is that bad?

Never forget that this was how The Washington Post greeted Pam Bondi's nomination. Support independent pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

1. Pete was in the National Guard. He's never lived or worked on an active duty military installation outside of brief training periods. 2. There will be murders.

"The situation may be slipping out of its control. Key Trump officials, including Hegseth, were surprised by the barrage of retaliatory attacks Tehran launched across the region. "Hegseth 'was caught off guard. There’s no question.'" time.com/article/2026...

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

I can’t even begin to tell you how bad this is.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Ok but look how competently DoD is run now that black people and women are being purged from the higher ranks and merit is the only criteria bsky.app/profile/empt...

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

An enduring classic

Rip to every president who lost a war in the middle east but I’m different. And better. Maybe even good enough to win a war in the middle east

We first unmasked (or not—Donahue never actually covers his face) two CBP agents in November at great personal risk as two reporters who have been repeatedly targeted by the feds, including with assaults and arrest. Since then, more and more outlets have felt comfortable naming agents:

This is gonna have the opposite of the intended effect and make Epstein major news again.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Massacring civilians is bad, whether in Iranian schools, Ukrainian apartment blocks, or American office towers.

I feel like Frederick Douglass and MLK Jr probably were woke pocket constitution guys

*pounding table, banging clipboard, chanting* BUSH 2 BUSH 2 BUSH 2

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

ok we’re doing funny tweets again so I’ll do a thread of just stuff that’s already on my phone.

if you're trying to figure out how the average voter is responding to trump's beautiful perfect speech tonight, my coworker's wife texted him during it "uh I was trying to watch Survivor, WTF is this shit???"

And these big guys came up to me, big guys with tears in their eyes and they said to me 'Please, sir, please stop talking. Oil is at $350 a barrel. Men wearing $10,000 suits are jumping out of windows on Wall Street. Please just stop talking right now.'

replies are full of all-time bangers

Dow futures down 400 points since The Speech

I assume you know the research by Young, Varner et al into whether millionaire tax flight is real but in case not, a summary that hopefully still has an unpaywalled link to the original.

“fuck medicare, fuck medicaid, fuck daycare, all of your taxes should be higher, vote republican in 2026, thank you for your attention to this matter”

Slotkin’s theory is built on a premise she doesn’t state: that the right-wing propaganda blanketing red-state America reflects what those voters actually believe, and Democrats need to meet them there. It doesn’t, and they don’t.

Unpopular opinion reconfirmed now that House Republicans are following Senate Republicans and folding: Chuck Schumer deserves credit for keeping his caucus in line. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

Washington state passed a tax on millionaires. A lot of the usual suspects have been screaming & tearing their hair out & warning of apocalypse. But the actual rich people of Washington? Turns out they are mostly Democrats & they mostly support it!

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Johnson and Thune agree to Trump's plan to do a dual-track funding plan on Homeland Security via appropriations and reconciliation. Trump called for a bill to be on his desk by June 1 It's hard to read this as anything but the Democrats won the DHS funding fight.

We are not in fact the only country to have birthright citizenship, it is a New World ethos and should be embraced as such.

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

Marco Rubio in 2023

The winner of this election will face Soldier or Spy in 2028

these days the real april fool is none other than donald trump

Ask and you shall receive! Gemini explains why the Constitution actually demands that Ilan Wurman, specifically, should be fired out of a cannon across the border.

I want to see law professors drafting new arguments for why the Constitution actually demands that Ilan Wurman, specifically, should be fired out of a cannon across the border.