Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Can't be true. I was told that it was alarmist and silly to suggest this could happen.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Back in the 2010s, when Joe Arpaio was at his peak influence, his office diverted sheriff's deputies to chase down landscapers and restaurant cooks and day laborers. The inevitable failure to investigate 100s of sexual assault cases was a major scandal that helped do him in.

Nine grafs deep into the article and we find out: "Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters."

I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Russian officials celebrate end of Russia's isolation after Alaska summit that produced no concrete results. "For years they have been talking about the isolation of Russia, and today they saw the red carpet that greeted the Russian president," wrote Russian FMA spokesperson Maria Zakharova.⤵️

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

D.C. doesn't even make the top 25 "most dangerous cities" in the U.S But at least we're not talking about those Epstein files and why all those FBI agents were assigned to scrub Trump's name from them.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

How it started & how it's going, fucking idiots edition.

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

The judge in Abrego Garcia case says it "defies logic" for DOJ to warn that Abrego Garcia might be quickly deported if he's released from jail. That decision is entirely up to the Trump administration, he says, so why would govt harm itself? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

And, of course, they're going to charge him with crimes they can't prove (human trafficking) to try to punish him for his part in exposing the racket Trump is running -- and to save face after swearing he was never coming back.

President Trump has slashed funding for medical research, threatening a longstanding alliance between the federal government and universities that helped make the U.S. the world leader in medical science. Here are the nearly 2,500 grants that have been canceled or delayed. https://trib.al/iBstU2B

CONFIRMED: The budget bill includes a $3.8 trillion deficit increase, $698 billion less for Medicaid, and $267 billion less for SNAP.

Seems like, given his social media history, that the new pope might have some problems at immigration if he tries to visit the US.

There's another felony for the Donald. Five years in prison for an "applicable person" (specifically defined in the statute to include the president) who requests an audit or investigation of any taxpayer's liability.

1. Next school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum.

This is not enough to prove obstruction. "ICE agents arrived in the judge’s courtroom last Friday ... Dugan asked the agents to leave and speak to the circuit court’s chief judge, the Journal Sentinel reported. By the time they returned, Flores Ruiz had left." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Attorney general Pam Bondi authored a memo instructing ICE to utterly ignore the fourth amendment in conducting Alien Enemies Act arrests and “deportations” to foreign prisons.

This has to be the most brazenly corrupt act in the history of the American presidency. Trump is holding a contest to see who can pay him the most money and the prize is direct access to the president It is literal pay-to-play

When you're reading the new story from the White House abt what happened here, not that both general counsel's who signed the letter are 'actings', and the lead guy Josh Josh Gruenbaum is a private equity brought in by Trump and Elon who is now the head of ... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue: "Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT." She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT “pending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

This is high art

Breaking News: The Supreme Court instructed the government to take steps to return a Salvadoran migrant it had wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador. nyti.ms/42j7cxP

I don't know if any other reporters were in the room of if only @jerodmacevoy.com decided to write it up, but what a scoop on this outrageous and despicable quote

Breaking:   McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Judge in Texas temporarily bars US from invoking Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans held at facility there.

I don’t have a lot of substantive disagreement with the analysis here. But make no mistake about it: these are narrow rulings that will likely have broad implications for whether people can actually vindicate their constitutional rights. They distribute power to the executive branch. Q is how much.

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

I’m confused as to how the design and execution of this tariff policy wasn’t flawless. 🇺🇸

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

The whole world knows that Trump's idiot team did not calculate "reciprocal tariffs" from any actual tariff rates or costs of non-tariff barriers. But, even if you accept their "theory," they got rates wrong by 4x because they used elasticity of retail not import prices. www.aei.org/economics/pr...

ICYMI: “Today's hearing is not just about financial figures. It is about the families who rely on Arizona's developmental disabilities program,” the GOP chairman said before not allowing those families to testify story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

Okay. Fess up. Which one of us was randomly added to these chats?

Canadians have more respect for themselves than, say, America’s big law firms

NEW: The story of a woman beaten and tortured and granted permission to stay in the United States—but ICE tried to dump her in Mexico anyway, where she doesn't know anybody. Warning: This may make your blood boil. Reporting by our @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/how-ice-tr...