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So…”Death to half of America?”

We’re at the ICE agents in airports stage of authoritarianism 🇺🇸

Trump says he will send his ICE goons into airports starting Monday, turning travel into another stage for his authoritarian theater. Let’s be clear why this is even happening: Democrats introduced 7 bills to fund TSA. Every single one was blocked by Republicans.

I’m not going to let the bullies win. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Since the start of the war, Iranian authorities have imposed a nationwide internet blackout. According to monitoring group NetBlocks, Iranians are now entering their 23rd day without internet access.

🚨🚨🚨 This lying POS started a war with Iran, murdered 165 elementary school students, lied about it, got caught AND went GOLFING!!! AND NOW WE LEARN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS THE TARGET!!!

This week both the Kremlin and the White House will ramp up their coordinated efforts to tamper in Hungary’s election to try and keep Putin’s puppet Viktor Orban in power.

⚡️⚡️⚡️ TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION OMITTED RAPING KIDS & MISSING EPSTEIN FILES, WHILE DOUBLING DOWN ON LIES LIES AND LIES ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Comparing the Democrats to a country he’s bombing. This is authoritarian demagoguery. If a Republican doesn’t denounce this, s/he is enabling it.

🚨🚨 Trump MURDERED an ICU nurse THEN called him a terrorist! Alex Pretti saved lives for a living!! Trump repaid this American citizen by pumping 10 BULLETS into him and is now lying about it Anyone who supports this brutal lynching should be considered an accomplice and dealt with accordingly 🚨🚨

‼️‼️‼️ Renee Good did NOT deserve to have her brains blown out in front of her dog for not complying with armed vigilantes who were terrorizing HER community. Look at her and her son! You simply arrest, fine and release. YOU DO NOT MURDER! ARREST ICE AGENT ROSS NOW ‼️‼️‼️

Trump: “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democrat Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”

‼️‼️‼️ Renee Good did NOT deserve to have her brains blown out in front of her dog for not complying with armed vigilantes who were terrorizing HER community. Look at her and her son! You simply arrest, fine and release. YOU DO NOT MURDER! ARREST ICE AGENT ROSS NOW ‼️‼️‼️

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 WAKE UP USA!!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Donald Trump is a radical international terrorist and war criminal. ARREST HIM NOW!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Just 226 days until the 2026 Midterm Elections on November 3!!!

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

❌ 📺 DAY 502 OFF Cable News 📺 ❌

Because “Desperate Don” needs to CHEAT by tying his voter suppression “SAVE Act” to DHS (TSA, FEMA, COAST GUARD) funding, he’s forced to send his over-funded ICE to airports TOMORROW to help the TSA agents HE’S TERRORIZING BY REFUSING TO PAY THEM.

Enemy 1) Foreign autocracy Enemy 2) Domestic opposition party

Thanks, @jfallows.bsky.social. This is the dual truth we have to keep focused on. It's the magic key:

Our military is fighting a war Americans don't want, secret police are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, and the regime is trying to suppress the vote in the midterms. Silence isn't an option. Join us on Saturday to make No Kings Day big, loud, and inescapable: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Praying for the people of Hawaii as they grapple with these horrific floods and storms. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

Will they wear masks?

"The NRSC basically connected a Gen Z fail sound to a teenage boy’s memory of marching for women’s rights, hoping to turn conviction into cringe." This is how you can turn it around on them. ICYMI @maxflugrath.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rR90aQ

We won't. No matter what he does to try and distract. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:

Over the nearly three-year conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), WHO has confirmed that 2,036 people have been killed in 213 attacks on health care, including Friday night’s strike in Al Deain.

"I have been devoted ever since to the project of trying to revive fusion voting—once legal everywhere... and there are efforts underway in probably seven states to try to revive it." @danielcantor.bsky.social explains to @johnavlon.bsky.social why fusion voting may help save our country.

Oh nothing, just Mr. "Art of the Squeal" trump flailing desperately at the people he claimed to have defeated easily last week, now threatening to commit war crimes by indiscriminately bombing civilian structures. That doesn't look like winning, folks. HE HAS NO PLAN.

