Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

“Donald Trump is hardly the first president to crack down on the press and cause controversy by doing so. But he is the first to do so in what is not a national emergency.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Rep. Jim Himes: "I still can't get over the fact that I think for the first time in our history, the U.S. military...is now killing civilians who have been convicted of no crime. There's a reason we do trials in this country."

the best part of that argument is essentially just openly admitting that they want their powerful friend protected from any consequence even if he’s guilty

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

Look forward to restraint crowd explaining how this is still better than warmongering Democrats 🤷‍♂️

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

He allegedly accepted the money ***in cash*** "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources."

Every day there are like 3 new things that happen that 25 years ago would have instantly disqualified someone from public office.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

Oh no DHS is upset that people are saying mean things about ICE. Im sure this won’t generate a Streisand Effect or anything. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

Dear gestapo trash:

NEW: In a rare public appearance, Jack Smith spoke at length this week issuing a dire warning about Trump's weaponization of the Department of Justice. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-jack-s...

Even if you take the most lenient possible interpretation -- that SCOTUS has made it increasingly hard to prosecute bribery and corruption -- you still have to ask what kind of crooked-ass administration hires a guy who just took $50k cash.

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Hard disagree. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

I know everyone is focusing on the legality of this and the substance of this particular message; but that is the spammiest, scammiest, trashiest platform with vast networks of fake accounts and its had security issues in the past. It’s wild to think he’s just DMing cabinet secretaries etc on it.

Re: Work as a group! "When bureau chiefs from many of the outlets banded together to urge Hegseth’s staff to reconsider the changes, the officials doubled down and removed additional media outlets, including The Washington Post, from their Pentagon desks." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Huh.

When they’re right, they’re right.

Gift link wapo.st/46u5tpV

New statement from The Post on Pete Hegseth’s new crackdown on the press at the Pentagon:

We have to reach across the aisle and find common gr….

people keep reposting this but cmon it’s made up. the stock hasn’t “collapsed” (it’s barely down) and there are precisely no numbers on how many subscription cancellations there have been

Trump "has also appointed some of the dumbest, most craven motherfuckers on the planet, and these underlings have no idea how to autocrat."

“What is therefore worth stressing is the myriad ways in which the Trump administration has been unable to autocrat its way out of a paper bag.”

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

It is 2025 and I am taking jeans recommendations from William Gibson. The future we all expected.

No offense to the Borg?!

Good stuff here

I wrote long today. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

you might criticize the trump administration or its ICE and other agencies for actions like this but on the other hand, our tax dollars are funding operation after operation that allows masked men like the one here to keep feeling like a big man, and you can’t really put a price on that can you

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

Oooooh……

J.P. Morgan: “Barring major surprises in the next payrolls report, we believe the path is set for another 25bp cut in October. We expect subsequent cuts in December and January…Risks are two-sided with chances of an earlier pause if US payrolls rebound with sticky inflation…”

something something political violence

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Yep. Technology, Consulting, Financial Services, Health Care and Universities are the most dependent sectors on H1B visas

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

HAHAA all good scandals include a USC B plot

It couldn't be better. Disney-Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

dang, they lost the hulk, aunt may, and mr fantastic

Here is my fun new article about him suing the New York Times for a lot of money and the judge saying pls get the fuck outta my face with this shit and come back when you can act like you got some sense ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

#BLS has delayed the 2024 Consumer Expenditures Survey annual release. This is likely due to the severe understaffing in the agency. Staff losses and hiring freeze are taking their toll. www.bls.gov/cex/notices/... #econsky

AWKWARD.

Oops www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...