Six Short Thoughts on the Most Insane Trump Story of All Time  —  Trump's “Team of Amateurs” Screwed Up in the Most Hilarious (and Troublesome) Way  —  This afternoon, just before 1 pm ET, The Atlantic posted what is, hands down, the wildest and most insane story I have ever read about US national security …

Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down  —  A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

Waltz's future in doubt following accidental war plan leak  —  “You can't have recklessness as the national security adviser,” one official said.  —  The stunning revelation that top administration officials accidentally included a reporter in a group chat discussing war plans …

Trump stands by national security adviser despite leaked military plans, saying mishap had ‘no impact’ on Yemen strikes  —  “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man,” President Donald Trump said of his national security adviser in a Tuesday phone interview with NBC News.

Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks  —  The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and legal representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump's actions in court than during his first term.  —  Just now

MAGA Influencers May Have Been Paid to Break With RFK  —  Secret cash flies in the MAGA soda wars  —  IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN READING YOUR social media feed and suddenly noticed that conservative personalities have latched on to some obscure issue they've never cared about before …

Clock ticks on Trump and GOP's ‘big, beautiful’ bill on taxes  —  Economic turmoil from tariffs could push Republicans to move faster on budget legislation.  —  Just now  —  As President Donald Trump's tariffs roil the U.S. and global economies, lawmakers returned to Washington late Monday under …

A Rising Democratic Star Is Ready for New Leadership — Without Chuck Schumer  —  Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow says it's time for a new generation to take on Trump.  —  Mallory McMorrow doesn't claim to have all the answers for the Democratic Party.  But as the 38-year-old Michigan Democrat gears …

Are Republicans blowing a Florida special election?  —  House Republicans shouldn't have to worry about Florida's 6th District special election on April 1.  It's a deep-red seat that former Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) won by 33 points five months ago before decamping for the Trump administration.

Bubble Trouble  —  An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. … The week of Donald Trump's inauguration, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stood tall next to the president as he made a dramatic announcement: the launch of Project Stargate, a $500 billion supercluster in the rolling plains …

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn't Even the Worst Part Of It … I haven't had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app.  So a few brief thoughts.  —  To state the obvious, in any normal administration Hegseth and Waltz …

Danish PM condemns Trump team over imminent Greenland visit  —  Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen lashed out at President Donald Trump's U.S. administration for putting “unacceptable pressure” on Greenland, as she slammed the upcoming visit to the Danish territory by U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance.

The Worst and the Dimmest  —  The Atlantic Debacle  —  Most relatively informed citizens will be aware by now of the biggest news story that has come out of this administration: national security officials accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat …

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants  —  New York CNN —  Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants.  But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate …

Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows  —  A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign.

Consumer confidence plummets to lowest level since January 2021  —  Washington CNN —  America's economic mood continues to deteriorate as President Donald Trump carries on with his sweeping economic agenda.  —  Consumer confidence slid 7.2 points this month to a reading of 92.9 …

Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans  —  Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration …

Rats, card tables and BYO toilet paper: Inside federal workers' return to office  —  President Trump ordered federal employees back to the office full-time.  So far the end of remote work in the government has been chaotic, workers say.  —  Defense Department employees returned to work …

US Nominates Leo Brent Bozell III as Ambassador to South Africa  —  US President Donald Trump's administration has nominated Leo Brent Bozell III, a conservative activist and writer, to be the country's ambassador to South Africa.  —  The nomination, published on the US Congress' website …