NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Prime Minister Sanchez:
“.. Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🇪🇸
Imagine if jill Biden did this
Trump: do as I say, or I will bomb you back to the stone ages Iran: best I can do is this 10 point plan where you give us everything we want Trump: deal! FoxNews: Trump is a master negotiator
One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files
Today at 11 am ET, we're talking about Trump's insane 24 hours of g*enocidal threats against Iran and what's next, the differences between impeachment and the 25th Amendment, special election results, and way more.
Join us live or on the replay.
youtube.com/live/75oEQKZ...
It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
Food for thought...
The Arctic just hit its lowest winter sea ice level in 48 years of recorded history for the second year in a row. On March 15, Arctic sea ice peaked at just 5.52 million square miles a statistical tie with last year’s record low. To put that in perspective, the missing ice compared to the
74yo Cuban immigrant Avelino Gonzalez completed almost all the steps to become a citizen, passing his civics test & interview. But a day before his final step — the citizenship ceremony — he learned it was canceled without explanation.
“It was as if I had been splashed with a bucket of cold water.”
Vance’s chief of staff, Jacob Reses, arrived at Princeton as a Dem, but that “changed when he met Prof. Robert P. George, a Catholic conservative” (& ally of Leonard Leo) who “had mentored…Yoram Hazony,” who has since “become one of the most prominent Jewish defenders of Christian nationalism…” 1/
I don't think enough people are paying attention to Anthropic's lawsuit against the DoD. Hegseth wants Terminators, while Anthropic just doesn't want Claude to pull the trigger (probably for liability reasons). Dystopia is already here.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
In a time of war, you can count on Democracy Now! to cut through the noise with in-depth coverage of the human cost of military aggression and voices from across the globe calling for peace.
Donate TODAY and your gift will go 3X as far!
A conservative lawyer helping coordinate a Trump takeover of federal elections is pushing for the president to sign an emergency executive order that would grant him such powers.
And he’s weaponizing a bizarre 2020 conspiracy theory involving Michigan voting machines to justify the scheme.
that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world
The 17-page executive order Peter Ticktin is lobbying Trump to sign would completely upend how Americans vote and have their ballots counted in an unprecedented attempt to usurp powers that the Constitution gives to states and Congress.
When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract to operate a new detention center in Texas, it made headlines. Why?
Because the company that won the job was so small, it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia.
ICE just bought a massive warehouse in Social Circle, Georgia for $128.6 million.
Call it what it is: an internment camp expansion happening in town across the country.
1/2
I appreciate you and your voice and have for many years. I don't expect you to be right about everything and you don't pretend to be a prophet.bone of the things I like about your voice is that you don't rage bait
Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?
Rep Melanie Stansbury (D) New Mexico on Twitter today posting "This is not legal with a blue arrow pointing down emoji as a quote reply to a blue check Aaron Blake saying Trump announces he's transferring $10 billion from the US government to his "Board of Peace," which critics have likened to a giant slush fund Trump will control then a CNN link
I wish when I did crimes that the only consequence was that people like the entire Democratic establishment would post "that's not legal" with a sad face emoji while quoting news stories about me doing all those crimes I just keep doing
The SAVE Act would require American citizens to show documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. bit.ly/4rA2p4R
Nice to see another outlet picking up on the fact that a Republican candidate for governor in Tennessee confirmed to us he believes women who make their own reproductive decisions and get abortions should face the death penalty.
pro.stateaffairs.com/tn/elections...
