The national library has apparently, by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part.

A quiet piece of dialogue that does strong work in a story - @theresewalsh.bsky.social on Sally Rooney at @writerunboxed.bsky.social writerunboxed.com/2025/07/25/r... #womenwriters #writingtips #writingcommunity #skywriters

Breaking on MSNBC: A senior admin official confirms to NBC News that Ghislaine Maxwell was granted limited immunity by the Justice Department in order to answer questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case.

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The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. (Published April)

Breaking: After a classified briefing with Cabinet officials, Sen. Chris Murphy says: "I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the programs."   "The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated."

A federal appeals court has declined to rehear Trump's challenge to the $5 million E. Jean Carroll civil judgment.

America is flirting with such incredible disaster www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/p...

Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grabs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

On NBC, former VP Mike Pence blasts the pardon of violent Jan 6 attackers He notes the pain police suffered … and he notes how this is the week Washington honors “police week” and those who’ve protected US communities

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling Friday said the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its rushed effort to remove them from the U.S. last month using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), a 1798 wartime law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The threat to democracy isn’t looming, it’s already unfolding. Sen. Chris Murphy warns that Trump and his allies are working to consolidate power, control dissent and replace democratic norms with loyalty tests. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Utterly unfit.

The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

When you think they can’t be crueler or find a new low:

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Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the government may not use federal benefits or funds to coerce parties to surrender their constitutional rights. This is what the Administration is doing ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

This is high art

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

@60minutes.bsky.social finds no evidence of criminal records in US or any other country for 75% of Venezuelans kidnapped and rendered to El Salvador. Of the rest, 22% had non-violent arrests for things like traffic violations.

In her latest edition of Author Up Close, Grace Wynter interviews D.L. White, an indie author who has decided to seize control of her career (rather than rely on Amazon). Today at WU.

Welcome to the dumbest administration

Hi. Books are incredibly important. Please let them be.

My law firm is currently litigating 50 voting and election cases in 21 states. I expect new cases will be filed this week. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, NC, NV, FL, LA, PA.

The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.

What Senator Booker is doing is historic. And important. Oher Democrats have joined in. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

Folks, they killed LIHEAP. People rely on that to keep warm in the winter so they don’t freeze to death.

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

Breaking WaPo: Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Today at Writer Unboxed, I introduce our 2025 UnConference lineup, theme, and new host city. We're genuinely so excited about every bit of it!