Sam Bagenstos

As predicted Trump's Medicaid cuts are already starting to have a terrible effect on disabled people and their families.

Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

No president in the modern era has launched more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump, including more individual strikes in 2025 than Biden ordered in all four years. @zacharybasu www.axios.com/2026/03/02/t...

“A squirter”

Are you fucking kidding me

We are so far away from “from these honored dead we take increased devotion” etc etc

All I feel is derision from the top US defense official

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict

It's striking that they haven't even tried:

Republicans Wage War As Politics ...and politics as war.

What @brianbeutler.bsky.social said.

open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

I don't believe you're misremembering anything.

He's kind of the OG Chalabi.

Yes! I will go to my deathbed trying to get people to stop conflating nonjusticiable with legal.

Trump’s 2016 criticism of the Iraq war was the US didn’t do enough war crimes. He argued that the US should’ve stolen oil and killed insurgents’ innocent family members.

That’s what some prominent media figures presented to the public as isolationist, anti-intervention, anti-war, “Donald the Dove.”

Feeble Criticism of War With Iran Echoes the Lead-Up to War With Iraq We need to take a firm stand against this reckless and pointless war, not fixate on whether or not it was done the "right way."

This piece by @joestieb.bsky.social is outstanding. www.liberalcurrents.com/feeble-criti...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

No, Trump Didn’t Make Historic Progress on Drug Prices Go ahead and guess which president did.

Great @citizencohn.bsky.social piece showing Trump’s drug pricing policies are all smoke and mirrors.

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This was a terrific conference.

Group photo of people of different genders, races and ethnicities smiling at the camera

A man in a suit sitting on a desk amid speech

A panel of three women and a man all laughing

A man and a woman smiling to the camera

It was an honor to be @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social for a symposium honoring the work of the legendary Ruth Colker alongside many friends & mentors @katmacfarlane.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @jasmineeharris.bsky.social
@anneralph.bsky.social
Jamelia Morgan, LaToya Baldwin Clark, Liz Emens & others

Do it!

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9

Jack Goldsmith just did, though only to say it's meaningless.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Trump’s war against Iran is illegal and a betrayal of the American people.

Trump’s war against Iran is illegal and a betrayal of the American people.

Congress cannot allow Trump to drag yet another generation into a forever war.

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Ross can’t tell if death squads in the streets & illegal wars overseas are worse than pronouns & universal healthcare.

In the past, sometimes presidents have said it’s just a military operation or limited airstrikes to skirt Congress. Trump has unilaterally launched major combat operations, declaring war with the goal of regime change. A major violation of the U.S. Constitution, also illegal under international law

So Hegseth is attacking Scouting America for treating trans kids with respect, including respecting their chosen names... at the same time he demands you respect the made up name for his department, which he changed illegally without congressional approval.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

The whole saga is a perfect encapsulation of how the Trump admin abuses its power.

It demanded a private company do highly unethical things for it (become a combo killbot/Skynet). The company said no, and so in response the admin declared it a “supply chain risk” to try to nuke the business.

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

None of which addresses the merits of that anger particularly. For myself, I think there are plenty of times Dem leaders left fighting tools on the table, and plenty of times they've done the best with the hand they have. I could argue w/Bernstein about some examples, but the broad dynamic is real.