BREAKING on MSNBC: The federal prosecutor in charge of investigating whether Sen. Adam Schiff should be charged with mortgage fraud has told her bosses in Washington she did not think the case was strong enough to move forward — via @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

BOOM 🔥: Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut has GRANTED a 2nd TRO blocking National Guard from ANY state be sent to Oregon. She was very annoyed the DOJ circumvented her order from yesterday. I'll be joining Adam Klasfeld on Substack live to discuss in a few minutes...

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, says Democrats will raise a point of order to strip the Medicaid ban on gender-affirming care in OBBB: "this is a private choice for adults. It should belong to them."

The budget is a statement of values. The budget is policy. This budget is awful.

Get you some co-mayors who wave the trans flag while blowing kisses and dance like nobody's watching with the rainbow one

Brad and Zohran and Tish at NYC Pride! I think Brad is having the most fun. 😆

If only he had a way to vote in accordance with his stated beliefs!

“This bill is so terrible that it has stained the very soul of our party, but, sure, I’ll vote for it.” - Josh Hawley

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

The key theme is not any judicial philosophy. The Roberts majority doesn’t use any consistently. The key theme is aggressive quick action against those who try to enforce the laws and Constitution on Trump. And extreme passivity on Trump’s illegal actions. It’s an anti-anti-Trump court.

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper

She took half a million dollars from AIPAC 2019-2024 and isn't up for reelection until 2030, people must be absolutely HAMMERING her phones for her to retreat on this lol

[Insert Anne Frank quote]

This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.

The ADL fired 22 people, all who worked on issues like civil rights for other communities. This is part of larger changes: 1. Ending its anti-bias training, which focused on other forms of bigotry. 2. Removing 134 pages from the site that educated on issues like trans identity & white privilege

I’m so sorry to every single person who has given their life’s work - time, tears, talent - to the admirable climate efforts at NOAA. The work is important and will continue, and I will grieve this loss.

“power concedes nothing without a demand, frederick douglass taught us that,” says deborah mcdowell, a professor here since 1987. we must do everything in our power to resist this, “authoritarians are never satisfied. they are greedy.”

another speaker on the steps clarifies that as much as people may love & support jim ryan, “this is not about jim, this is about inappropriate interference in the process.” crowd now chanting “hands off UVA”

the uva faculty senate asks the board of visitors to condemn the demands from the DOJ that led to ryan’s resignation & asks for a meeting with the BOV to clarify the situation

The @nytimes.com only reported, in surprise, on what was happening at UVA last night & today the president is already out. This delay in reporting Trump's & Vance's attacks on higher ed more broadly, including public universities, is due to the @nytimes.com' monomaniacal focus on the Ivy League.

I have seen Jim's resignation letter and I still do not believe that him resigning will do anything to protect anybody else's job (I appreciate that he sees things differently). Columbia has not gotten their grants back. There is no proof they won't just keep punishing UVA.

Told a reporter we will need collective action in the days ahead at UVA and that the reality is, it will likely require the famous alums stepping up. They don't care about a lil Black girl from the 757. But people like Katie will matter more.

Today’s resignation by UVA president due to DOJ pressure should be understood amid yesterday’s creation by Southern states of their own higher education accreditation agency. Both seek to wield power against the independence of universities.

The letter Rep. Ogles posted to Twitter outlining why he thinks Mamdani should be deported, including the claim that, “Mamdani has recently refused opportunities to reject the pro-terrorist rallying cry to ‘globalize the intifada’”:

Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.

There’s a kind of person who considers anyone who cares about Palestinians a de facto antisemite and apparently Frum is one of them. Zohran has plenty of Jewish friends and cross endorsed a Jewish candidate but since he’s Muslim, I guess that’s not enough for Frum

MAGA groups are calling on Trump to deport Zohran Mamdani. The Republicans for National Renewal tweeted, “We fully support this initiative. Communist radical Mamdani should be remigrated as soon as possible,” and the John Birch Society posted “💯” https://trib.al/AjOFfft

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

TAPPER: Republicans are debating a $15m fund for rural hospitals to offset some of the concerns about what the bill does do Medicaid DUCKWORTH: It's like the person setting the fire saying, 'Hey, you know what, we need a fire department!'...Americans did not vote for the 'we're all gonna die' party

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

ICE has detained Paola Clouatre, the wife of service-disabled U.S. Marine Corps veteran and mother of two children under two. One of them is still breast-feeding.

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

I had a chance to review DHS v. DVD (the Sure You Can Remove People to Randomass Third Countries case) and If the Supreme Court isn't gonna listen to the Constitution or lower court judges I don't see why lower court judges should listen to the Court tbqh! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Amber Thurman. Candi Miller. Josseli Barnica. Nevaeh Crain. Porsha Ngumezi. On the third anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, revisit our reporting about the women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans:

AP—Alvin Bragg, Manhattan prosecutor who took on Trump, wins Democratic primary in bid for second term

SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them

I read a thesis this week and it cited a report that I knew had been updated with new numbers last year. That's what it means to care about your research area. I have to be an actual expert because nobody would ever let me get away with any of this (and because I'm not a monster).

it is unfathomable to some people that a person can have a good life and go "damn it'd be cool if other people also had good lives we should make that happen"

General ed is about to get mighty narrow. I do tell my students that if you don’t enroll, major, and pass, schools start making cuts.

America's national science agency officially homeless

In a few months, Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step was to unleash the AI. A reminder of what has happened:

Also in February, we learned that Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt were listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).