Jonathan Leahy

YouTube video by Interscope Records Nobody Wants This Season 2: The Soundtrack (Official Tracklist)

Nobody Wants This season 2 soundtrack news! All new songs from Teddy Swims, Selena Gomez, Role Model, Alessia Cara, Chris Stapleton and so many more… www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-l...

YouTube video by Cassandra Coleman Cassandra Coleman - Bite My Tongue (from Netflix's "Nobody Wants This" Season 2) [OMV]

The incredible Casandra Coleman has a single + video out today, it scores our trailer for season 2 of Nobody Wants This, and I’m obsessed with it… youtu.be/ZReOxA5MA6I?...

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

This is a flagrant attack on free speech.

Remember: authoritarian governments silence and threaten those who criticize or oppose them.

We must protect our democracy and our fundamental rights.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

I’m guessing Judge Alsop has played a fair bit of chess.

“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
- Mikhail Tal

The Republican strategy has long been “we can break things faster than you can fix them” and yet somehow SCOTUS refuses to meaningfully acknowledge *speed* as an imperative component of the judicial response.

INTERNAL DOCS: “National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about Trump’s federal takeover of D.C., has assessed its mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” promoting “shame” among some troops…” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Epstein Letter Is Real, and It’s Bad The president’s initial strategy of denying that the document exists leaves him with few options now that it has been made public.

Donald Trump decried The Wall Street Journal's report of a letter he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein as "malicious and defamatory"—conceding that, were it real, it would be pretty bad. "Guess what? It's real. And it's bad," @jonathanchait argues.

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Jeffrey Epstein accusers urge Trump to release all the case files and rule out a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon Six women, along with relatives of prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, are speaking out as interest in the case returns to Capitol Hill.

Epstein survivors speak out. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Waste, fraud, abuse

Senators voting that the White House can cut a program without knowing in advance what they’d cut then publicly hoping/imploring that the president won’t cut parts they like is a pathetic abdication.

The Founders didn’t think legislators would all be good people. But they thought they’d have egos.

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say

"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."

Blocking my column because it was too opinionated was a shock. I’ve authored many pieces over my 17 years writing the Federal Diary (renamed the Federal Insider in 2016), that were at least if not more opinionated as the now dead one. In that piece, I argued that “one hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first three, turbulent months in office is his widespread, ominous attack on thought, belief and speech.” The piece contained specific examples, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s alarming memo supporting deportation of Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. Rubio said Khalil could be expelled for “expected beliefs…that are otherwise lawful.” What immigrants might believe in the future now can make them federal law enforcement targets. Another far-reaching example I cited is Trump’s aggressive attack on speech promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). His executive order commanded federal agencies to “excise references to DEI and DEIA [“A” for accessibility] principles, under whatever name they may appear.” Also, Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, of Turkey, was abducted off the street by masked officers because she co-wrote an op-ed critical of Israel. It was a terrifying sight, caught on video, which previously would have seemed more applicable to George Orwell’s dystopian and cautionary tale against totalitarianism and thought police in is novel “1984.” This is America in 2025. Killing that column was a death blow to my life as a Washington Post columnist. But I wrote two more articles to see if I could cope with the restrictions. That’s when I learned just how severe the policy is. In my next piece, I was not allowed to describe a potential pay raise for federal employees as “well-deserved” because of Post policy. As a columnist, I can’t live with that level of constraint. A column without commentary made me a columnist without a column. I also was troubled by significant inconsistencies in the implementation of the p…

Joe Davidson, longtime Washpost columnist, quit due to editing restrictions. He couldn't call a pay raise for fed'l employees "well deserved" or say that a hallmark of Trump’s "turbulent months in office is his widespread, ominous attack on thought, belief & speech”

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Crockett: We have 83 billionaires. And somehow they have 535 people that are speaking up for them every single day to make sure that when they get married for a second or third or fourth time, that they can go ahead and have another $50 million wedding

Unbelievable. Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

Stealing from the poor, giving to the rich, at a time when inequality is already at record levels.

Inequality is the thing that holds us back most — and this Republican bill exacerbates it. (Again) #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:

This is simply horrific.

@timmiller.bsky.social reacts to disturbing footage of masked ICE agents violently beating the father of U.S. Marines

The Senate must reject Emil Bove's nomination to the federal bench. His reprehensible conduct at the Justice Department disqualifies him from a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail
in Jamaica.

Do you get it yet?

I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.

1,000%

Trump officials delayed farm trade report over deficit forecast Administration officials blocked publication of written analysis that normally accompanies the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.

This is very bad

Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions.

This is such a huge story.

“If you haven’t been poor, don’t legislate for the poor.” - Rep Lateefah Simon, CA-12

Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care

From @pamherd.bsky.social & I @nytimes.com: How Republicans plan to use administrative burdens to kick eligible people off of Medicaid, all to pay for a regressive tax cut.
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I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

YouTube video by Senator Tina Smith IRS Nominee DODGES Conflict of Interest Question

Billy Long is going to be the chief tax collector as head of the IRS, even though he received kickbacks for pushing bogus tax breaks that didn't exist.

The blatant corruption of this Administration is never-ending.