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Trump claimed a saboteur armed with a box cutter caused a 350-foot gash in the newly renovated Reflecting Pool. But the manufacturer behind the project says the issue was simply "finish coat separation" and makes no mention of vandalism, sabotage, or criminal activity.

White House spokesperson: "President Trump has been right about everything on Iran"

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

My late uncle Albrecht - an antifascist in Czechoslovakia in 1938 - was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo. For the leader of the Conservative Party to call a democratically elected Labour politician a 'Gestapo officer' is simultaneously silly and shameful.

The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

(🎶) ICYMI, here it is: a whole concept album about Elon Musk and his friends THAT YOU CAN DANCE TO, optimistically titled BILLIONAIRES on the hope there will never be another trillionaire and Musk will cease to be one soon. Lots of explicit lyrics and angst, share widely.

New episode of the PN Pod with @paulwaldman.bsky.social is live. We discuss the humiliating Iran MOU, how “chief negotiator” JD Vance is being set up to take the blame, Israel’s increasingly precarious position, our level of concern about Trump refusing to leave power, and much more. Check it out:

One state chief welcomed modest flexibility. Another warned that federal dollars are pushing states to conform to the Trump administration’s beliefs.

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

benny johnson’s wife? huh.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

You’ll be shocked to hear that this golden calf was commissioned by cryptocurrency investors to promote a memecoin called $PATRIOT. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

The entitlement is obscene.

If the restaurant asked you for ID, sir, it might be that your "date" seemed to be under the legal age to be served alcohol

Virginia just became the 18th state to join the National Popular Vote Compact, pushing the pledged total to 222 electoral votes. 48 more and the winner of the popular vote wins the White House—no constitutional amendment required.

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

Excellent thread on Farm bill insanity!

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has delivered a devastating assessment of Donald Trump's Iran war: the president is steering the U.S. toward humiliating defeat, and the only way out requires acknowledging a loss his fragile ego will never permit.

Statue of limitations has not expired on this tweet.

Wow in less than 24 hours, your voices got Hydro Flask to join the Save the Forest Service movement!

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

"When you have a president who's running the country like a mob boss instead of a government, who's running the government for himself, of himself, and by himself, & for his cronies, instead of the people, by the people, and for the people, there's only one solution, & that's impeachment & removal."

ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues. He had just asked to call his wife. They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw. Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

It’s nice to know that republicans will absolutely not check Trump‘s power no matter how insane his tweets become. Just makes you feel good about the whole American experiment

There is no disconnecting Musk's open white supremacy and neo-nazism from his destruction of USAID. He fed USAID "into the woodchipper" because he knew what the consequences would be and did it on purpose.

Countries reporting fuel shortages so far Ethiopia Vietnam Philippines Indonesia Australia Thailand Sri Lanka India Pakistan Bangladesh

I have some fun book news coming in 3 days - but in the meantime, please add my book on Goodreads:

Just a day after her firing, former attorney general Pam Bondi’s pictures have been taken down — and thrown in a trash bin, MS NOW reports www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

Speaking of visibility, America has absolutely shown its whole goddamned ass on trans issues, displaying its cultural capacity to be whipped into stupid fear and hatred of a tiny group by cynical demagogues. We have met the enemy and he is us.

@kenwhite.bsky.social I miss Patrick

WE can end this.

Portland Yesterday WE can end this.

WE can end this.

From @theatlantic.com, pictures from No Kings www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

I have to smile when white suprematists talk about “reverse racism” because they are unwillingly admitting that racism is alive and well in America. Otherwise, there would be nothing to reverse.

"What choice did I have? My boss wanted it." —Donald Trump

“The lid is going to blow off the boiling pot at some point.” Lead of a column from September 2020, predicting the militarization of normie Democrats. I was already there, as the last few paragraphs, really the whole damn thing, make clear. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

This seems highly illegal. And if it somehow is allowed to continue, why would anyone else enter into any sort agreement with this administration?

Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets asked to leave restaurants because she keeps stealing their tablecloths.

Pete Hegseth is a drunk racist who never made it past major, so he's convinced any racial minority or woman who made it to a higher rank must have done so solely because of "DEI." He was picked for the job because President Grandpa liked to watch him on the teevee, but he knows *he* is qualified.

Crazy story: Sophisticated drones attacked Louisiana’s Barksdale bomber base during week of 9 March in 4 hour waves, disrupting Epic Fury ops "It is the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II."

Rep Andy Ogles (R Tenn), a Christian Nationalist Islamophobe, recently had a friendly meeting with a delegation from Russia, a country that is currently helping Iran kill American troops and target US bases and aircraft.