"Our message now needs more patriotism and pride about the great country America has been and the better world we have built." The latest from @tommalinowski.bsky.social at the @contrariannews.org...

"If you're serious about dealing with that threat from China, you need allies" Tom Malinowski & Peter Harrell on why the U.S. needs to step up its global alliance game

Republicans used to rail about state-owned enterprise, but now they celebrate it @tommalinowski.bsky.social‬ on why Project 2025 is the most communist document to ever guide the GOP

Trump rolled out the red carpet, Putin played for time, and Ukraine was left exposed. Jen Rubin joins @tommalinowski.bsky.social to discuss what the Alaska summit tells us about America’s role in the fight for sovereignty and democracy.

Federal agents have been sidelined from fighting terror and cyberattacks so Trump can use them for show on city streets. @tommalinowski.bsky.social warns that the cost could be national security itself.

Trump’s Alaska summit with Putin, in theory, it could deliver a ceasefire and protect Ukraine’s sovereignty. Tom Malinowski explains why the likely outcome is far off the mark.

Thanks to @tommalinowski.bsky.social for demanding accountability for those involved in the Egyptian government's corrupt scheme to bribe former U.S. Sen. Menendez. New Jersey state officials should act on his calls for investigation and oversight. www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

Tom Malinowski analyzes the ways out of the Russia-Ukraine war and why he’s less than hopeful… @tommalinowski.bsky.social‬

Starvation is also being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Famine and death is on the rise and largely absent from the media. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Famine in Gaza followed a decision by Netanyahu to block U.N. food aid and replace it with a failed mercenary-run system that deepened the crisis. @tommalinowski.bsky.social explains why staying silent no longer serves Israel or its allies.

While the reconciliation bill brings clear harms to millions of Americans, @tommalinowski.bsky.social offers a silver lining—and a fight democrats are leveraged to win.

“I first met Marco Rubio in a prison in Libya.” @tommalinowski.bsky.social on how Trump's Secretary of State went from champion of dissidents to defunder of democracy programs.

From @tommalinowski.bsky.social, a New Jersey congressman from 2019-23 and an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration:

Trump is now trying to deport the very Afghan allies Republicans once demanded we protect. @tommalinowski.bsky.social says their stories must be front and center in exposing his mass deportation plan.

The danger is real, but fear is a choice-- @tommalinowski.bsky.social quoted Will Smith at #NoKingsDay in Morristown, NJ with 4,000 strong in the steady rain. No sunshine patriots 🇺🇲 @nj11thforchange.bsky.social and #TomPaineBrigade

@tommalinowski.bsky.social gave what might have been the best (of many) speeches today at the #NoKingsDay event in Morristown. How I wish he was still my representative in NJ-07. He had the crowd reciting the same oath to the constitution he took when he became a citizen.

Bukele “is engaging in a conspiracy with [Trump] to subvert the rule of law in America,” writes @tommalinowski.bsky.social. Democrats should propose "the most crushing possible sanctions, including asset freezes on Bukele and every member of his government," if he "doesn’t return... Abrego Garcia."

We have to acknowledge that the possibility of losing democracy is real. But we have a lever to use: make it maximally difficult, inconvenient, and painful for people to collaborate with Trump. Today's Triad, from @tommalinowski.bsky.social:

NEW: Make It Painful to Collaborate with Trump. Here are specific things congressional Democrats can do. (Written by our pal, former Rep. Tom Malinowski @tommalinowski.bsky.social ) www.thebulwark.com/p/make-it-pa...

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

We had the best conversation with @tommalinowski.bsky.social on Over It! this morning. If you missed it, you can catch it here. @tarasetmayer.bsky.social @michellekinney.com @jojofromjerz.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/VBYChAa...

What's important about the US Institute of Peace (USIP) takedown is not that the Institute does good work (I think it does; others can disagree). It's that Musk and Trump are again deliberately breaking the law to test if Congress & the courts will let them get away with it. 1/

The government-subsidized post-war research university system in the US will likely go down in history as our country’s single greatest contribution to the world. And, for the selfish, likely our greatest source of soft (if not often hard) power. And it is getting torched to the ground.

Remember that the people who are cheering the haphazard mass firing of federal employees — because they hate federal employees and think they are the “deep state” — are simultaneously happy to accept ICE’s unreviewable, often clearly wrong determination of which aliens are most dangerous. MURIKA

John Ossoff, Rev. Warnock, Ruben Gallego, Mark Kelly, Jackie Rosen, Elissa Slotkin, and Tammy Baldwin all stood their ground against the MAGA budget. But safe D Senators, Schumer, Durbin, Gillibrand, and Schatz gave Republicans the votes they needed anyway.

