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This kind of bureaucratic red tape is infuriating and not unique to Trump.

Screenshot of a table showing staffing and construction contracts for ICE detention warehouses.

ICE WAREHOUSE TRACKER UPDATE

We're now tracking contract awards for warehouse staffing and fit-out as the task orders drop.

If a facility isn't listed yet, we haven't seen contracts for it.

Explore the data here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

The problem is, everyone I’ve spoken to in MAGAworld content creation — comms staff, influencers, whomever — knows their identity. In off-the-record conversations, people will simply tell me their name as soon as I ask the question, as they’re familiar with the memelord’s style from interactions in the disappearing MAGA group chats. (I do have to pause for a second and acknowledge that the meme zoomers have better opsec than the senior officials who did Signalgate a year ago.) But the moment I ask if they’d be willing to go on background about it — surely they aren’t Nazis, and shouldn’t they call out behavior in their own ranks? — sources immediately clam up. If I prod, they’ll shrug it off as everyone’s just having fun.

So @tinanguyen.bsky.social has spent weeks trying to identify the person at DHS who posts all the racist memes, and instead uncovered a fascinating code of silence: everyone in Trump's Washington knows who it is, but refuses to say. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/column/89298...

Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center

A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big

hmm

If you know who said, "Don't tell the president" (or whatever actually happened here), please, do reach out — to me (or Dawsey)! I don't care! Someone tell someone exactly what happened here.

I'm on Signal at crg.32

Secretary of State Frank LaRose gives info of 8 million Ohio voters to Trump Justice Department • Ohio Capital Journal If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, your personally identifiable information like full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers may…

Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/s...

We needed to start a war to avoid a war.

Another word you might use for it is "looting".

"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

I'd love a long read on exactly what in God's name happened to the ADL

jewishinsider.com/2026/03/adl-...

In case you're wondering how slow justice moves: after the Trump administration investigated my podcast and removed me from my job at the VA in 2019, I filed a complaint.

We still don't have a trial date set. We're waiting on a summary judgment ruling after a hearing last August.

He’s going to declare victory and leave.

This is why the US engaging in a regime change operation is almost always a bad idea, but particularly under this administration.

Taking his ball and going home now will create another insurgency in the Middle East.

A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.

The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by a special agent.

Lovely.

Most likely Trump and his Administration are being blackmailed by a foreign country to cover up the Epstein Files.

www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

"The lesson that the Trump administration seemed to learn from the failed planning for postwar Iraq is that planning isn’t worth the effort at all."

#GiftLink 🎁

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

if all the other countries have any conscience they should pull out too

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered.

The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim.

From the indispensable @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com —> chronicle.com/newsletter/l...

Dozens of U.S. service members in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

Just like 2020 when Trump downplayed over 100 service members with traumatic brain injuries as “headaches”, and downplaying covid deaths, Trump is never honest with the American people about this if he thinks it makes him look bad. Because Trump is all about Trump. www.cbsnews.com/news/strike-...

Good thing trucks that transport millions of products every day in the US don’t use diesel so we don’t have to worry about inflation getting worse.

Trump only puts the finest people in the most senior positions of the government.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

My new Purity Litmus Test for any Democrat in politics is to at least talk like uhh this cato institute gentleman

Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

A lawsuit filed by hero officers over the Jan 6 memorial plaque will continue after being installed years after the date required by law and hung up in a place that is no better than a basement storage area that isn’t at all visible to the public.

Fascist republicans are evil.

I know it feels like the day-to-day intensity of the ICE occupation in Minnesota has calmed down, but there are so many lagging problems that need solving, right as people’s attention goes elsewhere. Financial assistance, like help with rent, and legal help for the detained. These horrors persist.

Because you sickos love this, here's the updated flip count in legislative seats since the start of Trump's second term, following tonight's Dem win in New Hampshire:

Democrats: 28

Republicans: 0

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

So Pete Hegseth went on a $93 billion taxpayer-funded spending spree, including buying a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano, $55.3 million worth of iPads, and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail.

And they have the audacity to ask Congress to approve additional funding for this illegal war?