"'It will be a mortal mistake for Democrats if they leave the 2024 cycle with this idea that we just got to go into a hole and not talk about the hard stuff. That’s the wrong lesson.'" @lauren-egan.bsky.social on Dems and the culture war: lnk.thebulwark.com/4d2BF97

I think people are misreading this Axios piece, from WH whisperer Marc Caputo & Kushner whisperer Barak Ravid. I have no doubt it reflects what their well-places sources told them. But you have to remember their sources are, by design, insanely stupid and Caputo is not an expert on this topic.

The other thing that would have to happen, tho, is to split HSI away from ICE, and put it in DOJ, where it 1) would have to adhere to DOJ's more stringent (I know, right?) investigative guidelines and 2) where it would no longer be available as Noem AND BONDI's corrupt investigative force.

JFC. REUTERS:

Robert Mueller, a tribute open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

Election fraud is when you lie about very clean and secure elections being riddled with fraud

This strange story is well worth your time. Have a coffee and sit down with it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

That means America and Israel and anyone supporting them in this disastrous war.

Trump led to war by Netanyahu, Murdoch, and a cadre of sycophants, according to Bloomberg. archive.is/202603211605...

Israel Settlers are on a murderous rampage in the West Bank. This is happening with American taxpayer support. It's madness. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Iran has 600,000 soldiers and 350,000 to 5 million reserves. 5,000 Iranian soldiers have been killed in the Second Iran War, and 15,000 injured... ...leaving just *580,000 to 5.58 million armed Iranian combatants* lying in wait for the ground invasion Trump is about to launch.

Laura Loomer saying “I love India!" is like Trump saying "I love Hispanics!" And it went over about as well. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3PGhhk9

Car Radio: [80s station playing "Papa Don't Preach'] Me: do you realize the baby in this song is scheduling his or her fist colonoscopy about now wife:

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So this is off topic but something to consider. We're surrounded by speed limits, hull speed in naval architecture for instance. We beat that one by breaking up the bow wave with a second wave generated by a bow bulb. In aerospace engineering we beat the sound barrier by altering the shape of ~

Trump's buddies are having the mothers of their children deported for legal advantage. Maybe Melania realizes that staying on Stpehen MIller's good side is the only thing preventing her deportation, with her parents, to get Trump out of the prenup.

Most interesting Q abt Robert Mueller's death: how Kash Patel handles funeral, if he is even invited (which, if I were Mueller's family, I would not).

Rock on, sugar. 👊🏻💥

Fuel economy *snort* *lights another cigar with a c-note

Neither is worthwhile treatment of Trump's comments. Either explain how this conflicts w/what Trump has said in the past, how Trump's top five aides criminally lied to cover up his ties with Russia, or how Trump's subsequent actions, including letting Kirill Dmitriev sell him BS, vindicate Mueller.

I'm cuing this up for when that disgusting, ignorant slob in the White House finally dies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQ9...

Spain & Mexico to send humanitarian aid & solar panels to Cuba. Mexico is rallying CELAC against the illegal US siege. In addition it is acting as a launching pad for international aid. "Mexico will continue to provide all possible humanitarian aid to Cuba; these are times of solidarity."

Trump attacks Mueller harder than his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein.

"Trump is spending his time this week fighting tooth and nail just to get back to the previous status quo."

The US has no choice, it either needs to pull out or send in ground troops if it actually wants to win the war against Iran.

After Japan's PM Takaichi met Trump, Tokyo confirmed it's considering buying Russian oil amid the Hormuz crisis. Iran is offering tanker passage, but only if paid in Chinese yuan. Japan gets 93% of its crude through the Strait. It is currently negotiating with Iran, no agreement yet, but close.

⚡️1 killed, 4 injured, including child, in Russian drone attack on Donetsk Oblast. A Russian drone attack on the village of Maidan in Donetsk Oblast on March 21 killed one person and injured four others, including a 15-year-old boy, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported.

Trump's celebration of Robert Mueller's death raises eyebrows among some liberal critics.

This is not a picture of a fire, its a photo of the sunrise reflecting off a kettle pond in the park ;-) Early spring, no snow.

FDD is one of the most cancerous organizations in Washington. A blight on humanity.

Grok just downright lying to cover up what Donald Trump said about the death of Robert Mueller? Fix your busted ass AI, Elon.

Your reminder to be sure to download and print out the Mueller Report (I did years ago). We should expect that there will come a time when it can no longer be found online.

