#BREAKING: Supreme Court pulls trigger on FTC firing, siding with Trump over precedent @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

"The Roberts court has spent the last 20 years dismantling liberal democracy as Americans have known it. Its rulings have paved the way for the first quasi-dictatorship in the republic’s history." Why Congress must expand/reform #SCOTUS to rebalance a Court that once again adhere to rule of law. ↘️

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

In the last six weeks, the Tenant Union Federation launched seven (7) majority tenant unions, across five (5) states, representing 1000 units of housing owned by Capital Realty Group, a New York-based corporate landlord. The first portfolio organizing of its kind... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump's scam of inventing "mortgage fraud" charges against his foes is failing. So he's set to fire a top prosecutor who is failing to bring charges, ABC reports. Failing to bring corrupt prosecutions is now a firing offense. This is profound misconduct. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

NEW: As Trump and his friends make deals, ordinary Americans are on the menu – to be divvied up proportionately to how well different oligarchs serve Trump. Catch up on the biggest corruption stories of this week with our latest Corruption Calendar newsletter:

President Trump nominated EJ Antoni to serve as BLS Commissioner. If confirmed, he’d have significant power over US economic data. From 2019 to 2021, he ran a Twitter account that frequently posted conspiracy theories, as well as sexist, bigoted, and far-right views. 🧵THREAD🧵

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

This week the House will vote on four bills attacking DC. Nine more are in the works. No one in DC wants these measures. They will not support our safety. We want every Democrat to VOTE NO on all of these bills. Make calls today and tomorrow to 30 priority reps: freedcproject.org/news/make-ca...

Tomorrow, the House will vote on bills requiring police to conduct high-speed car chases in most circumstances and giving Trump total control over who DC's local judges are. Will @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @whipkclark.bsky.social whip those votes? Or will they abandon DC again?

2/ That made the news. Greystar’s thousands of other tenants deal with something that never does: They’re nickel and dimed with junk fees: $4 for no cockroaches $20 to start paying rent $5 to charge you rent monthly $8 to pay online $25 for “valet trash”

1/ A woman with dementia moves into an apartment in Colorado. A few months later she passes away unexpectedly. The family gets a bill for $4140. By dying, she “broke her lease early” A landlord gone rogue? No. It was a billionaire property management company called Greystar.

As a result of Trump terminations, numerous federal agencies are non-functional without a quorum, revealing another way to effectively shut down the federal government. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social: prospect.org/politics/202...

LOL Demand Progress did a post-"Chris Van Who?" poll and found that far more people care what Mamdani thinks than Hakeem Jeffries demandprogress.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?...

NEW: Trump and his allies in Congress are continuing their war on the administrative state: 8 independent agencies now lack a quorum to fulfill key functions. Our @kjboyle.bsky.social writes in @prospect.org on how this puts the public’s safety, financial well-being, and civil rights at dire risk.

D.C. residents currently elect the city's attorney general, but under a bill that advanced in the House this week, President Trump would instead get to appoint the city's chief law enforcement officer. That was among 14 bills targeting D.C.: 51st.news/house-republ...

Two dozen Dem Senators just laid out 10 tough questions for Trump and Pete Hegseth to answer about the decision to bomb that Venezuelan "drug boat" without any clear authorization or rationale. These questions are a good roadmap for getting to the bottom of this. Zero Republicans signed it.

At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble. Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host

Trump's ugly firing of Lisa Cook from the Fed just got blocked. But it gets better: His own tweet calling for her resignation is cited by the judge in showing how Cook was denied due process. Trump accidentally revealed his own bad faith and corruption. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2002...

It's almost like Trump and Bill Pulte are snickering at their own bad faith as they manufacture these "mortgage fraud" cases against Trump's enemies. It's like an open assertion of the power to invent fake pretexts for illegal acts. The thinness of the pretexts is a *feature* of what they're doing.

More than 1,000 students from four universities in Washington, DC walked out to protest President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department. www.commondreams.org/news/dc-take...

We’re tracking Trump’s disasters in the making, and who makes money from them. Check out today's newsletter for tools like maps, trackers, and interactive timelines we've made this year to understand the pandemonium of Trump’s second term.

