Roger Allam in V for Vendetta pointing menacingly into the lens

THE POPE IS WEAK ON CRIME

In Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices.

I wish almost anyone would notice how nervous Melania was today

I'm hopeful, but also Nixon didn't have AI models that could reprogram people's brains

When ICE Blows Through Rural America - The American Prospect As the surge in Minneapolis winds down, small communities in Minnesota (like Willmar) fend off more arrests and lasting impacts.

At the height of ICE operations in Minnesota, reporters descended on the Twin Cities. I wanted to know what was happening in the small farming & meatpacking towns in the rest of the state. So we sent @emmarjanssen.bsky.social there, & she produced this stunning report.
prospect.org/2026/03/30/a...

Good afternoon. Speaker Johnson was sent a bill to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA that passed the Senate 100-0. If he had simply called it for a vote it would passed easily.

But he chose chaos. Because that’s what Trump wants. Only Johnson can clean up this mess.

Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable With the Trump administration refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the case is a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.

"With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken over states’ rights versus federal immunity ..."

by Andy Mannix / @propublica.org

Federal officials made dozens of claims during Operation Metro Surge. How accurate were they? The Minnesota Star Tribune reviewed social media posts, news conference transcripts, official statements, court filings and publicly available video clips to assess the most significant assertions mad...

Many of the most significant assertions made by the Trump administration during the ICE surge in Minnesota were wrong, misleading or unsupported by evidence.

Needs some flare but it's mostly done

Go for it. Sign showdown! 😄

Thank you for the No Kings sign idea

He's planning to issue the kill orders himself

Bigly No Kings #3

You lay your hands off my Genesis

Paramount should enjoy its growing news monopoly while they have it because when Democrats win back power we are going to break up these anti-democratic information conglomerates. All of them.

Could they bring that to the suburbs of Minneapolis? Drones are quite common here as the government surveils us.

2025: Big Insurance’s $1.7 Trillion Year America’s big seven health insurers raked in $54 billion in profits in 2025 — as they covered fewer people, raised prices and steered patients into their own subsidiaries and taxpayer-funded programs.

In 2025 the seven biggest health insurance conglomerates made more than $54 billion in profit, despite covering 10 million fewer people than in 2024.

These corporate giant collected almost $1.7 trillion in revenue, $175 billion more than in 2024.

healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/2025-big-i...

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve?

If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days?

If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built?

It's a tax. That's all it is.

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir.

The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers.

Here's how it was announced internally:
www.wired.com/story/depart...

The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?


KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment

This is the FBI’s list of “Prominent Names” it was tracking in the Epstein Case. This list appears in this slide show, FBI email correspondence, and FBI tip sheets — all of which I saw unredacted today. Believe the survivors.

You can see this file on DOJ’s website
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Rep. Stansbury: "The U.S. government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence pedaling scandal in the history of the United States. And Donald Trump is right at the center of it."

Reality Reshaped Podcast Episode · Autocracy in America · S3 E3 · 27m

This is the single best assessment of Trump’s regime I have heard:

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social

I LOVED Bad Bunny's half time show! His lyrics tell stories about his memories & Latin identity.

So the producers littered the stage with mini sets telling stories about ordinary Puerto Ricans.

Unapologetically Latin. Unapologetically Boricua.

Unapologetically human. 🇵🇷

Everything. 🤍

That was the largest celebration of a historically marginalized community ever seen.

Courage is contagious. Let’s keep going.