Not a lesson to anyone who matters is gonna learn: but look at what happens when you drop a peaceful nuclear deal that was working, it’s a beeline towards begging Iran for things Iran used to give for free.

ludicirous it took this long

“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

pretty proud of the fact that I’ve been able to keep my QOTD thread going for nearly three years the plan is to keep it up until they turn the lights off

Even white men don't want to hang out with white men. As my kiddo like to tell me, that sounds like an "iss-YOU" not an "ish-me."

The first paratrooper will jump at 4:01 EST on Friday

No "sober" man has ever been this high, not even George W. Bush.

Imagine how much everyone would lose their shit if President AOC sent $1.25 billion to the Board of Socialism. This will get like 3 headlines on the internet.

Paul's found his voice, for the zillionth time.

Clamping their hand on the stove has been the only thing that's worked for anybody

It's so mysterious why the racist freak of history, surrounded by Nazis, suddenly decided to do a weekly two-minute hate about Somali Americans.

From No Kings to the phones!

I cannot overemphasize the role that @rweingarten.bsky.social played in breathing life into No Kings before it was a thing. What an incredible leader - so thankful she's on our side.

But there's a simple reason everyone hates reactionary centrists, except billionaires and their fans, and "everyone" loved FDR &, to a far lesser degree, Trump. Reactionary centrists love to punch down. Trump gets that you at least have to pretend to punch up, even at imaginary (((overlords)))).

I wrote this week about how Trump has mastered, for evil, the "Judge me by the enemies I make" politics of FDR.

I won't believe they're sincere until they move to Argentina.

One thing I'd recommend: if you're not already part of a local organizing/activist group, check out the groups marching at your local No Kings protest and see if they might be a good fit for you. Few things are better right now than joining LOCAL groups in the real world to organize.

6 out of 5 College Conservatives have suffered from having a TA who didn’t want to debate DEI

Feels like a lesson Labour could do with learning

“I had a plan until I got punched in the face”

This reminds me that one of my favorite things to do is annoy people who live in San Francisco by calling it "Frisco" or "The Frisco," if you're nasty.

Is it the “every great power gets its own sphere of influence within which it can operate at will” or the Nazi salutes and tattoos throughout the administration or the white supremacy or the contempt for the idea of war crimes/ crimes against humanity or the axis with Hungarian and Italian fascists

You know about Virginia's redistricting referendum, but that's just the tip of what you have to watch in April. A supreme court race. Conservatives looking to take over school boards. Election deniers running for local office. Congressional races. My new guide to April's elections—just out.

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

Excited to launch FlipSeats.org, a resource dedicated to tracking the most winnable seats in key legislatures around the country. Democrats could win four trifectas this year and break several GOP supermajorities. I'll be updating this as new candidates emerge and primaries play out.

“It's not the job of a good message to say what's popular. It's the job of a good message to make popular what we need said, because we have an agenda we need to enact, and because that's how we win.” @anatosaurus.bsky.social with @andreapitzer.bsky.social

-The cases found a way around Section 230 -Juries are more willing to sanction social media than judges -the general public has soured on social media -states are responding to this & demanding structural remedies A big multidistrict litigation heads to trial in August. prospect.org/2026/03/26/s...

big metaphor vibes

One of my very favorite artists, new to me, covered in @500songspodcast.bsky.social. Retired as the "voice of his generation" at 20 because he was too old.

Not Hegseth's choice to make, but no other Secretary of Defense would have ever let a president fuck up this bad, this fast.

“The job of the message is to engage the base in order to convert the conflicted.” "....what you need the base to do is actually act as a choir. You need the base to not just agree, but to say it, to repeat it, to wear it on a shirt, to go out and protest it, to talk to their neighbors about it.”

NEW: The FBI went down to Georgia, looking for some ballots to seize. Now, in an Atlanta courtroom tomorrow morning, the government must defend a search warrant built on recycled fraud claims & glaring omissions. My primer on Fulton County’s battle for ballots: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

The truest sign of spring: skunk stink.

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use www.wired.com/story/senato...

Not that he would listen. But I don’t think there’s anyone who could even get close to him to tell him how bad he fucked up.

The world is seriously underestimating how bad this is going to get. There's no way out of this that gets Trump back to where he was before he fucked up, and that's provoking horrors that won't get us anything but more horrors.

For most of my life, all I wanted was some meaning, and now I can say with certainty that I'd like a little less meaning.

I got a chance to talk with the splendid @anatosaurus.bsky.social, who laid out out why the message of moderation from reactionary centrists is lethal and explained how to build a better country by reframing our public conversations.

He wants out. He wants to not have lost. He can't have both.

I think he's incapable of this point of understanding how badly he fucked up. He's in an escalation trap, mostly between his ears.

The big winners of 2025 have no confusion about why voters elected them

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

Nice to see Trump is still pursuing his Board of Peace, including Russia, while sending service members to die in an attack on Iran Russian is supporting with intelligence and weapons.

Maryland sued to stop an ICE detention warehouse. Then New Jersey. Then Michigan. Each case cites the same fifty-year-old environmental law — and a federal judge has already frozen construction in Maryland using it. Arizona's warehouse went through the same process. Arizona hasn't filed anything.

No ICE. No wars. No Kings.

Trump has had to at least pretend to roll back the three biggest pillars of his domestic agenda DOGE, Miller’s invasions, and MAHA.

a 2-part tale of how off-year governor races have consequences

🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma! ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.