EXCLUSIVE from @washingtonpost.com @ddiamond.bsky.social and Ariana Eunjung Cha www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Excellent outcome for the case! It’s notable that this began before Trump took office, although it got worse after. When the government alleges someone is connected to terrorists, it can be extremely hard to get them to back down.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at the Kirk memorial: “You have no idea the dragon you have awakaned. “We will save this civilization and the West.”

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

it's cool that the UK and US are in a direct competition to commit economic suicide

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Last month, I wrote about Angel Minguela Palacios, who was arrested by Border Patrol while delivering strawberries. On Thursday, I was with his partner and their three kids when they welcomed him home after he spent more than a month in ICE detention www.latimes.com/california/s...

Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.” Again, this is a memorial service.

Trump uses the Charlie Kirk memorial to push his threatened military occupation of Chicago: “One of the last things he said to me is ‘Please, sir, save Chicago.’ We’re going to do that. We’re going to save Chicago from horrible crime.“

No other political widow has ever become a public figure I say, having researched this by thinking really hard for twenty seconds and drawing a blank

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Rumors aren't facts. But last fall the Finance/DC corridor was awash in chatter that bribes and cash payments were flying fast and furious. Given the nature of this crew, essentially zero chance Homan was alone in this.

“The target repeatedly brought up Homan, saying he was collecting bribes in exchange for future government contracts, the two sources told Reuters.”

I'm just trying to think how Homan and his homies would have handled it if that asylum-seeking hairdresser with Mom & Dad tattoos had been found with $50,000 in a Cava bag. We'd still be hearing about it -- and about the federal cash transfer reporting rules, tax consequences, and so on.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Apparently the reason that the FBI didn’t go after Homan once he’d taken the alleged bribe is that bribery requires an official act, and at the time he had no official role. So they were planning to wait and see what he did once he got into office. They could have charged him for conspiracy though.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

The most elemental form of coercion is detention. Did we forget this? Detention is the ENEMY and the OPPOSITE of due process. The most obvious axiom that we deliberately ignore

Recognition of Palestine by US allies is a necessary and historic affirmation of Palestinian rights. It must urgently be accompanied by concrete steps to stop Israel’s campaigns of forced displacement, starvation and slaughter in Gaza and annexation in the West Bank. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

Abraham Lincoln spoke about a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." It's 2025 and: 1. Citizens track controversial government activities and make them public, so 2. Government agents hide their activities.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

NEW: In a break from decades of history, the Trump administration has started detaining virtually everyone facing deportation — even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades. Dozens of judges, with increasing alarm, have ruled the policy shift illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

At a campaign stop today Dem voter after Dem voter lamented that every day there’s a new awful any one of which would have ended any previous presidency, and we hadn’t even yet known about most of this list of today’s awfuls.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

I think this is correct.

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

BREAKING The Nashua Police Department in New Hampshire says that multiple people have been shot at the Sky Meadow Country Club. One suspect has been detained, but the other remains at large, the police say.

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

A new effort to chill speech from the Face Mask Gang.

One of the (many) problems with doing corruption for Donald Trump is that he never stops asking for more. Capitulate once, and he will demand *more* acts of corruption that are even *more* brazen and despicable--until finally you can't do it anymore and he turns on you. Pam Bondi is learning this.

NEW: Trump vents at AG Bondi in a remarkable public lament over the lack of criminal charges against his most prominent adversaries. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Did Homan declare the $50K on his income tax returns?

Lindsey Halligan is a 2013 law grad, an insurance lawyer, who acted as Trump's personal lawyer for several years and is now tasked with bringing the Smithsonian into ideological compliance. In the context of the Trump Administration this makes her well qualified to be US Attorney.

What can you even say?

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

The NYT got its 5-byline version of the Homan/alleged-bribe story up around 2 hours after MSNBC posted its scoop. Which might explain why MSNBC broke its story in the middle of a Saturday afternoon www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

OMG. Tom Homan was reportedly under FBI investigation for taking $50,000 in cash allegedly in exchange for a commitment to steer government contracts to a specific company. The entire thing was recorded, as it was an FBI sting operation. The Trump admin dropped the investigation entirely.