Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

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"The only thing he had to do was—for once in his life—not act like an insane egomaniac. He couldn’t do it." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Surely even the MAGAest person out there can't think the following is a good idea, can they? www.fedweek.com/federal-mana...

The women’s NCAA Tournament had started so chalky … until Virginia came along. Three wins in a week (!) as UVA goes First Four to Sweet 16 after an upset of No. 2 seed Iowa on the Hawkeyes’ home court. Wowow.

A Complete List of the President's Positive Qualities:

No. 10 Virginia takes down No. 2 Iowa in a 2OT thriller 🔥 It is the Cavaliers' first trip to the Sweet Sixteen since 2000.

Breaking news: A federal judge has ruled that the Defense Department’s controversial press policy was illegal, striking it down as unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by the New York Times.

The Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets violate the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled, and issued an order tossing parts of the department’s policy. It’s a victory for The New York Times, which filed suit in December over the restrictions. nyti.ms/3PegXt0

ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!

Trump has never said anything as critical about Vladimir Putin or any Russian war criminal as he did today about the majority on the US Supreme Court.

The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

Four GOP Senators. At most four Repubs in the House. Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.

ICE is the vile, violent, snarling embodiment of the very evil Jesus spent his life opposing, and Christians who have any interest in his mission should be forcefully turning it over like the sinful table that it is. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/actual-jes...

Brilliant piece by @markjacob.bsky.social

Five years later, President Trump continues to try to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In many ways he’s been successful. Here are four ways legal and political experts say the nation has changed since the attack:

Anyway, if we were actually a serious country, all of our institutions, both in and out of government, would stop treating This One Special Boy as if he alone is not subject to the norms, laws, & Constitution of the Republic.

It's been a terrible year for American democracy, with the dictator Trump breaking laws left and right and the Supreme Court and Congress mostly letting him do it. But sometimes when we fight, we win. And we must hold fast to our belief that the battle is worth it. Here's to resistance in 2026.

“America is dangerously close to a world in which all federal policy hinges on the outcomes of presidential elections, no matter how narrow the margin of victory,” Zachary S. Price argues:

Classless, disgusting and full of lies. What else would you expect from Trump? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.

it’s pretty funny that Duffy is simultaneously 1. scolding passengers for not wearing fancy clothes while flying 2. supporting airport gyms so passengers can be sweaty and gross while flying both of these proposals are idiotic but the direct contradiction is next level

Pete Hegseth is committing war crimes as defense secretary. That’s no surprise: When Hegseth was a Fox host, he successfully lobbied Trump to pardon Navy Seal platoon leader Eddie Gallagher, who posed for a photo with the dead body of a teen Islamic State captive he had killed with a hunting knife.

A Dishonorable Strike www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...

The only “peace plan” that makes sense is the one from Sanna Marin, Finland’s former Prime Minister: “The way out of the conflict is for Russia to leave Ukraine. That is the way out of the conflict.”

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Republicans are taking a principled stand on the shutdown. Their principle is that poor and middle-class Americans should pay much higher prices for their health care – and that negotiating with the Democrats would create the false impression that the U.S. is still a democracy.

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Just to be absolutely clear: The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person. And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

The American Federation of Government Employees filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for inserting partisan political statements into furloughed employees’ automatic out-of-office replies during the government shutdown without their consent.

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While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

"Isn’t it great that we’ve descended so far into an authoritarian cult of personality that even Trump’s hand-picked officials aren’t comfortable inquiring as to whether Dear Leader accidentally posted a DM on main and instead have to treat his every action as divinely ordained?"

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Nobody in the press gets a medal for Charlie Kirk coverage, in my mind. His statements have been grossly distorted, the purported motives of his killer hastily ascribed, and public statements from officials swallowed whole without much verification, some of which turned out to be wrong.

My only criticism of this otherwise insightful article is that it doesn't explicitly include engineers (especially those dealing with public safety) with scientists as equally confronted with the trap. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

We are moving dangerously close to martial law. Trump openly said he intends to “go after” Chicago and New York in his next federal crackdown, saying he’s prepared to deploy U.S. troops against civilians.