Scot MacTaggart

The lovely and talented Mrs. MacTaggart, everybody. She's a natural.

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Two things, 1984 Barbie: 1. How can something be top-secret if it is fiction? Fiction only has power when it is released. 2. If you "totally obliterate" a site where the targets of your bombs had already been moved, the only things you accomplished was wasting those pilots' time and our money.

(Far) less secure than a Signal group with Jeffrey Goldberg. Basically this in telcom form. How many secrets has he already given to the Chinese and the Russians?

WHY DO THESE IDIOTS GET ELECTED www.chron.com/news/article...

The assault on the Constitution is happening *right now*. We cannot wait to defend it.

When the president publicly comes out against having trials, we can no longer pretend we live in anything but a fascist regime.

And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?

Still awaiting comment from the “don’t tread on me” crowd.

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/

Referring to Trump 2.0, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel recently said that he’s the “most hopeful about things” that he’s been “in a long time” bc “the opposition is completely exhausted” & whereas Trump 1.0 “got blocked on every level,” this time is different & will be Trump’s “real 1st term.” 1/

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Damn. Dude didn’t even make it 9 Scaramuccis.

Startup pitch: Uber for getting someone to put lotion on your dry, itchy back because you left the house without any self awareness

stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation. -You cannot legally deport people without due process. -You cannot legally deport citizens. -They are defining down deportation to break the law.

This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead

Trump erased trillions from the markets, and left Americans with less in their accounts than they had on Tuesday. And still many of the most powerful executives in the country refuse to speak out. Join us tomorrow, you can show more courage than them! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Ever since the elite law firms Paul Weiss and Skadden reached deals with President Trump to scuttle executive orders that could have crippled their businesses, associates there have written emails to leadership in protest, and a few have quit.

This morning I realized that we are currently living in the Robocop Cinematic Universe, but in a "by observing it you change it" kind of way. In this version, Omni Consumer Products leadership saw the movie too, and saw that OCP could win if it ran multiple companies under different brand names.

FACT: You don't destroy the CDC unless you want people to die in large numbers.

US faculty and anyone who cares about academic freedom: I urge you to check out @wearehighered.bsky.social * read through compelling letters signed by thousands of faculty * learn about upcoming actions in which you can participate * spread the word to encourage others to get involved, too !

NEW: ACLU's filing on Friday also shows the impact of these bad gang tattoo claims. Specifically, remember Andry, the gay make-up artist we sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador? Here are the tattoos that an ICE officer declared were "Consistent with those of a Tren de Aragua member."

THIS is why many local police departments choose not to share some information with ICE. This woman's decision to report her assault to the cops led to her being arrested by ICE and likely deported. The message this sends to people is they shouldn't report crimes. That's bad for our communities.

These are deeply unserious people.

Putin after a long conversation with Trump, has ordered all civilian areas in Ukraine to be targeted, here residential areas in Kropyvnytskyi can be seen on fire after dozens of Russian strikes on civilians.

I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.

PA Senate Republicans, who get taxpayer-paid Cadillac insurance, getting on the train with Trump and DC Republicans to punish working families, kids, seniors and people with disabilities for having the audacity to want to go to the doctor even if they can’t afford it www.pennlive.com/news/2025/03...

This is a major national crisis. I was told there were "principled libertarians" in the MAGA movement. If you know anyone who describes themselves this way, send this to them. If you can disappear someone without due process, you can disappear ANYONE without due process.

MAGA is bad for business.

the invaders are salting the earth and poisoning the wells so we cannot rebuild again

Once you say the president can break the law, it's a bit idiotic to expect he will respect the law.

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

Clearest proof yet that the Trump admin uses "DEI" to mean "nonwhite people doing something impressive and getting credit." Navajo Code Talkers made a big difference in WWII. The Axis had more trouble translating their language than cracking codes. And it's not like the Navajo owed the US anything.

Dictator shit

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

Despite Elon Musk's claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary. In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

BREAKING: The Trump regime has blatantly defied the court order. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Won’t be the last

This administration illegally denied hundreds of people due process, then deported them to a country they’ve never known, run by an authoritarian infamous for cruel treatment of prisoners. They then deceived a federal judge to buy time for the planes to land so he couldn’t do anything about it.

Please stand up for these kids, @upmc.com. They're being used as pawns for crass political ends.

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Dangerous. And corrosive. And par for the course

The DOD was once so proud of Medgar Evers, the veteran who became a civil rights activist until his murder by a white supremacist, that it named a Navy vessel after him. But that info has been scrubbed. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

Probably the people that were standing watch for diseases like covid. Until they were fired by your boss who is again destroying all the guardrails and inviting disaster.