Trump lackey Brendan Carr, who oversees the Federal Communications Commission, "has veered dangerously into blurring the lines between regulation and retaliation, using the FCC to intimidate media companies rather than protecting free expression."

Once an enormous opportunity to hold Trump accountable, now gone. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/26/p...

Makes a lot of sense. These are the sort of structural reforms that can build trust in government (and effectiveness).

The No Kings Alliance stands with the Starbucks baristas on strike. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting. Power still belongs to the people who make this country run: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge

Ranked-choice voting makes sense for party primaries because party primaries often feature fractured fields.

LISTEN TO TY COBB’S WARNINGS ABOUT TRUMP (he’s a conservative lawyer who worked directly for Trump, not some “crazy liberal” or RINO). www.huffpost.com/entry/ty-cob...

Utility rates are up 11% since Trump took office, health care premiums are about to surge for millions, and Trump’s tariffs have driven grocery prices up. But you wouldn’t know it by watching our president. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-w...

Wild recklessness.

This is the sound of candidates losing the struggle against the crushing weight of partisan gravity. This is nationalization and polarization and presidentialization swallowing everything else. This is the dangerous collapse of dimensionality, in one chart leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

oh just straight up gutter racism!

My @americanprogress.bsky.social colleague Mike Sozan reports on the success of the "No Kings" protests. If they keep growing at the same rate—40% over 4 months—from 5M in June to 7M in October—the protests will hit that magic 3.5% of Americans (12M) by May 2026.

NEW: My CAP colleague Ben Olinsky has written a sobering examination of the surge in antisemitism in America and delivers seven solid nonpartisan policy recommendations for fighting it. @americanprogress.bsky.social

Everyday Americans hold the power to stop authoritarianism. The peaceful No Kings protests are a continued huge step in the right direction. Read my latest @americanprogress.bsky.social column about the path ahead. www.americanprogress.org/article/amer...

“Letitia James would be among the many Black women that support their families.” Thanks @nytimes.com for covering @kennedyandara.bsky.social Bela Salas-Betsch & my research @americanprogress.bsky.social in this story about the experiences of Black breadwinning women. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/n...

Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.

Leah and I just got off the stage in DC. More than 200k. Double what we saw for Hands Off! This movement is incredible. We’re better than fear. We’re braver than billionaires. We’re bigger than ever. And we will win. #NoKings

If approx 12 million Americans peacefully protest today for #NoKings, transformative change will be hard to stop! Learn more about the powerful 3.5% rule…

Important analysis from my @americanprogress.bsky.social colleague…

New Pod @michaelsozan.bsky.social from @americanprogressaction.org joins the pod to discuss Trump’s authoritarian plan to consolidate power & go after perceived enemies Mike & @colin-seeberger.bsky.social also discuss #JimmyKimmel, the potential government shutdown & how Democrats are pushing back

SCOTUS has been hacking away at the separation of church and state. This is the legacy of the Roberts Court. More from @thedailyhayley.bsky.social and I on that for @americanprogress.bsky.social, here: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

Today is the first day of the 2025-2026 Supreme Court term and we just released our major new report on religion at the Roberts Court: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

To be absolutely clear on what just happened here, Trump ousted this veteran career prosecutor *precisely because* he would *not* cook the facts to bring a corrupt prosecution against one of Trump's leading enemies. To Trump, refusing to prosecute his foes for fake crimes is a firing offense.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

It’s incredible: Trump is unpopular — 40% approval rating. Yet, corporations and others are capitulating to him, like they did to Orbán in Hungary. Civil society and the media need to push back in a strong, concerted effort. It can be scary but it must be done.

Ezra Levin: This is a movement that understands cowardice is contagious. When Disney and ABC capitulate 1,000 other institutions are looking at them...That cowardice, it endangers all of us, but it is not inevitable. This is a movement that also knows the courage is contagious. #NoKingsKickOff

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

my conversation with @gregsargent.bsky.social about censorship, 1st A and cowardly legacy media: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Delighted that USA Today published my opinion piece today on @americanprogress.bsky.social's plan to undo Citizens United through state corporation laws.

Some personal news: CAP published my report, "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant," today, and I'm proud to share it with the world. State by state, this approach can be used to rid our politics of corporate and dark money. It may be the most meaningful work I ever do.

Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut. CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."

Americans from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly oppose Citizens United and would like to rid the U.S. political system of corporate and dark money. Learn more from CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

An important read…….

Massie: "I don't know if the Speaker misspoke when he said Donald Trump was an informant ... the Speaker needs to clarify that. And if it's a hoax, why was Donald Trump an informant to a hoax?"

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics had a Twitter account with sexually degrading and bigoted attacks. Sounds like he'll fit perfectly into Trump's current cast of characters.

GOP Senator Barrasso just pushed back against RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. What RFK Jr. has done at HHS is not "Make America Healthy Again." It's "Making America go back back hundreds of years to a time before we believed in science."

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

Powerful article from 2 leaders at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social, incl. former Dean Treanor. In the face of Trump admin. attacks, they make potent arguments about protecting educ. & religious institutions, freedom of speech/religion, & diverse democracy. (1/2) www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

Trump's military occupation is targeting Black and Brown residents, immigrants, youth, and unhoused neighbors in DC. DC is our home, not a military zone. On Sept 6, march with us to demand an end to Trump’s unprecedented takeover of DC.

Very important article from @timothynoah.bsky.social. And happy to have my work about the power of protests cited in here.

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator

This is a good reminder from a REPUBLICAN president…

Chants of #FreeDC at the DC United game. And it hasn't even started yet.

A mom in Texas feels it’s no longer safe to walk her kids to school. A grocery store in Virginia lost the butchers at its meat counter. And at a cherry orchard in Oregon, unpicked berries are rotting in the sun. How immigration crackdowns are reshaping America: https://cnn.it/4mqI53z

President Trump’s recent actions in Washington, D.C., are dangerous political theater and serve as a distraction from the countless ways his administration is harming public safety. Learn more:

Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."

Very important point here.