‘Greene, Straying From Trump, Reflects an Emerging MAGA Split’ The right-wing Republican congresswoman from Georgia has grown disillusioned with her own party and with President Trump, and increasingly willing to say so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u... By @anniekarni.bsky.social

Camp Mystic is reopening, and planning to build a memorial that families of the 27 girls who died say they were not consulted about and do not want. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

This got me- Ben Terris' NY Mag profile of "Top Goon" Kristi Noem quotes the 28-year-old Noem made Deputy Director of ICE saying: “I absolutely think I’m qualified for the job,” she told me. “Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?” nymag.com/intelligence...

Schumer, Wary of Blowback, Holds Out on Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Rich @anniekarni.bsky.social read on Eleanor Holmes Norton's weakness at the DC oversight hearing. "She often stumbled and sounded as if she was not following the meaning of what she said, emphasizing words that did not make sense to emphasize." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

"Working-class lawmakers in Congress remain few and far between. “Nothing has changed,” said Nicholas @carnes.bsky.social, a professor of public policy at Duke University. “It’s been between zero and 2 percent forever.”"

Even in uncertain times, there are routines that create a sense of normalcy: the start of a new school year, holiday decorations going up too early, Republicans from selective bouts of blindness regarding the words and actions of President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

The "we should have more younger members of Congress" conversation isn't just about things like whether committee chair term limits choke off paths to power. It's also about things like this.

Juggling Congress and Life, She Opted to Freeze Her Eggs www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

In the Battle for Congress, Working-Class Democrats Try a Hardscrabble Pitch www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Loved this

More here from @anniekarni.bsky.social on the group willing to defy Trump, at least on the Epstein case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Memo: On Epstein Files, Women Lead the G.O.P. Resistance to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Trump Team Urges G.O.P. to Rebrand Signature Policy Law www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

“We are going to unleash righteous hellfire on them until the cheating scheme ends,” @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social tells @anniekarni.bsky.social.

“We are going to release righteous hellfire on them until the cheating scheme ends,” Jeffries tells me of redistricting. Not clear it will ultimately give Trump what he wants - what is clear is it’s creating maximum chaos. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

Interesting candidate alert. In Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust Collins www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

Congressman’s Stock Trades Draw More Scrutiny After Key Votes www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

A G.O.P. Congressman Faced His Voters. It Wasn’t Pretty. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

And I thought it was a weird big ask when NPR asked us to donate our cars

Why Cortez Masto Tangled With Cory Booker on the Senate Floor www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

This was great

Democrats clash on the Senate floor on how to take on Trump: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/u...

This Democrat Wants Cognitive Standards in Congress. Her Colleagues Disagree. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...

NYT Congressional correspondent @anniekarni.bsky.social talks about how the Epstein story is still consuming Capitol Hill. Listen: www.wnyc.org/story/the-ho...

Weds. guest list: David French, John Bresnahan, Lauren Hirsch, Rev. Al Sharpton, Annie Karni, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Tim Weiner, Vicky Ward, Tim Miller, Ed Luce, Andrew Ross Sorkin, David Rosenthal, Ben Gilbert, Eugenio Derbez

Tillis, now liberated from worrying about his political fate, still tempered his direct criticisms of Trump. He pinned the blame for the Medicaid cuts and other unpopular policies not on the president but on unnamed people around him. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

“Is it newsworthy to be even doing this dance where you ask her a thing, she says something that makes no sense, and staff has to walk it back? Like, what are we doing? Or are we showing the problem? I don’t know what the answer is,” says @anniekarni.bsky.social.

For Johnson, the margins are always too slim, the bill is always teetering on the brink of death, there is always more trouble looming and mini-rebellions are always flaring up. But with Trump’s muscle it usually works out. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Some viewed the backroom dealing as the work of a savvy lawmaker. But critics castigated Murkowski, saying she had besmirched herself by taking a bribe to secure her vote for a bill that she, herself, said was dangerous for the majority of the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Tillis announces he will not seek reelection next year: "It's become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species." @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

If Rs are stressed about losing Bacon, they have their own dysfunction to blame. His disillusionment w/Congress peaked in '23 when his wife was so scared of threats from Jordan for Speaker supporters that she slept w/a gun in bed. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

There is so much happening right now that NYT is running 5 live blogs.

Guest wrote the California Today newsletter — Padilla’s Unlikely Moment. static.nytimes.com/email-conten...

Notable from Rep. Jamie Raskin: “Eleanor is an icon who brought the spirit of the civil rights movement from the 20th century into the 21st, but it’s going to take a new generation of leadership to win statehood and the battles of the day" @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

New: Breaking With Trump, Bacon Says He Won’t Follow His Party ‘Off the Cliff’ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

Fearful House Republicans Scramble to Mollify Musk: Republicans are bending over backward to appease the world’s richest man, who is furious at them for voting for a bill to deliver Trump’s domestic policy agenda. (@anniekarni.bsky.social @teddyschleifer.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

Fearful House Republicans Scramble to Mollify Musk www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

Trump voters want Republican members of Congress to show loyalty to the president, not independence, and they disparage any who balk, whether it be the hard-right Freedom Caucus or more moderate "RINOs" senators. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

For These Voters, a Rubber-Stamp Congress Is a Key Demand: In a pair of focus groups, voters loyal to President Trump judged members of Congress almost entirely according to whether they backed him—and rejected lawmakers who dared to dissent. (@anniekarni.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

@anniekarni.bsky.social with some insights from our focus groups with Trump voters: "...participants consistently praised lawmakers who displayed 'loyalty' to President Trump and disparaged those whom they viewed as failing to fall in line behind him." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

Fetterman, Often Absent From Senate, Says He Has Been Shamed Into Returning www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

This news cycle is giving me a headache

Gabe Evans of Colorado secured his ticket to Washington in November when he defeated a Democratic member of Congress by less than 1 percentage point — just 2,449 votes. Now Evans is helping to write legislation that could cement his own ticket back home. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

Stefanik has unpacked the office she just packed up, settling back into the House and not at all happy about it. Mainly she seems to blame Mike Johnson, reports @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

Drama www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

A Rising Democratic Star Pitches a ‘Resistance 2.0’ in the Age of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...