“One way to think about the One Big Beautiful Bill is that it could end SNAP in some states, and it certainly ends SNAP as a national entitlement that is there for people in good economic times and bad.” @laurenhlb.bsky.social spoke to @Slate.com’s @shirinali.bsky.social about the OBBBA’s SNAP cuts:

Richard Hasen: “This is not normal. I do think we have to take seriously the possibility that people are going to have to get around federal troops if they want to be able to vote.” slate.trib.al/PYLBU0T

I tagged along with some canvassers to see what people make of Mamdani in a Queens neighborhood that shifted 12 points toward Trump in 2024. slate.trib.al/jmkjo2j

My latest story with @coribush.bsky.social! A great conversation about tough changes Democrats have to embrace and how to fight with integrity 💪

The reality bears no resemblance to Kavanaugh’s rosy description of immigration arrests. slate.trib.al/V6DcEcp

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

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Caroline Stout (@babybluetx.bsky.social) knows Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA better than most---she used to work there. For @slate.com, she told me what it was like and what Kirk's death means for the future of the far-right: slate.com/news-and-pol...

my latest: on how the H-1B visa became a symbol of the MAGA coalition's divides, why Trump is charging hopeful immigrant workers an extra $100k, how this plunged Silicon Valley into panic mode, and what this means for Trump's already-fraying relationship with Modi—who's inching closer to China(!)

If you haven't yet read Justice Sotomayor's dissent in yesterday's Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, it is worth taking a few moments to do so tonight. As she notes, the Court's use of the emergency docket to greenlight ICE's use of racial profiling is troubling in part because it is entirely unexplained.

Family separation is back... slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

David Hogg may be imperfect, but he's on to something: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not hold back on her colleagues' majority decision today on birthright citizenship. Her dissent was nothing short of scathing, so we highlighted some of the most cutting lines: slate.com/news-and-pol...

man, Brad Lander is really that guy bsky.app/profile/jool...

The delusional presidency slate.com/news-and-pol...

Buried in the news of Republican's Big Beautiful Bill: Major immigration policy. Not only would ICE be given a massive budget increase, but asylum seekers would have to pay $1000 in order to submit an application (it currently costs $0) slate.com/news-and-pol...

“Babies born on the same day could be citizens in one state, but stateless in the other,”—- the reality of what the Trump admin is asking SCOTUS for slate.com/news-and-pol...

Immigration updates for the week: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Democrats' new town hall strategy is certainly interesting, but will it work? I went over to New Jersey and Pennsylvania to find out for myself and one thing was clear: Americans are *very* fed up with Dems. slate.com/news-and-pol...

As if the past few weeks of breaking news wasn't bleak enough, this week a pro-Palestinian activist was lured to an immigration office for a citizenship interview, only to be arrested upon arrival. My latest edition of Who Gets to Be American This Week: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The state's detention facilities have a dark history.

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The way that refugees are being shut out right now is absolutely tragic and inhumane newrepublic.com/article/1935...

U.S. immigration is changing in ways we’ve never seen before. It’s confusing and scary, so to help make sense of it all, @slate.com launched a new series Who Gets To Be American This Week? I’ll be breaking down what you need to know—and our first edition is live today! slate.com/news-and-pol...

We have a new series called WHO GETS TO BE AN AMERICAN THIS WEEK? led by @shirinali.bsky.social, which explores the many ways Trump is shrinking the definition of "American," often illegally. This week: a broad assault on the rights of *legal* immigrants. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A clarifying conversation with @immcouncil.org about the GOP's favorite punching bag: sanctuary cities slate.com/news-and-pol...

On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employees—including three editors, two of whom were members of the union—were being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows:

unbelievable, heartless, stupid cruelty (and it will probably get a fraction at best of the coverage and mass condemnation that greeted the Afghanistan withdrawal) www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Check out my interview with @shirinali.bsky.social in @slate.bsky.social about the once fringe theory that Trump is using to justify his unconstitutional power grabs. @acslaw.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

Allow me to add my voice to the chorus of commentators who believe that elected Democrats' response to Trump's blitz of lawlessness has been woefully insufficient. With some exceptions, this looks like total surrender. Embarrassing and alarming.

Trump has been on an executive order spree and @debpearlstein.bsky.social helps make sense of it all! My latest for Slate: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Guess who got the best seats?

Goodbye, Jack Smith---my latest for Slate! slate.com/news-and-pol...

Let’s unpack this latest Trump trial news. Because it’s messy.

“EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” the president-elect posted.

Thanks, @slate.bsky.social,and @shirinali.bsky.social for letting me expound on why I felt I had to resign from the @latimes.com. In the end, it's about truth v lies and the media's first lookout. Why a prominent legal columnist quit his newspaper over Trump. slate.com/news-and-pol... via @slate

from @shirinali.bsky.social and me: there's no one reason why voters weren't feeling Biden's economy—the ways we measure inflation have changed, there are real pain points that don't show up in trad'l economic indicators, and the public misunderstands how pricing works: slate.com/news-and-pol...