Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

Read the room, Harvard

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Great shot from a friend. Chicago Daley Plaza today.

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

Decided to come out for #HandsOff today in sunny Boise Idaho. Big crowd.

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.

BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Again, to be crystal clear: Nearly 800,000 Americans in Houston, Texas now face taxation without representation.

One thing nobody's talking about is whether Congress really gave the president the power to singlehandedly upend decades of tax and trade policy.

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

Is this what you want your legacy to be, law firms? Pandering to this? Clients come and go but integrity is forever.

Holy shit: the weirdo running Social Security added administrative burdens to service delivery in Maine after its Governor disagreed with Trump over trans athletes. The idea that public services should be provided consistently and honestly seems beyond them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

Democrats can quickly and forcefully address this national security scandal with one of their most powerful tools: Congressional Oversight. These powers include privileged impeachment motions, requests for GAO investigations, congressional letters, and formal or informal hearings.

Circling back on this…

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

The U.S. spends A LOT of money on golf, and not just for Donald Trump's trips to the links... Read @nickturse.bsky.social's story: interc.pt/4kQBQWa 📹 @jordanuhl.com

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

What. The. Actual. F. I guess Republicans in Congress are okay with this? “Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Cloture has met the 60 votes to pass in the senate with the help of at least 9 Democrats: Schumer, Fetterman, Hassan, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Gillibrand, Shaheen, Schatz, and Peters. They sold out our country to Trump and Elon. They're traitors to democracy.

In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

In a statement from @schumer.senate.gov on the Senate floor just now, he said Republicans don’t have the votes in invoke cloture, urged Republicans to pass a clean CR to keep US government open, & claimed the Democratic caucus is “united.” That beats voting that mess into law by a country mile.

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.

@wired.com wins the March Sidney Award for agenda-setting coverage of DOGE's savage attack on the federal government:

This is authoritarian. The government should not be permitted to shuffle people around to evade a court’s jurisdiction.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. We said from the beginning that this North American trade war is the dumbest in history, and we were being kind.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

19 Democrats voted to confirm Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary responsible for stealing food from the mouths of hungry Americans.

“women”

I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/

THEY DID IT!

I am here to report $20 egg

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

a photo you’d use as an album cover

OMG this motion 🔥🔥🔥—"This chaos has rendered the environment in which defense counsel must operate so unpredictable that the accused's const'l & statutory rights to effective representation have been irreparably compromised.... Moreover, DOGE's campaign of administrative arson is unlawful influence"

There have been 16 aviation disasters killing 95 people during the Trump administration. On top of the chaos at the FAA, Secretary Kristi Noem announced today that DHS will end its collective bargaining agreement with TSA officers. It had instituted pay raises and covered 42,000 employees.

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

Uganda's Ebola outbreak has worsened — but the country’s ability to fight it has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, per recording of US officials obtained by @lattif.bsky.social @stephanienolen.bsky.social. Eye-catching + worrying scoop.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

Something Rep. Al Green told me has really stayed with me: “I think we have to do as much as we can, as fast as we can to prevent him from becoming a dictator.” Rep. Green is a man of principle and is genuinely concerned by Trump’s overreach. He should be lauded not punished.

Dem congresspeople voting to censure Al Green. This party is SO cooked.

Ami Bera, D-Calif.; Ed Case, D-Hawaii; Jim Costa, D-Calif.; Laura Gillen, D-N.Y.; Jim Himes, D-Conn.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash.; and Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.