This is a noteworthy escalation from Sanders, who actually very rarely gets crosswise with the DSCC -- the only time he has endorsed against the DSCC's pick in his career was in Kentucky in 2020. This cycle, he's backing both Platner + El-Sayed.

New Pew Research Center data: 66% say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people 62% say he's improperly encouraged fed'l investigation of his opponents 61% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

New: "Am I the Cuomo in this situation?" Democrats' youth movement is heading to Arizona, where 25-year-old influencer Deja Foxx is making noise, but frontrunner Adelita Grijalva should make a tougher out than a certain former NY guv. www.huffpost.com/entry/arizon...

New: I wrote about New Yorkers for Lower Costs, the partially grassroots-funded super PAC backing Mamdani that wouldn't make sense anywhere outside of NYC. Their efforts provide some insights into Mamdani's broader strategy, and a contrast to Cuomo's super PAC: www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

New: If it can happen to Cuomo, it can happen to them. Why the former governor's struggles in the NYC mayor race should be a blaring alarm for establishment Democrats elsewhere. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

The Senate's draft of the reconciliation bill is horrendous for federal workers. New hires would have to sacrifice 10% of their salary or else be classified as "at-will." A blatant scheme to undo job security and upend the civil service. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago. I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

"The Government has apparently suggested to this Court — belatedly, and in sealed ex parte communications — that it was working to secure Abrego Garcia’s return" What a filing in the Abrego Garcia case shows about sealed motions that led to a one week discovery stay www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Microsoft has dropped a law firm that settled with the Trump administration in favor of one that is fighting the president’s executive orders, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

NEW: Republicans are laying the groundwork to restrict the abortion pill using a new junk science report.

One other question we asked on our latest economic poll: Assuming pay was the same, would you rather have a manufacturing or office job? 73% office 26% manufacturing s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

The House Education and Workforce section of the reconciliation bill would eliminate the Education Department's authority to cancel student debt for borrowers whose schools defraud them. So if you're a victim of fraud by your college, you'd still have to pay that loan that was fraudulently derived.

Trump sent the Justice Department after ActBlue, an effort to target his political opposition with criminal investigations

New: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is moving to have his state boycott El Salvador in response to Bukele's assistance of Trump, ordering a review of pension investments and procurement contracts. Allies hope other Dem states will follow suit. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Yes, Donald Trump is defying the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

New: I reported out Democrats' intra-party battle on tariff messaging. -This is partially/mostly a wonk fight about staffing the next D admin. -Allowing space for some tariffs an average message in D polling. -Tariff-friendly Dems are a mix of progs & moderates. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Polis vs. Whitmer in the most explicit Democrat vs. Democrat argument we've seen so far on tariffs.

Trump approval going from -3 net to -8 net since last week in Economist/YouGov poll -->

Good news for Journalism. www.courier-journal.com/story/sports...

Trump is copying the autocrats' playbook from Viktor Orban to end democracy in America. He's using autocratic legalism (or really autocratic illegalism) to turn the constitution and the law against themselves. Now's the time to stop this: www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Hours after posting in support of measles vaccines, RFK Jr. praised two doctors who have criticized vaccines and tout alternative treatments. One called the outbreak “God’s version of measles immunization.” The other was disciplined by medical regulators in 2003

Trump prosecutor compares use of Jan. 6 charge to internment of Japanese Americans: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Dow down 2,000 points, proving this has all been a master plan by Trump NEC Director Kevin Hassett to make his book relevant again.

Liberal Judge Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat, Defying Musk’s Millions www.huffpost.com/entry/libera...

HHS has laid of the *entire staff* of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program this week, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association. Helped 6 million households stay warm in winter, per most recent data from 2023. Grant funding hasn't been eliminated.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Does Boston's Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, maintained by the National Park Service, fall afoul of Trump’s command to “remove improper ideology” from government properties?

folks...

The law firm Paul Weiss was on the frontlines fighting back against the first Trump administration. Now, they've capitulated to the second term. What does that mean for the civil liberties and rights that the firm has championed in the past? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Top seven donors in the 2024 election were all solidly Republican, gave campaigns and super PACs a combined $1 billion. Graph from @opensecrets.org: www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03...

Trump’s narrative of his first term is that any incompetence or failure can be explained away by the sabotage of Never Trump Republicans or the deep state. The Signal fiasco — where all the participants are devout and loyal Trumpists — blows a significant hole in that story.

This was the Democrat's closing message in a special election upset in PA tonight: "On Tuesday, you’ll get to make the choice between more Musk, or Lancaster values." lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

Trump has a new executive order that purports to set new restrictions on voting, although states have a big role to play in elections so there's only so much he can do. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

🔥🇺🇸👊 Wrote about why your group chat's privacy is only as secure as your weakest link --- and in this case, every member of “Houthi PC small group” is actually the security weak link for agreeing to discuss highly classified info on an unclassified app like Signal. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I'm in the room for the confirmation hearing on Trump's Social Security nominee, Frank Bisignano. The White House is directing massive changes inside the agency, including cuts to phone service, multiple sources told me the acting directors said yday www.huffpost.com/entry/leland...

Comment from Maria Margarita Rojas' attorney: "My client, a respected member of the community, is being subjected to a campaign of sensationalism and politicization. Before any charges have been filed, her reputation is being tarnished by innuendo and speculation."

I think Kat is probably the first identifiable “Dem Tea Party” candidate, AFAICT.

JUST IN: Supreme Court has turned down a request to take up Trump ally Steve Wynn's bid to upend the landmark NYT v. Sullivan press freedom precedent.

Now leading HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/social...

New: The “agreement” between Paul Weiss and the Trump admin is very different depending on what version you read – Trump's Truth Social post, or the internal firm version I obtained. DEI language, ref to "the Administration’s initiatives" etc differ. Full text here: www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-w...

exclusive: Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict Trump on Venezuelan Gang To invoke wartime deportation powers, Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true. w/ @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

"The Trump administration expelled a professional soccer player to El Salvador based on a tattoo that paid homage to the soccer club Real Madrid, his attorney said." www.huffpost.com/entry/jerce-...

Related: Voters’ top four concerns about Elon Musk all have to do with Social Security, per Democratic polling outfit Blueprint.

A very frustrating part of covering the post-2024 Dem landscape is groups that once insisted Biden was a perfect moderate are now insisting he was a rabid leftist and vice-versa.

Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for refusing to block the Republican government funding bill last week.

This is something a lot of pundits need to absorb: "People have a lot of complaints about how the mainstream media covered things. But I think it’s important to note that the people who watch the news the most actually became more Democratic." www.vox.com/politics/403...

I'm seeing some categorization of the anger at Schumer/Senate Democrats coming from the "left" or "progressives," and while it's possible they are the loudest, the anger seems pretty uniform across the Democratic Party's ideological spectrum.

Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.

Quinnipiac out with some of the first polling I've seen on a potential shutdown: 31% would blame Congressional Republicans 32% would blame Congressional Democrats 22% would blame President Trump 15% not sure poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Quinnipiac out with some of the first polling I've seen on a potential shutdown: 31% would blame Congressional Republicans 32% would blame Congressional Democrats 22% would blame President Trump 15% not sure poll.qu.edu/poll-release...