New in PN: The worst cabinet in history "Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one govt has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence."

"The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege." Scathing.

Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store. GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

Schrodinger's war?

you don’t hate rich people enough

Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this? TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

Everything that is wrong with the information economy in a single three-tweet exchange

Mission Accomplished, everybody! Time to go home.

What a wild headline. "Trump open to Khamenei being killed if he doesn't cede to U.S. demands" Who's ordering the killing? And we just do assassinations bow? This reads like a Mafia hit. Gross, embarrassing, and, ofc, dangerous. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

😞 @dailykos.com www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

It really seems like this is just a ploy for the general election and he'll keep caucusing with Republicans and be funded by the NRCC.

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

Oh my God they're wearing ill fitting shoes because Trump bought them. That's amazing. He probably does a shoe check with everyone he bought shoes for to make sure they wear them every day

"You can just solve every problem with brute force" -- dumb guy who has never in his life had to do that bsky.app/profile/mmfa...

A bunch of absurd lies and crying about 2020 should fix it

at a certain point I feel like people are daring, evening begging, god and the universe to visit nightmares upon them and those around them. some dim part of some of them may clock the evil that sustains their comfort, and they transmute that energy into such monstrous and caricaturish displays

He's been skirting around Mad King territory for a decade and I think we can now officially say that the king is, indeed, Mad

At a certain point, the question of "how will the government pay for XYZ social service????" needs to be answered with "with the seized assets from the now-penniless former president"

The Republican Party:

I keep thinking about this quote from George Saunders on the tension between two disparate views of the USA, as seen through Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

hagueing is too good for these people

Not Putin though. He’s one of the good guys now I guess. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

Contrarianism is, after all, both a profoundly reactionary and borderline eugenicist worldview that stems from the premise that the vast majority of humans are inferior and thus opposing the common consensus elevates you above them.

Look I’m not saying we’re gonna ration gasoline, I’m just saying make sure you get yours before you discuss the situation with your neighbors

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

trump’s biggest superpower is the ability to tell his most ardent supporters what idiots they are for believing his promises and knowing they’ll just say “please sir can i have another”

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Gotta do all of Nixon as farce

WSJ: “.. U.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for the strike, according to a U.S. official ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Horrific

It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine. That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

“.. A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records.” @postandcourier.bsky.social www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Wisconsin specific PSA: deadline to register to vote in the Supreme Court race is coming up mid-March. 1. Even if you think you’re registered, verify. 2. If you plan to register by mail: the deadline is 3/18 but *MAKE SURE TO DO IT DAYS EARLY* because new USPS rules: boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

seriously what is this if not a threat? you do the framing, Jake!

The correction fails to air the real footage or inform viewers what was different about it. It claims the error was inadvertent and pretends to honor the fallen service members, but at the end of the day Fox still doesn’t show or describe how they came home to spare Trump from its viewers’ scrutiny.

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops. CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

“We’re marching through the world.”

"We're marching through the world" has never ended badly for a country.