Reporting is that Trump and GOP's new plan to rig the 2026 election is pass a new funding bill via reconciliation that defunds Blue states that don't implement Trump's measures to allow him to cheat such as purge voters, giving DHS voter rolls, etc. This is their last stand!

“This sanewashing has been going on for a long time, and I’ve written about it before. But it keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage of the King of Crazytown.” ~ @markjacob.bsky.social with @atrupar.com & @thorbenson.bsky.social in today's PN

Millions of Americans will show up on Saturday to reject the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. Please join us in the streets again this weekend for the biggest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

"The press cast aside the idea that this guy’s totally unfit- which he obviously is- and the reality that he’s gotten worse this term. He’s more untethered to reality and closed off to any outside guidance or criticism." - @markjacob.bsky.social for @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-jacob...

Ares is the latest private credit fund to fulfill a portion (43.1%) of requested investor withdrawals,which totaled 11.6% of the fund,exceeding the typical 5% cap As these headlines multiply,the risk of a "contagion of concern" grows—fueling fears of further redemptions and liquidity sales by funds

Who knew that #Iran would retaliate against its Gulf neighbors and Israel, and blockade the Strait of Hormuz? Only everyone who ever studied Iran - except, of course, the incompetent POTUS. Great discussion with @mattduss.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social.

Here's how it's gonna go: *Trump lies about Iran's nuke threat *Bombs Iran with awful consequences he failed to anticipate *Declares victory, goes home *Cites lack of nuke threat as proof of success On the pod, @mattduss.bsky.social brilliantly lays out what's next: newrepublic.com/article/2080...

AND ... makes a shitload of cash! "Treason in the Futures Markets People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in... @pkrugman.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice newsletter interviewed me about my push for the news media to report loudly on Trump’s dangerous mental unfitness. “They don’t want to make themselves part of the story by calling him out," I said. "They’re afraid he will direct his deranged behavior toward them."

BC correspondent admits Trump is backing down and conceding defeat. Iran threatened to obliterate Gulf desalination plants. Without water the Gulf states collapse in days. They begged Trump to stop. Total humiliation for Washington. #cdnpoli

‘While state and federal prosecutors have sent record numbers of people to prison for violent crimes and property- and drug-related offenses, the US retreated from prosecuting and punishing white-collar crime, despite a tsunami of elite-level wrongdoing.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"This weekend, Senate Republicans thrashed about like rotting, mildly electrocuted trout as they attempted to pass the SAVE America Act — a bill that would disenfranchise millions of Americans in the name of preventing voter fraud that doesn’t exist." — @nberlat.bsky.social

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

Get ready to learn a lot more about Helium. There's going to be a global shortage due to this completely prevantable and unnecessary war. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

New — I collected stories from travelers at airports around the country on Monday after ICE agents were deployed to help TSA. No one understood beforehand why they would be there, and after a day with them around, it’s no more clear. Read the multi-city dispatches:

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Trump retreats on Iran and proves he’s worse than Nixon youtu.be/HLlWxGA1cPU?...

The "No Kings" protests were already historically huge when they happened last June, and then again bigger in October, and that was before...

Kennedy: "Democrats offered to open up everything but ICE. Ted and I said, 'Ok, let's accept,' then at the same time we'd offer a bill for reconciliation where we don't need any D votes. That way we're out of the shutdown and DHS is back open. Thune submitted that to Trump. He said, 'No. No deals.'"

In trying to manufacture a casus belli with Iran, Trump and his aides fostered conspiracy theories about Israel. Rubio claimed that the US had to attack Iran because Israel was going to strike anyway. But it's absurd to imagine Netanyahu would have bombed if Trump had said no. wapo.st/4bFpNat

Videos show large demonstrations in Tehran, where crowds waved Iranian flags and chanted in support of the government. The rallies come as Iranian media highlights public backing amid the US-Israeli war on the country.

This may be the most powerful 85 seconds I've ever seen on television.

The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

So ICE’s job is basically to make crowded airports more crowded?

Iran's Revolutionary Guard calls Trump a 'deceitful American president', accuses him of 'contradictory behaviour'.

@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social are you demanding Michael Wolff's unedited Epstein interviews?

NOTE: Two Democrats voted to confirm MarKwayne Mullin: Senators John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Miami Herald reported Friday that bags of shredded documents were discovered outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan where Jeffrey Epstein was detained.

Israeli settlers have been filmed vandalising a boys’ school in Huwara, spray-painting racist graffiti and raising an Israeli flag on the roof. The attack comes as settler violence intensifies across the occupied West Bank, with homes and cars set on fire, injuring at least nine Palestinians.

It’s No Kings week and almost on cue, Trump is threatening to escalate his illegal war and his attempts to rig the midterms.

ICE at the Atlanta airport:

Man, if I were the Senate Minority leader this is all I'd be talking about. You're paying higher prices for everything so Trump and his cronies can play a rigged game for billions.

How do people defend this?

GOP Senator admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown, long airport lines: "The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE. ... Thune submitted that to President Trump. The President said, 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week."

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Just published this while sitting at DCA airport and hoping I can land at SFO and get to my destination without any fuss or chaos. Trying to Fly in a Fascist America. thelefthook.substack.com/p/trying-to-...

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"You can't vote out the mafia" -- @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, years before it was obvious to the masses, back when we could have maybe done something useful about it substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

The risky lending business has been booming, but now its problems are becoming increasingly visible on Wall Street and beyond.

Traders placed $580mn oil bet ahead of Trump post on Iran talks ft.trib.al/aF9Kb9v

This is notable news from Bloomberg given Apollo's standing in private credit "Apollo Global Management Inc. is curbing redemptions from one of its largest non-traded private credit funds for retail investors, becoming the latest alternative asset manager to grapple with a surge in such requests...

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market. $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else. They made huge gains. Unusual.

NEW: New Mexico is asking Meta to pay $2.2 billion in penalties for alleged violations of the state's Unfair Trade Practices Act, an attorney for the company said Monday ahead of closing arguments in a trial over a 2023 lawsuit. sfnm.co/4bJn2VG

Ah yes, just as Jesus would do.

49 Republican Senators voted to block TSA funding over the weekend

"The price for a building like the one ICE purchased would typically be between $100 and $110 per square foot. Seeing prices rise above $125 per square foot begins to raise eyebrows. ICE paid around $174 per square foot to purchase the warehouse building..." buildingsaltlake.com/ice-bought-s...

"The Justice Department is increasingly telling judges it can’t defend ICE’s actions..." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Republicans finally agreed to fund all of DHS (including TSA) with the exception of ICE… …until Trump had a tantrum on social media, deployed ICE to our airports, and demanded that the GOP passes his voter suppression legislation first. Trump and Republicans are responsible for the airport chaos.

Lack of health insurance kills FAR more Americans every year than Iran ever has. But Trump ＆ Hegseth want $200B for war instead of care. That’s not “national security” — that’s national neglect. #HealthcareNotWarfare