@jilldlawrence.bsky.social
Opinion writer. Pvs: Editor at USA Today Opinion and National Journal, campaign reporter at USA Today and AP. Author, "The Art of the Political Deal: How Congress Beat the Odds and Broke Through Gridlock." My work: https://jilllawrence.com
Love being part of today's Texas "bonus" in @demfromct.bsky.social's pundit roundup 😇. Also included: @mikemadrid.bsky.social, @walshfreedom.bsky.social, and Cornyn's 10 Commandments ad against Paxton (which leads my @thebulwark.com piece and is quite something). www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Chilling read.
Yes, that's in the piece. Pure opportunism altho he says his views have "evolved." Amazing timing.
"Admiring the performance of the U.S. military is understandable. But it is not the same thing as using that military power to achieve some national purpose." @radiofreetom.bsky.social on "victory disease."
That escalated quickly —8 days from an inconclusive primary to a Ten Commandments runoff attack ad. My analysis of the Texas Senate race, a Cornyn-Paxton contrast in styles but not substance. Talarico can win this, whoever he’s up against. New at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/paxton-vs-...
Can't defend Garland. But that was a temperament problem, not an expertise problem.
Almost like it helps to have people who know how to do the thing they're hired to do. Last line of an editorial I wrote, published 6 days before Biden succeeded Trump in 2021: "There will be a time for fresh faces. Now is not that time." cc @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Too funny. Massie doesn't care, anyway. www.contrariannews.org/p/how-i-got-...
Talarico has the chance to be ruthless about Cornyn’s 99.2% record as a Trump enabler. That’s especially promising given Trump’s sagging 45% approval rating in Texas--even before the Iran war, the oil-price spike and the 92K jobs lost in Feb. Me @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/paxton-vs-...
Cornyn has none of the legal or ethics issues that make Paxton a tempting target. But his Senate record alone is enough for the Talarico ads to write themselves—in both English and Spanish.
Cornyn devoted decades to faithfully serving the interests of the very wealthiest; now he's slavishly pandering to every whim of Donald Trump.
Maybe, just maybe, Talarico, a Democratic candidate who reflects the priorities, and principles, of most Texans will win the general election.
I don't think it's good that the president is threatening the Iranian men's national soccer team with violence, tbh.
Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."
Who could have… 🤦♀️
That escalated quickly —8 days from an inconclusive primary to a Ten Commandments runoff attack ad. My analysis of the Texas Senate race, a Cornyn-Paxton contrast in styles but not substance. Talarico can win this, whoever he’s up against. New at @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/paxton-vs-...
"the US government has been remade into a tool for the immediate satisfaction of his wants and desires no matter how absurd or nihilistic they may be." Dark realism from @davidrlurie.com
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-excu...
Unbelievable and all too believable. We are led by incompetent, narrow-minded idiots, and so many people pay a high price for that. Sometimes a price as high as their lives.
www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...
Word. This Cornyn ad detailing the commandments "crooked Ken" Paxton broke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrok...
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is:
A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans.
Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Democrats including Joe Manchin were all set to pass Freedom to Vote Act including voter ID, and an updated Voting Rights Act. But GOP opposed and Manchin and Sinema would not alter filibuster rules. So it never happened. But it's not like Democrats didn't try. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
@leedrutman.bsky.social: "The federal government is already playing a larger role in elections...But the question is whether that role will be structured and nonpartisan, or improvised and weaponized...designed to strengthen democracy or to undermine it." www.newamerica.org/insights/sav...
"Here’s the other side of fear: When you overcome it, when you face it and push through, you grow in ways you didn’t think possible."
An excerpt from @markhertling.bsky.social's new book out today, "If I Don’t Return: A Father’s Wartime Journal": lnk.thebulwark.com/4b0Y0SW
Let’s get one thing straight: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.
Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Thank you @bsky.app Catch Up for putting this in front of me. 🙄😂
"Pulling a TACO in war isn’t simple. Once you’ve decided to 'Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war,' it’s not as easy to get the fierce dogs of war back in the kennel as it is the docile puppies of tariffs."--@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/tacos-with...