The opinion here is forceful, clear, and almost surely right. The president doesn’t own government assets, even if this Congress has tried to use them for personal gain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nothing says “support the troops” like kidnapping their family while also starting a pointless war.

Exploring whole new levels of counterproductive

"We are the first to study hubris." -NBER working paper, probably

"I'm a cop, I don't understand law" definitely captures the vibe correctly at least

Scenes from a personalist regime www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Phil has the videos Kid Rock posted. Why did two military helicopters buzz the No Kings protest in Nashville today, then pay tribute to Kid Rick at his home?

After all this time, I finally tried to use a @waymo.bsky.social. The stupid car arrived and wouldn’t open its doors. After a frustrating phone call with customer service, who couldn’t unlock the doors, we bailed. Back to Uber, and never trying that shit again. What a shit show.

The man with the nuclear codes

Under Zohran Mamdani, gas prices have spiked, the stock market has cratered, and the US is locked in a nonsensical war with Iran. Is this really what New Yorkers signed up for?

Donald Trump is a bad president. One way that’s so is in how he divided Americans into people he likes and people he doesn’t for purposes of government protection or targeting, rather than serving as the country’s chief magistrate.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

This is the important point. Trump’s cult of personality has exposed how weak our institutions are.

This is really bad. The federal government has basically stopped investing in basic research.

It’s big ball chunky time

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

For Trump, it hasn’t been enough to completely politicize federal law enforcement. They’ve gone in deep on using the DOJ to cash out.

Most presidents get briefings. This one gets a daily snuff film.

The company knows just who that somebody is and I'm pretty sure a government that gave a shit would have no trouble prying that information loose.

This just can’t be acceptable. We can’t tolerate this level of lying.

Very nice people, these people who have the ear of the christian nationalists running our government.

Woke: Treating Congresspeople like everyday Americans until TSA is funded. Bespoke: Treating Congresspeople like everyday Americans at all times.

I’ve been hearing a variety of arguments about politics lately that boil down to: “if a political actors starts questioning reality, then that reality is politically contested and so should not be treated as if it had factual merit.” We live in an age of complete relativism.

So, uh, when 25-50% of the flying public is afraid to go to the airport that might do something to shorten TSA lines. 🤷‍♂️

Who among us would expect this administration to have a plan for anything it does?

I’m so sick of the Cartman presidency.

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

Ummm..... what?

And the coming fertilizer supply shortage because of Hormuz closure isn’t going to make this any better I guess it’s another year for a Victory Garden

This hearing really is something.

If you doubt the concern that ICE has self-consciously taken on a view it itself as a paramilitary organization, look no further than how it presents itself here.

Until very recently, the handbook for midshipmen in the Navy included dueling rules.

Mullin is so clearly unqualified to run DHS that any senator who votes to put this man in charge of any federal agency, let alone DHS, is announcing their own disqualification for office.

This is quite the document. In agreeing to “improvements”, Nos 3 and 5 explicitly say the govt with start complying with law and No 4 says that the govt will identified the masked agents depriving people of liberty. Just dystopian.

Joe Kent is a far-right politician. That he is resigning in protest tells you a lot about where Trump stands on his war in Iran.

The most famous liar in the world lied. Let's not overthink it. He lies. That's what he does.

"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the country. You can do anything."

Seems accurate

Did Billy Bush ask him this question

Jesus.

Consider: These are just the stories of strategic idiocy that we know about **now**, on Day 16 of the war.

A week after FIU college republicans were exposed for celebrating Himmler's concept of a "Nazi heaven," UF college republicans are disbanded for doing Hitler salutes.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Totally healthy democratic governance right here.

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

seems like the clearest purpose of the war is to reopen the thing that closed because of the war?