Mark Follman

Donald Trump was never antiwar MAGA's critique of globalism always left room for conflict.

Trump was never antiwar — that's MAGA fiction. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unreal… gives zero clarity about launching his war on Iran, but gold drapes for his WH ballroom

Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

“The minting of dozens of new billionaires occurred in the immediate wake of the 2017 tax cuts championed by Trump, the nation’s biggest tax overhaul since 1986… Overall, the top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets—more than the GDP of the US and China combined.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran

a social media video in the middle of the night and then just staying sequestered at his private club… what a way to launch the United States into a war www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

“Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools.” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Stephen Miller in 2024:

21%

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Read: The ‘Emergency’ Executive Order Proposal That Trump Activists are Rallying Behind On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Trump-aligned activists are pitching the...

Read: The ‘Emergency’ Executive Order Proposal That Trump Activists are Rallying Behind talkingpointsmemo.com/news/read-th...

Opinion | War and Peace Cannot Be Left to One Man — Especially Not This Man

“There is no national consensus around the decision... There isn’t even a Republican consensus…only a mercurial man so detached from reality that he actually reposted “Iran Tried to Interfere in 2020, 2024 Elections to Stop Trump, and Now Faces Renewed War With U.S.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/o...

Exclusive | Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports The Homeland Security secretary’s handling of an issue related to allowing travelers to keep shoes on at checkpoints fits pattern that has alarmed some national-security officials.

“Many officials said Noem’s handling of the report fits a pattern in which she has ignored or played down national-security concerns… her office [also] published photos of a secret government facility, publicizing a site meant to house the president in emergencies” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

insane:

“FBI tactical agents have ferried her to a resort in Britain before a dinner at Windsor Castle and to an appointment at a hair salon in Nashville”

“Last month, a three-man SWAT team fanned out at a fundraiser where she sang… Afterward, agents drove Ms. Wilkins 135 miles to LAX”

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Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

His frat boy antics at the Olympics were debasing and embarrassing, but this is on a whole different level, just a jaw-dropping abuse of power. Patel should resign or be fired www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in cou...

reminder, now that Scotus has struck down the tariffs… www.wired.com/story/cantor...

Full transcript: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers Democratic response to State of the Union address Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday.

Powerful speech from Gov. Abigail Spanberger... 13 minutes well worth watching if you missed www.wbaltv.com/article/span...

Trump continues to attack Supreme Court after tariff ruling The president called the court “incompetent” as he appeared to brace for another legal defeat.

lambasted the majority justices as "unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution"... www.politico.com/news/2026/02... 2/x

Justice Thomas Bemoans Incivility as Security Prompts Cancellation of In-Person Speech

Threats to Supreme Court justices are indeed very troubling... maybe Thomas wants to tell it to the guy who just put fresh targets on some of their backs over the tariff ruling? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Online Accusations in Guthrie Abduction Leave One Family ‘Scared Numb’

this is so insane... amateur hour for true crime 'sleuths' in very bad need of cancellation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

“In a recent nuclear war game at King’s College London, many leading language models including versions of ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s Gemini all quickly favored launching warheads.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

🇺🇸 🏒 Captain hilary knight : “The joke was distasteful & unfortunate— Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior. It's not my responsibility… It’s a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats.”

Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms

“Beginning on his first day in office and continuing for the past year in plain view of the American people, Donald Trump has orchestrated and led a sweeping federal government effort to subvert the midterm elections” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Trump Treasury official to exit after objecting to Minneapolis crackdown John Hurley’s exit follows internal disputes over the White House-backed push to target alleged fraud in the Somali community.

"[Bessent] is under a lot of pressure from the White House to show some interim results,” a Trump ally said. “Trump needs something for 2026 on Somalia." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"We must totally reject political violence of any kind," Trump said, reading from the teleprompter.

Yes, but obviously this rings hollow coming from him—because he stokes political violence on a regular basis. It's a very clear pattern, as I documented here 👉

How Trump is using violent tragedies to divide America ICE shootings, assassinations, mass attacks, and other traumas all serve as ammo for the demagogue in chief.

“He only speaks in one key, and that key is division.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How Trump's campaign of hatred against migrant "invaders" is fueling potential violence "There's nothing normal about any of this."

@markfollman.bsky.social wrote this piece in 2024 and it's just as relevant, if not more so, today:

Trump’s dangerous campaign of hatred against migrant “invaders” portends violence.

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Rep. Ilhan Omar defiant in the face of Trump's big SOTU stunt: "You have killed Americans"

The attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s destructive politics of violence The president's rhetoric portends worse to come.

Again, Trump puts a target on Somalis...

The Attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s Destructive Politics of Violence

The president’s rhetoric portends worse to come. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Looks like NPR has now documented a significant coverup of Trump in the Epstein files…

“there appear to be 53 pages of interview documents and notes missing from the public Epstein database” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

2/ Here's the video, icymi. Patel's flight to party at the Olympics reportedly cost taxpayers as much as $75K bsky.app/profile/ronf...

screen shot of Patel on video chugging beer in Milan with the USA men's hockey team

It's great to celebrate the US hockey team winning Olympic gold. But I can't stop thinking about how bleak this video of Kash Patel's behavior is... the role of FBI director, to state the obvious, is critical to US national security. Partying like a frat boy while in it? Debasing and ominous.