AP SCOOP: The official bipartisan "America 250" birthday celebration has received only $25 million. But the Trumpy alternative facts version, aka "Freedom 250" planning car races and UFC fights, seems to be rather ... well funded.. apnews.com/article/amer...

A week after The Washington Post purges its environmental reporting, its ed board reaches an ignorant, humiliating new low in editorials: The Trump EPA is right not to uphold the Clean Air Act because it should ask Congress to pass a new Clean Air Act. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says wind and solar were "a cost center" and "not actually helpful" for the East Coast grid during Winter Storm Fern. He ignored renewables' year-round value, the Texas solar-battery boom, and winter risks to fossil fuels: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra... #energysky

I’m in a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing RIGHT NOW demanding answers about why taxpayer dollars are being diverted from recognizing our country’s history to instead bankroll political propaganda.

Trump is turning our country’s 250th birthday into a pay-to-play scheme for billionaires.

Our statement: Interior Secretary Must Testify to Congress About Whitewashed History at National Parks, Sale of Access to Trump www.citizen.org/news/interio...

Those who give $1 million or more will get invitations to a “private Freedom 250 thank you reception” hosted by Trump, with a “historic photo opportunity.” Those who give $2.5 million or more also are being offered speaking roles at an event in Washington on July 4. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/u...

SCOOP: Freedom 250 — the group launched by Trump to oversee projects including the @UFC fight on the WH lawn & his arch overlooking DC — is offering access to him for donors who give $1M. For $2.5M, donors are being offered the chance to speak at the national July 4 celebration. 🎁🔗

Trump's "Freedom 250" group promises that anyone who gives them $2.5 million will have a chance to speak on July 4 at the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It's exciting to consider how many rich whack jobs may take this chance to air their takes to the nation.

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

really, truly, dafuq

Separation of church and state? No, sorry, never heard of it.

The Trump admin made a pitch deck for corporate sponsors to take over America's 250th birthday.

an abundance of milquetoast

Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

great reporting here…

If you are watching the Super Bowl and wondering what the hell America250 is, @dfriedman.bsky.social and I wrote an entire (cover!) story about it!

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

1/ @motherjones.com reported extensively on this group, Freedom 250—and the larger effort to whitewash our history and get corporations to fund that destruction—in our cover story that went up last week: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

President Trump’s allies are offering access to him and other perks to donors who give at least $1 million to a new group supporting flashy initiatives he is planning around the U.S.’s 250th birthday, according to documents and interviews.

my latest..

13 companies seeking to mine our public lands spent $8.4 MILLION on lobbying over the past two years. These companies are threatening our national parks in order to increase their own private profits. And the Trump admin isn't just allowing it - they're encouraging it.

The Trump family was personally enriched by a foreign government. According to our co-president Rob Weissman, "This may be the biggest Trump scandal yet."

Wish I could like this @newyorker.com graphic a million times. media.newyorker.com/photos/69725...

This is the difference between running a bespoke opinion site that caters to a narrow audience, and a large, public-company news org with a PR department that has much bigger things to worry about than which dubious guy is contributing think pieces

Trump must be learning a lot from his new crypto buddies because this looks like an email your grandma gets telling her she needs to go to the gas station bitcoin ATM and send the IRS $1,000

I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss. If you are a commentator who cannot see what the play is there, I'm not sure you should be offering commentary.

what’s up with New Mexico?

New: Just how furious are Americans about ICE? Sewing influencers, bourbon vloggers and the mod of r/catbongos are all taking a political stand. "I refuse to wake up in five or 10 years and look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘You had a platform and did nothing,'" a golf YouTuber told me

Natural gas prices are spiking. US consumers will pay huge bills because we're too reliant on gas and export too much gas but Alex Trembath would like to talk philosophy & argue about a month-old social media fight. What is up with these guys? www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/who-watche...

Carney quoted Greek historian Thucydides, cited Czech democratic hero Václav Havel and outlined how the old systems of the liberal order were over. Trump said NATO “called me daddy.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

We’re in a new era apnews.com/article/chin...

"The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Last week, we announced a plan to make child care universal. Today, applications are open for pre-K & 3-K. If your child is turning 3 or 4, apply now for the fall at: myschools.nyc

The fact that air pollution protections save lives (and thus dollars) has long been an inconvenient fact for those who want polluting industries unfettered. This move is indefensible and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Again, and it blows my mind that this barely gets any coverage: data centres have played a key role in re-coupling US emissions to economic growth, and accelerating the coal-boosting impacts of the LNG export boom and Trump's coal mandates

This is........pretty wild A collection of "insiders" say they don't think data centres are (the present tense is important) slowing down decarbonisation (mostly the "innovators") This comes out 1 day after a @rhg.com US emissions update that *explicitly* names DCs as a core cause of rising GHGs

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

DC ads are about everyday concerns like de minimum tax exemptions for bitcoin transactions

Six-byline alert: 🚨 “.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Harvard's finest!

huh.

Trump's abduction of Maduro wasn't about freedom for Venezuelans. It was to grab Venezuela’s oil. Now Trump aims for American taxpayers to foot the bill to rebuild the Venezuelan oil & gas industry – all to guarantee the profits of Big Oil. No way.

Billionaire hedge funder Paul Singer, whose firm acquired oil giant Citgo at a bargain price, has much to gain from Nicolás Maduro’s ouster. On Fox News Saturday, Trump made clear that one of the motivations for Saturday’s attack was to increase the production and export of Venezuelan oil.

A new report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social warns that Big Oil may demand US taxpayers fund guarantees for their investments in Venezuela. Congress must fund healthcare, housing + climate action, not Big Oil's profit-making schemes. www.citizen.org/article/cong...

This is not only classic strongman shit, but *idiotic* strongman shit. Destroying the reputation of the world’s most important central bank by politically hijacking it is a recipe for financial and economic disaster

"Today we are running the sale of their crudes...Think of what President Trump has done for the American oil and gas industry." Trump's dim-bulb Secretary of Fracking

Maybe one day I’ll be used to ACAB Bill Kristol but for now it still really gets me every time