Joyce Beatty is why the name came off the Kennedy Center. Her focus and tenacity... It should escape no one that she's also a Black woman.

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

When the courts start to shut down your domestic grift --you take the family business overseas The Trumps are doing exactly that in Albania w/ Kushner's "special envoy" role & and island deal that could cost Albania its EU future I break it all down @deadlinewh.bsky.social 👇

One of the things that I learned growing up in central MN is that anyone who uses the term "Somalians" and not the proper "Somalis" hasn't spent any time learning about Somalis and not wanting to learn is generally a sign they're bigoted in one form or another.

Much clearer than ABC's "audio"

Will a single media outlet ask whether Trump inconveniencing a commuter cohort the size of the entire population of Wyoming, causing countless ebullient parties to be cancelled, and destroying hundreds of millions of dollars in business, is going to have a negative effect on his popularity? (Nope.)

reminder that the last time trump was at madison square garden was for a literal nazi rally

So Trump can be shot in the ear by an automatic weapon, and it heals completely in three days with no scarring, but shaking hands causes massive bruising? 🤔

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

60 Minutes' Sharyn Alfonsi pens a goodbye note slamming Bari Weiss' actions against her "as a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting." Read the rest:

Southeast Michigan's selections for the White Dudes Don't Have to Be Terrible All-Stars.

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

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MSM, some quick notes: 1. It’s not a settlement (the case was dismissed). 3. It’s not a ballroom (it’s a bunker). 3. It’s not a library (Trump said it will be a hotel). It matters that you get it right.

He promised to release his tax returns as soon as there were no more audits pending, and now there are no more audits pending.

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

“We checked ‘the movies’ for 86 references: In The Candidate (1972), Robert Redford is told to ‘86 the sideburns.’ In The Grace Card (2010), Michael Joiner plays a cop who is so annoyed by his partner’s singing that he asks ‘can we 86 it, please?’” open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

Starting in 2007, the New York Times adopted a policy that its employees would not attend the White House Correspondence Dinner because it undermined its credibility as an independent news institution that checks power. And that decision has been vindicated repeatedly since then.

I told you this was MAGA influencers' plan re: a response to last night. There's no evidence Trump was targeted—DOJ says the target was likely administration officials. But the fascists are THIRSTY for the Insurrection Act, martial law, Christofascism, the end of democracy and concentration camps.

Also, not to get overly technical, but the guy did not get anywhere near Trump. He was not even on the same floor. It's not clear this should even be called a security failure. They caught the guy, and he was not able to hurt anyone. But I guess that is too technical.

Eric Trump went on FOX to brag about winning ANOTHER multimillion-dollar contract from the Trump administration. I've been sounding the alarm and pushing for answers. Is the Pentagon just a cash machine for Trump’s kids now? This looks like corruption in plain sight.

This president’s voters chose him to protect and dignify women’s sports They never minded his record of locker room talk Here is how he chooses to congratulate a women’s sports team To be this misogynistic, you really have to try To be this incompetent, you really have to be misogynistic

Will Kash Patel’s libel suit work? None of the Trump & Trump adjacent lawsuits are actually lawsuits. They are ways to extract cash payments with regulatory threats. The lawsuit is a vehicle to capture the money. If the co has no regulatory exposure the suit goes nowhere. NYT, Atlantic are examples.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

It’s an important story that really illustrates well how the effects of the information bubble in which Roberts (and other justices) live are greatly exacerbated by the decision to do big things on the shadow docket—and by highly flexible tools of judicial activism like the Major Questions Doctrine.

Joe Biden was denied communion because of his views on abortion rights. How the fuck is the Catholic Church not excommunicating Trump and his evil minions?

Vance has never “opposed” the war an Iran! He has publicly supported it from the beginning and every step along the way. The idea that he privately opposed it and that should be considered his official position is absolute garbage.

This regime is not systematically implementing a masterplan. We are dealing with chaotic destruction wrought by an increasingly delusional wannabe-dictator who leads a comically incompetent government and a movement drowning in its own conspiratorial hyperreality.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Well, well… If the 14th amendment was not meant for modern immigrants, then the 2nd amendment was not meant for modern arms. #truth

I've been trying to catch up on arguments/analysis of today's SCOTUS stuff and it's weird how many news programs seem to be talking about birthright citizenship *in general* as if it's only something relevant to the children of immigrants, not the way all US citizens born here have citizenship.

The great irony of April Fools Day is that it's the only day most people approach the news headlines with the appropriate level of scepticism.

Pretty much.

The premise of this article makes no sense. There is no either/or between protests and organizing. It is a plus/and. (1/3) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

Look how aggressively we are sanitizing Kushner's conflicts. The NYT described Kushner as "having business interests" in the Middle East. KUSHNER IS BEING DIRECTLY PAID TENS OF MILLIONS ANNUALLY BY MIDDLE EASTERN GOVERNMENTS

Has anyone from ICE explained why they are NOT wearing masks at the airports? Is it, I dunno, maybe because their goal is not to TERRORIZE airport passengers?

They should tell him they'll open the Strait in two weeks.

MS NOW’s Stephanie Ruhle Says Trump Phone Call Revealed He Has ‘More Trust in Putin’ Than European Allies

Lieu: "Undocumented immigrants want nothing to do with the govt! To vote, you have to first register. How many undocumented immigrants are gonna go, 'Yes, I'm gonna give all my information to the govt that's maybe trying to deport me. No way!' This is a problem that doesn't exist."

Sigh. Opposite our letter from *actual Jewish UCLA faculty and staff* opposing the Title VII lawsuit against UCLA (link ⬇️), today a petition landed on the UC Regents’ desks demanding a crackdown on *faculty* for “anti-Israel activism." There are several problems with this petition. A brief thread:

If you too, are like me, annoyed that you were unable to watch them all before they were taken down. The Data Hoarder Reddit saved them. If you scroll down you can find the torrent link.

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

The last 48 hours have been a reminder of how quickly we can fall into false binaries when it comes to the Middle East. Multiple things are true at the same time -- and we need to grapple with that complexity if we ever expect to find a better path forward. 🧵 Some thoughts...

NYT: “.. the president capped an extraordinary day of U.S. aggression abroad by attending a glitzy fund-raising dinner at his club .. .. a striking departure from how other presidents have handled the gravity of war.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.