The president is just posting his negotiating position on main. None of this is agreed to, and the fact that this is all he is asking for is a startling admission of U.S. strategic defeat. He is HOPING Iran will let him get back to a position worse than JCPOA.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Let’s…uh…maybe cool it on the Taco stuff. Not sure that double-dog daring Trump into war crimes is good

I’ve researched the entire history that led to the 25th Amendment and what followed and wrote about all of it nearly a decade ago. Since then — and, in part, due to its limits and complications — I’ve only called for Section 4 to be invoked on two dates: January 6, 2021, and today.

Republicans in Congress support this. It’s that simple

Camp East Montana in El Paso Texas represents Trump's first effort to stand up a massive immigrant prison to hold people without trial. It's a tent city handily located at the site of a Japanese Internment site from World War Two: jacl.org/statements/n... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

The information we have about the Iran War is incomplete and unreliable and it’s still clearly a debacle. The full story is likely much worse.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

And why do we think it's just Russia. Of all the countries in the world, just Russia. Huh. "The Trump administration has not confirmed whether it will allow countries other than Russia to send oil to Cuba..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

This style of argument—the president can defy a federal law, one signed by an earlier president, because the law interferes with the president's power to take care that federal laws are faithfully executed—is nonsense and should be treated as such.

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

Absolutely. Folks will take some pleasure in this, and it’s understandable in a schadenfreude sort of way, but that this execrable person wasn’t terrible enough for Trump is not good news.

‘Tie the season

I have been thinking a lot about this article & the "BIDEN'S TOTAL FAILURE IN AFGHANISTAN!" coverage in 2021, & there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of that coverage & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran/NATO/Trump now.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority. "[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the most corrupt administration in history, every day a Teapot Dome level scandal

At least 8 million people turned out at more than 3,300 'No Kings' protests across all 50 states Saturday, according to the No Kings Coalition.
 Organizers say protests Saturday were the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

No Kings (Philadelphia)

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

It’s unfortunate that the ranks of people who’ve been “Loomered” now include not just government officials she got fired, but US soldiers who have died or been injured in Trump’s I’ll-conceived war of choice.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

If laws are just vibes, lets just cancel the shutdown bsky.app/profile/josh...

Jack Smith thought Trump intended to exploit national security secrets for profit. Trump's second administration is suddenly a machine of trading on national security secrets. These are two scandals—but really just one. And the great powers re-evaluating America's role in the world are watching.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

What to call this corruption other than a wholesale looting of the federal treasury by the President to benefit his supporters using a DOJ that is run out of his White House — but gussied up with the language and procedural flourishes of a normal settlement of a legitimate legal dispute.

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.

1. Yesterday, the NYT dropped a bombshell: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting and pushing him to launch a ground operation. Why would Trump listen? Follow the money.

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

This is utterly extraordinary. If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more. The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. Gets worse as you read it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

He should have spent the rest of his life in prison and the reason he isn't is bc John Roberts personally intervened to prevent that

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

A top financial kingmaker in the North Carolina Republican Party is a convicted child sex offender. To make matters worse, it seems as if many GOP leaders not only knew, but disregarded the conviction in favor of big money fundraising picnics.

Not mentioned in this piece: The Saudis and MBS are paying Trump's chief negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions of dollars annually.

Not one of them has ever stood in a line for 4 hours or more to vote in person. Not one of them has been turned away at the polls because they are suddenly “not on the list.” Not one has had their pay docked b/c they arrived late to work b/c they went to vote in the morning.

there is no evidence for mail-in voting fraud. but there is the belief that mail-in votes somehow "change" the result, as if there is something illegitimate about counting all of the votes

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

I hate it here.