I found the Epstein files hard to read, including one in which a NYC law-firm managing partner asked about granting – and revoking – visas. That led @elizaorlins.bsky.social and me to share a moment of candor at the end about our feelings towards ICE... (1/2)

“Texans can’t afford brisket under this administration”

"Talarico is a vegan." "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Uh, well, Talarico says God is nonbinary or something?" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Um, Talarico is, uh, low T?" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Talarico is going to institute sharia law!" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile."

Ken Paxton’s ”corruption is also making Texans less safe. Just this week, Ken Paxton released Adam Hoffman — a self-admitted child sex abuser — from jail after one of Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.” jamestalarico.substack.com/p/meet-our-o...

A reader/skeptic asked me to spell out my procedural hardball philosophy, and why we should assume it won’t accelerate us along our trajectory toward fascism. I answered at extraordinary and ponderous length, but this is probably the crux. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Bluesky isn't a bubble or an echo chamber, it's a garden. You plant some seeds and pull some weeds, you tend to it with care, and you make it into a space that pleases you when you come to sit in it a while. Other people can plant and tend to their own gardens, if they like. This garden is yours.

A simple bill: all candidates for federal office and nominees to federal appointments must be audited by the IRS, and the tax records must be made public.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

I used "smooth-brained" as a dig until a father of a boy with lissencephaly -- the medical term for the condition -- wrote me an incredibly patient note to explain what his son had to deal with. This phrase is a gratuitous insult to parents and children who are already suffering. Don't use it.

I was interviewed by Pitt’s University Times about my new book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States (a.co/d/0fJS2Dc3). Give it a read! www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/public-...

Good morning! This is fascism!

I feel confident that this man has no idea what the women in his house do.

Rep. Stansbury: "This administration is choosing to not investigate the crimes that are in these files. The administration is choosing to release the names of survivors and not perpetrators…The administration is trying to gaslight the American people."

important thing to note here is dr oz cites a current american replacement rate of 1.5, which is not true. the american replacement level in 2025 was 1.79. interestingly, the white replacement rate is in fact at 1.5 though

There will be many Democrats who argue that undoing all of Trump's tacky, trashy monuments to himself — from the reflecting pool to the arch to ballroom, etc. — will be "too costly" or a "distraction." Resist this way of thinking. All of it needs to be changed back.

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

IF I SEE YOU CELEBRATE A CUT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL SCIENCE BUDGET I AM GOING TO THROW DOWN. We are NOT celebrating ONE SINGLE DROP OF DESTRUCTION. We want INCREASES in funding AND RECONSTRUCTION of our ecosystem. We will NOT settle for less than BREAD AND ROSES!

NEW: The DOJ is demanding the personal information — including names, addresses and phone numbers — of 2020 Fulton County election workers after it seized past election materials. A top county official called the request “harassment” and accused the department of abusing the criminal process.

Pop quiz: What's the number one cause of death among pregnant women in the US? No googling.

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

What the fuck are we doing here

Just out here bragging about how effective the war crimes are

There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

The ultra-wealthy can’t cheat death, but they can use death to cheat taxes. Let me explain.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it could collect roughly $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it could collect $26. Wondering why the Trump regime has cut 25,000 IRS employees in the last year? It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Fuck ICE and illegal wars. Impeach Trump. No Kings.

It'd be nice if this mattered anymore, but Congress did not appropriate any money to send ICE to assist with airport security, and the entire operation violates the law. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

this should have really just been stopped immediately at "Jared" and asked "why is the president's son-in-law conducting foreign diplomacy when he has no role in this administration and has not been confirmed by the Senate to any position permitting him to engage in it?"

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

This is a total non-starter and every Democrat should fiercely oppose it. Authorizing a single dollar more for this illegal war would be unconscionable (much less $200B more!). If your congressmember isn’t raising all sorts of hell to stop this, then it’s time to replace them.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Struck by this quote from Tuscon’s local prosecutor on why she joined a nationwide group discussing how to prosecute federal agents boltsmag.org/how-state-an...

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable. Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice. The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children. From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.