Francis Wilkinson

Markwayne Mullin, set to run Homeland Security >>

Does she get to keep the costumes?

So some people have human rights and some people don’t have human rights. Huh.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Are there any statewide Montana Republicans who refrain from assaulting their fellow citizens?

Promo picture for a fundraiser showing that Pete Hegseth as the special guest at a political fundraiser for Zach Nunn

Not only can I not think of a time when a sitting Secretary of Defense was ever the guest of honor at a political fundraiser, but I definitely can't think of a time when he did so weeks after starting a massive, unnecessary war

Not sure I've ever heard this type of language from a US leader in global-crisis mode in the pre-MAGA Degenerates Era.

How Anonymous Bettors Cashed In on the Iran Strike, Just Hours Before It Happened

"Over the weekend, Bubblemaps flagged six Polymarket accounts that had made a total of $1.2 million betting on the timing of the Iran strike, noting that most of the accounts were relatively new and had specifically traded on a strike by Saturday." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Here's the letter that caused Thom Tillis to erupt at Kristi Noem. The DHS inspector general claims DHS leaders "systematically obstructed" his inquiries, including in something related to a "specific pending criminal investigation."

(confirming scoop from WSJ's Tarini Parti and Josh Dawsey)

They are calling De Gaulle the most vindicated man in European history.

BESSENT: EVERYTHING REGARDING IRAN IS GOING MAGNIFICENTLY

US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Donald Trump made trade threats against Spain during an Oval Office meeting with reporters and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Trump: "Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it"

Not receiving consent and moving forward anyway is a consistent theme in his life — as E. Jean Carroll can attest

I still suspect she lied about killing the dog. It was a maga signal that she was sufficiently crude and cruel to fit in with the first-tier thugs.

The US is now wasting $4 million Patriot missiles on $20,000 Iranian drones.
"Stupid is as stupid does."
If the US had a professional president, he would ask Ukraine for technical assistance with cheap drone interceptors, but the US has Trump who instead insults Zelensky.

After watching Trump murder Americans, poll respondents seem less supportive of him murdering others.

I’m guessing Phase 1 of this, in which the Kurds accept planeloads of free arms, will be a resounding success.

Degenerate clown regime.

Alito is a corrupt hack thread.

It really is the MadLib War.

Which is not meant to be funny, but rather highlights how profoundly absurd the administration’s shifting aims and justifications are.

We attacked Iran because ______, and had to go now because _____.

Also going to need to make a t-shirt to capture the administration’s general attitude:

“Plans are woke and DEI”

This is a profound insight.

Wall Street has been a fortress of 1929-level denialism about Trump. But if reality seeps in and markets have an extended freak-out, this idiot escapade will grow more grotesque as Trump tries to undo what can’t be undone.

Having alienated every democracy in the world, Trump is now working to drive his fellow thugocrats into opposition.

Frame from campaign ad by Rep. Dan Goldman. His face full on center frame under which is the caption in all caps “ABOLISH ICE”

Public pressure means something. Primaries can change policies. In NY-10, Dan Goldman has been running ads for months.
Primaried from his left by @bradlander.bsky.social, Goldman’s ads have gone from “Agents should have to carry ID” in January, to big bold graphics this month that say “Abolish ICE.”

Shame on @apnews.com

The actual PURCELL PRINCIPLE (i.e. it is always too close to an election for a court to rule in favor of Democrats, it is never too close to an election for a court to rule in favor of Republicans) strikes again

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point