I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... The Trump Administration of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.

It has been 20 yrs since North Korea nuclearized. And to date it has accrued 50-100 warheads. Does anyone believe Iran can create 30-40 warheads in a year? And no test history? Ridiculous. We are in the most foolish war ever - & that’s saying something after the Iraq invasion under Bush the Stupid.

I agree. Also ever notice that lots of us born in the 50’s are named Barb?

Must you lump all of us together? Please find another epithet ? Virtually every human I protest with at least twice a week is older than dirt. That’s what I’m calling myself this week). I’m a 1950 ‘boomer’. We aren’t all brain dead, protested Vietnam w Phil Ochs, Iraq, still here. Lots of us

Plans for record emergency oil release signal Middle East war could drag on for months-CNBC

I FUCKING LOVE THIS!!!!! LET’S FUCKING GO!!!!! 🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵

Cartoon by Dave Granlund

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

This is what happens when you vote for a pedophile. Shit gets darker and darker. Now MAGA y’all have blood 🩸 on your hands! #SheShed

Trump is withholding billions in federal funding to punish opponents, coerce, block funds from “sanctuary”cities, remake programs & impose his views. His targets have repeatedly sued to stop him & courts repeatedly rebuke him — only for him to try again and again. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our FBI has less credibility than the National Enquirer. That's where we're at.

Even if the war ends fast, “normal” won’t fully return. Trust and relationships are slow to rebuild, and that shows up as less trade, less cooperation, and more expensive risk management.

I'm not quite sure what to call this — a video essay, an explainer, an econ lesson, or something else. It's my attempt to explain the economics of war — economic theories of how and why war occurs — and to use that framework to better understand our current moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=416b...

A pretty great conversation with Ed Elson and @katie0martin.ft.com about what financial markets can tell us at critical moments, and what they're telling us about the war in Iran and America's place in the world. youtu.be/Jr7X0tlOl1k?...

Now, a major issue here is that the state of USN mine countermeasure capabilities is... not good. As you might have seen, the last of the old Avenger-class was shipped out of the Gulf in *January*. Something which once again is very much on brand for the complete lack of long-term planning by Trump.

IRAN WAR HAS COST THE U.S. MORE THAN $11 BILLION IN ITS FIRST WEEK, ACCORDING TO THE PENTAGON, AS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Muting “excursion”.

Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US inews.co.uk/opinion/hegs...

Kim Jong-un will soon enter the chat.

US Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. Via @talkingpointsmemo.com "Trump & his aides lowered authorization levels for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments, fired inspectors general" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-u-s...

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

"He told a colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We found the government waste.

We will need rigorous anti-trust enforcement after the Trump/GOP axis is vanished. This condition is completely unacceptable.

This has that ‘stocking-up-at-Home-Depot-the-night-before-the-hurricane’ kind of feel. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6a50...

🚨BREAKING: As the Trump administration moves to relitigate past elections, the investigative branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is probing Arizona’s 2020 election results, Arizona’s attorney general Kris Mayes told Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Republicans, who like to pretend they follow Jesus, are mocking a Democrat who does.

MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732. Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers. newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Dumbest news of the week so far, and that’s saying something

He’s going to declare victory and leave. This is why the US engaging in a regime change operation is almost always a bad idea, but particularly under this administration. Taking his ball and going home now will create another insurgency in the Middle East.

It’ll always matter that a fascist republican in the Senate named Tim Sheehy was so emboldened to commit violence that he took it upon himself to break the arm of a US Marine who was dressed in full uniform at a hearing simply for protesting the illegal war in Iran.

Write up on CPI out soon. Here are some high level takeaways. CPI headline figures of 2.4% are artificially suppressed by the lapse in data collection during the six week government shutdown. Under the hood, there is a disturbing acceleration in core service sector prices…

I don't think enough people are paying attention to Anthropic's lawsuit against the DoD. Hegseth wants Terminators, while Anthropic just doesn't want Claude to pull the trigger (probably for liability reasons). Dystopia is already here. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Even using the right wing conservative Heritage Foundation’s research, there is no justification for Trump's SAVE Act. It is voter suppression, designed for the insidious purpose of staying in power regardless of what the majority of American voters want.

Pentagon burned through $5.6B in munitions in first 2 days of Iran war

Judge says Trump tariffs must be refunded.

Among those allegations was that #Epstein took photos of her posing nude and tried to extort her mother to keep the images secret. Her mother couldn't afford what was demanded by Epstein, the allegations said, and she stole $22,000 from her real estate firm www.alternet.org/jeffrey-epst...

Rubio "on Meet the Press" said if he were in Havana's government, he'd be concerned. That's not diplomacy. That's a threat. From the United States to a sovereign nation. Not only is that a violation of our own Constitution; it's a violation of international law. #sheshed

Trump is completely flailing. He didn't anticipate the economic blowback and now he's trying to undo the past 10 days and contain the damage.

What happens when a mad king discovers that the war he launched is not going to go the way he envisioned it? Asking for a friend.

Since I wasn’t clear in my last post, lemme try again: WOW. A democrat got enough votes to force a runoff in this very red district. That it’s even close is bananas. This is MTGs old seat.

One of the law firms Trump tried to intimidate with an executive order is representing Anthropic in court. Here are the details of the two lawsuits against the government after DOD tried to blacklist the developer of Claude AI. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Gross. Everything involving Drumpf is gross.

Dems overperformed by a 17-point margin in Georgia's 14th Congressional District special election primary. The combined party vote is 60-40 Republican in a district Trump won 68-31. All candidates ran on one ballot, and Democrat Shawn Harris will face Republican Clayton Fuller in the April 7 runoff

🔵 Democrats flip another seat in the New Hampshire State House. Democrat Bobbi Boudman wins a special election in a Trump+9 district, after losing the same seat by 14 points in 2024. A 13-point Democratic overperformance.

Since Trump’s election: 🔵 Democrats have flipped 28 state legislative seats 🔴 Republicans have flipped 0

I feel like I owe Eric Trump a giant apology. I think we just found the 'world's dumbest Trump."