2025 Bondi should take some notes from 2011 Bondi! Bondi in 2011: " It's all about transparency in government, but some [document] requests are voluminous…But we do our best to almost drop everything and comply with public records request as soon as possible."

This week on The Focus Group Podcast I talked to @thebulwark.com's resident healthcare expert @citizencohn.bsky.social about MAHA. We hear from MAHA voters about what motivates them and what they really believe — including their spectrum of views about vaccines. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

"I don't know." For a White House that claims Trump is involved in every policy decision, there's a lot he doesn't know about...

NEW: For veterans like Ronn, cuts to the VA are a matter of life or death. "Donald Trump's cuts to the VA are killing soldiers"

JD Vance and Donald Trump give themselves an “A + + + + +” on the economy. Americans disagree. Across the country, people are speaking out and sharing how they’re struggling under Trump’s disastrous economy. Watch @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social:

NEW: Kirsten's daughter has Down syndrome and faces a 50% chance of developing Alzheimer's. Trump's cuts to the NIH are ripping away her future. "Even a disruption of a few weeks or months can delay discovery by years."

"We should take over the oil fields. It's very easy to do." Donald Trump promised to be a peacetime president. So why is he preparing for a regime change war in Venezuela?

New Focus Group Pod with @markhertling.bsky.social on civilian-military relations. We heard from Biden-to-Trump voters & MAGA Republicans on illegal orders, domestic deployments, and boat strikes — plus the new Code Pink Republican Party. @thebulwark.com. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"This year’s match-up is taking place in the shadow of a mission our troops did not sign up for: domestic deployment on US soil." #ArmyNavy #NotTheMission newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/why-todays...

The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...

"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation." Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

Pete Hegseth: "Should we follow the Geneva Conventions? What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us?…If you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs… We are just fighting with one hand behind our back."

“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.” ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran. Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE. Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇

Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."

Tucker Carlson: "There are a number of fairly influential people on the Right who've just basically said out loud 'I'm for censorship and identity politics.'…The leaders of the party are totally for censorship and identity politics…I'm not voting for you."

Tucker Carlson: "The Republican Party is almost to the point where it's just useless and I'm gonna have to oppose it…I hate them too much, because they're such betrayers…You can't take my tax dollars and then refuse to do anything about child molestation."

Ben Shapiro: "Everything from [Pam Bondi's] Epstein binders to the announcement that there would be no additional charges brought with regard to people related to the Epstein case…was handled about as badly as you can handle it. Apparently she wants to keep that pattern going."

Ben Shapiro: "Pam Bondi has been talking about the possibility of a new Epstein investigation…She has handled this about as poorly as any AG has handled any issue that I've ever seen."

Benny Johnson: "Donald Trump is often called 'the President of the World.'…That's not why we elected you, damn it. We elected you to be daddy here to care for your children, which are Americans."

Michael Fanone has been fighting back against Donald Trump since January 6, 2021. Today, that means demanding transparency for Americans and accountability for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein. Want to join the fight? Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

"Of course he knew about the girls." Check out our new billboards in New York's Times Square highlighting the recently released emails from Jeffrey Epstein about Donald Trump. They'll be in Times Square for the next two weeks.

"Of course he knew about the girls" Check out our new campaign highlighting Donald Trump’s years-long involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and calling for the release of the Epstein Files — featuring billboards in Times Square and mobile billboards driving around D.C.

Megyn Kelly: "'Hey, she was 16, what about her culpability?' Oh my god, shut up!...She was a minor! She was a child...If you're making that argument, you probably have some skeletons in your closet that you don't want me to know about." (2023)

Megyn Kelly in 2018 to Larry Nassar's victims: "These people are on notice...about the warning signs and the consequences to covering it up and putting the onus on the little girls to protect themselves."

Megyn Kelly in 2017: " If Roy Moore wants to go to the US Senate and he has a history of assaulting 14- and 16-year-old girls, it's a problem."

What happened to Megyn Kelly?

Benny Johnson implies that Virginia Giuffre did not commit suicide, and that Democrats were involved in her death in order to frame Donald Trump...

Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."

Megyn Kelly: "We have not seen some slew of young women come forward to say 'Me too,' on Donald Trump molesting them." Batya Ungar-Sargon: " There were no actual crimes…There's a pedophile, and then a bunch of friends who were getting massages at that point from women who were no longer underage."

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history. That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.

This is an excellent episode with an excellent guest Rachel Janfaza. We’re talking Zoomers. Personally I think this is a can’t-miss episode. I learned a ton. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Elise Stefanik in 2016: “I disagree with Mr. Trump on this issue. The election is not rigged...I have full faith and confidence in the outcome of the election.” Stefanik now: “They unconstitutionally rigged the 2020 election...I would not have done what Mike Pence did.”

We’re talking VA election on the focus group pod. We’ve got split ticket voters (Spanberger/Miyares) and a grizzled veteran journalist who’s been covering VA politics for decades. My prediction: Spanberger by double digits. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

The Dropkick Murphy's Ken Casey knows you can never take sh*t from a bully. That's why he's standing up and pushing back against the Trump administration with @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social. Bullies like Trump only win when we're silent, so speak up today!

NEW: Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys joins the Home of the Brave advisory board. “Growing up here in Massachusetts, you learn to never take shit from a bully...Trump's a bully who's bad for America, and it's time to stand up to him."

Donald Trump wants YOU to PAY HIM $230 million

Paul Ingrassia: " George Floyd and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race... I'm quoting Ted Kaczynski, I'm changing the quote a little bit."

George Retes is an Army veteran and U.S. citizen. He was pepper sprayed and detained by ICE for three days—without ever seeing a judge. He talked to @thebulwark.com's @timmiller.bsky.social about the harrowing experience @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Are Americans better or worse off under Trump? Sarah Matthews hit the streets to find out. #NoKings

NEW Focus Group series on the 2025 elections @thebulwark.com. First up — NYC! What do New Yorkers think about Zohran Mamdani, who will almost surely be their next mayor? I checked back in with The City's Harry Siegel to talk about NYC and the democratic socialist: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Humor is kryptonite to Trump, so let's have fun tomorrow! March, dance, sing, and laugh at your local No Kings peaceful protest on Saturday. #NoKings @gtconway.bsky.social

Q: "How does President Trump deal with the government shutdown?" Trump: "We have to get Republican votes. That's all. We have the majority...We will get it through because the Republicans are sticking together." Trump: "If it has to shut down, it'll have to shut down."

Q: "How does President Trump deal with the government shutdown?" Trump: "Well we have to get Republican votes. That's all. We have the majority." Q: "You have to get 60, don't you?" Trump: "No."

Trump said that he wants a shutdown so that he can get rid of programs the Democrats like and fire Democrats working for the government on three separate occasions today:

Tim Dillon: "Pete Hegseth is...not Defense Secretary, he's now the Secretary of War—the thing that Trump got elected to not have. We changed one of the departments in our government to the name 'War,' which might make you think we're actually gonna get into more of them."

Tim Dillon: "Hegseth is...not Defense Secretary, [he's] now the Secretary of War—the thing that Trump got elected to not have. We changed one of the departments in our government to the name 'War,' which might make you think we're actually gonna get into more of them."

Trump: "They got their Justice Department to go after their political opponent...They've weaponized the government against the political opponent." Also Trump: "Comey's a bad person. He's a sick person...Maybe [James Comey has] to pay a price....[He] should be taken care of."