Dissenting Conservative Justices Signal that Ending Birthright Citizenship Is Their Movement’s Next Goal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dissent...

How do you tax extreme wealth? It's no picnic—esp at the federal level—for constitutional reasons & political ones. (The public wants it, but the oligarchs hold the cards.) Even unrealized gains appear untouchable, but good ideas are afoot. cc: @bdgesq.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social

A team called Joint Task Force Vanguard, led by 2 prosecutors w/experience tackling gangs + terrorism cases who report directly to acting AG Blanche, is cracking down on "Antifa" + other political groups. More exclusive details from @joshkovensky.bsky.social: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

So many prosecutors have left DOJ over the last year and a half that it's caused some to ask: can the admin find lawyers willing to do its bidding who also have real prosecutorial experience?

The DOJ has tapped two prosecutors with gang and terrorism experience to implement NSPM-7. One is a former right-wing blogger. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

This indictment seems to allege, specifically, that Alexander Iniguez Mercado committed obstruction of justice "by uninstalling the Signal application" from his phone:

Latest in "DC's adventures with the National Guard": the Guard deployments appear to have expanded to include troops from Michigan, Minnesota, and North Carolina. As far as I know these are the only NG troops from states with Dem governors to be sent here

Sen. Cassidy did reportedly get in a shouting match with Trump during that same luncheon. Hours later, he votes "no" on a Iran WPR when he was an "aye" just a day before on a nearly identical WPR

My latest is for @talkingpointsmemo.com: The definitive history of Tucker the chameleon: Over the last three decades, he has continuously shifted his brand to meet the audience demands What does Tucker Carlson believe? Always do what's best for Tucker Carlson. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-defin...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

It's kind of wild how much Congress - and every other American institution- let slide in January 2025

this is what is insane abt this case and these sentences. this isn't a sandwich throw. real violence happened here. a cop got shot. but by framing the protest as a conspiracy people who literally were uninvolved in the violence got de facto life sentences

In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”

oh my god

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

In Texas, Savanna Batten & Elizabeth Soto received 50 year sentences for: ✅wearing black clothing ✅ printing antifascist zines ⬇️ read, from @joshkovensky.bsky.social This is authoritarianism. On Tyranny lesson from @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Two federal judges hit activists that the Trump administration held up as part of a supposed "North Texas Antifa Cell" with multi-decade sentences Tuesday

more here: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

The Prairieland demonstrators got maximum sentences from two Texas federal judges this morning – they're ordered to serve them consecutively. The lowest sentence was 30 years, for a man not at the protest, but who was convicted of concealing documents talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

really disturbing news out of Texas today from my colleague @joshkovensky.bsky.social who has been covering the Trump administration's campaign to treat dissent as terrorism:

This is the one where they prisoner had a 5th Cir. decision *in his hand* that said prison officials could not cut off his locs, and they threw it in the trash along with his locs. Today SCOTUS holds he cannot sue to be compensated for this clear and obvious violation of his constitutional rights.

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

On the most recent ep of @tpmsocialclub.bsky.social @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I were joined by @rmac.bsky.social to chat about the world's first trillionaire and what exactly Elon wants www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpiH...

In his column on Todd Blanche's abuse of the legal system, @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social confuses charges against co-conspirators and the actual defendants in the Broadview 6 case, effectively falling for a legal ploy that Trump likes to use. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...

Wild news that shows a combination of the growing unpopularity of the Trump administration’s actions (and the importance of pushback), the ethical and legal questions raised by so many of the administration’s actions, and the administration’s incompetence.

News: The Onion is launching the new Infowars July 2. After years of legal wrangling and months of maneuvering by Alex Jones's lawyers to block its takeover, the Sandy Hook families are finally getting their first check... from The Onion. www.ms.now/news/onion-s...

A transcript of the FBI agent's testimony in the "Broadview Six" grand jury proceedings has been made public The agent normally worked violent crimes, "to include bank robberies, fugitives, kidnappings." Instead they had him searching Instagram and Googling things like "guitar girl Broadview ICE" 👇

An interesting analogue here is the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He became a citizen in 2012. Seven months later, he staged the Boston Marathon Bombing, saying he was inspired by Al-Qaeda.

The DOJ is attempting to strip a Somalia-born Minneapolis man of his citizenship, citing actions he took after he became a citizen. To do so, it’s relying solely on a McCarthy-era law. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

DOJ Invokes McCarthy-Era Law to Strip Somalia-born Minnesotan of Citizenship talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

For the first time, the DOJ is seeking to strip someone of their citizenship based solely on a McCarthy-era law. There's no claim that the person did anything wrong before he became a citizen. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

DOJ Invokes McCarthy-Era Law to Strip Somalia-born Minnesotan of Citizenship For the first time, the DOJ is moving to revoke an American's citizenship based solely on a McCarthy-era law, relying entirely on allegations of actions taken while the man was a citizen.

Some people who spoke with TPM aren’t confident that Trump's new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will remain independent from the president for long.

curious that Trump is not getting the screaming hysterical condemnation from the media that Biden got when he faced facts and ended the Afghanistan occupation

“How much of Musk’s wealth comes from government help? Virtually all of it” www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/b...

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin. Raskin is demanding documents from Patel — citing claims that $8,000 payments are made to agents who carry out "unlawful partisan and personal orders."

From the @texastribune.org: “I would strongly advise you to leave our caucus,” [former state GOP chair Abraham] George said. “There is a Democrat convention happening in a couple weeks. Join them.”

“In the case of the Insurrection Act, Vice President JD Vance pushed to invoke it just days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Was great chatting with @joshkovensky.bsky.social about some pretty awful people and what they are up to, on both sides of the Atlantic.

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury

On her third try before the grand jury, Sheri Mecklenburg admitted that she had spoken about the case to two grand jurors that morning, per a transcript in the Broadview Six case

Great reporting by TPM's @joshkovensky.bsky.social and @khayahimmelman.bsky.social with @kateriga.bsky.social. This story deserves to be widely read. Bookmark it. Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Ruling Is a New Injustice. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

Update on this: Jake Lang, the Jan. 6 rioter and white supremacist, went to a Frisco City Council meeting last week to threaten local leaders not to approve the construction of new religious buildings serving Hindus and Muslims www.dallasobserver.com/news/jake-la...

I remember seeing the Trump-Vance attack ad saying Harris was for “transgender surgeries for illegals in prison!” and thinking we had passed into self parody, Iike a ticker item from the “Succession” credits. Turned out to be the most effective ad of the cycle. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/u...

Bo French is declaring victory in his bid to be the GOP nominee for Texas railroad commissioner. This race was interesting bc French largely ran on islamophobia, 'DEI,' deporting 100 million ppl -- issues totally unrelated to the oil regulator job he's seeking.

Europe's leading far-right extremists are gathering to promote what critics say is a plan for "ethnic cleansing." Speakers include an AfD lawmaker — and the head of New York's Young Republicans. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...