Alex Bigelow

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w... This is SO wrong!!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Absolutely nothing,” Frank Bruni writes, about the leadership of President Trump and Pete Hegseth “gives me and many others reason to believe the Trump administration’s progress reports or anything else they tell us, or rather sell us, about what’s going on.”

if I may attempt to explain this M.C. Escher staircase of nonsense otherwise known as Eddie Martin (perfectly elucidated by @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social btw): oft-mob-shuffled EM is under investigation for putting screws to Georgetown Law over DEI practices... shero.substack.com/p/another-tr...

This is underreported story. But it’s important. Acts of domestic terrorism are predictably spiking in the aftermath of our attack on Iran - and Trump and Patel gutted the FBI counterterrorism team, leaving the country intentionally exposed.

Republicans blamed Hillary for 4 dead in Benghazi. They blamed Biden for 13 dead in Afghanistan. Trump’s war has already left 13 U.S. troops dead in just three weeks. Where’s the GOP outrage now?

They’ve found another immigrant tragically dead on the street after being released from ICE custody. My latest piece for Substack: substack.com/@katiephang/...

And, We Have Motive.

Buttigieg: "Trump's political operation was raising money off images at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America's war dead, he's unfit to be commander in chief"

President Donald Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson in a private conversation this week that “no one gives a [bleep] about housing,” according to four sources who heard the speaker recount the conversation. punchbowl.news/article/hous...

Russia is helping Iran target Americans. Donald Trump is easing oil sanctions on Russia. Draw your own conclusions.

He was wrong www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

Trump administration invokes emergency powers to restart oil operations off California coast

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

“.. Iranian officials believe .. Trump is feeling the heat from global markets and said their leaders aren’t interested in surrendering. They have told Arab diplomats that any deal would have to guarantee safety for all, or there would be safety for none.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Unlocked: Hegseth’s Boasts of ‘Maximum’ Engagement Authorities Face Scrutiny After School Is Hit The defense secretary has disparaged restrictive rules for opening fire that are aimed at reducing the risk of mistakes and civilian casualties. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

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The Post and Courier, which is leading the investigative work on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, looks into the woman’s FBI interview and substantiates many details through public records

President Donald Trump and his allies are doing everything they can — and we mean everything — to somehow get their monster voter suppression bill through Congress. And no one is covering this epic fight as closely as Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This morning: “We’re gonna blow the hell outta these people.” Tonight: “Please be careful.”

DOOCY: It sounds like the Russians are helping Iran target and attack Americans-- TRUMP: That's an easy problem compared to what we're doing here. What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. (Published Oct. 2025 with @readfrontier.bsky.social)

TAPPER: Do you think Stephen Miller should go? TILLIS: Of course I do. He's a big problem in this administration and has been since the beginning

This is a bs “apology” from Fox. They claim it was “inadvertent” - a lie. They aired old footage because they didn’t want to show Trump wearing his campaign hat during the ceremony. Then in this statement they STILL don’t show the correct footage of Trump. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

There was a far-right protest against mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York yesterday and well, that's quite the sign

News Analysis: The many similarities between the White House’s justification for war in Iran and Russia’s messaging on Ukraine underscore the risks of a vaguely defined, open-ended war.

This fact is not in dispute: Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, has never killed anyone. But on Thursday, Alabama is set to execute him.

Don’t let Fox get away with it this time. Spread the word. Fox & Friends Weekend replaced footage of Trump attending yesterday’s dignified transfer with a clip from 2025. They clearly didn’t want their audience to see him disrespecting fallen soldiers wearing a baseball cap. H/T: @BadFoxGraphics

Democrats at +6 on the generic ballot among registered voters. 74% of Democrats say they have high interest in the fall’s election, compared to 61% of Republicans. So among likely voters probably at something like +7 or 8. On the way to a Dem wave, but not yet there. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

“We’re marching through the world.”

FEDWATCH: “.. energy, food, airlines, and transport, and related insurance components in CPI and PPI (.. around 25% to 30% of the entire index) are going to get ‘hit hard’ .. potentially pushing headline CPI above 4 percent by April and May. .. a serious complication for Fed policy.”

“.. Given the U.S.’s intelligence capabilities, they should have known that a school was in the vicinity,” said Beth Van Schaack, a former State Department official .. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

NEW: The Ayatollah’s son is the leading candidate to replace Khamenei. “If he is elected, it suggests it is a much more hard-line Revolutionary Guard side of the regime that is now in charge.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

This is unbelievable, somehow in all the countless tens and hundreds of thousands acts of cruelty this one stands out. The American people are not gonna tolerate this and many similar acts of cruelty. Huge wipeout for GOP coming in November.

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

Stable genius.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.

Medical experts said on Tuesday that they are "blown away" by the Trump administration's new policy for pregnant migrants in its custody, according to a report.

I've seen enough: Steve Toth (R) defeats Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R) in the #TX02 GOP primary.

TERRIBLE TIMING: When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran.

CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran

(Reuters) -US Interior Department says a database revealing how the Trump administration plans to revise information on key phases of ​American history at national park sites was deliberative and the employees ‌who released it "will be held accountable." www.reuters.com/sustainabilit...

The right wing noise machine seems very upset that I wrote this. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Tomato clownfish, in response to an unpredictable world, appear capable of adjusting when they lose their stripes based on cues from other fish and their habitat, a new study in PLOS Biology finds. n.pr/3MCyp9F

"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century. Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.