
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talked about Trump's attempts to arrest his opponents.

Trump Confesses Migrants Aren't the Criminals He Claimed They Are
By demanding that the FBI take agents who are currently looking for criminals and instead assign them to look for migrants, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are confessing that migrants aren't the criminals that Trump's entire political career has been built on claiming they are.

The Comings and Goings from Stephen Miller's Gulag
Hopefully, the discovery of that a version of the Magna Carta Harvard bought in 1946 thinking it was a copy is actually an original will be an auspicious sign as Stephen Miller threatens to tear up that right.

Trump's Mob Understands "Skeezy" Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists
The response to Trump's acceptance of a flying palace from Qatar offers some lessons about how to give reporting on corruption salience for Trump supporters.

Stephen Miller Invites John Roberts to be the Instrument of His Own Destruction
Stephen Miller's colleagues at his NGO seem to be testing whether Miller could apply the same theory to takeover the courts he has used against independent agencies and, this weekend, even Congressional entities.

NYT's Storytime on Trump's Houthi Capitulation
NYT has a story describing the Houthi campaign as a clusterfuck. And yet, it clearly only tells part of the story.

Stocking up on Containers of Vapor
Right-wing propaganda before and after Trump and Bessent's US-China trade negotiations announcement can't cover up the damage already done to the US economy, the worst of which has yet to arrive in the form of vapor at the ports.

Jamieson Greer Says Trump's Trade Deficit Emergency Wasn't as Serious an Emergency "as Maybe Thought"
Jamieson Greer, Trump's Trade Representative, has decided in the face of empty ports and stalled shipping that the trade deficit that Trump claimed was an emergency in order to usurp Congress' power really isn't as big an emergency "as maybe thought."

Stephen Miller Threatens to Suspend Habeas Corpus because He Got Caught Lying
Judges are doing a better job than journalists are at calling out Stephen Miller's lies as lies.


Cardinal Cody, Cardinal Bernardin, and Pope Leo XIV
Pastors are often shaped by the church leaders of their youth. In Chicago, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo, had two very different models to choose between..

Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures
Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to take their health care away too).

Nit-picks: The White House's Stealth April 8 Archive of "Parts" of the Houthi Signal Chat
In the latest filings in the Signal chat lawsuit, the government reveals that the White House Counsel attempted to make a "consolidated" version of the Signal chat destroyed by Trump's cabinet members, but still only managed to preserve "parts" of the chat.

The Diminishable Returns of MAGAt Mobs
If the MAGAt reacts too strongly to Thom Tillis' announcement he won't support Ed Martin, they may undercut the power of their own mob.

The IC (with an Assist from Journalism) Liberates the IC's Debunking of Trump's Alien Enemies Act
Spooks keep finding way to debunk the core lie on which Stephen Miller has launched an effort to chip away at due process.

Introduction To Yarvin's Formalism
The goal of formalism is to end violence. Then we can worry about poverty, climate brekdown and moral decay.

Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talked about how the GOP budget negotiations will crash into Trump's tariff disaster.

Today's Difficult Budget Negotiations Will Be Far More Difficult as Shelves Go Bare
Even if nothing changed, Republican negotiations over cutting spending and retroactively sanctioning the disasters Elon Musk caused would be difficult enough. But something is about to change. The pain of Trump's self-imposed tariff catastrophe will start to hit as negotiations go forward.

Despite Pete Hegseth, Signal is Good
Why you should use Signal (But maybe ditch Whatsapp?)
Pete Hegseth is Bad at His Job
The Secretary of Defense and Fox Host Pete Hegseth keeps using Signal to talk about war plans with people he's not supposed to be talking with at his day…

Stephen Miller's Snowballing Deportation Deceptions
Stephen Miller has been building the lies about migrants that are falling apart under legal scrutiny for years. That's why Trump has to force journalists to affirm his false claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.