Where our expected guardrails against autocracy are failing, I do think people are stepping up: in grand juries, in lawsuits, and in protests. There are reasons to hope. youtu.be/CpudvY-yHhw?...

@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social perhaps unsurprisingly, Tom Homan does not appear to have separately reported his $50,000 on his official financial disclosures. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Here's a primer on the consequences: www.citizen.org/article/pers...

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

Since DOJ won’t pursue this apparent corruption, state investigators should see whether Homan reported this payout on his taxes. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Absolutely! We are literally in the process of suing to get the plaque hung.

It's wild to watch the Supreme Court invent a "Federal Reserve only" exception to their new rule that the president can fire anyone for any reason. Everyone benefits when the president has limits. But the Court seems to recognize this only when it helps companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Grateful for the chance to appear: the Epstein story is important, both on the merits, and because it’s illustrative of how this administration will go to enormous lengths to defend the powerful.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

One of the things I didn’t have time to raise in this hit was that the Epstein/Maxwell story is really the ur story for this administration: if you are rich enough and powerful enough, this administration will stand with you. www.msnbc.com/the-weeknigh...

It’s kind of amazing how quickly these companies are folding, and to a president who is wildly unpopular. A small handful of businesses can’t have this much power over our lives.

Myself and Daniel Hodges @semperwry.bsky.social filed our lawsuit in June... to provide a brief update, the Architect of the Capitol has until Sept 30th to respond to our complaint. PUT THE DAMN PLAQUE UP!! www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/p...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

* ORACLE, SILVER LAKE, ANDREESSEN TO CONTROL TIKOK IN US: WSJ $ORCL

Just since yesterday, the President has engaged in more extrajudicial killings, promised to use the federal government's power to repress the political opposition, threatened to prosecute a reporter for asking him a question, and filed a baseless lawsuit to try to intimidate a leading news outlet.

Reed is going to run the kind of campaign necessary to defeat oligarchy. It’s great policy and great politics—please consider supporting him!

Federal arrest records for adults are not normally expunged, even when defendants are later acquitted. But at least one magistrate judge in D.C. has suggested expungement may be appropriate for surge cases that have been dismissed within weeks of their filing.

The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line

Unprecedented corruption "Steve Witkoff advocated to give the Emirates access to the chips at the same time that his and Mr. Trump’s family business was landing the crypto investment" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

This is genuinely thrilling: it’s enough that this will change the live of thousands of children and parents. But it’s also really good politics. Go go go!

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s breezy suggestion that Americans who are roughed up by ICE can sue agents in federal court is drawing pushback from civil rights attorneys. They note that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has made those cases nearly impossible to win in recent years.

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump’s effort to fire Lisa Cook as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board during litigation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Happy to join @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social We only survive this TOGETHER. 🫶🏽

LOOK, in the former case you are *favoring* someone for their race and in the latter you are hold on I'm going through a tunnel

I shit you not whoever runs on this nationally is doing Reagan numbers when it comes election time.

These stories sound wonky, but I hope Democrats run on them. Illiberal governments tend to collapse under the weight of their own corruption. These stories show Trump doesn’t care about his voters, just a tiny sliver of rich elites. I hope people run on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

I don’t think the solution for Democrats is to embrace an historically unpopular industry in exchange for more money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

We sometimes say a decision is "unreasoned," but that's literally the case here -- the court doesn't provide any reasons for its decision. No one is doing more damage to the credibility of the Supreme Court than the court itself.

BREAKING: #SCOTUS lifts order blocking "roving" ICE raids in L.A.-area. No explanation from apparent 6-justice majority, but Kavanaugh writes solo explanation. All 3 liberals dissent, argue court is blessing discrimination against Latinos. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...

Man, they REALLY don’t want to hang that plaque honoring the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6. @acyn.bsky.social

Scary and not getting enough attention: when Trump deployed the military to LA, soldiers were given written orders to comply with Posse Comitatus, then given *verbal* orders to ignore the earlier written ones. The stuff illiberal governments are built on. www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...

www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/u... At least 3 officers deaths were ruled line of duty deaths. And with Brian Sicknick's death even being ruled a natural cause death... “all that transpired” on January 6 “played a role in his condition.” - Dr. Francisco Diaz

We’re so lucky Brad Bondi didn’t get elected president of the DC Bar…. abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops...

After months of GOP attacks, the former special counsel and his legal team respond to an ethics complaint from Sen. Tom Cotton, dismissing the allegations as “imaginary and unfounded.” @anthonycoley.bsky.social and @brendanballou.bsky.social respond on The Weeknight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1eD...

This is the direct result of the Justice Department *wrecking* its credibility in a matter of months. DOJ’s power is only the power to persuade, and it’s losing that power stunningly fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

“This is inexcusable. But it only gets worse from there.” Judge Faruqui is one of the most considerate, even-tempered judges in DC. That he is so viscerally enraged by what’s happening in DC is telling. Worth reading his decision. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump wants to “rewrite the history of Jan 6”: Former DOJ official @brendanballou.bsky.social slams revisionist history push

Thankfully voters love big corporations right now. This will be a very popular message.

NOW: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office said today a *third* grand jury has refused charges against a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent during an ICE arrest. Instead, they'll now try to push ahead with a misdemeanor version of the charge. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

I'll be speaking at the Rule of Law Summit on Oct. 22. In ordinary times, I might disagree with the panelists on lots of things, but I'm so grateful for our shared commitment to democracy: on this, we're united. www.eventbrite.com/e/rule-of-la...

Lol I have the administration’s attention. Also, if you’re the *Deputy Attorney General*, how pathetic is it to personally look up your critics on LinkedIn. Go solve a crime!

Ex-DOJ attorney @brendanballou.bsky.social: DOJ’s Maxwell interview seeks to cast perpetrators as victims