https://www.app.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/28/donald-trump-elon-musk-leaving-doge-may-2025-report/82704950007/

Musk may be leaving DOGE in May. I guess the next step is going to be to try and reverse the damage

And we managed to really alienate Canada. What kind of country manages to alienate Canada?

Apologies

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

Nature polled 1600 American scientists and 75 percent are looking to leave the U.S.

Good job everyone but I guess this is a small price to pay if it means no more woke Snow White

https://x.com/Billbrowder/status/1905340984801853675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1905340984801853675%7Ctwgr%5E468dc0156d986419bf349a50cc60e4b621710c13%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dlawyersgunsmoneyblog-comt_i%3D14954220https3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F3Fp3D149542t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com2F20252F032Fthe-scourge-of-lesbian-penguinst_e%3DThe20Scourge20of20Lesbian20Penguinst_d%3DThe20Scourge20of20Lesbian20Penguins20-20Lawyers2C20Guns202620Moneyt_t%3DThe20Scourge20of20Lesbian20Penguinss_o%3Ddescversion%3De0c4832edb67a23a7ccc1138f7876e1c

ICE detains Russian dissident who obtained work at Harvard at Logan Airport, potentially preparing to send him back to Russia to face imprisonment and death.

Greenland would rather the Vances' not come

I'm not expecting it to happen but winning an R+14 district would be something! If we win FL-1 (R+19)....wow!!!

Trump withdraws Elsie Stefanik's nomination to be UN rep because Republicans are apparently worried about losing the special election in FL-6 on Tuesday. FL-6 is an R+14 district

These aren't very bright guys and things got out of hand remains evergreen

The Atlantic story keeps on getting worse and worse for the Trump team.

In actual good news, the Supreme Court declines to hear a case asking it to overturn Sullivan and invalidate anti-SLAPP statutes: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-turns-away-casino-mogul-wynns-bid-challenge-ny-times-v-sullivan-2025-03-24/

Trump signs another sweeping executive order against lawyer who were somehow associated with something against him. This time Jenner Block: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/trump-executive-order-law-firm-jenner-block.html

Let's see if they fight or bend then knee

Ganz covers the Atlantic debacle well: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest

"My high-level takeaway is “what you see is what you get. These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots, but don’t let that fool you: they really are idiots. I suppose there is a small possibility that this was some kind of “op” — an intentional leak to Goldberg and the Atlantic — but to what end? It makes them look amateurish and bad at their jobs. To a president obsessed with image, this is even more important than the actual national security implications. ....We can finally put to rest all the hypotheticals and theories about Trump’s governance: There’s no 4D chess going on here; the administration is very reactive and tactical; they are not prone to complicated or detailed considerations. They barely even deliberate at all: they do what Trump wants and rationalize it ex post facto."

The idiocy is somehow a superpower for them because they just turn into full-speed ahead bulldozers

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally included in group chat on bombing Yemen

Bending the knee: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-doge-strong-armed-usip-security-contractors-to-switch-sides

Yesterday I noted that when DOGE showed up on Monday at the USIP offices, they came with what appeared to be private security in addition to FBI agents. It turns out that those private security people were USIP’s own security contractors, only they’d switched sides to DOGE. That contractor is called “Inter-Con.” Realizing that DOGE might try to suborn Inter-Con, the USIP’s head of security had already canceled Inter-Con’s contract and that cancelation had been acknowledged. USIP was able to close out Inter-Con’s swipe badges, but there was one physical key they had not been able to get possession of yet. That key was in the hands of Kevin Simpson, the Inter-Con account manager for USIP. It was that physical key, which Simpson brought to the offices on Monday, which allowed DOGE to get into the building. Once they made entry they immediately made for the gun safe and took possession of the premises. DC Metro Police were also soon on the scene and ordered the incumbent staff to leave.

Now, why did Inter-Con switch sides? Why did they continue acting as security contractors after their contract had been terminated? According to the sworn declaration of the USIP head of security Colin O’Brien, Derick Hanna, Vice President of Inter-Con, told O’Brien that “DOGE threatened to cancel every federal contract Inter-Con held if they did not come to the USIP building and let Kenneth Jackson [the purported new head of the Institute] inside.”

How big a threat was that? According to USASpending, Inter-Con has $209 million in government contractors currently. So it sounds like DOGE made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.

Germany revised its website on travel to the U.S. in light of recent detentions of German Citizens with valid visas. ComicCon is advising people not to travel here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/1jf6zpp/pentagon_press_secretary_john_ullyot_said_the/

Good job everyone!!!

The DOD apparently removed info on Jackie Robinson from its website. A completely bonkers explanation as to why:

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/1jf6zpp/pentagon_press_secretary_john_ullyot_said_the/

Why do you continue to fall for this?

He is likely retiring

He got his votes with the help of: Democrats joining Mr. Schumer in voting to move it forward were Senators Dick Durbin of Illinois, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Gary Peters of Michigan, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, both of New Hampshire. Senator Angus King, the Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, also voted yes.

Peters is retiring and should not have voted this way. No idea about why Schatz voted this way. CCM, Hassan, and Shaheen are from purplish states

I wonder if Schumer really has the votes for cloture: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/senate-cloture-vote-tally

Rand Paul is a no. Klobuchar and Warock came out as nos. There are possibly the votes from the no position list but also the chance that last nights firestorm changed opinions.

1. Newsom is a better governor than he gets credit for but this podcast is not endearing him to anyone likely to vote in Democratic Party primaries. But for the podcast, I would have considered him a strong contender.

2. I think the candidate will be a governor, almost certainly male.

Pritzker, Beshear, and Walz are probably looking at running

Yoy
u can’t negotiate with Trump times 1 trillion. Columbia University tried to negotiate with Trump regarding the 400 million in cancelled grants. Trump is demanding complete capitulation

There still seems to be some robust debate over whether a shut down helps Trusk because it slows down the Courts.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Schumer/Gillibrand seem convinced that allowing cloture is the lesser of two eviks

She would be pretty if she wasn't buggin insane with bad politics