Musk's privately held but largely taxpayer-subsidized company, SpaceX, purchases excess inventory from his publicly traded company, Tesla, which is the source of most of his wealth. #EconSky

Situation Room as clown car: "JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and Scott Bessent, among other senior government officials, were present at today’s meeting."

The Strait will be open forever! --Trump, yesterday Less than 24 hours later:

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Bought Nearly 20% Of Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertrucks In Q4 insideevs.com/news/793205/...

"...Amazon has put pressure on independent sellers using its platform into raising their prices on the sites of competitors such as Walmart and Target, so that Amazon can appear to have lower prices, California authorities allege." #EconSky

"The goal of Trumpism, it could be said, is to create losers of us all... it is to create a sense of social order for some people that offers an aesthetic sense of improvement, even as one’s standard of living declines in real terms."

“How often does the president of a developed country express the view that the interest rate should be set to reduce the debt service cost? This is what you hear in a banana republic.” #EconSky

“Given her age, we really want her to get out of this situation as soon as possible,” [Rodolphe Sambou, Consul General of France in New Orleans] said. “We want to get her out of jail.”

"Three states found United’s algorithmic system to limit mental health coverage illegal... The poorest and most vulnerable patients are now most at risk of losing mental health care coverage as United targets them for cost savings."

"Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records."

“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”

The covid vaccine was a wonder, our most self-involved political figure really wanted to take credit for it, and we *still* wound up here. One of the most idiotic tragedies of our times.

"As of February 2026, the tariffs 'can explain the entirety of the excess inflation in the core goods category since January 2025,' the economists concluded." #EconSky

This stephen miller tweet aged like stephen miller.

Candidate for #Oregon Governor wants to re-open prisons the state no longer owns for a prison population that is down about 19%, also says really dumb things about public defenders....

"Whooping cough surged in Mississippi last year, ultimately claiming the life of a baby – the first whooping cough death in the state in 13 years...Kindergarten vaccination rates this year dropped to the lowest level in years." 1/3

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Now, about those Epstein files....

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

Rhymes with bribe...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Donald Trump has done more damage to the United States of America than any foreign enemy accomplished in our nation’s 250-year history.

“The government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

JD Vance is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of democracy. "Vance praised Orbán for being a 'great example' in Europe on energy security and independence, in what appeared to be a reference to Hungary’s continued reliance on the imports of Russian oil and gas."

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

This must be that part of 3D chess where you flip the board and murder your opponent with an axe.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

He is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.

"Meta has just lost a multimillion-dollar legal battle over its failure to prevent children being sold on its platforms. Here’s how we uncovered evidence that became part of the case against it"

"In 2020, according to a report by... the Human Trafficking Institute, Facebook was the platform most used to groom and recruit children by sex traffickers (65%), based on an analysis of 105 federal child sex trafficking cases that year. The HTI analysis ranked Instagram second most prevalent...."

This is psychotic. The President of the United States needs to get help. Totally unhinged and extremely dangerous.

How about journalists who care about the First Amendment refuse to attend this dinner. Instead of be used as a prop by Trump, speak out. If legacy media wants to know why it is in such rapid decline and not trusted, empty gesture like this is why.

If you were wondering whether the President’s weekend bender helped or hurt the long-term interest of American business, futures markets just opened, and delivered their verdict.

This is why veterans in Congress and the Senate reminded service members that they are both allowed and required to refuse illegal orders. Don't be complicit in war crimes.

Trump Skips Church, Visits Golf Club on Easter as Iran War Continues Trump enjoys golf resort amenities as troops remain in harm’s way meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

"Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! We cannot continue to be indifferent. And we cannot resign ourselves to evil." --Pope Leo

“This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight,” Hegseth said on 4 March. “We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”

The Trump DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term — abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge for third-party sellers because of the high price of gas thanks to Donald’s war in Iran. That means prices will go up for consumers. Yet another reason not to buy from Bezos, who helped cause this mess.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: 😆 #BuhBYE

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

The true tragedy lies in the fact that he was elected and permitted to serve as President, leading to the current challenges the world is facing.

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

Welp 🌎🧪

Researchers "found surface temperatures increased by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit after a data center started operations. In extreme cases, nearby temperatures increase by up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit."

#NoKings March -- Olympia, WA 3/28/2026

"Net migration last year was substantially negative. That is more people left the country than came in... the first time that's happened in at least half a century." That's a huge economic shift.