The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere." -- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing. Gift link (for 7 days) ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Come on Tennessee. You can do it! You got this. Please vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Oh, you don't say.

Please join me and Ed and a growing number of other folks. Food banks can’t replace SNAP but they are incredibly efficient ways to turn dollars into relief.

The apparent total lack of concern for the feelings of line agents or prosecutors at DOJ is legitimately interesting

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Now Trump wants the DOJ to just hand him another $230 Million directly. A bottomless pit of greed and corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

The No Kings protesters “are standing for nothing less than the anti-royal and republican foundations of American democracy,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. So why — beyond a desire to delegitimize their political opponents — are Republicans attacking the movement so viciously?

Advice for you election watchers: get off the Tennessee Secretary of State site, the teevees and county sites and go to https//election-night.decisiondeskhq.com. Ht to my most excellent colleague @friedmanadam5.bsky.social.

I think this Democratic primary is going to come down to the wire: Rep. Vincent Dixie is winning Davidson County by 3,300 votes; Rep. Aftyn Behn is second with 2,000 votes.

my colleague @sarahcrgr.bsky.social wrote a fun piece about how Canada could perhaps become an economic superpower www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

🤬Zelenskyy: Russian drone infiltrates Romanian airspace for 50 minutes

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

Today, Senate Republicans refused to have RFK Jr. sworn in under oath to give his testimony. I find it telling that Republicans refuse to take even symbolic steps to show they care about transparency and truth from the man in charge of the agency tasked with America's health.

Every school shooting is a policy choice.

so, my issue with this is that it completely misses that DHS has been turned into a quasi-paramilitary for the right

Sprinting through my office to tell everyone that Taylor Swift is engaged.

President Trump is demanding the release of a former Colorado county elections official who was found guilty of charges connected to sneaking someone into her office to search for evidence to try to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.

NEW: Oregon liberals, opposed to nuclear power in the 1970s, created a complex process for getting new energy projects approved. It’s now being used to stall developments in wind and solar — with a 76-year-old activist leading the charge. With @opb.org

It's just completely looney-tunes to me that a huge number of flight attendants aren't paid until the plane is in the air. Like when you hear the announcement "flight attendants, please prepare the cabin for departure," they're being instructed to do a work task that they literally won't be paid for

normal-person behavior www.thedailybeast.com/new-trump-st...

I’ve always wondered if other nations honor their traitors the way the U.S. does.

As a media witness to the last two executions, Tuesday's was different. Whether it was the Pentobarbitol causing pulmonary edema or the defibrillator that courts ruled did not have to be turned off, Byron Black was in obvious pain. “Oh, it’s hurting so bad,” he said minutes before dying.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

NEW: A second whistleblower and former DOJ attorney has produced evidence that backs up allegations that Trump's court pick Emil Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders, mislead judges and say "fuck you" to judges who rule against them, says whistleblower group. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit. Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.

One attorney for the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights said the job became “impossible" as their caseload went from 60 to 380. “The people who remain are doing all they can. We’re doing all we can. But it isn’t enough, and it keeps us up at night,” they said. (Published May)

WSJ - China's state media has expanded its reach from Indonesia to Nigeria after Trump’s order to dismantle US government-funded outlets, including the Voice of America. www.wsj.com/world/china/... #SaveVOA

In January, I started reporting what I thought would be a science story about catatonia — a neuropsychiatric syndrome that affects a surprisingly large number of profoundly autistic children. Then the GOP started slashing research grants. nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/01/a...

the lineup at SCOTUS tomorrow is wild, we’re so cooked

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

June treasury data came in today, and Americans paid a record $27B in tariffs & related DHS excise taxes this month—for an annualized pace of more than $300B/year The graph of intense pain & suffering keeps getting worse

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows for the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to "third countries" to which they have no previous connection.