Trump's FBI Raid of John Bolton's Home Looks Like a “Five-Alarm Fire”  —  Whatever we end up learning about the rationale for the FBI's early-morning raid on former national security adviser John Bolton's Bethesda, Maryland, home on Friday, there's plainly a major escalation underway …

Maxwell Interview  —  Redactions of victim names and other identifying information have been applied.

Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse  —  The firing follows a June preliminary assessment from the DIA — the Pentagon's main intelligence wing — of the Iran military strikes, which prompted vicious backlash from the Trump administration.  —  just now

Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says  —  Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.  This comes after a U.S. magistrate judge …

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business  —  The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.  —  President Trump said on Friday that Intel, the troubled Silicon Valley chipmaker …

National Guard Members On DC Streets Will Be Armed, Military Says  —  The Pentagon and the Army said last week that troops would not carry guns.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump's law …

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable  —  The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.  —  The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday …

Getting “DOGED”: DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media.  Then the Taliban Took His Family.  —  It was early morning on April 1 when Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar, got a panicked message from his son.  Halimi's name had just appeared in a viral post on X …

Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law  —  Keeping children safe online is a core priority for Bluesky.  We've invested a lot of time and resources building moderation tools and other infrastructure to protect the youngest members of our community.  We're also aware of the tradeoffs that come with managing an online platform.

Trump's peace bid flops as Kremlin says no plans for Putin-Zelenskyy summit  —  Moscow obfuscates again in new remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  —  Russia's top diplomat said Friday the Kremlin is “not ready at all” for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin …

Alina Habba judge is Republican, Federalist Society member  —  The judge appointed by former President Obama who ruled this week that Trump pick Alina Habba lacks the authority to serve as the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey is a longtime Republican, with membership in the conservative Federalist Society …

Playbook: Can Dems talk their way out of the wilderness?  —  With help from Eli Okun, Bethany Irvine and Ali Bianco  —  On today's Playbook Podcast, Adam Wren and Megan Messerly talk about Democrats' focus on their own language, why the White House is leaning in on its D.C. crackdown and the expected …

Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit  —  “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules.  We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”  —  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a dissenting opinion yesterday …

IRS plans to bring back workers it pushed out but now needs  —  Thousands of staffers left the tax agency, and now managers have found vacancies in critical areas.  —  The IRS plans to ask workers who accepted offers of deferred resignation and early retirement to come back to work …

The case for staying on Twitter  —  Against a politics of hygiene … Twitter is a cesspool.  I hold Elon Musk, the site's owner, personally responsible for the deaths of nearly 300,000 children.  And yet, I visit his website every day.  I tweet, I respond to posts, I scroll.

Your Rectitude Isn't Helping  —  Gavin Newsom is getting a lot of attention for something, and it pisses me off, because frankly I deserve credit for it.  —  Or, okay, here's a humbler and more constructive way of putting it: Gavin Newsom is doing something leading Democrats could and should have done …