The Trump admin is contradicting itself all over the place over what it means by 'antifa.' Butt in the first antifa terrorism prosecution, set to go to trial next week, it's being forced to say what it thinks antifa really is talkingpointsmemo.com/news/antifa-...

From @joshkovensky.bsky.social: In the first "antifa" domestic terrorism trial, the DOJ is relying on an anti-Muslim conspiracy group to define "antifa." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/antifa-...

In the latest installment of TPM's Creating the Enemy Within project, @joshkovensky.bsky.social writes about the criminalization of anti-Trump ideology: talkingpointsmemo.com/creating-the...

Trump's DOJ has been mining for trans children's info via broad, intimidating subpoenas to hospitals. "They’re fishing for someone to prosecute," lead counsel in a DC case told me. But...they keep losing. From me and the great @joshkovensky.bsky.social ⤵️ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...

A group of election conspiracy theorists released a report detailing wild allegations about elections in Georgia’s Fulton County. A little over three weeks later, FBI agents raided the county’s offices and seized 700 boxes of voting records. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2020-el...

concerning!

Excited to discuss this story and more soon with @johnalight.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/join-...

Jeff Breinholt, a longtime former DOJ counterterrorism prosecutor, compared it to the "COINTELPRO days of the Hoover administration back in the sixties." “You’re declaring a sort of informal law enforcement war on this shadowy group.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...

Federal prosecutors are upgrading what would have been routine prosecutions into terrorism cases when they involve people President Trump has cast as his political enemies.

Extremely cool to have an excerpt from my new book, To Catch A Fascist: The Fight To Expose The Radical Right, in @talkingpointsmemo.com today.

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

As the FBI (and Tulsi Gabbard) raided Fulton County, Georgia's, election office, Trump was posting about a conspiracy theory that contends Italian satellites in 2020 switched swing-state ballots from Trump to Biden by zapping voting machines. Things will surely soon get even weirder.

"Melania" tries its best to keep the real, menacing reality of Trumpism from intruding into the scene it paints. It fails spectacularly.

A new heartland economy based on ICE warehouses and AI data farms.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

The Trump administration's attempts to insist its dark conspiracy theories are true have run aground in the face of Minnesotans' care for one another, writes @kellyweill.bsky.social

This new Fulton Cnty. election search warrant raises _a lot_ of questions. The apparent relevant crime is allegedly throwing away docs in '21 or '22. What probable cause do they have that Fulton threw stuff away 4 years ago, and why do (some) 2020 records help prove what they threw away in 2022?

Trump finally makes good on all his feverish plans from January 2021.

Since the Trump admin abandoned its initial false claims about Alex Pretti—reportedly authored by Stephen Miller—it has repeatedly fallen back on the position that it cannot comment on the fatal shooting by 2 CBP agents because there is an ongoing investigation. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

After a couple months and nine stories, this is the final installment for my TPM stories looking at the fight against mass deportation in NYC. This piece goes inside churches to show how they have become a central hub and a flashpoint in the growing resistance. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/churche...

"You provide the democracy dying, we'll provide the darkness!" -Jeff Bezos

This is a really good explanation of the prima facia lawlessness of the attacks on protesters: they don't bring charges any more, because judges laugh them out of court every time they show the supposed "evidence." talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

One of the weird things about this second Trump term is, during moments of crisis, it's unclear if the president is getting real information and spinning that real information, or if he is getting the same disinformation from his advisors that they are giving to the public.

FBI leadership coverup of Renee Good killing. A supervisor in FBI’s Minneapolis field office resigned "after bureau leadership in Washington pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into" ICE agent Jonathan Ross. "Such inquiries are a common investigative step in similar shootings."

There are all these moments from the first term — like "shithole countries" — that are burned into our mind. Trump's rhetoric is often even worse now, but no longer treated as news.

Not sure I've ever seen anything quite like this.

They say they witnessed guards kill an ICE detainee. DHS wants them gone: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

A Trump takeover of the Federal Reserve could give the president power to slash interest rates at will, punish blue state banks, influence lending to his corporate allies, and more talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

This didn't get coverage in regular media, but this week Christian Zionists held an invite-only gathering at Mar-a-Lago, and Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Shah of Iran, spoke to them cbn.com/news/israel/...

The Trump DOJ's wild directive to investigate Renee Good's widow — which reportedly prompted several prosecutors to resign today — builds on a claim that has been slopping around right-wing media for days, pushed by Jack Posobiec, Tim Pool, Andy Ngo, others.

seems like a bit of an own goal for the administration to push out the person who was running the (legitimate) fraud investigation used (illegitimately) as justification for the mn crackdown

Many of the still-outstanding questions about this year's midterms will be decided by the Supreme Court

WaPo. catalogs who left govt and via what means. These will be useful to show that Trump effected a SHIFT--from spending on things that help people (like VA care) TO snatching grannies. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"What was clear from DHS’s creation was that that power could all be directed and concentrated toward some corrupt or illegitimate purpose. And that, among many other things, is what we’ve seen over the last year."

ICE orphaned a 6 year old boy www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Along with the more standard, now-familiar January 6 denialism, the White House website included a suggestion that assassination attempts against Trump have been orchestrated by rogue forces inside the government. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-whi...

In major decision, the Wyoming Supreme Court knocked down 2 abortion bans today -- citing an anti-Obamacare amendment! The amendment was initially passed to protect people from ACA "threats" like "death panels." It's now an inadvertent shield for abortion rights talkingpointsmemo.com/news/anti-ob...

"I found that sending out the first reports was a struggle...I had to overcome the sheer disbelief. Was I really seeing people climbing the walls? Were Nick Fuentes Groyper flags really hanging from the windows of the Capitol? What had happened to the police?" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...

I'm not one for anniversaries, but it feels fitting to mark the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, if only to preserve clarity amongst ourselves about what that day represents: the starkest fork in the road that this country had faced since its civil war. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The first week of January is like a great cosmic punishment

Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

For the past year I've had the feeling that the Trump administration's primary goal is the creation of content, and I expanded upon it here in the wake of our excursion in Venezuela

The Wall Street Journal editorial board: "Mr. Trump is pursuing the Bush freedom agenda, at least in the Western Hemisphere. Are we all neocons now?"

Whether or not they played a role in what happened overnight, 2020 election conspiracy theories continue to loom large in Trump's thinking about Venezuela. Venezuela’s 2024 election “wasn’t a hell of a lot worse than what they did to us in 2020," Trump said today.

"Whatever the power of LLM-based AI (a basic and unsettled question) a central part of this conversation is about who controls it and on what terms. Whatever this thing is, we can have it transform society on civic democratic terms or on authoritarian and oligarchic ones."

When @sanders.senate.gov points out that this attack "recalls the darkest chapters of U.S. interventions in Latin America, which have left a terrible legacy," he is talking about a huge, central focus of American foreign policy that most Americans never learn about in school, to our detriment.

An Ode to Corruption: Announcing 2025’s Golden Duke Winners

You could say that agreeing to do this story is itself a high-stakes gamble www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...