S2 of Paradise is getting very weird

I nominate Lindsey Graham for first boots on the ground.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Seems to me the newsworthy implication here is that Trump is chickening out on endorsing in the Republican primary runoff.

Or to put it more simply: War is Peace.

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

When I think about the talking heads that they put on tv to talk about war my mind drifts to the fact that for a decade of the GWOT, Fox News put fake CIA stolen valor guy Wayne Simmons on the air, often visibly sloshed and slurring his words.

Super timely because in a few weeks you’ll be able to use one $250 commemorative gold coin to buy like 3 gallons of gas.

New @ms.now: Members of a federal arts commission voted today to create a 24-carat commemorative gold coin featuring Trump — and urged the U.S. Mint to make it “as large as possible.” This is the same group that greenlit his WH ballroom plans AND a design for a $1 coin emblazoned w/ Trump's face.

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

This isn't the most important thing right now, but it feels like the streets like Austin's 1st can't stay what they are... Dolores Huerta Blvds?

Senator Cornyn was hosting a press event at the airport. When I asked, he said it’s “not acceptable” to fund TSA. Don’t take my word for it — take his.

Sorry to be a bummer, but: a tour of Buchenwald. Also, I did an outward bound type program where we stayed in converted former SS barracks nearby what had been Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.

The quoted tweet is, among other things, a devastating indictment of Politico. No one there is capable of recognizing it or feeling shame, but still.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

so, next time they are in power, i think democrats should ask themselves real serious questions about whether they want to continue considering bids and accepting contracts from an organization that has made eradicating half the country an explicit political goal

A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroit’s largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside. And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes it’s exactly because of situations like this that they do.

WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that a military draft is on the table.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

I think people very much underestimate the impact of the facts that a) Donald Trump hasn’t really learned anything new about culture or the world writ large since like 1987, and b) in the 80s through the early 90s, “the ayatollah” was a Cobra Commander-like shorthand for villainy.

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump in Jan. 6 case gets life sentence for child sex crimes

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Statement from Jasmine Crockett.

Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina is up on stage as the last event of the day. He cites being anti crypto, anti prediction markets and anti gambling as why Democrats are losing young men. Messina is on the board of Blockchain .com and lobbied for the American Gaming Association

"When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran..." www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

This is via @daveweigel.bsky.social, from a Third Way event happening today. This is so malignant and unserious. That these groups have to put their thumb on the scale so egregiously to get the results they've pre-ordained tells you everything you need to know about them. x.com/daveweigel/s...

the very ethics of PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM absolutely require that you lie in the first place. You have to pass along opinions that you know are wrong or hateful out of so-called objectivity but worse than that you then get to feel proud about doing so. www.welcometohellworld.com/youre-perfor...

As a journalist I am obligated to shoot straight down the middle, a vestigial professional superstition that someone made up 100 years ago, that is also coincidentally very efficient for spreading right wing propaganda.

A data point to remember re: “popularism” is that the popular position on what is happening in Iran and happened in Venezuela is “no war, this is insane, full stop” and the moderate elected officials we are supposed to like are saying contorted, legalistic, unpopular word salad instead of that.

I suspect this war is going to make AIPAC as popular as the NRA among Democratic primary voters.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

This person remains extremely influential in the media and DC society circles. Her former interns and assistants have top jobs at most of the leading publications.

“Elaine from Atlantic, white girl with a hat and notepad. She’s interviewing people in the crowd. She’s a top-notch hater and will spin. She needs to leave." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

they call it the “working in politics when you’re 24 year old challenge”

“I was honored to have been invited to the isolated cabin where Savannah Guthrie’s mother has been strapped to a cot for almost a month,” said FBI director Kash Patel

We analyzed the data leak from White Date, a white supremacist dating site, with an eye for what it could tell us about Texas politics. We found that Texas users included multiple neo-fascist activists, as well as former and active duty military members, and more. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/24/3...

It’s the “fight of the century” because they are 100 years old

Oh me? I’m just thinking back to Greg Abbott appearing on Robbie Cooper’s podcast around 10 years ago. Why do you ask?

Great lesson here for candidates. Independent of Kat’s substantive answers (although I’m basically/generally in agreement), it’s the demonstration of fearlessness and confidence — literally holding her hand up high — that’s so devastating here, versus her opponents’ mushy, tepid, equivocation.

The arrested state senate staffer is the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans—or was until the news broke yesterday. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...

Last March, a 23 year old named Ruben Ray Martinez was shot and killed by an ICE agent. He was a U.S. citizen from San Antonio. ICE did not disclose for 8 months that they were the ones who shot Martinez. Americans deserve immediate answers and an independent investigation of the shooting.