"Iran is negotiating an end to the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz by allowing countries to pass if they shift from US Dollar to Chinese Yuan for oil trades." It'll cost the US $3 trillion a year; weaken the Dollar, trigger hyperinflation then recession and depression.

Cruise control makes me feel like I'm in that scene from Anchorman 2

ICYMI — Ex-Trump White House Lawyer Ty Cobb: “He's a demented narcissist. He rules the country in a very authoritarian manner with the assistance of a cowardly cabinet and even more cowardly Republicans in congress.” (From @acyn.bsky.social )

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

TIM DILLON: “The people pushing this war have done more to diminish 🇺🇸’s standing in the world than anyone I’ve ever seen. Our government is completely dysfunctional, and everybody knows it. This isn’t how an empire projects power — this is how empires fall.”

I tried it once, and it's technologically cool, but I just don't trust the car to set speed. Maybe it's just being an Old Guy. Also, I don't think keeping my foot on the gas pedal is a big deal; I used to drive back and forth to Vermont from RI, and even on 89, just never felt the need.

We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island. Food is spoiling. Water supply is compromised. Healthcare services are disrupted. End the blockade now. Grateful to all those helping deliver humanitarian aid!

French General Richoux: "He wanted to invade Greenland and now he is begging for help from Europe" "He can go fuck himself." (📹@Tweet4AnnaNAFO)

Iran says it was not responsible for the missile attacks on Diego Garcia and denied any involvement. If it wasn't Iran, then who was it? China, Israel, Russia, or the US trying to lure the UK into the war?

This would be a war crime. Obviously. Collective punishment.

See, the few times I've tried cruise control, I get alternately bored or panicked

Damn right. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The moon tonight: 🙂

Abolish ICE. Fund TSA. We’re done with the chaos.

A U.S. president just threatened to obliterate a country’s infrastructure… …and refused a deal at the same time. If that sounds like strategy to you, read this. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Granted by the time I took Laws of War I hated law school and blew it off and took the take home final drunk but I still recall this may be problematical

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Broadcasts to Entire World *Exactly* When and Where U.S. Will Strike in Iran Next, Endangering U.S. Pilots; Unclear If Any Prior U.S. President Has Ever Intentionally Endangered American Lives in This Way Just to Be Macho and Feel Like a Big Man

Turd v. Turd

Donald Trump is too busy with his new war in Iran to worry about catastrophic flooding in Hawaii. “America first” was a lie.

"Shane is too intelligent, resourceful, and energetic just to earn his degree and rest on his laurels. Acutely grateful for the miracles—and the people and money and hard work—that have made his life possible, he’s paying it forward."

Hawaii is facing its worst flooding in 20 years—5,500 evacuations, a 120-year-old dam at risk, homes and roads destroyed. In Nebraska, historic wildfires have burned over 800,000 acres, killed one, and are still threatening ranches. Trump hasn’t said a word about either.

Donald Trump is celebrating the death of a Purple Heart winner who served his country honorably for decades. But my liberal neighbor won't stop hounding me to join her friend's organic CSA. I have never felt more politically homeless.

This will be a perilous week for young male staffers at CPAC.

NYT: Iran will target all energy infrastructure belonging to US & Israeli allies in the region. The claim appeared to respond to Trump’s threat on social media on Saturday evening that he would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if the country doesn't fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

Shocked Matt Schlapp would approve this booking, given that Todd Chrisley will absolutely out-queen him.

The only thing we know for certain about how Trump’s War will end is no matter what the outcome, whether any real objectives are achieved, regardless of the impact on the US and global economy over the short and long term, & the number of deaths, Trump will declare total victory.

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Good riddance to Robert Mueller, a disgusting man who did not properly mourn the death of Charlie Kirk. by Donald J. Trump

We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Either Jimmy Kimmel can retweet President Trump’s celebration of Mueller’s death or ABC can lose its broadcasting license. by Brendan Carr

Donald Trump gleefully posted that he was glad that Robert Mueller died. But what did he really mean?

We run political ads to elect American politicians who will fund Israel without any conditions. Here's why we never mention Israel in those ads. by AIPAC

The new Ayatollah, who I do not support, should surrender immediately to Donald Trump, who I also do not support. by Glenn Greenwald

And then Trump needed to distract from the Epstein files.