Dear G!  How are you?  Nice story about J. E. in New York mag, you look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania

I've worried about a stab-in-the-back myth reconciling support for Trump and his clear failure in Iran by telling themselves Israel somehow made him do it, but it looks like the regime is also going with a stab-in-the-back myth about NATO, as if it's their job to save the US from its own mistakes.

CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

Impeach this madman drunk on power before Greenland ends up controlling and taxing all North Atlantic shipping lanes

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

Osama bin Laden said much the same after 9/11

Accountability is what Illinoisans are owed for the terror that occurred during Operation Midway Blitz. President Trump and his accomplices should answer directly to the people of Illinois for what they unleashed on our state.

What we're reading: Protect Democracy advisor @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social's new piece on one of the most effective (and concrete!) ways we can all pull apart the pillars holding up anti-democratic power.

Pro tip to Trump’s cabinet and enablers in Congress: “I was just following orders” is not a viable defense at a war crime proceeding.

Really happy to see that Mayor Mamdani has taken his team's social media skills and used it to publicize what good government looks like. This is good politics and good policy at once.

In Copenhagen a few weeks ago, I was shown a Danish app that tells users which products are American, so that they know not to buy them. At the time it was the most popular app in the country. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“A report by Russian foreign intelligence showed that Moscow was so worried about Orban’s standing that it considered staging an assassination attempt on Orban to try to boost his sagging popularity.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

Criminal intent extends far beyond the masked thugs in the street, reaching the highest echelons of our federal government. Miller does not enjoy total immunity from prosecution. Minnesota’s attorney general would agree.

It turns out that breaching the wall between church and state means that some branches of Christianity are officially elevated over others. Who could have known? When in the last 500 years could such a lesson possibly have been learned?

The president's first post since an F-16 was shot down over Iran with one American still missing.

Trump’s latest EO restricting mail-in voting aims to legitimize conspiracies that our elections are fraudulent. It's part of the "Executive Override"strategy laying groundwork for overturning results the admin doesn't like, @alexandrachandler.bsky.social explains: More: protdem.org/executive-ov...

NEW: "Trump likes to move on women. He also apparently likes to fire them." No one should shed tears for Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem. But it is striking that Trump has fired these two women, when so many firing-worthy men were right there. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

who could have guessed

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

3/4: The government has no right to enter a private residence to search and arrest someone without a warrant — ICE agents are not above the Constitution. That’s why we’re asking the court to step in and uphold the law. protectdemocracy.org/work/home-en...

1/4: BREAKING: Protect Democracy sued the Trump administration for violating the Fourth Amendment with its *secret* internal memo directing ICE agents to enter and search homes WITHOUT a warrant. Read our statement here: protdem.org/4vpYZV5

may this be the beginning of something

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

One of the most bizarre aspects of the city occupations last year and this winter was the way in which the administration brought random social media celebrities inside its operations to produce propaganda. Through lawsuits and reporting, we're learning more about how that all worked.

Incredibly damaging for civ-mil relations to have horseshit like this

There’s good historical reason to worry that an authoritarian government leader collecting a registry of Jews, under the pretext of protecting Jews, while that leader has referred to Jews as “disloyal,” may not end up so well for The Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

Truly an impressive feat, given how much Americans hated the Biden economy

An evangelical talking point going way back is now gov’t policy. Appalling but in no way surprising.

Sigh Forget the potential for endless appeals, for the administration to use this as pretext to purge the federal judiciary, or for legal AI tools to be manipulated by powerful interests. It’s the modeling of cognitive atrophy by serious people eager to trade everything for efficiency

Is there a bible verse for this one, Mr Secretary? Something about personally profiting while sending innocents to die in a war of choice you savagely cheered us into?

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

I served in the Pentagon. Surely, surely Chairs and Ranking Members of Senate and House Armed Services Committees will take action here. What's reported here is a gross stain on America and damaging to the armed services. It also fits a pattern with SecDef Hegseth. Have we no shame. Gift link:

Making every transaction feel like a hush money payoff

3/26: Our new toolkit is for business leaders concerned about the destructive impact ICE raids could have on your community. Attend our toolkit launch co-hosted with @integrity-mttrs.bsky.social, @horizonsprjt.bsky.social, & American Sustainable Business Networks. RSVP: https://protdem.org/3PGYwgx

Protect Democracy spells out Trump's "rigged election" strategy for 2026: "to spread disinformation & conspiracy theories; tilt the electoral playing field and manipulate election outcomes; and, if necessary, try to overturn unfavorable results." Here's a rough graphic of how this strategy works:

This test requires counting, and some light memorization. It’s to identify people with cognitive impairment. We shouldn’t need 3 to make a conclusive judgement here

Just the President of the United States again saying insanely, unapologetically, shamelessly racist shit, and the extremely powerful people around him nodding in agreement. How far back in time would you have to go to find another U.S. president saying something this bigoted in public?

All eyes are on the midterms as Trump uses the gov's full force to supercharge election lies in case he doesn't like the results. NEW: We just published a roadmap for journalists, advocates, and voters outlining what we can do about it. Join us, start here: 🔗 https://protdem.org/executive-override

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Trump has turned our government into an ATM for himself and his cronies. When they’re not gaming the markets with insider information they’re looting taxpayers. His own $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS could very easily get settled just like this.

They tried to silence me. They failed. Today, the court dismissed Richard Grenell’s lawsuit against me—with prejudice. Grateful to my attorneys @markzaidesq.bsky.social and Tom Craig, and everyone who stood by me throughout this case over the past few years. I didn’t back down. The truth prevailed.