Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...

What a surprise! They had the letters T-R-U-M-P ready to go before the vote! Trump Administration Live Updates: Kennedy Center Adds Trump’s Name to Facade www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Ears Up! Winter has arrived in DC!

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg won’t back off his planned contempt hearings next week and says the crime-fraud exception would overcome potential privileges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump Administration Live Updates: National Trust Sues President Over Ballroom www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

"Trump is still Trump, but what a difference it is, nonetheless, to go from a President who felt it necessary to deny that he had said 'shithole countries' to one who, eight years later, is celebrating the fact that he said it," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Judge Says Trump Must End Guard Deployment in L.A. - and he says instead of checks and balances defendants “want a blank check.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

NEW on CNN: In several old videos we found, Pete Hegseth blasted Trump in 2016 warning he could issue unlawful orders that troops should refuse, calling him an “armchair tough guy” with five draft deferments. Now he’s attacking Democrats for saying same. LINK: www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This Holiday Season, Give the Gift That Keeps on Sniffing www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state. Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains. Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the full scope of [Witkoff’s talks] went much further, according to people familiar .. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line .. to the dividends. 🇺🇦 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

GOP and Independent support dropping: news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

In 10 days Trump has slurred 4 female reporters as “Horrible” “Piggy,” “Ugly” and “Stupid.” people.com/trump-snaps-...

👀https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1

Fantastic interview with the rare real deal. Thank u @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It would be interesting to learn a bit more about how Pete Hegseth won his two bronze stars for meritorious service.

Just posted: is MAGA cracking up? Tune in to our live show on Trump’s 1st year podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Here’s the great Glasser column:

Has hell frozen over in Washington? Read my great colleague Susan Glasser’s account of the unthinkable social tableau at Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I was a litigator for 21 years, and it’s safe to say that I never witnessed the level of legal incompetence that we are witnessing from the Trump administration,” our columnist David French writes.

Excited to do a live taping of our @newyorker.com podcast with great colleagues @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social soon @harvardiop.bsky.social

So excited to watch The Political Scene taping their weekly show live at @harvardiop.bsky.social with the amazing @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social and @eosnos.bsky.social talking about one year since Trump's election.

Feature, Not Bug Dept.

Just the person to talk to this week for our @newyorker.com pod w/ @janemayer.bsky.social @eosnos.bsky.social about Trump, Epstein, and the changing Washington scandal — the legendary @misikoff.bsky.social Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration. We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem. @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Hey lawyers out there- what do you think?

JUST IN: Federal judge orders release of hundreds of people arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to CNN affiliate WLS. https://cnn.it/3LzqUPL

When Prince Andrew was caught in a lie about this, he was stripped of his titles. Will Americans care less than the royal family? Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

The FBI Director’s been staying at “The Boondoggle Ranch.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

👀https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/federalist-chief-delivers-stunning-condemnation-of-trump-in-scorched-earth-x-post-he-looks-weak-and-rudderless/

Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

“How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy” - hmm. Guess it’s hard to get by on Trillion $ pay packages www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

R.I.P.Peter Weiss, a holocaust escapee who worked for justice and accountability, from Nuremberg to Guantanamo. ccrjustice.org/home/blog/20...

Wait- which one is the communist? finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

Here’s a gift copy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

Great reporting, great story-telling: How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

They think America needs an aristocracy: themselves www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Beltway wisdom was that voters don’t care about democracy as an issue- wrong! www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Ask us anything: the New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast wants listeners’ questions this week for an episode on the 2026 midterms. What issues, candidates, causes are on your mind? Send questions to [email protected] with the subject line “midterms.” Thanks!

ICYMI: Post editorials advance Bezos’ financial interests, omit conflicts open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

More proof that Liberty has gone to the dogs.

New from me: Emmanuel Macron delivered remarks in Germany recently that I think could serve as a template for an outside-the-box, ambitious political figure. But timing and breaking with prevailing orthodoxy would be critical. www.offmessage.net/p/defiant-re...

Trump Culture Kampf at Kennedy Center Flops: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...