He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one.

Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant.

Many have speculated how he’d do it.

Now his gambit is clear.

DC was a test.

He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities.

This is not a drill.

Democracy is at defcon 1.

So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.

Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

This is not a drill. This is not just Sunday. This is the ’dictator for a day’ guy publicly announcing on a storied legacy media outlet that he plans to overturn the US Constitution and American democracy as we know it.

Zelenskyy: "When they, for example say that Ukraine is almost destroyed, that our soldiers run away, that they are not heroes, that the president is a dictator, what is the reaction? It's not about me. The reaction is, where is the friendship between Ukraine and the US?"

Especially after today…

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

Sorry but I’m with @samsteindc.bsky.social. This isn’t “in response” to the Oval meeting. They had all of this pre-planned and ready to roll out.

Trump and Vance instigated the Oval confrontation to justify it.

A good way to understand why wealth inequality is a problem is, if some idiot says "no regulations should exist" you just laugh at him, but if that idiot has $400 billion then it's an existential crisis for America.

Be like Jorts.

This is not what “necessary reform” looks like.

Last year, law enforcement intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the US-Canada border. At the southern border, agents seized 9,600 kilograms.

The idea that Canada is a major source of drugs is a lie, and this admin is hoping you’re stupid enough to believe it.

Please pay attention.

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But cool.

Could the last principled person leaving the Pentagon install a breathalyzer test to unlock our missile silos?

Please and thank you.

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨

The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is DEIAtruth@opm.gov.

Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Center Stage: Immigration The day started off with the Justice Department’s new management directing prosecutors to investigate, and even prosecute, what they perceive as state or local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcem...

Immigration-related offenses were the most common cases brought in fiscal year 2023, when 30% of DOJ’s cases involved immigration offenses. That's still not enough for Trump who sees prosecutions as political talking points. joycevance.substack.com/p/center-sta...

If people are going to have the audacity to send this vile garbage, then they should at least put their return address on it so someone can go punch them in the face

The Hegseth hearing is doing one thing incredibly well: it’s establishing that when his leadership at DoD fails, it’ll be clear that GOP Senators knew, excused it, and they own it. Serious concerns about experience & judgment are literally being laughed off.

I just want to thank the democratic senators on the armed services committee who stood up and fought, despite the odds, for the American people today.

Merchan made it pretty clear that if Trump hadn’t won the election, this sentence would have been different.

This time, voter apathy saved Trump from prison.

Hope everyone who stayed home is proud of themselves.

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.