment of US capitalism as practiced in reality.

When you look at how much Trump's illegal invasion of Iran has profited the oil and gas industry (follow their share price!)... then the decision to go to and stay at war makes a lot more sense.

When you look at how much Trump's illegal invasion of Iran has profited the oil and gas industry (follow their share price!)... then the decision to go to and stay at war makes a lot more sense.

Of course Trump thinks Americans benefit from high gas prices, his administration is filled with them! Our Julian Scoffield reveals who Trump is referring to in his claim that “when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money."

9-0 or they've got to go.

Encomiums to John Roberts go on the permanent record of anyone who provides them. The Roberts Court must be the end of the current Supreme Court--we the people must create a new, uncorrupted Supreme Court in its stead.

this + if any Supreme Court justice *doesn't* reject Trump's attack on the constitutional order in the birthright citizenship case, Congress would have good cause to pursue impeachment it's that flagrant 9-0 or they've got to go

please feel free to ignore Supreme Court coverage that lies about the citizenship case being “legally complicated”… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u... (via @katz.theracket.news in theracket.news/p/breaking-s...)

Encomiums to John Roberts go on the permanent record of anyone who provides them. The Roberts Court must be the end of the current Supreme Court--we the people must create a new, uncorrupted Supreme Court in its stead.

This is the same guy who decided to make Trump king. Same guy who overturned Roe v Wade, ushered in Citizens United, gutted the Voting Rights Act...getting the most absolutely basic things right once in a very rare while is wildly insufficient.

Billionaire Wealth Has Doubled So Far This Decade prospect.org/2026/03/27/b...

I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

This except replace "term-limited supreme court" with "add ten Supreme Court justices personally selected by Elizabeth Warren who are all under the age of 25"

I remain perplexed by the longevity of the stock market's default bullish sentiments. I also remain embarrassed that I expect a return to some sort of of rational equilibrium. I cannot possibly be more confident that accounting games are pervasive right now.

Roe v. Wade was a 7-2 decision. But reactionaries made it their white whale, and spent 50 years building a far-right Supreme Court that would overturn it. I’m not saying the same thing will happen with birthright citizenship. I’m just saying that any dissent in this case will leave that door open.

Anything less than a 9-0 unambiguous affirmation of birthright citizenship as settled law that cannot be changed except by Amendment is properly understood as an assault by those Justices on the foundation of American values, law, and government. To even humor this shows the institution has failed.

As we approach what @ucs.org calls "danger season" (May-November, when fossil fuel pollution-intensified extreme weather strikes most often and hardest), FEMA's disaster response office is being "led" by a man who has lost touch with reality. He is compounding danger.

🚨NEW: Gregg Phillips, who holds one of the most consequential jobs at FEMA overseeing disaster response, is doubling down on claims he teleported to a Waffle House and a church — writing "haters gonna hate" on Truth Social and citing biblical accounts on teleportation. www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/p...