Democrats want to fund TSA. Republicans are holding TSA hostage until Democrats agree to fund ICE with no restrictions in its reign of terror.

Exactly.

Before Lindsey Graham said "we" could capture Kharg Island, he said he was "tired of all this armchair quarterbacking." Does that mean Lindsey will hit the beaches of Kharg himself?

NBC's Kristen Welker didn't laugh in Scott Bessent's face when he said this. She didn't say, "What the hell are you talking about?" She just moved on, as if it was a normal thing to say.

When Scott Bessent was a little boy, I wonder if he thought to himself, "I'm going to grow up and lie to millions of people to cover up for a murderous dictator."

Trump's plan to send ICE to the airports makes it clear that ICE isn't really an immigration enforcement force. It's Trump's personal Gestapo, his goon squad ready to act out the dictator's fever dreams, no matter how reckless and stupid.

I don't know whether to feel more alarmed or more relieved to see the Trump regime behave with such reckless incompetence. The damage is incalculable, but their rank stupidity may be our best chance to beat back a dictatorship.

Fox is not journalism. It's anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.

USA Today sane-washes Trump's bizarre plan to send ICE to the airports, suggesting that masked, armed thugs with no TSA training will "help" the situation.

Trump is panicking. His latest threats to blow up Iran’s power plants within 48 hours if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened is thick with desperation. It reads like we’re finally arriving at the narcissistic collapse stage where he grasps he’s losing and lashes out hysterically.

Front page that should live in infamy. +7yrs later & AGSulzberger @nytimes.com editors still cannot center facts that Trump campaign conspired w/Russia. “..Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election,&then concluded that he could neither absolve nor accuse President Trump of a crime, died...”

“Everywhere I went in New York people openly loathed the very sight of me. So naturally I concluded that the entire city had gone crazy and I left. There was no other possible explanation.”

Part of the reason the Mueller Report had so little impact was that it wasn‘t written in a very readable form. My friend Mark Caro fixed that in his writerly 2019 book “The Special Counsel: The Mueller Report Retold.” Still worth reading. @markcaro.bsky.social

If anyone should feel ill-treated by Robert Mueller, it would be pro-democracy Americans, not Trump. Mueller should have been tougher on Trump and more confrontational with William Barr after Barr lied about the Mueller Report. But only an indecent creep like Trump would celebrate Mueller’s death.

“Christians” support Trump. Christians don’t.

Bring your family and friends to the No Kings protests a week from today. It's important.

How low do people have to be to think that covering up the rape of children is good for their careers?

Americans are being denied health care so Trump has enough money to blow up a girls school in a foreign country.

Trump starts a war with Iran. Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz. Global oil prices soar, with U.S. gasoline prices up nearly $1/gallon. Trump lifts sanctions on Iranian oil, hoping to ease prices but helping his enemy make money. U.S. vows to “maintain maximum pressure on Iran.” Also, up is down.

Thank you, Eliot. Whenever I see a supposed Trump post and consider reposting it, I go to the supposed source to see if it's really there. This one isn't.

Trump just raged at our NATO allies for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bail him out of the fiasco he created. He threatened to withdraw from NATO with childish insults. This is best seen as an admission of serious political weakness. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Strongly endorse this take from @markjacob.bsky.social. The reporting on the war has been impressive -- aggressive, appropriately nuanced, highly revelatory, and fearless under difficult circumstances. No wonder Trump is so angry about it.

Trump wants police to know it’s OK for them to falsify warrants, leading to the death of innocent people, especially if the victims are Black.

Thoughts on “Media capture” ? We agree with @markjacob.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mark...

Consider the possibility that Trump attacked Iran because his fellow criminal Netanyahu needed another war in order to stay in power.

I can't decide whether it's worse if he's blatantly lying to us or actually believes this shit.

The military "genius" believes in magic.

Remember when Pam Bondi tried to distract from Trump's Epstein cover-up by declaring, "The Dow is over 50,000 right now"? Since that date, Feb. 11, the Dow has dropped 9% to 45,535. An illegal war, incompetence and corruption will do that to an economy.

“Republicans in the House and Senate have made the remarkable argument that there is no need for them to question Trump administration officials under oath about the war because those officials are already fielding news media questions about it.“ Damn Republican cowards. (NYT gift link)

The "bone spurs" guy is calling other people "cowards" while he plans his next golf game.

Ted Cruz, March 10: "I don’t think there’s any possibility that this becomes a long, protracted military engagement." Wall Street Journal, March 20: “The Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East ... according to U.S. officials.”

Dear news media, Transparency is not when the president talks to you. Transparency is when the president tells you the truth. Thank you for knowing the difference.

2 points on Trump's media capture: 1. Fascists don’t need to turn all news outlets to their side. They win if major outlets are simply too weak to tell the truth about them. 2. Fascists don’t need to make you believe them. They win if they pollute the news so much that you don’t believe anything.

It is hard to turn an institution into a propaganda outlet but it is much easier to just render it incapable of producing reporting that damages the regime.

Republicans are building a police state. Their promise to "get government off our backs" was always bullshit.

Trump must donate White House ballroom money to the war effort. Join me in this patriotic call! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

It's possible that electing the racist grandfather nobody wants to invite to Thanksgiving dinner was a bad idea.

Three Israeli officials tell Reuters that the U.S. helped coordinate Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field. Great job, NY Times, in swallowing Trump's lie and puking it out to the rest of us.

This week, Trump joked about Pearl Harbor with Japan's leader and said Gavin Newsom was "president of the United States." A few months ago, he blamed Rob Reiner for his own murder. What will it take for the media to write loud stories about his derangement? Are they waiting for him to nuke Chicago?

Trump jokes about Pearl Harbor with his guest, the Japanese prime minister. He’s mentally unhinged, with no impulse control or sense of what’s appropriate.

The Dow has lost 3,547.25 points in the last month. It's down 7%.

The U.S. used to say it wanted to "make the world safe for democracy." Now it wants to "make the world unable to stop us from stealing everyone's stuff."

Anyone else think it's highly inappropriate for the defense secretary to say "in the name of Jesus Christ" while he's doing a briefing about the U.S. killing people?

Now that Tulsi Gabbard has refused to say whether Iran posed an "imminent threat," Joe Kent's resignation suddenly looks more significant. Remember, he declared in his letter that Iran did not pose one. Kent is a vile extremist, but his letter matters. Me on this: newrepublic.com/article/2078...

Dear news media, When you write a “Trump says …” headline and don’t express any skepticism, you’re quite likely to be amplifying a lie.

HANDS OFF: 1300 events NO KINGS 1: 2100 events NO KINGS 2: 2700 events NO KINGS 3: 3000 events and counting Let’s make history. Again.

The Trump regime is still covering up the Epstein files in violation of the law. Pam Bondi doesn’t want the American public to know the truth about Trump’s links to his friend who raped children.

HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.

Well deserved. Jacob Soboroff is one of the finest journalists in the U.S.

This is bullshit. And it empowers other dickmite administrators to tear up the freedoms of faculty.