So, about that team of public integrity prosecutors who investigated Tom Homan, the guy who accepted a $50k bribe in a sting operation last year... The Trump DOJ has cut it down to 2 lawyers: a boss who oversees a single attorney. @notus.com exclusive: www.notus.org/courts/doj-p...

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

Douthat moderated a panel I was on w/Walter Kirn and sat there like a log while Kirn literally pulled out his phone on stage & read Taibbi Twitter Files tweets accusing me of censoring *22M tweets*. He lost control of the panel in the first 5min and apparently is still not interested in the facts.😂

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

WSJ editorial: "Using Charlie's murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it." www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Start with James Comey. Work back.

NEWS: Weeks later Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer has joined Walz and Kelly and left the National Governors Association, per person familiar. Backstory below.

BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* Trump's bid to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed board, allowing her to participate in tomorrow's interest-rate setting meeting. Trump's last hope is a quick stay from SCOTUS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UPDATE: Counsel for the plaintiffs say that DOJ filed its declaration in camera and ex parte—meaning with the judge and without providing access to the plaintiffs. Now the plaintiffs seek access to that declaration ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Social media is a cancer on our society right now.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told his staff to identify any members of the military who have mocked or condoned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk so that they can be punished, two defense officials told NBC News.

In Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s telling, ICE citizenship checks are as frictionless as walking into a Costco: Show a membership card and go, @NickMiroff writes. The problem is that ICE does not say what it accepts as definitive proof of legal status. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Statement from the President.

The company donated, and the rule was delayed. Powerful article by the greats. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Powerful and terrifying investigation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/h...

The country’s most powerful bank became a critical cog in Epstein’s massive sex trafficking operation. JPM processed more than $1 billion in transactions for the sex offender. Here’s our investigation. @davidenrich.bsky.social @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.

D.C. is suing to end the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, two days after a judge ruled that President Trump’s use of troops in L.A. was unlawful.

@michaelscherer.bsky.social: “This backbone of the Trump resistance has as much in common with political organizing and investigative reporting as it does with legal theory.” theatln.tc/SkSDr8u7

Editor: Ok. We are a serious publication. This article involves Massachusetts, so under no circumstance should we mention Ben Afleck or Dunkin Donuts in this article. Author: But the judge specifically brings up Dunkin Donuts. Editor: (sigh) ok.

NEW: The only Trump resistance that has succeeded so far this year is the legal one. Judges get the headlines, but the work is done by liberal lawyers, investigators and plaintiffs. This is their story. A GIFT LINK of my latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Sadly, I can't link to the story b/c of Globe & Mail paywalls. But I feel that I have to share big news from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. It has bought at auction the plaid shirt & the Mountie costumes used in the Monty Python skit in which all sing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay." 👀

A legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trump’s ambitions. @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports on the one anti-Trump resistance movement that’s actually working:

NEWS: Lawyers for Donald Trump and YouTube/ $googl filed papers Friday in federal court asking for two more months to continue "productive discussions" over a settlement of Trump's 2021 deplatforming lawsuit. Backstory here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Donald Trump’s second term has largely been a “tale of ruthless domination,” @michaelscherer.bsky.social argues. Opposition has felt feeble—with one exception:

Nicole Shanahan, the psychonaut turned VP candidate, predictably declares after years of Burning Man devotion that the dusty debauchery “may be one of the most effective tools for Satan to misdirect souls away from our heavenly Father.” The drugs don’t work, kids. archive.ph/JAnmw

The Military Times weighs in on how Pete Segseth’s commitment to making our fighting forces focus on “lethality” and nothing else involves … .. gardening DC’s flower beds. www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

NEWS: NEWS: Ari Abergel, Trump's man at America250, has been asked to focus only on Trump projects, like Patriot Games. Kristin Thompson promoted to handle other matters, per internal memo. Fallout from his effort to replace commissioners. Backstory: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Tulsi Gabbard surprised CIA officials last week when she included an undercover senior CIA officer on a roster of 37 current and former officials she stripped of security clearances.

Striking: New Quinnipiac poll finds 56% of voters nationally oppose Trump's sending of National Guard into DC. Only 41% support it. Independents oppose it by 61-34. Trump's overall approval on crime is cratering at 42-54. That sound you hear is a lot of dimwitted pundit narratives imploding.

A case against phones at school: Besides distracting kids from learning, phones are "a digital umbilical cord tethering students to their parents,” @gailcornwall.com writes—diminishing kids’ autonomy and setting an expectation that parents must always be on duty. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.

“We need to make McCarthy great again,” Laura Loomer told @michaelscherer.bsky.social when he suggested her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s. She responded: “McCarthy was right.” https://theatln.tc/Pjjsq3OA

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

A former Ukrainian military officer suspected of leading a team that sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 was detained in Italy on Wednesday under an international arrest warrant.

Onion.

INBOX: Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Adams' longtime confidante, is being charged in FOUR new indictments alleging she took $75,000 in bribes to steer migrant shelter contracts to preferred vendors, attempt to block the McGuinness Boulevard redesign and other conspiracies.

Laura Loomer has an expanding roster of private clients, including major political donors, whose names she declines to disclose, per @michaelscherer.bsky.social's interesting profile. "There are several billionaires I work with, & they have retained me to do their political vetting," she says.

What a story. He Asked Tiffany Trump to Marry Him. Then the Deals Started Coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...

“We need to make McCarthy great again,” Laura Loomer told @michaelscherer.bsky.social when he suggested her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s. She responded: “McCarthy was right.”

NEW: Trump’s loyalty enforcer embraces Joseph McCarthy, questions whether pregnant women should be confirmed to serious jobs. “Joseph McCarthy was right,” Loomer told me. “We need to make McCarthy great again.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Latest CBO analysis of the full distributional effects of the Trump budget (the "One Big Bill") just landed. They blew out the budget, see how big of a slice you got. www.cbo.gov/interactive/...

America’s public servants are caught in the crossfire of a retribution campaign, William J. Burns argues. They deserved better.

Local self government still popular.