Striking: Trump-Zelenskyy meeting, suspension Ukraine aid, and WH friendly tone toward Putin have failed to make a dent in the strong American public sympathy with Ukraine. High sympathy for Ukraine and low sympathy for Russia about same as last summer. brookings.edu/articles/tru...

SANCHEZ: What do you tell your constituents when you hear auto makers say that the cost of certainly vehicle is gonna skyrocket? It's gonna jump upwards of $12,000 because of these tariffs? REP. LISA McCLAIN: I tell them to relax ... it might be a little uncomfortable

Kaine: "A bully can take something from you, but you shouldn't hand it over to him. So I'm voting no."

Summit New Jersey Town Hall with @tommalinowski.bsky.social massive success thanks to @maddow.msnbc.com and @georgetakei.bsky.social shout out. These are great. Republicans are refusing to hold town halls a

I agree. If they don't take a stand now, there will not be another time. fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...

2/2 Chuck Schumer can ask himself, "What would Mitch McConnell do?" Answer will become obvious.

What Is To Be Done? Some practical tips. fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...

"This is the crucial framing point for Dems. Stop saying 'continuing resolution.' Start saying blank check for Musk. Because that is what we are actually talking about." Good James Fallows reading of the moment, riffing on my intvu w/ @tommalinowski.bsky.social: fallows.substack.com/p/the-only-p...

Translation: "We must continue to keep the government open so that Musk can continue to shut it down." I hope no Democrats fall for this.

Since our current representative remains AWOL, I'll be doing a town hall this Thursday evening in Summit. Whether you agree with my perspective or not, please come to share concerns and ideas about what can be done to get our country to a better place. See the image to RSVP!

"Their legislative agenda is to break the legislative branch, to reduce Congress to the status of an advisory body. And if no one stops them from impounding lawfully appropriated funds, that’s what Congress will become." ICYMI @tommalinowski.bsky.social:

The bigger question is why did four countries abstain on hope? 🙃

Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.

DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.

Whatever strategy Democrats choose, they need to understand that the fight they’re in is different from any fight they’ve experienced in the past. Here's how they can approach the looming funding fight. New from @tommalinowski.bsky.social:

Congressional Republicans want Dems to approve a long-term "continuing resolution" to fund government programs that Trump and Musk are discontinuing -- in other words, to pass a budget that Trump and Musk will ignore. That makes no sense. I suggested how Dems can better use their leverage here.

This is good, but it only applies to payments to aid groups for contracts already fulfilled. The big question remains: Will the Court require Trump to spend Congressionally approved funds as Congress directs? And will Congress do more to assert its power of the purse (or just rely on the courts)?

Donald Trump has betrayed America's farmers. Because of Trump many are facing financial catastrophes. Trump froze farmer's funding and broke their contracts. Now they're mad–rightfully so. See what farmers in Wisconsin, Kansas, Kentucky, and elsewhere are saying about Trump abandoning them 🧵⤵️

To those saying Zelensky should've groveled more and not contradicted Trump: That same argument is why top Republicans are scared to tell him tariffs will tank the economy, and why you'll soon be paying more for everything while farms & factories fail. It's why kings usually screw everything up.

Whoops, I accidentally cancelled Ebola prevention! Doh, I fired the the bird flu experts! Oops-a-daisy, I stopped the Lutheran Charities foster care and adoption services! My bad, I sacked the nuclear weapons workers! Now can I have access to your tax returns?

In this budget framework is a commitment to cut $880 billion from healthcare and energy programs, which is impossible w/o gutting Medicaid, $330 billion that puts Pell Grants at risk, and $230 billion, which will devastate food assistance. Every single Republican but one owns this calamity.

Never thought I'd be debating the Shark Tank guy about dismantling the US government, but I guess we're living in weird times.

To my friends in Congress (on both sides of the isle): Take a moment to be angry about this statement that Trump seems to have plagiarized from Putin. Then remember you have power and do something. Here are some options. 1/

Many charities and humanitarian aid groups will be tempted to ask for special life-saving exceptions to Musk's funding freezes, instead of suing to end them altogether. They should consider what Hannah Arendt wrote about those who asked the Nazis to exempt specific Jewish victims from persecution.