Jason Bade

1/ In 1955, Milton Mayer published this masterpiece – drawn from years of post-war interviews with 10 average, boring, law-abiding Germans – about how they became Nazis. While reading I felt he had travelled 50 years in the future to write about today. Here are my highlights…

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first 6 months of Trump’s second term, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. 🔗 More: propub.li/3Q4xEY2

@lessin This is halfway there theparkingclub.nyc

I Really Want My Own Private Waymo (yes, that is funny… but I am serious)

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.

Maybe we'll have a US ground invasion of Central Asia. Or maybe we'll have a US surrender of control of the Persian Gulf to Iran. Could be anything really, all decided by the Magic 8 Ball whims of one man surrounded by insider traders, assuming he isn't one of them himself.

This is the best piece I’ve read since this war started. I hope this link works. nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opi…

Donald Trump thinks fighting for this makes you a terrorist.

This story is HORRIFIC. This DACA recipient was brought here by his parents in 1999 when he was 8 years old. He is a laboratory scientist who's had DACA since 2012. Now he's languishing in an ICE detention center because the Trump admin failed to process his renewal in time!

Anne Applebaum nails it:

I know at this point no Atlantic column is going to take down the crime syndicate posing as our government, but this is about as succinct as any evaluation of our current “foreign policy” and standing in the world that could ever be written. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

It's insane they got the press to stop covering this at all

Once again, DOGE was not intended to notably cut spending or deficits - otherwise they'd have staffed it with competent experts. It was to feed MAGA culture war bait and to "own the libs." Hence, these 20-something culture warriors with zero qualifications.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Here is MAGA leader Donald Trump today pivoting from dead soldiers killed in his illegal war to bragging about his new ballroom. This is real. It happened today. This is beyond embarrassing. This is what a sociopath with dementia looks like:

Hegseth: No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and we don't waste time or lives. As the president warned, an effort of this scope will include casualties. War is hell and always will be.

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

Host: Are the Iranian people going to be able get the message from the president? Griffin: Voice of America is sort of a shell of its former self. They fired a lot of people. They downgraded a lot of their language services. And that would normally be how you would broadcast a message like this in Farsi to the Iranian people….

This is insane — DHS apparently went so far in their lie that Columbia University President Claire Shipman says the agents apparently brought faux flyers of a "missing child" so they could force themselves inside a campus residency to detain a college student.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents caused a multi-car pileup in Newark, NJ… injuring a CHILD… after speeding through snowy neighborhood streets. This happened the morning after snow and ice covered the roads, causing hazardous conditions, as families were commuting to school and work. And ICE decided that was the right time to start a high speed chase through a neighborhood. Witnesses say agents blew through a light, nearly hitting a woman who was stopped at the intersection. They then slammed into a van… which triggered a chain reaction crash. A mother, whose car was struck, said her child had to be taken away in an ambulance, and the agents didn’t allow the person they hit medical attention. These weren’t cartel gunmen firing from SUVs. These weren’t armed terrorists. ICE has made a pattern out of high-speed pursuits, targeting people whose only alleged offense is immigration status… Which is a civil violation, an administrative issue. When federal agents drive recklessly through snow-covered streets and cause multi-car crashes, THEY are the public safety threat. How many more innocent people have to die, and children need to end up in ambulances, before someone admits this is out of control? Communities are being endangered so ICE can rack up arrests of people who are not violent criminals. And until there is accountability, this will keep happening.