The broader message to Americans abroad: You're on your own. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

I'm excited to participate as a featured author in the Foggy Bottom West End Main Street Book Crawl on June 6 at the GW Campus Store, along with Susan Page, Michael Isikoff and other terrific authors. Details below: patch.com/district-col...

Me on Fox5DC to talk about the new book I co-edited with Ira Shapiro and a bipartisan group of experts - Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This. www.fox5dc.com/video/fmc-o3...

I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

Martina McBride just pulled out of Trump's partisan America 250 event. 5 of 9 artists have now pulled out.

SCOOP: The Trump administration is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf. The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service funds. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects.

Party over country, the constitution, and common sense. The GOP will come to regret this in November. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/u...

Politicization of science is a pathway to mediocrity, decline, and real-world failure. The White House and OMB might want more power to undermine America's once-leading R&D ecosystem, but doing so comes with costs: to careers, discovery, the economy, our health, and national security.

This is getting extremely tiresome. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Thrilled to be on @fox5dc.com.web.brid.gy with @jimlokay.com last night to talk about @cscoalition.substack.com and "Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This"! Book available here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2RXHLG... www.fox5dc.com/video/fmc-o6...

$5 gas, here we come! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Thank you, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social for this terrific review of our book @cscoalition.substack.com!

A group of retired federal judges is asking a U.S. district court judge to reopen a lawsuit President Trump and his family pursued against the IRS over leaked tax records, asking the court to investigate whether a deal to end the case was an act of fraud.

Absolutely unbelievable. Appalling. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Milli Vanilli? The group that was a laughingstock in the 1990s because they won a Grammy for a song that someone else sang for them? That tracks.

The Trump administration's budget cuts are having devastating effects on children. As of January 2026, 1.75 million fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid compared to January 2025. www.axios.com/2026/05/27/m...

Happy to announce that Poverty for Profit has won a 2026 Silver Nautilus award for Journalism and Investigative Reporting! Huge thanks to @thenewpress.bsky.social for its support of my work. www.nautilusbookawards.com/2026-winners...

Thanks to @jilldlawrence.bsky.social @thebulwark.com for her review of @cscoalition.substack.com's new book, Betrayed: "We can’t forget, we won’t forget, and this catalogue of betrayals lays groundwork for the reckoning to come." www.amazon.com/Betrayed-Ame... www.thebulwark.com/p/inventory-...

“Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.” www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

300 ICE detainees at a private detention facility are in the fourth day of a hunger strike to protest unimaginably appalling conditions. The Trump administration's response? Block oversight and pepper spray U.S. Senators who try to visit. www.notus.org/immigration/...

Join me and other DC-area authors at the second annual Foggy Bottom Book Crawl on June 6! It's a great way to support local businesses in the Foggy Bottom area, meet new people, and to learn about some great new books. FREE tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/foggy-bott...

Must-read on the blatant misconduct of federal prosecutors in Trump’s DOJ: coaching grand jurors, redacting transcripts, misrepresenting the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

Proud to be the editor of this volume, along with @irashapiro.bsky.social Please consider giving this a read!

As if low-income Americans aren't suffering already, Trump wants *more* cuts to Medicaid for nursing homes, doctors, and hospitals. www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/m...

Enrique Tarrio, former national head of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6, says he will seek millions of dollars from the fund Trump created to pay his supporters who believe they have been politically persecuted.

Stunning stat from a new @nber.org study: California billionaires hold $2 TRILLION in wealth - equal to 50% of the state's entire GDP. The study concludes that the proposed billionaire tax would be "small relative to California billionaires’ wealth gains." www.nber.org/papers/w35218

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Disruptive, cruel, unnecessary, outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Trump's second term record so far: Untamed inflation, war, and a democracy at risk. America didn't vote for this. Pre-orders of the e-book are available NOW (paperback coming soon). @irashapiro.bsky.social @cscoalition.substack.com www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2MHDN31

This is pretty unusual

Trump is the ultimate inside trader. Earlier this week, we learned about Trump's investments in Eli Lilly, just as the government announced plans around promoting obesity medication. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus... Now this: www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

The Trump administration's contempt for Congress, the rule of law, and public opinion is endless. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The just released DNC "autopsy" of the 2024 election is a mess - a literal mess with pages that look like this. Not sure why this is helpful to anyone. democrats.org/wp-content/u...

Just 33 percent of voters approve of Trump’s performance in the economy, and 55 percent blame him for high gas prices. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

The economy is not a law of nature. It’s a set of rules. @nickhanauer.bsky.social and @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social joined @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social editor @anne-s-kim.bsky.social to talk about Market Humanism — and how to build markets that serve people, not capital. Check it out ⬇️

The lawsuit against the $1.8B slush fund correctly argues that this money would "directly finance the violent operations of rioters, paramilitaries, and their supporters.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This is part of the long-term ... er... fallout from the DOGE cuts of early 2025 (remember those?). www.notus.org/climate-envi...

“Extremism pays - literally…” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

This seems mighty convenient. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

You don’t have to be a fan of Massie to be concerned about the state of the GOP and the systematic crushing of all dissent.

In a now familiar pattern, two of the Republicans who voted to move the resolution forward were senators whose careers are over - Cassidy and Tillis. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

As if the $1.8 billion slush fund weren't already the most corrupt "settlement" in history, Trump takes it even farther. The IRS is now barred from *ever* seeking claims against Trump or his family. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

The opposite of what the FDA is supposed to do. www.axios.com/2026/05/15/f...

I'm curious to know who has standing to sue over the $1.8 billion "slush fund" Trump is establishing to pay his allies and insurrectionists. Do we as taxpayers have standing to stop this? (Hoping better lawyers than me can weigh in.)

Top Treasury Lawyer Resigns After Creation of ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Coming soon! @irashapiro.bsky.social and I are the editors of a new book by @cscoalition.substack.com. The title - Betrayed - says it all. Visit commonsensecoalition.net and sign up for our newsletter to get details on the release.