Spain. France. Italy. Austria. @reuters.com

NEW: It's not just Gen. Randy George on the way out. Defense officials tell me and Tara Copp that Hegseth also is removing: Gen. David Hodne, commander of Transformation and Training Command Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., head of the Army's chaplain corps www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hegseth's repeated moves to purge the military of anyone not judged a Trump loyalist should set off major alarms. But, because Hegseth presents as such a buffoon, his role in Trump's authoritarian project is underrated. wapo.st/3OfHHck

important 🧵 👇 ... and read more about how the Supreme Court's adoption of "presidentialist governance" (i.e., unitary executive theory) is destroying US science, medical research & innovation here:

"Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided underlying personal data for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tools." www.404media.co/how-thomson-... Glad to see employees and the union pushing back.

* IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS SAY THEY STARTED ATTACK ON AMAZON CLOUD COMPUTING CENTER IN BAHRAIN -- IRAN'S ISNA @reuters.com #$AMZN

🇺🇸 The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model is now tracking Q1 GDP at 1.6%, down from 1.9% on April 1.

Trump seems determined to raise military spending even further. He has said he wants the country to spend 5% of GDP, or $1.5 trillion a year, on the military. This comes to $12,000 per household. That’s real money, writes @deanbaker13.bsky.social.

BofA: We assume oil prices around $100/bbl for the rest of 2026 #EconSky

Marc Andreessen, on the 20VC podcast last week, said AI is “the silver bullet excuse” to clean house without admitting the real reason. #econsky #finsky www.governance.fyi/p/marc-andre...

Meet @leelagray.bsky.social the retired Brigadier General running to unseat Ana Paulina Luna, a MAGA crazy who organized a guided tour for Russian Duma members to Washington last week (as Russia was helping Iran target US bases in the Middle East). Let get her some followers and support. 🇺🇸

And for a while the lunar mission toilet was not working www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

The cover up for the investigations staring early next year when the dems take the house and maybe the senate has started.

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

1-year Anniversary of Liberation Day: -US foreign direct investment is lower -US factories employ 89,000 fewer people -US goods trade deficit is UP 2% -Treasury collected billions but must return it -Inflation elevated. -Every court + SCOTUS found them unconstitutional www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Anthropic sending people copyright takedown notices to forbid using their code, and irony is rolling in its grave.

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

Jerge, La Jornada (CDMX)

Well this is going to be interesting!

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

This is in my top 3

“No tankers carrying liquefied natural gas are known to have moved through the Strait of Hormuz during the month of March…”

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

My statement for Cato about President Trump's attempt to impose rules of his own invention on mail-in voting.

Senior Houthi official says Bab el Mandab closure an option if Gulf states joins war www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

I haven't been following the birthright citizenship case, but after spending the last year writing about fetal personhood, it strikes me that the right is trying to read birth out of the 14A in both directions. Immigrants born here shouldn't get rights but fetuses not yet born should.

inspirational content

Trump's DOL just proposed opening 401(k) plans to volatile private equity and crypto investments. Both industries have given millions to Trump's ballroom — and Trump's family leads a multi-billion dollar crypto empire. He's endangering YOUR retirement to line HIS pockets.

Is it good we have a POTUS with an attention span less than an episode of Seinfeld?

If you were wondering how the class field trip went

🚨MUST-WATCH: “Police boxed them in, created a situation, provoked it, escalated it. I lost a lot of faith in Memphis PD—I hope there’s accountability.” FULL CONTEXT of MEMPHIS PD viciously attacking/pepper-spraying #NoKings marshals👇🏽 From memphis social media lab: www.instagram.com/reel/DWmMVLT...

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.

just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong

❗️Ukraine has been shooting down Russian drones for almost 24 hours, with air raid alerts in most regions and over 700 drones, mostly Shaheds, intercepted at a high rate of about 90%. Unfortunately, there were hits in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ternopil, Chernivtsi, Cherkasy, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.

This was Denver's warmest March on record, and it wasn't even close. 51.6° average monthly in March 2026 is 4° warmer than our average *April* monthly temp. #COwx

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

“.. Mortgage rates have been moving higher in each of the past 4 weeks; and every week, the magnitude has been greater.” 👀 - Schwab

Trump has the highest disapproval of all time on inflation, higher than Biden, higher than Carter. Inflation is currently 2.4%. Look, I don't feel bad for Trump. But we are experiencing a complete breakdown of the political information system.

🚨NEW: Gregg Phillips, who holds one of the most consequential jobs at FEMA overseeing disaster response, is doubling down on claims he teleported to a Waffle House and a church — writing "haters gonna hate" on Truth Social and citing biblical accounts on teleportation. www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/p...

Why would any alumn (like me) give a dime to Yale if they're not going to support low income students in the year 2026 -- and when their dean is going to insult people with comments like "My recommendation is not to buy too much stuff"?

'We don't need the Strait of Hormuz' is the new 'foreigners pay the tariffs.'

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

They've already admitted to using Claude to advance their own codebase and (primarily) AI generated code is not subject to copyright (according to current jurisprudence) so this will be interesting.

Marco is perhaps the only member of the administration that retains 1% of his soul, so you can actually see him suffer when he continually has defend policies that he knows are BS. The rest are just vessels with voids where their conscience and compassion normally reside.

A federal judge today dismissed the Trump administration’s attempt to overturn “sanctuary” laws enacted in Denver and across Colorado that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

I do not see how Hormuz gets reopened with Trump saying stuff like this. He's explicitly saying any ceasefire agreement is meaningless! *TRUMP SAYS US WILL BE OUT OF IRAN PRETTY QUICKLY: REUTERS *US CAN COME BACK TO IRAN FOR 'SPOT HITS' ONCE WAR OVER: REUTERS

Conservative parents’ advocacy groups are using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries (the books aren't actually pornographic) www.404media.co/blockade-the...

i can't believe a republican president did what every republican president of the last 50 years has done (exploded the national debt)

The U.S. hiring rate fell to 3.1% in February, the lowest since April 2020. This is a hiring recession. And Americans are feeling it. There were notable hiring pullbacks in February in hospitality and construction. #EconSky