It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

A Pennsy J-1 on the head of a westbound hotshot freight highballs thru Middletown Yard on the GSN. 🚂 This is the last Weekend of the Garden State Model Railway Club's annual Holiday Shows. If you happen to be in North Jersey this weekend, please stop by and check us out! gardenstatetrainclub.org

Our perceptions of security are out of alignment with the reality of our adversaries. We have failed to imagine what we may lose — and what we can gain. This will define the coming time of darkness — unless we reverse course. My latest: www.greatpower.us/p/2025-the-a...

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

From @parkermolloy.com at New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/2047... I'd go a bit further. The system needs no conspiracy to function. It just needs everyone to understand the direction things are going in. Bari Weiss was put there not to protect a legacy, but to align its politics differently.

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

If it made the news at all, that's a win...

Hey, you 8 senators who gave up, you might think the “old way of doing things” was a way to get things done. But the old way of doing things is exactly what got us into this mess. Dems tried something new, it worked & even yielded great electoral wins last week. Pathetic. You should be primaried.

Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

Simple right? Not if you’re the “own goal” Dems. Geez way to lose.

Hey folks: Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning. You can catch it here: m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Copying Putin & his cronies, this admin says, “hold my beer. Per The Intercept: Following the announcement of the approval for the Ambler Road Project, Burgum stated that the Dept of War & the U.S. government will take a 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, a Canadian mining company w/ claims in the area.

💯 it’s also because expertise can be trained to shine a spotlight on “feelings” to make them evaporate in the light of facts. Or put another way, expertise is threatening bec it’s the basis of, and leads to accountability.

The Trump administration is eager to abandon the Forest Service’s founding mission. buff.ly/eQQ96U0

Follow Sam Wang. Always insightful about the workings of gerrymandering.

UPDATE: 🌊 My colleagues at E&E News used FOIA to obtain a copy of that elusive NOAA report I wrote about. The one Trump used to pause construction of a New York offshore wind farm and bleed the wind company of almost $1B. 😱 All 27-pages they obtained were blacked out.

Trump’s nominee to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner he fired pictured at January 6th, amazing scoop by @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

So important to set the frame correctly. Great advice.

Denver calls it perfectly…would be a parody headline if it weren’t so depressingly true.

@arjunsingh92.bsky.social Absolutely enjoyed The Tax Revolt (and everything that you & the team do at The Lever). My 1 quibble w the interview w Norquist is that he seemed to walk all over you without interrupting or consistently challenging his frames. Def was expecting more feet held to fire.

ABC News with a superb inventory of the 300 GIGABYTES OF EPSTEIN DATA that @AGPamBondi is NOT releasing as she does her part in Trump's Epstein Cover-up: abcnews.go.com/US/unrelease...

Such a great listen on messaging, testing, polling and Democrat’s own goals, by two experts I can’t get enough of. pca.st/episode/8196...

Explain it to me like I’m a five yr old. Thank you! More please.

#MAGAMurderBill Call it what it is. Kills humans, kills jobs, kills progress…now call your senators and reps.

Jerry Moran is on the fence. Make some noise and call him! kansasreflector.com/2025/06/25/u...

Art can help in times of stress. Kudos to this

Seems like a good pro environment action to support.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Reminder: The mayor in Jaws was still the mayor in Jaws 2, which takes place 4 years later. Local elections matter.

Antonia always provides clear insights and helps make sense of things for me. Here’s some more.

Pretty solid as always.

Just because he pulled out doesn’t mean it’s over. Rapists never understand that #NoWar #ImpeachTrump

“i wasted my best eyeliner for THIS?”

Like record keeping, reason-giving is basic to any hope for accountability. To not even bother with it shows how far we have gone. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Asbestos=death. Trump likes asbestos (mined in Russia) and believes it was outlawed thanks to the mob. His words. Not mine. Oh his regime is making it legal again. Of course. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!

TACO Day. How to ask a question that reframes things in the correct light and oh my…say what?!

This. Ladies, Gentlemen, and Everyone else, 👉🏽 Congresswoman Lateefah Simon 👏🏽 @replsimon.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/thed...

1/8 What if I told u most of GOP’s worst legislation didn’t start in Congress, it started on Twitter? A lie is seeded by influencers, amplified by media, & written into law by GOP. This is a pipeline, not a coincidence. And it’s breaking democracy. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

The Medicaid cuts will devastate every state, but especially the Red ones. ✔️rural hospitals closing ✔️ thousands unenrolled from their healthcare ✔️seniors and the disabled needing nursing care screwed

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

Immediate favorite on my podcast list and with a twist or bourbon. What could be better than that?

So if last Thursday was “liberation day,” what do we call today?

If you don’t know these two, you should. Their backgrounds are impeccable, they from different experiences and speak truth to power. Just the type of truth cannon we need. A great listen. 👍

Great listen here.