Excited to take part in this - we are underway - tune in!

That sinking feeling when you accidentally send a tariff letter addressed to the leader of a ruling military junta that the United States refuses to recognize or (otherwise) engage with. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

“Federal law enforcement officers on the scene declined to say what the purpose of the raid was, and directed the Reformer to an email address for ICE’s media contact. Some declined to identify which agency they were with. Most wore masks.” That's called secret police and it looked like it.

While Jake Tapper is saying that covering up Biden’s decline was worse than Watergate, the case is weakened by the fact Biden did not make obviously bad decisions as a result. But Musk’s decisions really do seem like those of a guy who is way too online and on a drug associated with paranoia.

“If Trump can so much bad in such a small amount of time, why can’t we do so much good? Now is the time for us to be impatient, too.”

The federal government is going into a multi-season tank job without even having a draft lottery to look forward to

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Great moments in government efficiency!

Judge says the Trump administration can't deport migrants to Libya unless they have a chance to challenge removal in court.

Monday's declassified U.S. Intelligence Community assessment of lack of ties between Venezuelan government and TdA gang is a GAME CHANGER for Alien Enemies Act litigation. It will also send ripple effects in how judges treat DOJ's credibility. Check out @weissmann.substack.com and my conversation

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

Not a great time for the top U.S. intelligence and defense officials to be people the president picked because he liked their TV hits.

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It turns out that if you gut public goods, you create far greater private costs.

New DOGE cuts event: Join @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social, Chloe Schwenke, and Jordan Schermerhorn on April 28th for a discussion on the global impact of the abrupt cuts to U.S. foreign assistance and how these cuts affect Americans here in the U.S.

Today's shaping up to be a good one. Trump backing off from firing Powell and Elon Musk is preparing his exit having failed spectacularly in his Doge mission and simultaneously ruined Tesla's outlook.

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

To prevent anti-constitutional, authoritarian control of the United States, blue states will need to end most cooperation with fascist-aligned federal agencies. Governors need to start talking about it publicly because massive public support will be necessary to pull something like this off.

First time we’ve seen this in any poll in a long time.

Another set of masked officers. ICE HSI must be really afraid of the cameras.

I think the Ozturk case suggests that 1) yes, Canary is being used to ID students for deportation 2) someone in State is OVERRIDING evidentiary analyses (like the one WaPo reports that said there was no evidence against Ozturk) to sustain Canary "conclusions."

WSJ reports that Pete Marocco is out at State. It politely. says that Marocco disagreed with Rubio. From court filings, it appears far more likely that Marocco bureaucratically overrode Rubio. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Nothing to see here but Florida's royal family laundering public funds into the royal family's campaign slush fund. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

These are the words of his father: "Rifaat arrived at 12:00am. He apologised, saying, 'I am sorry for waking you up.' He took his shirt, I looked at him, and then he left. This was the last time we heard from Rifaat.’" www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZQ...

The footage was filmed by a young paramedic, Rifaat Radwan. He was killed several days after the IDF resumed bombing of parts of Rafah. At midnight the night before, he called his father and asked if his mother could wash one of his work shirts -- the rest were covered in blood, he said.

The full 19 minute video of the second wave of shootings is here (from 25:35). It is deeply harrowing. When the Palestinian Red Crescent screened the film at a press conference earlier this week, the room was in tears by the end. www.youtube.com/live/DXPsOEX...

- The area was not, as IDF claimed, a combat zone at the time of the killings, meaning the ambulances were under no obligation to announce their arrival. The IDF told residents to evacuate several hours after the killings had finished -- indicating only then that it was now a de facto combat zone.

- IDF said they shot them because they were driving "suspiciously"; this appears to mean the men made a u-turn, then drove in convoy in order to protect themselves. - At least two of the paramedics were still alive as IDF soldiers advanced through the area, according to an eyewitness.

IDF says it shot 14 Palestinian medics from afar, mistaking them for militants. Our investigation finds: - Shooters were close enough to see the crews: 40m at the start; later, just 12m. - Soldiers said they initially fired on a Hamas vehicle; dispatcher records indicate it was an ambulance.

ALERT: Big Firm Lawyers, I have a proposition for you. (Please read through, serious proposition). As noted in the previous post, I'm very very interested in getting copies of the "agreements" big firms are making with Trump. (My encrypted channels below.) Or at least what is circulated to ...

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Just mind boggling incompetence

Some men would rather break the bond market than go to therapy

Total federal spending is up +8% in 2025 year-to-date on April 9 over 2024. The illusion that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere. Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.

I know this will surprise folks who bought cars based on promises they'll be self-driving "next year," but he's now admitting that DOGE will only deliver on 7.5% of the promised $2,000b, and even that is only coming "next year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Law firms if you make a deal with this man keep in mind that you’re also signing up for him to publicly humiliate you like this every few days

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

One phone call to Bukele.

Congrats to Big Balls, Skeeter and the rest of the Musk Minions for making this happen.

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day. He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

Yet ANOTHER story of a Venezuelan man ripped away from his family in the U.S. because of his tattoos; in this case a tattoo of a rose and a tattoo of a crown. It’s been three weeks and his wife and kids have no idea what’s happened to him. Like others, El Salvador is holding him incommunicado.

Absolutely every business should do this.

I could keep going, which is kind of the point — so many teams have been gutted, so many programs ended. It's impossible to do a full accounting in any single article. If all these cuts go through (and some may be blocked by courts), it will take months to sort through what's been lost.

“A trillion comments have been wasted accusing the wrong people of Trump derangement syndrome. The real TDS afflicts those who keep seeing a rational actor, or an economic chess game, where none exists.” Me on Trump’s wrecking ball. www.ft.com/content/9f51...

The @60minutes.bsky.social program this week shows, among other things, American doctors and lawyers fighting against terrible violence in Gaza and profound injustice in America. Very sober, professional coverage of horror www.cbsnews.com/video/60minu...

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now