Asher Watkins, Dallas TX millionaire, meets karma. Justice served. nypost.com/2025/08/06/w...

Human Rights Watch just issued report on FL immigration detention facilities, finding them dehumanizing, overcrowded, with poor medical care: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

The Texas flood brought tales of heroism that seemed to confirm the state's faith in rugged individualism But so many more lives would have been saved if leaders dropped climate denial and believed in government for the public good, not for cruelty My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi calls on the people of Iran to overthrow the Islamist regime ruled by Khamenei. Pahlavi has been living in exile in the United States since 1979.

🚨 Iran: Hundreds of political prisoners of the brutal Islamist regime appear to have been set free in Tehran. Countdown to the overthrow of the dictatorship begins.

Lander is being release now from DHS/ICE custody now.

The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

BREAKING: Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States to face criminal charges, according to three sources familiar: abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

Joe Walsh is registering as a Democrat:   "Three words I never thought I'd ever utter: I'm a Democrat. This former Republican Congressman … this former TEA Party champion is formally joining the Democratic Party." socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/from-the-t...

Judge Boasberg rightly held the Govt must “give those it summarily expelled to El Salvador the due process they had been denied.” Absent this relief, it could snatch anyone off the street, hand him to a foreign country “and foreclose any corrective course of action.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

Trump tariffs slow global growth according to OECD. While Mexico is slammed, Canada's economic growth improved from OECD's March forecast. And, US growth was cut to 1.6%, down from 2.2% in March: www.reuters.com/world/china/...

During Trump's Oval Office meeting with the president of South Africa, Trump showed video he claimed was evidence of mass killings of white South Africans. It was not. The video was taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo and had nothing to do with South Africa. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering takedown of Trump's lawlessness. Importantly, Obama also offered Dems a way to argue that Trump's dictatorial abuses of power and his imminent wreckage of the economy are the same story. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1936...

The silence speaks volumes. #fucktrump

"In a world of Paul Weisses, be a Keker Van Nest..." abovethelaw.com/2025/03/elit...

Here’s your chance to do something. Click here and send the link to all your friends, and urge them to come out too.

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

As Signalgate gets worse for Trump with the release of the damning texts themselves, it's worth dwelling on what's supposed to happen in these situations. This brief explainer from former Pentagon official @rosabrooks.bsky.social on our pod is highly instructive: newrepublic.com/article/1931...

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Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

I joined Ali Velshi last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour to discuss the Chief Justice’s rebuke of the President. I explained that America is in a constitutional crisis when, rather than faithfully executing the laws, the President of the United States is defying the laws.

Bravo. These kids are showing more spine and character than a lot of the people they work for.

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

Everyone in US should be reading real, outrageous purpose of Trump tariff on Canada: m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

One of these things is not like the other.

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Cruz, his staff, and others in Congress, should either do their work they were elected to perform, or stop taking taxpayer paid salaries and benefits.

3/2/25 London Emergency Summit attendees. Remember them.

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Trump "gold card" immigration idea is an even better deal for foreign oligarchs than it looks, because it comes with a huge tax loophole not available to US citizens or other immigrants. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/27/t...

DODE employees resign in mass, objecting to plans to dismantle critical federal government systems; apnews.com/article/doge...

Whatever the funeral turnout yesterday, a bleak reality: "Hezbollah's primary financial institution, Al-Qard Al-Hassan, in recent weeks has frozen payments for compensation checks that had already been issued. Some members have received no support at all." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Trump's demand for Ukraine minerals appears in violation of Sec 3 of Budapest Memorandum that US signed.

Another brick in the fascist wall: WSJ reports Linda Yaccarino (CEO, X) threatening IPG w/government (Musk) retribution unless they advertise on X platform. www.wsj.com/business/med...

So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country: www.project2025.observer

Trump’s actions over past month hitting headwinds (gifted): wapo.st/41oUgFV

"Trump Hands the World to China" Yup. Or, if not quite "the World", certainly the U.S. "Just about all of Trump’s policies, both at home and abroad, are rapidly destroying the foundation of American power" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

This is happening, right now. The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct. Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope. 🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

NBC News confirms: An IRS employee affiliated with Elon Musk's DOGE has accessed an IRS system that holds sensitive taxpayer information. @msnbc.com

Here is the ad the Washington Post refused to run about Elon Musk this weekend. And here is the ad the Post was happy to run by a rightwing group funded by Musk that smeared me in October. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and prodemocracy. Check it out. www.democracydocket.com