So in addition to very real concerns about intentional malfeasance by RFK Jr. using identifiable medical records, there is also the problem of not trusting those who will have access. I spent 30 years protecting the health information of study participants.

One of many reasons I’m concerned about RFK Jr. getting his hands on identifiable medical records from 90% of the U.S. population is this: The administration cannot be trusted to safeguard the data. In 2020 in Finland, psychiatry records from 30,000 people were hacked and put on the dark web.

In 2025, the USDA cancelled its research on food security, saying “These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger”. A New York survey just reported that there are now more people who can’t feed their families than there were at the worst of COVID19.

Today, the American Diabetes Association had security remove from their conference scientists who were handing out an Editorial on the harms caused by the Trump admin. “These attendees were escorted out by our…security because they demonstrated behavior not consistent with this code of conduct”.

The Open Courts Act would require the federal judiciary to overhaul PACER, the online repository of court records, and make the service free to access, reports @courthousenews.bsky.social.

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

US President Donald Trump says he wants his incoming acting spy chief -- a loyalist with no previous intelligence experience -- to start firing employees u.afp.com/SDaf

Trump claims he pardoned someone who sentence to 7 years in jail "because he got caught fixing his car"

Popok: I am troubled by how many people are willing to endanger their law licenses in the service of Tump. Is it the proximity to power? Luttig: It’s proximity to Trump. If the president is calling the judges corrupt and you represent the president, then that’s your mindset

Wow Trump struggles to remember the name of the Washington Monument:

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

BREAKING: The Trump administration tried to falsely declare 2.7 million people as dead in Social Security records in order to upend their lives. Our client, whistleblower Jeremiah Schofield, spoke with the Washington Post about his explosive new revelations.

Looking at change rates in wages versus consumer prices 3-month annualized, in the most recent data... Wages (red) up at a 2.8% rate and prices up at 7.3% rate (blue). So real hourly wages falling at abt 4.5% annualized rate. If continues, average hour'll buy 4.5% less than a year before

Disbar them all.

I do not want to ever again hear about Democrats interfering in the private marketplace.

The veteran correspondents staying at 60 Minutes are making the same mistake WaPo reporters did. 60 Minutes fate lies with viewers, not Bari Weiss or any internal deal she cut with them. Viewers will abandon 60 Minutes just as they did WaPo because, for good reason, they no longer trust the owner.

This is how it's done! 👇

The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed rule that, if implemented, would forbid grant recipients from using federal funds to help Americans register to vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

TODAY: AZ AG to seek new charges against Trump's 2020 coconspirators, ballroom donors get more than $50B in government contracts, and Trump's name is coming off the Kennedy Center. News with swearing, always free: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com

American foreign policy explained by @timothysnyder.bsky.social in under a minute. A baby in a bulldozer. 🎯 #Pinks

In this video, I say the obvious about Trump’s proposal to increase the military budget by nearly 50%: it’s a bribe to officers and soldiers so that they will side with him when he tries to overthrow the Constitution and stay in power indefinitely. snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-mil...

Then get him out. apnews.com/article/trum...

Democracy is the house that we all live in. Donald Trump and his Supreme Court are setting that house on fire.

Happy 250th everyone. The Founders’ faith is now disqualifying.

Great explainer from @crampell.bsky.social on why we’ll all be invested in Musk open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

The "secret donors" that funded the MUTUAL AID tent outside Delaney Hall—which was provided in the winter LONG BEFORE these recent protests—was: The Local Essex County government....

FYI: the space station is leaking from the Russian side because of the terrible material the Russians used on their part. I heard this from an astronaut who served on board the space station The leak has existed for a while. Now it’s growing

I second every sentiment James Carville makes here about Trump. We aren’t angry enough at what Trump and this administration is doing to our beloved country. Stay angry folks and get ready to vote in November, we have to turn out numbers too big to rig.

"Weiss was installed at CBS News as a compliant mouthpiece for the Trump-allied Ellisons, who bought Paramount and now need government approval for a merger that would also hand them control of CNN." - Brian Tyler Cohen www.democracydocket.com/opinion/bari...

President Donald Trump said Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence (DNI), will investigate elections that the president falsely claimed were “rigged.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In his evening address, Zelenskyy said Putin's refusal to meet was weak. "He just does not want to end the war. I think many in the world were disappointed by his answer. He doesn't want to change anything. Those who make money from the war were all smiling today."

Happy 1 year anniversary to this tweet.

There may have been world leaders somewhere in history that sounded dumber than this. But if there was, I don’t know them.

Joe Kernen says he's ready to trade Minnesota to Canada

So independent!

the buck stops... over there somewhere. no, a little further than that. nope, little bit more. one more scooch

Q: Has China started buying American famers' product? What's the status on that? HASSETT: Um, I'd have to get an update on that

Pipelines also famously impossible to sabotage.

"One of the most popular and profitable grifts in the world of the religious right and MAGA is the production of propaganda to convince Christians that they are horribly discriminated against, or even oppressed, by the government and government funded entities." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

Republicans are taking the fattest, fastest L in history losing the war in Iran and they’re like, ‘Engh, this is fine. $10 a gallon gas is gonna be good for the economy. No fertilizer is gonna be great for public health, just you watch.’

Thats not how it works

“Ivanka, Go Home.” Thousands of protestors just took to the streets to stop Ivanka Trump from paving over a protected coastline. Now, prosecutors have frozen assets tied to the deal: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/pressure-w...

House passes a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction Russia. The bill is mostly symbolic since it would still have to pass the Senate and be signed by Trump. We all know Trump has already lifted sanctions on his buddy Putin so it’s a no go. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/AIZDzNdeASy2...

Jared Kushner thought he could quietly pave over a protected coastline for a $4B resort. A foreign government just froze the bank accounts behind it, leaving him totally silent. Read: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/pressure-w...

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.