Dan Friedman

“Asian wife sharing,” Pentagon press policy, and me: Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Crowd cheers as cops leave.

Just an occupying force going around vandalizing my neighborhood to remove speech they don't like. This is thuggish and counterproductive to any law enforcement goal they may pretend to have. It just highlights that unprofessional goons are occupying DC.

The FBI raided Bolton's house after Patel complained at length in his book about Bolton not wanting to hire him during the first Trump administration. Patel who also put Bolton on his published list of enemies, then this morning tweeted about the pending raid. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I was hoping to see Noem get a note from an aide and then pretend to be overjoyed she'd landed her dream job running the Shield of the Americas.

I'd have liked Rep. Kamlager-Dove to also ask if they fucked in the plane. Still, she elicited a classic non-denial denial from Secretary Noem.

Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee Noem repeats the lie that 450,000 children went missing or were lost under Biden. It's been widely pointed out that's false. She's just citing the number of unaccompanied kids who crossed the border from FY '19-'23. But she's saying it under oath.

"If you want to be a celebrity or a social media star, get your own security." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Calling for Iranians to overthrow their rulers while we drop bombs on them is not a plan to get a nicer Iranian regime. It's just a cynical use of neoconservative bullshit that's likely to lead to more repression or anarchy, and a terrible, worse situation for Iranians Trump's claiming to help.

This article is worth reading to get to the hilarious joint statement the FAA, CBP and the Pentagon issued. apnews.com/article/mili... I touched it up.

You've likely heard about NPS removing signs about slavery and climate change, but it's also censuring hundreds more placards around the country, often due to seemingly noncontroversial language, to comply with Trump's wish to have only "uplifting" signage. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump left that poor wounded solider standing there while he banged on about renaming a military base after mediocre Confederate general.

Trump jokes about people being scared to fish in the Caribbean. Hahaha, our extrajudicial killing of fisherman is fucking up people's lives. apnews.com/article/trum...

Was it the National Guard kids standing around in Metro stations or the snow, ice and freezing temperatures that reduced DC crime in January?