The Friday Brief, April 3, 2026
Firing Season
Inside
Firing Season
Artemis Rising
This Is The Best Analogy
SCOTUS and the Birthright Brawl
The AI Anxiety Boom
The Butcher’s Bill In Iran
Kink-Shaming the MAGA Man
What I’m Reading
The Big Picture
Firing Season
The Link: Trump Fires Pam Bondi As Attorney General
You’d think after a decade of watching the Rick Wilson School of Applied Political Thermodynamics, these people would understand the phase change from “loyal foot soldier” to “discarded husk” is an absolute, an inevitability for anyone in Trump’s crapulous orbit.
But here we are. It’s April, the cherry blossoms are screaming, and in the MAGA-verse, it’s officially Firing Season.
You know the pattern. It’s as predictable as a Florida thunderstorm and twice as loud. It starts with the “Lying, Fake News” New York Times, the paper Donald Trump claims to despise but reads with the obsessive fervor of a jilted lover, running a piece with the familiar lede: “Sources close to the President say he is ‘discontented’ with Person X.”
Then comes the phone call. Trump dials up a buddy and asks, “What do you think of John Smith? Is he good on TV? Or is he embarrassing us?” There is only one correct answer in that ecosystem. The buddy, sensing blood in the water and hoping to move up a rung on the greasy pole, says, “He’s a disaster, Mr. President. Fire him.”
The ice didn’t just crack under Pam Bondi; it shattered.
Bondi thought she was an untouchable in this administration. She spent a year running the grotesque cover-up of the Epstein Files. She threw “binder parties” at the White House for a collection of MAGA influencers who don’t possess the collective IQ of a petri dish of planaria. She thought if she threw enough red meat to Pizza Jack and the Libs of TikTok crowd, the truth wouldn’t matter.
