WHOA! This is actually huge. Warren endorsed Platner. #MESen. So far he's been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Gallego and Martin Heinrich

SCOOP: DOJ has waived policy requiring newly hired prosecutors to have least a year (more often 3 years) experience practicing law. As DOJ struggles to replace mass departures w/ qualified applicants, this move allows hiring straight out of law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Our Inside Washington newsletter is closely watching seats like Iowa as the Senate map continues to worsen for Republicans. @ericmgarcia.bsky.social sat down with @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social, one of the two Democrats in the winnowing primary field: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Some news: Anderson Cooper decided to walk away from “60 Minutes” after Bari Weiss offered an expanded role at CBS News and “a crazy amount” of money. Now, Weiss is taking a hard look at Norah O’Donnell. The details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/norah-o-do...

The race between Crockett and Talarico is growing toxic, something that Democrats in the state is being fueled by the pundit-influencer class. One Democratic operative in the state told me that they "cannot over-emphasize how stupid" the discourse has become. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

My dispatch from the @uaw.org candidate forum yesterday:

All three Democratic candidates for Michigan's Senate seat–Abdul El-Sayed, Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens–agree that Democrats should dig their heels in on DHS funding. But as, @jbowden.bsky.social reports, they're split on what comes next. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

".. Bezos has remained silent, and did not respond to a series of letters sent by staffers .. On Monday, though, he was there in person to warmly greet Pete Hegseth .." @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Inevitably, given the fact Trump is pushing 80 years old and his love of cheeseburgers, along with the fact this is his second term, attention will turn to whether JD Vance can carry the MAGA torch. @jbowden.bsky.social breaks down his pros and cons. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Really cool project that @jbowden.bsky.social , @alicjahagopian.bsky.social and I worked on for the last month: Trump set off a nuclear war on redistricting, with Democrats pledging to fight fire with fire. So how would the map look if both sides go nuclear? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As Texas House Republicans passed their map, Democrats in California plan to counterstrike. Here's what the congressional map might look like, and what actions Democratic governors can (and can't take). via me and @jbowden.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here's Karoline Leavitt truly not knowing what she is talking about:

uhhhhhhhhh

epic re-frame here

I talked to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social about the Senate race in Michigan and the lessons 2024 should teach the Democratic Party: "These people made a calculated decision about who they needed and who they didn't. And it turns out that that decision was way off.”

Let’s just take a moment to thank Donald Jr for his clear eyed, and steadfast determination to get answers with Epstein. He says to ask ourselves DAILY what SCUM would be against disclosure and truth? Hmmm….

Any Democrat who can answer a question without 50 words of focus group-speak stands out rn

Shane Gillis, hosting the ESPYS: “Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here but I guess it got deleted. Must have probably deleted itself right? Probably never existed, actually. Let’s move on as a country and ignore that.”

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...

Riley Gaines spinning coming 5th in a college swim meet into a career as a political commentator says a lot about the dynamics of right-wing punditry.

Trump's dig at Tucker over audience size was very telling. He's leaning back into pro-war Fox News as the "manosphere" and paleoconservatives react with horror to the prospect of another war in the Middle East: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

For our next very expensive study we'll be asking those monkeys with the typewriters if they really understood the theme of Macbeth or not

Does this qualify as waste, fraud, abuse, or all three?

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

Trump is, by all accounts, inching the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. By doing so, he's "angrily hemorrhaging" his own voting coalition, one of his supporters wrote on Tuesday. www.independent.co.uk/news/trump-i...

to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

I don't think anybody's quite gotten to the full Mike Lee story. He rarely talks in hallways, now posts conspiratorial stuff regularly, went from 2016 warning against Trump to working with members of his team ahead of 1/6/21. Lately a cheerleader for nixing NATO, Fed, impeaching judges, etc.

3 months. He's been sitting on this reply for 3 months.

We've got to find better terms than "baseless" for this stuff. Unhinged, Cult belief, there's plenty terms out there the press could use to inform if they didn't think informing you was biased

NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors." The man's lawyer plans to demand his return. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

That common thing where you accidentally refer to yourself as divorced on national TV

Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

JUST IN: Trump's ban on foreign Harvard students halted by judge while lawsuit proceeds

Aaaaand I think we're done here #TACO

NEW: According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

Also can we stop saying stuff like this? This is not a conflict between Harvard and the government, it is a government attack on Harvard. The article, which is generally not bad, lists 14 actions taken by the government against the school, none in the other direction www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Yesterday's State Department briefing featured a moment in which press secretary Tammy Bruce appeared unaware of a three-month-long Israeli blockade of food aid and tried to blame Cindy McCain for it: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

WaPo is memory-holing the Hillary campaign (again)

President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

My piece from yesterday, on Trump finally hearing the music:

PSA: there is no way to call yourself a "storyteller" that does not sound extremely pretentious!

No he doesn’t. And that doesn’t make it right.

I'm expecting a breathless press release from the 'Fauci killed beagles' folk any minute now

New from 404 Media: authors are getting caught leaving AI prompts in their novels, telling the AI to follow someone else's style. We bought a copy to confirm. www.404media.co/authors-are-...

Again: This is not about conning voters, who do not notice or care about CBO scores but will notice closing hospitals, reduced benefits, etc. It’s about conning themselves, especially congressional Republicans.