What @gregsargent.bsky.social sees here is quite apparent. The larger challenge is convincing duped voters that deception and betrayal are elemental to the assemblage of a viable GOP coalition. They need to turn, durably, on the whole party, not just this one guy.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
How the Roberts Court destroyed our Democracy
"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.
If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Dang that Islanders goal was cool.
So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.
Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.
And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?
This war has really highlighted his this weakness… he will just literally state both sides of an issue, very plainly, one right after the other. And even pundits I like are all “he doesn’t make any sense!” Even the faintest smidgen of pretense that he might make a coherent point is maddening.
…it’s of little solace but perhaps worth examining what “getting away with it” means.
I’ve come to believe that there have been countless men throughout history who acted only in their own self interest, and benefitted greatly, and never experienced any sort of comeuppance. Trump may be the most extreme example. That said…
KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?
BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!
K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?
B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”
Ok, now seeing why the rest of the panel may have had some motivation to participate.
Shocking they got everyone involved in creating America’s Next Top Model to participate in this documentary.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Would the military refuse if he ordered a nuclear strike? Would we want them to refuse? Who would remove him from power after that?
I love it when a new book cover enters my life that I can never unsee.
A very good piece on why the left can't jettison the concept of international law altogether, despite its limitations and structural arrangement which at times has repeatedly legitmized colonialism and might-makes-right.
The stock market is supposed to be purely rational and yet it jumps 600 points every time Trump says “and we’re looking at growing the economy very strongly.”
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
I say this every year, but:
The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.
With a new addition for 2026:
They deeply hate AI.
A concrete look at how the Trump’s attack on the Consumer Bureau (CFPB) harms everyone—as big tech, big bank, student loan servicers and auto lenders continue unsupervised due to Russell Vought’s assault on our finances.
A wonderful @newyorker.com piece by E. Tammy Kim:
ngl, thinking that the issue here is just that "US is rational and stable" is a load-bearing assumption for a lot of things so people default to it. because house of cards collapses entirely if assumption is put into severe doubt
Ok, got some options…
Maybe there’s like a pin I can wear?
In the same way, a death camp becomes a death camp when its operators & administrators make it so, not when they articulate universal principles of death camp values.
This illustrates an imp point that we are trained to ignore in our society: the ways that policies are implemented (or not) determine their impact, rather than the abstract values they purport to embody.
