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Father, husband, criminologist, sports fan, data nerd and wannabe meteorologist. Trying to get from point A to B without losing all the marbles.
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Elon Musk spending more than $4 million to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court race NC Republicans going to unprecedented lengths to overturn Democratic victory in NC Supreme Court race There’s a constitutional crisis in the states as well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Do Americans want to be aligned with Russia against all of our traditional allies in Europe and Asia? I don't think so

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

Last night MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said Trump was the first U.S. president to “switch sides during a war.” That aptly describes Trump’s betrayal but it can’t begin to convey the depravity of what Trump did in throwing our ally overboard and lying about every facet of Putin’s criminal aggression.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed. Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio. He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.

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Wrote about how horrendous this job market is earlier in the week, but now, tens of thousands of federal employees have been laid off along with more across so many other industries. So, how will the newly unemployed get absorbed in an already competitive job market? Because…where are all the jobs?

One could use a variety of social science terms to describe what’s going on, but perhaps the simplest explanation is that the Trump White House is run by assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

US authorities have repeatedly claimed that interior immigration enforcement focuses on people who have committed serious crimes. "Their own data directly, unambiguously, factually, objectively, indisputably contradicts that claim," @austinkocher.com finds austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-lates...

This is an absolute scandal. Trump and Marco Rubio abandoned American workers and their families abroad, delaying waivers to provide for their safe return to the United States. As these civil servants lost their possessions, housing, and money, Elon Musk was slandering them with bogus accusations.

Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

"New analysis shows 4.5% of jail bookings every year are of unhoused people": www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/02...

BREAKING: Judge Beryl Howell has ruled that the FBI will have to release documents related to Trump's mishandling of classified documents in a FOIA case brought by Jason Leopold. From Kyle Cheney: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

In the past few weeks, AG Miyares has... -demanded Costco end its DEI policies -ordered UVA and VCU to halt health care for transgender youth -remained astoundingly silent regarding pardons of violent Jan 6th insurrectionists

Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.

Bird watching

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

NEW: Kash Patel was paid $25,000 by a Kremlin-linked filmmaker to promote anti-western propaganda. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

Um there's an obvious compelling reason the president can't just up and fire the FEC chair on a whim and it's v problematic that this headline exists as it does

A couple of (actually serious) thought-experiment questions on where we are and where we’re going: If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes? And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

The Bourbon Street attack was earlier this month. Feels like a year ago...

It’s the Gulf of Mexico. It always will be.

I will not give into the lies. I will not give into the fear. Repeat it.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Chicago, putting local shelters to the test. Despite the strain, the city “rose above that attack and built a system of care,” says Mayor Brandon Johnson. boltsmag.org/chicago...

NEW: An aide to Mike Johnson has advised against subpoenaing Cassidy Hutchinson as part of his investigation into the Jan 6 investigation because it could expose sexually explicit texts she received from congressmen. www.adn.com/nation-world...

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.