My latest review for @nytimes.com. Jeff Roche's engaging political history of West Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...

I reviewed The Gunfighters by Bryan Burrough. Burrough blows up Old West myths like Butch Cassidy blew up safes. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/b...

Maybe if we called it the MAGA Carta, Kristi Noem would study it. You may say that I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.

In case you were wondering, there is a 39% chance you will be diagnosed with cancer in your lifetime. Think about that: a better than 1 in 3 chance you get cancer. The budget for the National Cancer Institute is $7.2 billion - and Pres. Trump and the GOP are talking about cutting it.

President Joe Biden is a man of profound, powerful faith. May God bless him and his family as he fights cancer.

Price tag for Trump’s military festival could reach $45 million, while he cuts children’s health, cancer research, and Medicaid.

Republicans worked late into the night... to solidify their support to cut Medicaid and food security for children. apnews.com/article/trum...

Qatar GDP = $213 Billion U.S. GDP = $23.5 Trillion Our economy is 110 times the size of Qatar’s. So why does Trump think the richest country on earth needs foreign aid? No #AirQatar

Mitch Landrieu, pollster Margie Omero and Ian Sams are going live at 11AM Eastern to talk about The Working Class Project and their new research on working class voters' relationship with both parties. Tune in here: workingclassproject.substack.com

Trump’s approval is 41% - the lowest 100-day mark in 70 years. But he’s even worse with Independents, with an anemic 31% approval. Weak, weak, weak.

From Cardinal Re’s beautiful homily for Pope Francis: “The guiding thread of his mission was also the conviction that the Church is a home for all, a home with its doors always open. He often used the image of the Church as a “field hospital” after a battle in which many were wounded; …

Reuters poll: Trump approval 37% approve 57% disapprove U.S. adults

Voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of every single issue. And this is supposed to be the honeymoon.

No es bueno para el gran cheeto.

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

MEMBERS OF THE DC BAR: THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU—PLEASE VOTE FOR DIANE SELTZER (@whatajlp.bsky.social) 👉👉👉👉👉

Of course they want to help Russia www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The Holy Father lived St. Francis’s maxim: “Go forth and preach the Gospel. When necessary, use words.” Pope Francis preached Christ’s love, mercy, and acceptance.

Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth is equally responsible and owns this. Your confirmation served as a stamp of approval and your judgment shouldn't be trusted. This goes for every failure of any official confirmed by the Senate.

Joe Rogan explains to his audience why due process is important and quotes Ben Franklin — "it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” He argues against shipping people to a prison in El Salvador without trial because we think they’re gang members.

Trump tariffed every country, even penguins, but not Russia. He said it’s because he’s negotiating the wars end. But he DID tariff Ukraine. Hmmm

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

Reality is actually very uplifting. While Trump is afraid of anything even possibly good for our health, clean energy is now more economical than coal, and all Trump’s bombastic proclamations will not change this reality. Our states will continue this progress. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Pro tip for Dem pols offering nuanced commentary on Trump’s catastrophic trade policy: when an arsonist is burning down someone’s house, it’s not a good time to lecture them that, “in the right hands, fire can be a useful tool.”

Opinion: The National Cancer Institute’s Investigational New Drug program is imperative for public good www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/n...

$721m to help Louisiana protect itself from Natural Disaster, gone Red Rural Recession. www.fox8live.com/2025/04/10/l...

On the day Trump took office, regular gas was $2.95 a gallon (according to the St. Louis Fed). Today, it's $3.12 a gallon. #SoMuchWinning

On the day Trump took office, consumer confidence was 109.5. On Monday it was 90.6. #SoMuchWinning

On the day Trump took office, the NASDAQ was 19,630. Today it's 16,387. #SoMuchWinning

On the day Trump took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 43,487. Today it's 39,593. #SoMuchWinning

On the day Donald Trump took office, eggs were $4.14 a dozen (according to data from the St. Louis Fed). Today, they're $6.23. #SoMuchWinning

Brilliant column that captures the true grit of Houston. Even in Defeat, Kelvin Sampson and his Cougars Did Houston Proud thebarbedwire.com/2025/04/08/e...

A reminder that all of this tariff damage would end if congressional Republicans would grow a spine and reassert Congress’s constitutional role of setting tariffs. They own this debacle as much as Pres. Trump does.

Thinking about this quote, from JPMorgan's Michael Cembalist, today: www.jpmorgan.com/insights/out...

Trump is hitting our closest allies and best customers with tariffs. He’s even placing tariffs on uninhabited islands off Australia. But no new Trump tariffs on Russia. Why so rough on our friends and so weak with our enemy?

Oh, this is gonna make the rounds. 🤡 #PenguinTariff 🐧

This was….five months ago

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

Helpful to remember: sometimes news can be good

#VAGov candidate Winsome Earle-Sears shows no compassion for Virginians being laid off by Trump's DOGE, claiming this actually "happens to everybody all the time." Virginians deserve a governor who will actually fight for them, not against them.

Turnout yesterday was two-thirds of presidential level; a half a million more voters than the 2023 WI Sup Court race: huge turnout for an off-year, springtime judicial race. I ascribe it to Musk. He is a turnout machine for our folks. Dems may not have a hero, but we damn sure have a villain.

Some of the wealthiest and most powerful corporations, law firms, and senators have bent the knee to Trump. Not the people of Wisconsin. They know how to stand up to a bully.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford, @benwikler.bsky.social and the tens of thousands of grassroots Wisconsin badgers who just whipped the richest man in the world.

How they react to losing Wisconsin will tell us a lot about the Trump-Musk GOP. Will they look honestly at how they failed, as the Dems have done since November, or will they lie, deny, and spin?

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏

#Flaverification - Welcome over to the blue skies @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour filibuster was fueled by hate. @booker.senate.gov has broken that record in a marathon speech fueled by love: love of country, love of freedom, love of his neighbor.