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On March 7, 1965, sixty years ago today, the marchers set out. As they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a Confederate brigadier general, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator who stood against Black rights, state troopers and other law enforcement officers met the unarmed marchers with billy clubs, bullwhips, and tear gas. They fractured John Lewis’s skull and beat Amelia Boynton unconscious. A newspaper photograph of the 54-year-old Boynton, seemingly dead in the arms of another marcher, illustrated the depravity of those determined to stop Black voting.

More than six weeks into Trump’s second presidency, there are still lots of questions swirling about the exact nature of Elon Musk’s role in the administration. A couple things, however, are clear: Musk has been applying the same reckless approach he used to tear down Twitter to the federal government. And people aren’t loving it.

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce.

Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end.

I once heard a story about a rural Missouri politician who carried his electric bill in his front shirt pocket. His community had been brutalized by a spike in utility prices and when he knocked doors or spoke at events, he pulled his bill out of his pocket to speak on monopolies and how the utility companies had lobbyists down in Jeff City to speak on their behalf and how his community had no one to listen to them.

People stopped in their tracks when he pulled that bill out of his pocket.

They all had that same electric bill, and every one of them had to budget differently because the bill had spiked. He spoke directly on a problem that they all had. It was universal.

I don’t remember if he won or not, but the point of the story is that folks listened. That electric bill was tangible and everyone across the political spectrum felt the pain each month. There was no denying that little scrap of paper, and he spoke directly to it.

I do live in the Show-Me state. Let’s show the folks.

Speak and listen to the people. Bring tangible examples of what you’re talking about and how communities have been hurt by folks who lied to them for decades and used and abused them by acting in bad faith. How politicians used that faith to beat them over the head — to trick them into voting against their self-interest.

Mr. Landau: “Senator, the President has made it absolutely clear that his top priority is to try to bring peace and end an absolutely savage war. I… I know you’re familiar with the, uh… the… the savagery. This is turning into World War I-style trench warfare now in eastern Ukraine. The President is an exceptionally gifted dealmaker. He is probably the only individual in the entire universe that could actually stop this.”

This week, President Donald Trump acted as an authoritarian.

The only real question is whether anyone will stop him from being an authoritarian.

In act after act, Trump and his cronies went after political opponents with extreme actions that could only take place in a country where the First Amendment and equal protection guarantees are rendered a nullity and where the procedural protections put in place to prevent the very sort of actions Trump is taking are nonexistent.

A specific law firm, a specific university, a specific union, a specific hospital, and certain nonprofit employees were targeted for unfavorable treatment simply because Trump doesn’t like them and what they stand for.

President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned if NATO allies would come to the aid of the United States in the event of an attack.

“Do you think they’re going to come and protect us? They’re supposed to. I’m not so sure,” Trump said as he took reporters’ questions after signing executive orders in the Oval Office.

Except it’s not a hypothetical: In fact, NATO’s Article 5 clause has been invoked only once in the alliance’s 76-year history, and that was on September 12, 2001 — the day after Al Qaeda killed almost 3,000 people on American soil.