If he walks off with classified documents again, he can count on being indicted again. I don’t care if he claims old age made him do it. Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records www.axios.com/2026/04/01/t...

BREAKING: Pedophile tires of grown woman.

Since the New Deal, the right edge of the conservative movement has been committed to the goal of eliminating all facets of the federal government that do good in the world, leaving behind only a war machine and a surveillance operation capable of containing the “internal leftist enemy.”

Wallace: What is happening to these criminal cases? Are they just dismissed and the criminals go back out into the community? MacFarlane: In so many of these cases, they're not launching the prosecution. They're declining what federal agents are bringing them.

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

Could be worse. We could have had a woman president.

We’re not even getting into weird ass shit like when he told importer countries in Asia to “grab and cherish” the strait of Hormuz like they’re assaulting some underaged beauty pageant contestant. Dude is seriously deranged.

Basically Trump decided to cause chaos, mayhem, death, destruction, disruption, dissension, depletion of resources, & decades of hatred and mistrust from friends and foe in the Middle East and beyond, then walk away while telling the world he expects them to clean up his mess.

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

So far, Trump is just lying about Obama’s nuclear deal. Not a word he said about the JCPOA is true

I love that a strategic planner in Iran just has to watch the insider bets on Polymarket to know what to plan for. Saves heaps on intelligence gathering.

Today marks the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I've spent my career standing up for survivors and prosecuting abusers, because I know how important it is to fight back against assault. To survivors everywhere — your story matters.

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Trump just cut a midterm ad for every Democrat in America. bsky.app/profile/fact...

I said to my wonderful guy today, "I'm sure as a white male you're tired of hearing this, but after this guy presented the admin's case sounding like he's yelling at a tv, this amazing atty from ACLU spoke so perfectly: informed, thoughtful, (right), ...the bar is just completely different."

Journos: There was a ton of convoluted discussion of federal Indian law in Trump v Barbara. Please interview actual scholars of the subject like Professors Dolan @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social @tannerallread.bsky.social now or when that final opinion arrives probably in June.

Everyone needs to just keep repeating this, over and over. The politics of a case is NOT JUST ABOUT THAT CASE. There is a meta-game here too. This case is surely going to be used as cover for gutting the VRA. And too many pundits are going to fall for it.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation with Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) to prevent any U.S. President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO. The measure requires a two-thirds Senate vote or an Act of Congress to exit the alliance. It was included in the Fiscal Year 2024 NDAA

I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.

If you want to make an important difference, here's an org that helps the people in these torture facilities at least get money in their commissary accounts so they can get clean fresh bottled water to drink or to mix in baby formula. eachstephome.org/commissary #ICELawlessness

It was always Trump (and Putin’s) plan to break up NATO in a second term. The plan was just delayed four years.

The NFL has (another) woman problem. The league’s third female official was fired after 3 years but alleges the man who evaluated her performance was also harassing and humiliating her. VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR THE RESPONSE FROM THE NFL REFEREES ASSOCIATION. www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-n...

When Trump couldn’t get Congress to pass the SAVE Act to federalize elections, he just ignored Congress and signed an executive order. Again. And now we are back to the courts with more lawsuits. Again. Non-stop chaos is his brand.

Via AP: Warehouse purchases on pause while DHS reviews Noem-era contracts, policies, and proposals.

New story out this morning from the Washington Examiner saying that it's an open secret inside the Border Patrol that the current Border Patrol Chief has bragged for decades about going to Thailand and Colombia to sleep with a bunch of sex workers. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

All right, live whatevering of Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. Arguing for the bad guys is US Solitictor General John (voice is an immutable characteristic so let's show some respect) Sauer. For the plaintiffs it's ACLU legal director Cecillia Wang.

Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.

Pam Bondi has quietly authorized Dan Bishop, a U.S. attorney in North Carolina, to pursue election-related probes across the country. Bishop, a former congressman, voted against certifying Biden's 2020 win. He will also examine voter-roll data DOJ has been collecting from states.

Just to recap: Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops. In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist

A modest proposal: Absent congressional authorization, presidential uses of force amounting to war should automatically raise the top 3 tax brackets by 50%. You know, to pay for the war.

Excellent Bouie piece on the birthright case. Especially how it points out that every academic backing Trump has either explicitly rejected Trump’s take in the past or somehow written extensively on the 14A without raising it (and implicitly rejecting it)… and have no new evidence now. Gift link:

NEWS: Judge Amit Mehta rules Trump is NOT immune for key Jan. 6 conduct—including his Ellipse rally speech, outreach to officials, and related actions—finding they can be treated as campaign activity, not presidential duties. 1/

Ugh. Worst case scenario.

She’s running for Senate in Maine to oust Susan Collins. Give her a follow!

PRESS RELEASE: Fontes Responds to Trump Executive Order Attacking Vote By Mail

🚨 Within minutes of Trump signing the order, top elections officials in Oregon and Arizona, two states that rely heavily on mail ballots, pledged to sue. tucson.com/news/nation-...

We defeated Trump's last election takeover EO in court & we will defeat this one. We are drafting the papers right now! The Constitution gives authority over elections to the states & Congress Trump does NOT have the power he is claiming. We @democracydefendersfund.org will see him in court

Albert Podrasky, Chief Justice Roberts’ grandfather, born in the U.S. to parents who were not citizens, was an American citizen. Why not the U.S.-born child today of a migrant from Africa? Or El Salvador? Or Honduras?

I want to put this as plainly as possible: This site has way too many self-righteous, underinformed assholes looking to pick a fight. We need fewer of them and more people with Mark's expertise.

This is unconstitutional. Voting is a fundamental right for every American. Illinois will keep administering free and fair elections – and what Donald Trump puts on a piece of paper will not change that.

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

OMG! How is this not like Benghazi when Sec of State warned Ambassador Stevens not to go back to Libya & he did & was killed. Our next leaders better investigate how much effort State puts into finding & freeing her. I hope Dylan here gets to face the same time sucking harassment they gave HRC. 😡😡

Oracle apparently laid off 30,000 employees? Remember, Larry Ellison financed the Paramount acquisition with Oracle shares. This is seriously the biggest billionaire circle jerk, built on massive corruption, signed off by the president. #fuckeveryone

Despite soaring profits, Oracle is eliminating tens of thousands of roles to redirect billions into its AI ambitions. trib.al/lV3QDoj

If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.

But he was so worried about wind turbines harming wildlife! 🤔

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

By 2028 you won’t be able to find a single mention of Donald Trump at CPAC anywhere. Mark it.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry says a foreign journalist was kidnapped, rescue efforts underway