OPINION TODAY featured podcast — @ronbrownstein.bsky.social on what’s ahead in 2026—and in 2028. (Conversations with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/183037344/...

Iraqozuela (with @ronbrownstein.bsky.social): Trump’s Venezuela takeover rhetoric and the politics of oil, Tim Walz bowing out of Minnesota’s gubernatorial race, rising health care costs and what they could mean for the midterms—and much more. (Hacks On Tap) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/183773933/...

While many are dissatisfied with aspects of the medical system, it’s far from clear the GOP can sustain public support for an agenda that simultaneously challenges mainstream medicine and retrenches the federal govt’s role in promoting health. (@ronbrownstein.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/p...

If none of this has happened in 12 months, the odds are pretty high Cruz will find some rationale to avoid breaking with Trump at that point.

Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

“What history has shown us is that it’s easy to dismantle areas of science and technology,” said Joanne Padrón Carney, AAAS chief government relations officer, “but it’s difficult to rebuild.” Read the full story from @ronbrownstein.bsky.social in @cnn.com ⤵️

Gene Hackman has died at 95. I recently wrote about his performance in Night Moves for a Criterion release that will arrive in a few weeks. Like anyone who writes about Hackman's acting, I had to come up with novel ways to avoid the word "perfect." It wasn't easy. >

House conservs are demanding GOP push big spending cuts when extending Trump's tax cuts. That departs from the GOP's tax only-sugar not spinach-strategy for the 01/03/17 tax cuts and echoes the plan that allowed Bill Clinton to revive his presidency in 95-96. More here. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

I wrote about this too. Bottom line is it was hard to convince voters that prices in the future would be higher under Trump when they believed that life was more affordable under him so recently in the past-despite all the warnings from economists of every ideological stripe about his Trump II plan

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

“The number 1 thing: family separation..Individuals are really worried about who is going to take care of their children” if they're detained or deported. As Trump launches his enforcement offensive, immigrant advocates are mobilizing too edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/p... @ronbrownstein.bsky.social

Knee. Bent. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I listen to and support @volts.wtf because of his many wonderful perspective-widening episodes, usually focussed on clean energy, but sometimes on other topics. Like this one on something I'd never considered before--worth your attention, I promise! www.volts.wtf/p/chris-haye...

"Some 50% of poll respondents said the country was on the wrong track when it came to the cost of living, compared to 25% who said it was moving in the right direction."

Before the election, voters also were most likely to name "the economy" as their most important issue news.gallup.com/poll/651719/...

Oh come on.