Today the White House and others are sharing clips from the NPR interview with JB Pritzker. Of course they listen to NPR! It’s part of an NPR video series with people across the political spectrum—so everyone can see and debate. A few are in this thread:

Thoughts on our post-information age. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

A good ad on the DC Metro

We have been led into a post-information age, and we will have to adapt to endure.

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

NPR memo on the president’s antifa order notes “the lack of any federal legal provision to designate domestic terror groups.”

In this column I suggest a way to think about, and respond to, a post-information age: It’s harder to identify basic information. The Internet is down, even when it’s up.

We have to adapt to endure in a post-information age, where we are told there are no facts, only politics. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

We have to adapt to endure in a post-information age, where we are told there are no facts, only politics. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

Democrats have struggled to find a message, to find the right language, to broaden their coalition. But one Democrat seems to be able to speak clearly — the “token liberal” on a Fox program who has lots of practice being interrupted, mocked and outnumbered.

Censorship makes you dumber. And the government that engages in censorship also gets dumber.

Censorship makes you dumber: On a new Pentagon policy, and a broader campaign against speech the government dislikes.

Former FCC lawyer to NPR, on media companies so swiftly caving into the agency’s demands: “A spine is a terrible thing to waste.” Listen: www.npr.org/2025/09/19/n...

Axios reports AOC is considering a run for president in 2028. Brings new relevance to her long NPR video interview, where she talked about the future of the country and her party. 1/2

Hell yeah Shannon

By "NPR" he means me, personally. Or so I am going to tell myself.

A tale of two governors: Bill Lee welcomes the National Guard to Tennessee, while JB Pritzker remains a hard no. Trump keeps wishing he’d call.

Gov. JB Pritzker’s rejection of the National Guard for Chicago touches on everything from crime to the separation of powers. It also showcases one of the Democrats who are seen as potential presidential candidates.

The president said today he’s sending troops and agents to Memphis. He continues talking of sending troops to Chicago. The NPR interview with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker gives an idea of his response. youtu.be/BQTujyWZ6Ec?...

Chicago-area immigration operations have continued, even as the news attention went elsewhere. In an NPR interview, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker challenged the administration and a Supreme Court ruling. We challenged him on Chicago crime.

People who were critical of Friday’s remarks by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox might take a second listen. “Words are not violence,” he said, which in recent years has been an idea expressed by many conservatives. But…

I understand why some people are telling me that they believe Gov. Spencer Cox said this, and will assume good faith. But he didn’t say “immigrant,” he clearly meant something different, and it’s worth reading his full quote in context. It’s here: open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

On Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s remarks after the murder of Charlie Kirk: open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

As he named the suspect in the murder if Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox also challenged the rest of us.

The NPR interview with Pritzker Goes well beyond the Chi. immigration raids. Does he agree that gov’t may get in the way of progress? “Could not agree more.” What’s this billionaire think of billionaires in gov’t? “It’s about your values and not how much money you have.” youtu.be/BQTujyWZ6Ec?...

In an NPR video interview, JB Pritzker: Says a Supreme Court ruling makes legal immigrants vulnerable: No document they carry will be “good enough for ICE.” Also sees no point in calling Trump. “He makes promises [and] breaches those agreements.” www.npr.org/2025/09/10/n...

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

Listen to our full conversation on Up First here: one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...

On @npr.org , @mariaaspan.bsky.social says the Trump currency “underlines the extraordinary degree to which President Trump and his family are using the Oval Office to profit personally,” and there’s “no federal regulator who’s going to call Trump out on any of this, because he controls them.”

It’s not just that Congress allowed the CDC crisis. Key lawmakers, on your payroll, allowed it despite statements showing they believe RFK’s views on vaccines are wrong. RFK can say he is doing what he believes; the lawmakers can’t. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

When will Congress start doing its taxpayer-funded job?

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., delayed enforcing its decision, which is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.

The WSJ reports on companies allowing a lot less political expression. Some of my thoughts:

In Mike Johnson's district, not only could thousands of Louisianians lose coverage, health centers are bracing for a financial hit. They're hoping for additional funding to make up for Medicaid cuts.

Congress in 2025 largely hasn’t done its taxpayer-funded job as an independent branch of government. That’s not my judgment—many of their own words show it! But they have an opportunity to look into chaos at an agency.

Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.

On NPR, former White House attorney Ty Cobb, from the first Trump admnistration: Q. What did you think about when you heard of the FBI search of John Bolton's house and office? A. Well, I went down and locked my door.

The New York Times summarizes the answers that the president’s personal lawyer, now paid with taxpayer dollars, obtained from Maxwell as she seeks a pardon from the president.

Restaurant owners tell the Washington Post that sending troops into civilian areas seems to have scared off their customers www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08...

Of course DC has crime. The questions raised by Trump’s declaration are different. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

Thanks to @steveinskeep.bsky.social for a terrific interview on @npr.org reflecting on the legacy of President Reagan and discussing President Trump’s policies—many of them at odds with Reagan’s. Hope you give it a listen. www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...

Funding for FEMA's disaster survivor hotline lapsed the day after the Texas floods, federal records show. It took DHS Secretary Kristi Noem five days to approve more money.

Update: The Social Security Administration (SSA) has conceded an issue with phone service (after denying it to NPR) and has announced a fix.

Another wild scoop on NPR from @tomdreisbach.bsky.social: Video shows a man on Jan. 6 shouting for the crowd to kill police: “Kill ‘em!” He admitted saying it. One of Trump’s first acts in office was to cancel his trial and hire him for a job at the Justice Department.

My friend Asma Khalid reposted an interview in which she described what public media meant for her growing up in Indiana.

Energizing @steveinskeep.bsky.social interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda about Hamilton @ 10 www.npr.org/2025/08/06/n... #musicals #history #deejays

At 4:30 the very top of the Fox app had a special button you can press for Mamdani rage content, but no mention of the weak jobs report, nor any of Trump firing the BLS chief because of the weak jobs report. You have to search to find that.

Many people commented on Sydney Sweeney and “great genes.” Others rolled their eyes. Brand marketing consultant Allen Adamson has a different analysis: American Eagle wanted to “break through,” which is vary hard, so they found “somebody red-hot.” www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

In the NPR interview, @PeteButtigieg had a warning about AI. He talked of it creating problems so vast, so quickly, that can grow beyond the ability even of a strong government to address.

He also is invited to comment on the possibility of a bearded president, now that he is one of several prominent pols in both parties who have them.