Sent this free piece out yesterday morning, but Trump's speech confirmed it. Trump is stuck in Iran. He would like to leave, but as of now he cannot because Iran will not do what he wants. So, all he can do is babble and possibly escalate. Plus it helps Putin, so for Trump that's good.

Tremendously important article by @johnsipher.bsky.social in The Bulwark. The damage that Trump is doing to the US IC is deeper and more profound than you might understand. He is changing its very structure. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-d...

Sam Altman: ‘If I Don’t End The World, Someone Far More Dangerous Will’

"A country can recover from a president who does not read enough briefing papers. It’s much harder to recover from a political culture that teaches officials to stop being honest in the first place." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump Is Doing Structural Damage to American Intelligence (my latest) open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

BREAKING: Everything.

Trump’s big announcement: We are still at war. Nothing has changed. Thanks for your attention. (Am I getting the message right?)

Continuing to antagonize Europe will be a disaster. www.thetimes.com/article/bcd0...

Won’t work. Potential disaster. Read Andy Weber’s opinion pieces in the NY Times. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

America is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous Administration. www.youtube.com/live/2EN2kOj...

A puppy’s revenge is like a doggy dish best served cold. 🥶

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Across the world.

Did we thank France?

Good luck losing all those bases, all that intelligence and political support and having to pay extortionist free to get basic help. We clearly need more enemies.

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April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.

Bruce Springsteen declares "War" against Donald Trump during his defiant tour opener in Minneapolis. "The America that I love...is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration." www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The least they can do.

So many people are upset about this ... I dunno, I just find it funny. He's gonna (a) piss off Roberts, Barrett, and maybe Kavanaugh by pulling this stunt, and (b) be bored out of his mind the entire time.

Need some time for administration insiders to reach out to their stockbrokers

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“Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He’s Making a Mistake”

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been teleported to a Waffle House. It just never occurred to me this was something to brag about.

Exactly!

The Trump administration’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation, Robert Kagan argues.

Reminder: Isolationism led to two World Wars.

It’s really very simple: Donald Trump is a really bad, stupid person, who’s surrounded himself with bad, stupid people, and together they are doing really bad, stupid things. It’s really very simple. But for America & the entire world, it’s also really dangerous & destructive.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

I assume that tonight Trump will head for the exits in Iran. He may try to disguise the retreat by announcing the U.S. is leaving NATO, which Trump will present as a liberation from ungrateful allies and a victory for America First. So he'll make a bad outcome far worse.

“The fast rate at which this conflict has escalated and destabilized the world is the direct result of a president acting alone without a strategy and of a politically divided Congress that has abdicated its responsibilities…” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Chatting with Rich Logis about leaving MAGA podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Our president is now referring to the National Trust for Historical Preservation as a “group of radical left lunatics” That’s where we are Future radical left lunatics: The Art Linkletter Fan Club, the Milwaukee Knitting and Crochet society, and Mrs Torver’s 3rd grade class at Madison Elementary

Oh ffs: US counterterror officials are organizing an international summit on…ANTIFA

A U.S. District Court judge found that President Trump's executive ordering the defunding of NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment. n.pr/3PUBm6t

How Kevin Chalker became Fred E. Snappleton, a C.I.A. officer who convinced the J. Robert Oppenheimer of Iran to reveal his country’s nuclear secrets. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

He started a war with no reason and no plan, sending the world into a crisis solely of his own creation, and now he's angrily bitching that other countries need to clean up his mess.

Join us for Ep 19 of the Steady State Sentinel. John Sipher speaks with Rich Logis from Leaving MAGA about identity, disinformation, and the path out of political extremism.

“The West was slow to grasp the national security threat of weaponized corruption...and organized crime until it was too late...Russia was treated as an emerging market, emerging democracy, and a country in transition. It wasn't transitioning into anything. It was what it always had been.”

Expel Hungary! (Better yet, vote Orban out) theins.org/en/inv/290911

Start the fire. Walk away. Tell the world they’re on their own.

Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

"Just what he did today alone, the way he's conducting foreign policy by tweet would be disqualifying." "These things are war crimes." "Barack Obama does that — he's impeached by 4 o'clock in the afternoon." Sarah Longwell and JVL on Trump's concerning social media posts.

The Trump administration’s conduct in the Iran war is accelerating global chaos and deepening America’s dangerous isolation, Robert Kagan argues.

Read it and weep. (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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