THIS. 'Johnson’s retreat on surveillance reform comes at the exact moment Americans should be demanding stronger protections, not weaker ones.' Nice work from @jasonpye.bsky.social and Sean Vitka, via @thehill.com cc @enbrown.bsky.social @frashure.org

Congressional leaders keep running away from the fact that majorities on the left and the right want FISA reform. If Speaker Johnson wants to stop face-planting on FISA, he needs to stop stonewalling and finally allow votes on real privacy protections. Read all about it today in @thehill.com

On Friday, the Trump administration, which is demanding that Congress pass a straight reauthorization of FISA Section 702, missed a deadline to declassify a FISA Court opinion that reportedly reveals yet more major Section 702 compliance problems. 1/14

"Section 702 is so vast that it incidentally collects Americans’ information... Some of these AI systems, they can essentially track where you’re coming, where you’re going, where you work, political affiliations." - Vice President @jasonpye.bsky.social Read more: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

In a dramatic scene that unfolded in the wee hours this morning, members of the House defeated a ploy by the administration and Speaker Johnson to ram through a 5-year reauthorization of FISA Section 702. Here’s what happened, and what will/should happen next. 1/20

The USA FREEDOM debate was about banning bulk collection, & was strongly focused on doing so for all types of data. Congress said this clearly and repeatedly, including in the very report that Gerstall cites to falsely claim the issue was exclusively about call records not bulk collection at large!

Conservative Ohio congressman Warren Davidson with an important op-ed in @thehill.com about the need to reform Section 702 if Congress reauthorizes it, and to close the loophole that lets law enforcement skirt your Fourth Amendment rights with cash. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

JUST IN: Fed judge in Seattle strikes down several provisions in Trump executive order on election integrity. Judge John Chun (Biden) says the Constitution assigns the president no role in election administration. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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I'd love to see a reporter ask rank-and-file ICE agents if they understand that the administration is clearly hoping one of them gets killed out there. "Are you ready to give your life to become a meme pushed by incels on Twitter for a couple days?"

And the world moves forward to greater peace & prosperity, without 🇺🇸. Thank you, Donald Trump, for this Golden Age… 🫠 cc @dpounder.bsky.social @fergdawg.bsky.social @frashure.org @tylerharris.bsky.social @jasonpye.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

No declaration of war. No congressional oversight. No accountability. 'At least 95 people have now been killed in strikes on suspected drug boats as part of a campaign, dubbed Operation Southern Spear' via @cnn.com Welcome to the Golden Age. www.cnn.com/2025/12/15/p...

"The Safer Supervision Act is a responsible, data-driven approach to improving federal probation and supervised release... it delivers smarter justice, supports victims, and keeps communities secure." - @jasonpye.bsky.social, Vice President Press release: www.lee.senate.gov/2025/11/lee-...

'President Trump early Tuesday threatened to send more troops to cities amid his crackdown on crime, telling U.S. service members in Japan that *** some places may need “more than the National Guard ***”' via @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/sta... @radleybalko.bsky.social @billybinion.bsky.social

My stepdaughter is trying to explain the “6-7” thing to me. No, I didn’t ask for her to explain it.

#NoKings in Leesburg, Virginia

From @jasonpye.bsky.social: “The fusionist experiment is dead.” https://www.exiledpolicy.com/p/on-the-death-of-conservative-libertarian

Despite the political rhetoric surrounding crime, the violent crime rate in the United States dropped to its lowest level since 1969. @jasonpye.bsky.social analyzes the most recent crime data and explains how public perception continues to lag behind the facts: idueprocess.org/blog/f/crime...

“It’s a self-licking ice cream cone of crazy” former Congressman @denverr.bsky.social explains why Trump’s $10 billion dollar lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over the Epstein story may come back to haunt him.

NEW! @biodoss.bsky.social @frashure.bsky.social & I spoke w @jasonpye.bsky.social w. @dueprocess.bsky.social & discussed the erosion of due process rights & Constitutional protections under the Trump admin.➕hyper-partisanship, the budget bill, authoritarianism & more open.spotify.com/episode/4NTP...

Special guest @jasonpye.bsky.social from @dueprocess.bsky.social joined us on the podcast to discuss due process and the One Bad Behemoth Bill.

CBO published the estimated interest costs of the House-passed OBBBA. The estimate is $551 billion. Brings the deficit impact to $3 trillion. There are 16 provisions that could be extended before they expire. If all are extended, the deficit impact would be around $4.3 trillion.

🤩 Huge news as Vice President Jason Pye (@jasonpye.bsky.social) is now a member of the Council on Criminal Justice! 👏 Join us in congratulating Jason as he continues to be an outstanding advocate and voice for criminal legal reform!

"More than 70 million Americans have a record — either of an arrest or a conviction. Sealing a record is the key to providing someone with a meaningful opportunity to move forward." Read @jasonpye.bsky.social's op-ed on why Congress should support the Clean Slate Act: thehill.com/opinion/5241...

This potentially looming recession is a policy choice.

Your $1,000 iPhone is now a $1,540 iPhone.

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” — F.A. Hayek

My wallet isn’t gonna feel liberated.

80 years of progress thrown away by an orange buffoon.

Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

Claremonsters continue their march through the institutions in pursuit of a grandiose Caesarism.

We prefer to call it Pye Day so we can celebrate just how amazing @jasonpye.bsky.social is 🤩📷 #PiDay2025

Pye Day.

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social Grow a beard and embarrass Scott Jennings.

Trump: “Putin wants peace.” Putin to Ukraine: “Surrender or die.” This was always an exercise in futility. Putin has said Ukraine is part of Russia. He won’t stop until it’s a satellite state. You’re kidding yourself if you believe otherwise.

I bought an Ioniq 5 over a Tesla a couple of years ago because I didn’t trust Tesla and thought Musk was a little crazy. Was that illegal?

I’m not a fan of Elon Musk, but spinning his comments about entitlements to say that cuts are coming is misleading. The context there is “fraud.” Granted, there’s no where near the amount of improper payments—not all of which is fraud—in entitlements that Musk claimed.

FWIW, the CR spends about $2 billion less than CBO's projections for discretionary outlays in FY 2025 and $52.7 billion more than FY 2024. There isn't a spending cut here.

Oh, my bride, @empye.bsky.social, is now on this platform.

"Tariffs are taxes. Lower is better. Zero is best." - Kevin Brady, former Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee