News—Rep. Seth Moulton is seriously considering a 2026 primary challenge against Sen. Ed Markey www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/n...

I went to eastern Kentucky to report on a NWS office that's been a vital lifeline during historic recent flash floods But after DOGE cuts, the NWS in Jackson is critically understaffed, with 40% vacancy—prompting agency experts to worry failures are "inevitable" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/n...

CBC election night liveblog is already COOKING

NEW—"When you run against the swamp, the swamp still votes" How DOGE cuts are already upending the 2025 governor's race in Virginia, & sparking a brewing primary on the Republican side www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/04/n...

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston closed abruptly this afternoon with no explanation given www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/m...

In the Oval Office just now for his swearing-in, RFK Jr praised Trump's destruction of USAID, arguing it became "a sinister propagator of totalitarianism and war across the globe" (without naming any specifics) per White House pool USAID was created by his uncle, John F. Kennedy, in 1961

News from me: Labor unions representing federal workers have seen a surge in membership in response to DOGE The biggest, AFGE, exceeded 1/3rd of its 2024 new member total in the first week of February alone; others are seeing unprecedented interest too www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/08/n...

NEW: GOP officials in 8 states have launched efforts to copy the federal DOGE for themselves, from "COGE" in NH to "GOAT" in WI They're a way to align with Trump/Musk—at a moment when many states are facing budget crunches www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/n...

Mike Pence's advocacy organization is lobbying GOP senators to reject RFK Jr's nomination over the issue of abortion, Daily Wire reports www.dailywire.com/news/exclusi...

Sen. Jack Reed of RI, top Dem on Senate Armed Services panel, tells Pete Hegseth he will be the first Defense secretary nominee he'll oppose—out of 9 Reed has considered from Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden admins

They were once soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they may soon lead the nation’s national security team. @sambrodey.bsky.social on how these post-9/11 veterans mark a different generation of national security officials: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/10/n...

30 rock predicted so much about our current moment

when Dems pushed last year to eliminate the debt ceiling (the idea Trump just endorsed) House Rs slammed the idea as "insane" and the NRCC adopted it as an attack line on Dems

My take on AJ Hawk is that you can walk up and talk to him in the tavern but he can’t give you a quest or anything

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is meeting today on the Hill with Scott Bessent, Trump’s nominee for Treasury, per a source familiar Warren is set to take over as top Dem on Senate Banking next year; she had some early skepticism of Bessent pick as too Wall Street friendly

New: Among liberal senators—who might have once aligned with some RFK Jr ideas or still do—the opening posture on his nomination ranges from "I'm gonna listen" to already "disqualified" www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/15/n...

Organized labor and their allies in Congress are actually kind of optimistic that Trump's pick for Labor secretary could advance workers' interests But that optimism, one labor chief told me, is "tepid"—because the Trump admin "could be at odds with itself" www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/12/n...

in the running for Self-Own of the Year, might give Drake's Kendrick lawsuit a run

Dem candidates for state legislatures on average over-performed Harris in 2024, according to a new report from the DLCC In PA, AZ, and MI, Dem state leg candidates went from underperforming Biden in '20 to pacing ahead of Harris, which DLCC says helped limit losses at the state level

shoe leather reporting being done by the students at Penn's 34th Street Magazine

Kudos to Penn's student-run blog for quickly getting in on the local angle

Timmy Chalamet being wrong about Texas winning the SEC championship after calling the Ohio upset

the Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see

Uhhh

Inbox—Sen. Peter Welch, Vermont Democrat, on Hunter Biden pardon: “President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter is, as the action of a loving father, understandable—but as the action of our nation’s Chief Executive, unwise.”

Just in: the Trump transition team says "several" of his Cabinet nominees and other administration appointees were targeted with violent threats last night and this morning, specifically mentioning bomb threats and "swatting"

Gov Tim Walz (in what looks like his first detailed post-election comments) says he will not convene a special session of the MN legislature to prepare for Trump return, like Gavin Newsom has in CA via @startribune.com

New: Democratic state AGs are once again poised to be the strongest check on Trump—and some of them prepared years for this election outcome. "We are better prepared than we were at this point in 2016," NJ attorney general Matt Platkin told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/22/n...

My first for Rolling Stone: Did the NYT create the whole “Dems in disarray over trans rights” thing? Rep. Seth Moulton says they started it. I interviewed the Dem congressman who unintentionally sparked a narrative that trans rights hurt Dems in the election. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

my early skeets really cooked

I looked at RFK Jr's views—what one expert called a "grab bag of internally inconsistent ideas"—and why he's giving a broad range of constituencies at least one good reason to be skeptical of his nomination www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/20/n...

Looks like Bluesky has its first Republican lawmaker: Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Trump has begun referring to the University of Pennsylvania as "my powerful alma mater"

Inbox: Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota's Democratic Party (aka the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) has launched his bid for national DNC chairman Hard to match Martin's win streak: Minnesota Democrats haven't lost a statewide election in his 14 years as party chair

Bluesky 🤝 Boston Globe We're going to start sharing some of our work here. Tell us what you’re interested in reading/seeing/asking our reporters about. While you're at it, here's a list of Globe staffers who are active on this site. Give them a follow. go.bsky.app/6e6QWuh

Now official: the New England states have sent an all-Democratic delegation to the US House for the fourth election in a row, with Rep Jared Golden's victory confirmed

Trump II has barely started and the remembering some guys energy is already powerful. Madison Cawthorn in the mix for a House seat? Chris Collins, the Trump White House lawn insider trading guy? It's all possible

Sen. Susan Collins told reporters today she plans to run for a sixth Senate term in 2026 www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaig...

There are two House Republicans left in office out of the 10 who voted to impeach Trump after Jan 6: Reps Dan Newhouse and David Valadao They've both officially won re-election and will be back next year

Sherrod Brown losing his race in Ohio means that Senator Elizabeth Warren is set to be the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I have a whole new job since I last posted here so—hello new followers + Bluesky people, I cover politics for @bostonglobe.bsky.social and plan to be spending more time here sharing work

You need a perfect SAT, 4.8 GPA and sparkling extracurriculars to get into the Delta Sky Club these days

Scoop: North Carolina LG and 2024 governor candidate Mark Robinson met with Ginni Thomas and her election denial group in March 2021, shortly before he told a crowd that Biden "stole the election" www.thedailybeast.com/north-caroli...

Folks! We're rolling out The Daily Beast's brand new 2024 campaign newsletter today Trail Mix will hit your inbox with scoops, analysis, interviews, and dispatches from the road every Friday until November Sign up here: www.thedailybeast.com/newsletters?...

I don't hate the new Minnesota state flag but it looks like it wants to talk to me about the 1991 Halloween blizzard

American Pastoral remake looks lit

New from me today: I wrote about the coming AIPAC-funded effort to wipe "the Squad" out of Congress in 2024 and unpacked why progressives are so concerned it could actually work www.thedailybeast.com/the-squad-is...

out: Barbenheimer in: Natrolleon

We truly don't deserve the citizen-submitted redesigns for the Minnesota state flag