🔥🔥🔥 The Tenant Union Federation is uniting tenants across state lines to confront the power of corporate landlords. TODAY, tenants in Connecticut, Michigan, Kentucky and Missouri launched a new campaign demanding better conditions from their landlord, Capital Realty Group:

A new GAO report warns that Trump's gutting of FEMA could have dire consequences. Last week, we detailed how Trump's attacks on FEMA and NOAA are likely to unleash preventable suffering and death.

ICE raided a Hyundai plant last night, detaining hundreds of workers. The plant has a long history of unsafe working conditions, leading to two deaths in the past six months. Now, workers may think twice before raising concerns.

Tune in NOW to @prospect.org's weekly roundup, where our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social will be discussing her piece on why Democrats should oppose the AI industry as it currently exists, which is at the growing expense of worker power, the electricity grid, artists, the environment, and so much more.

NEW Corruption Calendar - Weeks 32-33: An Administration Full of Grifters and Grim Reapers The Trump White House is increasing our risk of premature death while helping its wealthy allies get richer quicker.

Last night’s dinner with Trump and Big Tech wasn’t a policy meeting. It was basically 'The Bachelor,' except instead of roses, the prize was the president’s approval.

Democrats must oppose the AI industry. Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social lay out the case this morning in a piece for @prospect.org 1/4 prospect.org/power/2025-0...

One of the billionaires that would see a windfall from Trump’s privatization plan is Bill Ackman, who gave $419,600 to a pro-Trump PAC during the election. Learn more about who really benefits from Fannie and Freddie privatization: therevolvingdoorproject.org/privatization/

Trump and FHFA director Pulte are floating plans to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – but who would really benefit? As Elizabeth Warren put it, privatization would be “great for billionaires, terrible for hardworking people.”

a scoopy one from me, with an assist from @accountable.us: Bill Pulte is using Palantir to gather "mortgage fraud" accusations and weaponize them against Dems in order to abet Trump's government capture. but, he formerly disclosed owning Palantir stock—and that's not his only potential conflict:

BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Latest on tap ⬇️

"Debunking the Abundance Agenda," our new report with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social, exposes how the Abundance agenda consists of dangerous deference to corporate power, deregulation, and trickle-down thinking. Read it here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

NEW from our @maxmoranhi.bsky.social, @jeffhauser.bsky.social, @dylangyauchl.bsky.social: The tech wonder boys have always been terrible. Democrats shouldn't try to bring them back into the fold revolvingdoorproject.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Prosecution: Let's have a look at the footage <uproarious laughter and high fives amongst the jurors> Prosecution: ok

From me in @prospect.org this morning: a look at the ongoing efforts to keep methane pollution visible, as the Trump administration tries to help the industry go dark. The tools to observe methane from space, the sky, and the ground keep improving—as the gap between policy and reality widens.

New in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as AI data centers are the latest driver for ballooning methane pollution, the Trump admin is making every attempt to disappear the government's controls on this invisible super-pollutant. But what we can see is more than enough to justify action.

Reminder: Despite the Musk-Trump feud, a significant proportion of DOGE agents—who continue to gut essential government functions and endanger your privacy—have close ties to Elon Musk and his companies. We're continuing to track them here: therevolvingdoorproject.org/doge-staff-a...

DOGE, you may recall, secured access to our Social Security data thanks to an unsigned, unreasoned shadow docket order. The Roberts Court dropped it on a Friday afternoon and barely anyone noticed.

🚨NEW REPORT🚨 The "abundance agenda" claims to offer prosperity for all. In reality, it props up corporate power, deregulation, and inequality. Today, we published a comprehensive critique + alternative vision with @openmarkets.bsky.social. READ:

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/

The Supreme Court made possible the administration's threats to send Mr Abrego Garcia to Uganda -- because the Court blocked the lower court decisions that had restricted the gov'ts ability to send noncitizens to far-flung places they've never been & where they could face violence, torture, & death.

Abrego Garcia’s dark journey through the lawless Trump immigration system took another grievous turn Monday morning when he was detained by ICE in Baltimore only three days after being freed from criminal custody in Nashville. His next stop could be...Uganda. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

But since Jeffries and Schumer aren't going to openly debate their strategies with rank and file Dems, debating Matt and Third Way is the best proxy you will get. My guess is "The Argument" will become the place to learn what Buttigieg/Shapiro/center-left 2028 candidate X thinks before they say it.