Source: Fox News
by Jonathan Turley
“There is an old joke that scientists switched from lab rats to lawyers because you do not get as attached to lawyers. President Donald Trump has shown the same tendency to avoid becoming attached to either private or government counsel. Attorney General Pam Bondi is only the latest in a long line of lawyers let go by a president who was made famous with the tagline ‘You’re fired.’ There is no evidence of bad blood between President Trump and Bondi. The attorney general has been attacked over her loyalty to the president and has been by his side in some of the most precarious moments, from impeachment to criminal defense. As his ‘apprentices’ learned, this is not personal; it’s business.” (04/03/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-trump-fired-bondi-chose-moment-justice-department-reset
Source: SFGate
“Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. The three Americans and one Canadian are set to reach their destination Monday, photographing the mysterious lunar far side as they zoom around. It is the first moon-bound crew in more than 53 years, picking up where NASA’s Apollo program left off. ‘The Earth is quite small, and the moon is definitely getting bigger,’ pilot Victor Glover reported. Until the Orion capsule’s bathroom is fixed, Mission Control has instructed the astronauts to break out more of the backup urine collection bags. The so-called lunar loo malfunctioned following Wednesday’s liftoff and has been hit-and-miss ever since. A version of the Artemis II toilet was tested on the International Space Station several years ago.” (04/04/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/artemis-ii-astronauts-are-more-than-halfway-to-22188970.php
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Tom Holland On Our Christian World.” (04/03/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/tom-holland-on-our-christian-world
Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz
“On Wednesday, Trump became the first president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Maybe he is simply trying to intimidate the Justices who have already struck down much of his program, but it’s telling what case he picked: Trump v. Barbara concerns his executive order that attempted to effectively end birthright citizenship. I think if you wanted to boil down the Trumpist project to its essence, it’s an attack on American citizenship itself.” (04/03/26)
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/birthright-and-wrong
Source: Foreign Policy
by Howard W French
“Anxious viewers may have expected a clarifying statement of the purpose of the U.S. war against Iran, a vision of its conclusion, or at least a credible timeline for its end. Anyone old enough to remember prime-time speeches by previous presidents during wartime may have hoped for a return to some of the solemnity that has typically marked such moments. On Wednesday, they got none of this. What national and global audiences saw instead was perhaps the clearest evidence yet that the leader of what has long been the world’s predominant superpower is an utterly chaotic thinker, whose aptitude for his job — never obvious to begin with — appears to be in accelerating decline.” (04/03/26)
https://archive.is/phwV4
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Language is constantly evolving, and Donald Trump is a restless innovator. Three weeks ago, The Bulwark published a glossary of terms he had redefined in his war with Iran. The list included imminent, obliterate, and unconditional surrender. Since then, he has added more words and phrases to his lexicon. Here are some of the most creative.” (04/03/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-expanded-glossary-iran-words
Source: Politico
“A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s admissions data collection for public universities in 17 states, delivering a major blow to his crackdown on the use of race in college admissions. The administration significantly expanded the scope of admissions information colleges must submit to the federal government after Trump issued an August memo directing the Education Department to do so. The move is a key part of a Trump administration effort to probe whether schools are discriminating against applicants based on race. But a group of Democratic attorneys general from 17 states sued in early March to block the data collection.” (04/04/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/04/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-admissions-data-push-in-17-states-00859169
Source: Reason
“Free trade did not obliterate manufacturing.” (04/03/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/04/03/america-still-makes-stuff/
Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Paul Poenicke
“Isonomia Quarterly readers have likely asked the following question: Why are Hayekian ideas so unpopular? Equality under the law and global federalism — two of Hayek’s most cogent ideals — are consequential from numerous perspectives and justified by many strong arguments. A dozen phrases pass through the mind — ‘The best arguments persuade,’ ‘The truth will out,’ ‘Survival of the fittest beliefs,’ ‘Truth emerges from the marketplace of ideas’ — to accost reality. Unfortunately, society is not a truth table, where the input of truth entails the output of further truths. Truth tables are constructs of logic, and reality is not beholden to the results of formal logic and its apparatuses.” (04/03/26)
https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/incorrigible-rudeness-the-strategy-f6a
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“If Democrats made the mistake of packing the Supreme Court, birthright citizenship would be no more, along with free elections.” (04/03/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/03/the-birthright-citizenship-arguments-are-a-reminder-that-the-independent-judiciary-is-a-good-thing/
