“I voted for Trump three times. But I did not vote for this,” Jim Cunningham, a Republican who has held local elected office Media, Pa. “Trump is only a temporary occupant of the White House. It belongs to the American people. It’s not his personal property.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"We’re nice people. My kids are amazing. New York City would have been so lucky to have my kids."
An American woman, her undocumented husband, & their American daughters give up their life in the Bronx to move to rural Oaxaca: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Susie Wiles "organized a conversation" for Trump about "promises he’d made during his presidential campaign about avoiding new foreign wars." But, after Venezuela, he views the military as "an almost biblical force that can accomplish anything," an adviser says. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
“We sell hundreds of millions of real estate every day, and it’s not taxed.”
“…we have so much money that people don’t have to care if they don’t want to.”
Teton County is awash in wealth and run by billionaires. But the morgue is in an old garage, and students have to eat in hallways, and teachers can’t afford to live there. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
In three straight elections, more Americans voted for someone else.
53.91% for Clinton or other
53.15% for Biden or other
50.2% for Harris or other
“…elite impunity is now an American national project. We might need to reframe ‘American exceptionalism.’ Instead of a New Deal, we have a Great Society for white-collar crime, a New Frontier of executive lawbreaking, a No Rich Crook Left Behind.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
in honor of a certain surgeon general nominee’s hearing today, here is the story of (among other things) the time I tried to take her advice about milk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
It was like "a bloody Grand Guignol theater," or "the late-night Jerry Lewis telethons of the 1970s." @radiofreetom.bsky.social on the SOTU: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Phrases in Trump's SOTU:
Blood all over. Gushing blood. Pouring blood. Bleeding profusely. Shot in the head. Shot violently. Violently murdered. Brutally extinguished. Shredding his leg. Lying dead in a bathtub. Viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. Searing pain. The edge of death.
Trump destroyed part of the White House and dumped the remains on an affordable public golf course, which he hopes to remake for rich people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...
Last weekend.
This weekend.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“It’s time to stop whatever you are doing, put on your stiffest blue jeans and go to the gym. You are a Kennedy. Kid Rock is already there doing push-ups. Make sure you bring your whole milk. We will be drinking it, as is customary, in the hot tub.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**
“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Just pretend this is 'The Kardashians' by Andrei Tarkovsky, I kept telling myself, teeth clenched — until an actual semi-Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, appeared in one of the spa scenes..."
Chris Richards on Charli XCX's "The Moment": thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/i-think-im...
Bogage did terrific work on taxes, trade, and spending.
Bezos’ own goal continues.
“About a Boy.”
How many lives would $15 million have saved?
One of the ghastlier headlines of this era: www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Journalists in New Orleans have no idea how their work lives are about to change for the better. Or maybe they do! Either way, wonderful for everyone involved, @hankstuever.bsky.social especially. www.nola.com/news/veteran...
🚨 SCOOP: The IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax information to DHS, per sources.
It opens up HUGE liability for the US government.
Trump is suing the IRS over substantially the same disclosures -- for $10 billion.
🎁 Gift link:
The administration is shooting people and then lying about them www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Tina Brown rightly puts Fred Ryan's name in the mix of what went wrong; the N.Y. Times has omitted him in recent coverage. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
Incredible sentence:
"Elections officials told us they are now getting ready for interference from both foreign adversaries and the White House." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
"Instead of the 'ICE out' show, this was the joy-as-resistance show ... We need towering mountains, endless fields, bottomless pits of joy to resist the violence our government is doling out right now."
Chris Richards, newly liberated from The Post, on Bad Bunny: open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
