WATCH: “It’s not bad at all to be Russia in this new world.” If you don’t believe us that Trump’s assault on Greenland and dismantling of NATO is a gift to (order from?) Putin, here’s Russian state TV spelling it out. (H/T @juliadavisnews.bsky.social )

My daughter was super excited to have her first day of organized basketball tomorrow. Thanks, Trump voters

All the other horrors aside, I just can’t believe how many people are complicit in pretending he has any clue about anything beyond burying the White House in hideous gewgaws.

The entry to the Mexican restaurant (Don Julio) in my hometown of Forest Lake MN that closed as a result of ICE has become a shrine. Two-thirds of voters in Forest Lake supported Trump in 2024.

Trump Cards, folks

"The Corruption Chronicles: One year of Donald Trump profiteering from public office and selling access and influence" Helpful just seeing it all laid out on one page. Kei Chin, @mjbeckel.bsky.social for @issueonereform.bsky.social

Great news for Californians and anyone looking to cruise along one of our country's most scenic drives: Highway 1 is fully open! www.ksbw.com/article/high...

Just in: House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. Reason undisclosed. Will find out more by March 2. Typically, announcements like this mean the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Conduct has found "substantial reason to believe" a lawmaker has violated an ethics rule.

The powerful Chicago Teachers Union that regularly slams the Trump administration received word on Thursday that its finances are being investigated by a federal agency on top of an already announced inquiry by a Republican-led U.S. House committee.

Good god, the man is a mathematical genius. He's created the imaginary-irrational number.

"Voters have rejected him. Courage is contagious. There are clear signs of the regime cracking and Trump weakening that are right in front of us. I’m encouraged by it, and I think Democrats have to learn that we need to act with greater ambition, because when we challenge Trump, we keep winning."

Every few weeks we get a story like this and it always fizzle out. Stephen Miller is in control. Let's not pretend otherwise. Even when Brooke Rollins convinced Trump to *publicly* say he'd back off of some raids, it took Miller just 48 hours to browbeat Trump into changing his mind.

Could a man be any smaller?

Today with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @crow.house.gov www.youtube.com/live/8Lvh5aJ...

Breaking news: The Justice Department has issued subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation alleging that they are impeding federal law enforcement officers’ abilities to do their jobs in the state.

Laurel Police Department compiled and shared a list of addresses where officers believed Haitian immigrants were undocumented and sent it to the FBI, records show. Immigrant advocates said they were shocked, and Laurel’s mayor called the action “utterly disgusted.”

ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves Most Of The Blame......

Latest NYT video analysis. The White House is lying. Gift link.

i’ll say it again, jennings is a contemptible liar and it is a disgrace that CNN puts him on television every night to spread bullshit

US Senator Roger Wicker rebutted Donald Trump’s claim that Ukraine is prolonging the war, arguing that the real responsibility lies with Vladimir Putin, who talks about peace while escalating his assault on Ukraine. Wicker called Putin the most dangerous threat facing the West today.

Another ICE shooting in Minneapolis, which tonight looks like a war zone. 🚨 An ICE-linked federal officer shot a man in the leg during a confrontation in north Minneapolis. The ICE agent and the man he shot are reportedly in the hospital.

This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.

This is not a sane use of US federal law enforcement resources.

The crisis is real, and this is part of our effort at new approaches to supporting scholars and advancing scholarship in the (vast!) early Americas. Sharing again and would appreciate your sharing, too. More info in the thread. 🧵⬇️

SFRC Chair asked WH to confirm: “U.S. military personnel are no longer involved in hostilities in Venezuela.” In response, WH said: "there are currently no U.S. armed forces in Venezuela.” Does not take some brilliant war powers expert to spot the delta here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

The Big Die-Up teaches us to be in relationship with the land, rather than conquering it. The land can also connect us to each other. Film festivals this month discuss the history of the West and what it means for building a stronger America in today’s world. open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...

ICE just confronted us in our car saying it’s our first & final warning. There’s nothing illegal about driving your car safely on Stinson, Lowry, or any street in our community. They are purposefully surging at school get out times terrorizing our families. Ice needs to stay away from our kids.

Donald Trump is a criminal who should be in jail and not the White House. ICE is a band of lawless goons who shouldn't be allowed to carry guns or badges. And the citizens who peacefully protest the Administration's violence against our nation are the true patriots.

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

Reading this, one thing that's striking (and yes, obvious in a way) is how so many of these people are protected by anonymity. Unmasking is such a crucial step in fighting this stuff. This also applies to ICE.

EXACTLY

Lot to unpack— "Disgraced congressman Duncan Hunter got a Trump pardon....Hunter is using what’s left of his political influence to help Raymond Liddy, son of infamous Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy, escape his conviction for child pornography."

Todd Blanche is making clear that the federal invasion of Minneapolis-St Paul is all about political retribution targeting a state that tenaciously votes against Trump and his party.

Alleging violations of the U.S. Constitution and federal law during the chaotic and at times violent immigration crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly and roughly 70 Democratic colleagues on Wednesday moved to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

"Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a 'confidence score' .... ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based." www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Denmark/Greenland will let us do anything we want militarily to protect our interests in Greenland with current and abandoned US military bases. We can move any assets we want there. So all the arguments about security are BS. Trump wants to OWN Greenland, not protect it.

NEW: US House legislation would repeal some money for I.C.E. from Trump's "big beautiful bill" ... and repurpose the money for health care tax credits

Say goodbye to another respected institution about to be destroyed by the Trump propagandists.

I think Dem strategists and comms/data folks need to recognize that we are in a period of discontinuity. What's happening now is not like what's come before. It's all new. And we need to stay close to the data that's in front of us, not bring old fights into the ones we now find ourselves in.

More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is. All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses. He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.

Here's Emerson, Texas, today. "Threats to democracy" is #2. 5/ emersoncollegepolling.com/texas-2026-p...

Here's Economist/YouGov this week, most important issue 4/ 24% inflation 16% jobs and the economy 14% civil rights/civil liberties 10% health care 8% immigration d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

I was in the midst of preparing a Morning Memo arguing that Minneapolis is shaping up to be the catalyzing moment that Trump was looking for to justify doing what he has wanted to do since his 1st term: invoke the Insurrection Act...when he posted exactly that: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

For the intentionally obtuse: there are many many ways to enforce laws. Stop framing issues as ‘don’t enforce the law at all, or enforce it in the worst way possible.’ Your false choice is intentional. This is deliberate. And it’s going to be our downfall if we persist.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

What if the goal was to loot federal databases for their wealth of priceless private information on hundreds of millions of Americans--our tax records, Social Security #s, mortgage filings--& use that data to punish political enemies & train the surveillance technologies owned by the Broligarchs?

DOGE was hustling that data OUT of federal agencies as rapidly as possible, using techniques associated with hackers and cybercriminals. People don't understand: our data IS the treasure. That's why federal agency heads tried to intervene physically to protect it. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...