Please remember that obeying the law is mandatory if you're an immigrant but completely optional if you're a pardon-protected Trump official who claims to enforce the law. nypost.com/2026/03/11/u...
"The problem is not that Lindsey Graham is scaring people. The problem is Lindsey Graham is actually leading Trump into wars."
@samsteindc.bsky.social and @saletan.bsky.social discuss the South Carolina senator's insatiable bloodlust on his Sunday show appearances.
If you liked Trump's FBI raid to seize the 2020 ballots in Georgia, you'll love his subpoena to get the 2020 election records in Arizona.
They're gonna go state by state and keep redoing these "investigations" till they've rewritten history to say Big Brother won. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
"'Imminent' means whatever I say, shut up!" - the administration, basically. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social:
"A grand unified theory of how to destroy Trump’s Republican party."
We all know the US government under MAGA is out of control. We have to take it back.
How? That's what @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social answers in this book. Get it. Read it. And let's get to work. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/h...
If "one day" and "eventually" are "imminent," then words have no meaning. At least not to this administration.
New from @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4b8J1oR
"These verbal gymnastics, in a vain attempt to find an 'imminent threat' that forced our hand, tell the real story." The US "didn’t launch this war because we had to. We launched it because we could."
Trump will "keep going to war till one of his wars goes bad."
My breakdown of the lies about Iran
It's always a good time to revisit this meticulous account of Lindsey Graham in the age of Trump, from @saletan.bsky.social:
Now they're messing with holey grounds
"To all who voted for Trump bc of his antiwar rhetoric, it’s time to realize he lied to u."
That was Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, 6 years ago.
Then she endorsed Trump, parroted his lies, and changed parties. Now she works for him and defends his attacks on Iran and Venezuela.
She's a total sellout.
Six years ago, Tulsi Gabbard denounced Trump for seeking war in Iran and Venezuela. She wrote: "To all who voted for Trump bc of his antiwar rhetoric, it’s time to realize he lied to u."
Then she endorsed him for president—and praises him as he attacks Iran and Venezuela.
She's a complete sellout.
Great moments in YouTube auto-transcription
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Brian Mast, chair of the Foreign Affairs committee, says "most congressional Democrats" are among the people "lining up in support of the ayatollah."
"They’re gonna line up next week and say, ‘We don’t want the president to have any authority to defend the [US] against the imminent threat of Iran."
"I have no indication that that [Iran was] anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons" says Cruz. "That's one of the reasons I urged President Trump, 'Now is the time." Israel's strikes last year "weakened the regime and set up what [we're] doing.”
We're bombing because the threat is *not* imminent.
Graham redefines "America First" to encompass military interventionism. He says it means to "make sure that no regime who wishes to hurt America can" do so. "America First is to kill people who wish us ill, with a record of trying to destroy us."
Don't need imminent threats. Ill wishes are enough.
Q: "How will the United States make sure that the next Iranian government isn’t worse?"
Graham basically admits we have no plan. "That’s not our job to pick the next Iranian government," he says. "It's not President Trump’s job. ... This idea, 'You break it, you own it' — I don’t buy that one bit."
"There is a persistent belief in Washington that enough explosions will cause the Iranian people to rise up against their government. History suggests otherwise... A regime-change strategy without a phased-action plan is not a strategy at all."
@markhertling.bsky.social warns about what comes next.
Just as the Framers intended
"We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace. And we can’t live free as long as we have a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil liberties, weaponizing our very institutions against those they deem as threat."
—Tulsi Gabbard endorsing Trump, 2024
"Republicans want you to believe that cheating is the only way Democrats can win elections."
Why? Because "if they can get the public to believe that, they can claim that they don’t have to accept the results."
My video on the GOP's scheme to delegitimize — and, if necessary, deny — the midterms.
All said, watch this new video from @saletan.bsky.social at @thebulwark.com breaking down the current threats to our elections
GOP control of Congress is probably still the biggest issue, and it’s that Congress that will have power in the months after the votes are cast. youtu.be/_1brg1AxxqY?...
"Trump’s campaign of violent mass deportations [is] becoming its own forever war... It has launched a huge arms buildup. And it also has what might be termed its very own war profiteers."
@gregsargent.bsky.social digs into the deportation military-industrial complex. newrepublic.com/article/2069...
Sad to see such discredit brought to FIFA’s new peace prize 😢 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/w...
This is what happens when voters put a felon in charge of law enforcement. x.com/carolleonnig...
I know, reich?
Did Trump pre-plan that crack about not all the Democrats standing up for the hockey team? (Presumably he would have had a few options, depending on what the Democrats did.)
If he did, that means he deliberately set up the players to be used as partisan props.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is joining us on tonight's SOTU livestream with @timmiller.bsky.social to react to Trump's speech
We're going LIVE to respond to whatever happens at Trump's State of the Union. Join @timmiller.bsky.social, @samsteindc.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and many more from the team at 8:50 on Substack and YouTube.
After the speech @petebuttigieg.bsky.social will join us for a reaction.
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
