Just once, I'd like to see one of these just-calling-balls-and-strikes articles come out and actually say the obvious: "The Trump Administration's multi-pronged efforts to exert control over universities follows a playbook seen repeatedly in nascent dictatorships around the world"...
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
They really did think it would be Kyiv in 3 days
Shock and aww man
That this war with Iran is unpopular in a way never before recorded in American history has seen remarkably little attention from the press
"The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process."
Here's the thing about Walker Bragman trying to feud with Jon Stewart: Bragman helped Donald Trump become president and Stewart never did that.
Stewart does a very annoying bothsidesism to burnish his reputation as a truth-teller instead of a gross liberal. But when the chips are down, he helps.
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
“You have Caligula derangement syndrome, he’s not going to make his horse a senator”
5 hours later: “stop being hysterical you’re going to startle my colleague senator horse”
All of Republican politics is a war of the unemployable on the employed.
Rain, I think. They're not being controlled (reined) or ruled (reigned). They're being flung down (rained) upon.
there is no advantage to having to live in a national state of fight/flight activation for however long it takes for this to resolve. it's destroying people's lives with uncertainty and cruelty. it's burning out organizers. the only way you wouldn't know this is if you aren't actually organizing.
This is my personality
Do it
the plan is that there is no plan and there will be no plan, and this is primarily because congressional republicans would rather bow to a king going mad than honor their oaths to the country
What a great summary of Trump’s attitude toward language
"Unlike regular madman theory, where we have a fake madman with a real plan, for advanced madman theory you need a real madman with a fake plan."
Every Special Counsel report in modern history has been handed to Congress. This is the first one that a sitting president has successfully buried — using a judge he put on the bench.
Difficulty: impossible
The Donald Trump Experience
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
Events over the last week have wrought an astonishing reversal in global policy expectations.
(note: chart design inspired by the FT's work here: www.ft.com/content/d0b4...)
American leaders’ confidence that Trump can unring any bell has made them perhaps a little too unconcerned about whether or not he should be ringing them in the first place.
This place is not firewalled. Libs are doing the same self-defeating "explaining" on Facebook
he shares Joe Barstool’s view bc that’s who he is; the only reason he’s not sat at the end of a bar chuntering to other losers is bc 500 million from daddy insulates you from the usual consequences of being thick
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
