People who are detained at Delaney Hall have spent months receiving expired food filled with maggots, being denied medical care and experiencing cruel treatment from guards. Make no mistake: This is a direct result of President Trump's cruel anti-immigrant policy.

Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%. Labor’s piece of the economic pie is the smallest it’s been in over 75 years, while corporate profits’ share is the *biggest* it’s been since 1950. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

Anyone Jewish or Muslim or atheist or simply non-Christian has no dflifficulty taking this as the implicit threat it is intended to be

Abhorrent corruption and violence against American democracy and rule of law

BREAKING: Trump is essentially stealing money from the pockets of Americans to the tune of $1.7 billion. He's telling his DOJ to give away that money to his allies and supporters under the fake claim that the Biden DOJ was "weaponized." It reeks of corruption. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:

HAHAAHAHAHAHAA! They keep coming up with better and better midterm-election slogans: "Gas prices are high, but that's life." YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT, KEEP GOING!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The cruelty of high fuel prices isn’t just about the cost, but also about the unequal burden it places on American households,” Jeff Colgan writes.

Once, during the time I was working at the White House, I met a guy at synagogue who asked about my work. When I said I worked tech policy, he grabbed my shoulder and said “I swear to God, if the Democrats can stop the spam calls and texts, they will win every election.” I think about that a lot.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Yeah, he was just joking about being a messiah. As malignant narcissist megalomaniacs do when trying to pander to evangelicals. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

One way that Orbán sought to entrench power was adopting a new Hungarian constitution in 2011 that classified many policy areas as 'cardinal laws' that require a two-thirds majority vote to change. With almost 100% of votes counted, the Hungarian opposition has just achieved what seemed impossible.

Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.

It's good that Trump showed up at the Supreme Court today. The effect is to stamp his face all over this vile effort to end the constitutional birthright of equality and restore hierarchy by blood. Let him be associated with this project forever. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2084...

The central organizing principle behind the Trump administration is white supremacy. The corruption just made it worth Trump's while.

If President Trump’s attempt to dismantle birthright citizenship succeeds, he'll create a vulnerable underclass of people who are born in the United States but unable to fully participate in our democracy. We will not let that happen.

Tonight’s @celticsnba.bsky.social performance should elevate Jaylen Brown in the @nba.com MVP conversation, especially given his 1x1s versus SGA. ☘️ 🏀

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

In my darkest moments, I fear that this is how democracy dies. Not with a secret conspiracy conducted in the middle of the night. But with a brazen confession made public in the light of day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

As Kennedy overhauls America’s approach to vaccines, deadly and disabling diseases could return. “I think there always was a worst-case scenario. I don't think I imagined it could or would be this bad,” one expert said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

This is vile. After campaigning on "no new wars," Trump is now basically saying, "MAGA = WAR." JD Vance is claiming Trump's war is fine because it's "smart." Their contempt for their voters is extraordinary. I wrote about this here, with some ugly new examples: newrepublic.com/article/2078...

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Under Joseph Stalin the rule was “Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding!” Now, Donald Trump’s men are learning the same lesson — the humiliating way. Although this time, the question is different: “Who will be the first to take off their shoes?” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/who-...

A major and really unappreciated fault line in the Democratic Party right now is the divide between the 'tax the rich' populists and the old school 'fix the schools' centrists

If you’re flying out of PHL do NOT believe what the airport website says. This is *not* a 5-minute wait for precheck. The fundamental blame for this goes to Trump & congressional Republicans in charge who have decided not to make TSA staff essential while they’ve partially the government. #Philly

CBS News under Bari Weiss becomes a non-stop cheerleader for war with Iran. But CBS News polling shows that Americans disapprove of this war.

Charlie Kirk dropped out of an Illinois community college after one semester. He later advised Gen Z that today's higher ed probably isn't worth it. A perfect icon for this regime's attitude toward becoming educated

Patel's FBI is not to be trusted, of course, but there is a real possibility that the deadly terror attacks on U.S. soil feared as a response to Trump's illegal war have already started www.kxan.com/news/crime/p...

More North Korean Style Posters in DC. This time it's Charlie Kirk on the Department of Education.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.

“The presumption created by the surrounding evidence is that this war could very well be about (1) subverting US democracy, (2) enriching the president, or both. These presumptions, while not proof, provide solid lines of inquiry as we learn more about the war.” snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

“‘Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover-up,’ said Rep. @robertgarcia.house.gov of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.” www.ms.now/news/epstein...

The thing about elected Democrats attending the State of the Union is that Donald Trump used social media to call for the execution of elected Democrats mere months ago, like, if you're calling for my execution, I'm not attending your lie-filled speech. That's the only way to project dignity here.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir — and the police state it's helping Trump build could soon be used against you.

📌NEW: WaPo-ABC News-Ipsos poll has Trump’s disapproval rating at 60% and approval at 39%*. Independents disapprove, 69%-31%. The last time Trump was at 60% was after his Jan. 6, 2021, violent coup attempt. *Yes, it is appalling 39% approve. Without them, there is no him. THEY are the problem.

The Trump regime is holding press conferences to announce the quiet parts out loud now (often meant for an audience of one).

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Is Trump *really* going to announce a crank theory, pushed by former crack addict and pillow salesman Mike Lindell, that since the writing of the Constitution, almost 2 & 1/2 centuries ago, all of America's constitutional scholars have failed to notice a line of text in the document?

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

The DOJ appears to have surveilled members of Congress who were looking through unredacted pages in the Epstein files and provided that information to Pam Bondi for her hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.