Tom Joscelyn

This is an excellent book - and I’m glad it’s now in paperback.

@hoffmanbruce.bsky.social and @jacobware.bsky.social are two real professionals.

It’s Time to Designate The Base as an FTO With increasing violent extremism and waning DOJ interest in curbing far-right extremism, a failure to address The Base could prove fatal.

The Base, a global neo-Nazi network, recently claimed responsibility for a targeted assassination in Kyiv, Ukraine.

@lbaum94.bsky.social argues that the attack shows why the U.S. government needs to designate the group as a foreign terrorist organization.

www.justsecurity.org/118427/desig...

This is an excellent book - and I’m glad it’s now in paperback.

@hoffmanbruce.bsky.social and @jacobware.bsky.social are two real professionals.

Pope Leo Most Favorably Viewed of 14 Newsmakers Pope Leo XIV enjoys broad favorability in the U.S., while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders remain well-liked.

New from Gallup. A survey that suggests Americans haven't entirely lost our minds:

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of...?

Pope Leo XIV, 57% favorable, 11% unfavorable.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 52%-34%.
Donald Trump, 41%-57%.
Elon Musk, 33%-61%.

news.gallup.com/poll/693155/...

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

A big part of Trump’s crypto play is to boost “DeFi” - decentralized finance - as a means to get around regulations and oversight. Banking regulations make it difficult for shady characters to conduct their business.

A big part of Trump’s crypto play is to boost “DeFi” - decentralized finance - as a means to get around regulations and oversight. Banking regulations make it difficult for shady characters to conduct their business.

Q: Why did you cut snap and health care research?

Rep. Flood: We do not have unlimited money in the United States.

[Crowd booing]

Don Bacon: "From my vantage point here in Nebraska, we're seeing a bit of a troubled economic mess. Right now it's a troubled time. In Nebraska the GDP has decreased by 6% over the last year and it's all about trade...so what I hear about weak jobs numbers, we're seeing that in Nebraska right now"

VOA director Michael Abramowitz, who is leading the legal effort to protect the agency from Trump cuts, says he's been terminated from his role.

Trump incited a mob on Jan. 6, 2021 by lying - claiming the 2020 election was “rigged” and it wasn’t.

Now in 2025 Trump and the Republicans are brazenly trying to rig the 2026 midterm elections by aggressively gerrymandering Texas & trying to control the election process.

Accusation = Projection

Trump incited a mob on Jan. 6, 2021 by lying - claiming the 2020 election was “rigged” and it wasn’t.

Now in 2025 Trump and the Republicans are brazenly trying to rig the 2026 midterm elections by aggressively gerrymandering Texas & trying to control the election process.

Accusation = Projection

Donate to Help Free Will Kim from ICE Detention, organized by Tae Kim Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a 40-year-old lawful permanent resident, has called Texas home for… Tae Kim needs your support for Help Free Will Kim from ICE Detention

Will Kim’s brother has set up a GoFundMe to help with his legal defense.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...

COMMUNITY RALLY & VIGIL FOR THE RELEASE OF Y EONSOO THURSDAY AUG. 7TH, 5PM CHASE PARK, SCARSDALE, NY Yeonsoo Go, a 2024 Scarsdale High School graduate & Purdue rising sophmore, has been detained by ICE since July 31%. Join state and local officials and the interfaith community on August 7th, as we rally and join in prayer to demand the release of 20-year-old Yeonsoo. For more information: paulina@nyassembly.gov ALL ARE WELCOME PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

There is a vigil next Thursday for Yeonsoo Go in her home town of Scarsdale.

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

The Week Ahead Sunday August 3, 2025

This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, but there’s not a lot to celebrate. There is, however, a positive action that you can take, right now, to help.

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say Advocates fear President Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation plan jeopardizes Afghan interpreters and other allies who worked for U.S. troops during the war.

A disgrace.

“One former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan was detained by immigration agents after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested just minutes after attending his first asylum hearing in San Diego.”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Unfit to Serve: Jeanine Pirro Made Excuses for Jan. 6th Senators weighing her nomination for U.S. attorney should revisit her remarks denigrating prosecutors and calling defendants “hostages.”

The Senate just confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. If you want some examples of how ridiculous that is, see this piece I wrote with @normeisen.bsky.social:

www.thebulwark.com/p/unfit-to-s...

Jeanine Pirro is an election denier who called the J6 attackers "hostages" & has unfairly attacked DOJ

She is the latest Trump nominee to be confirmed by a MAGA majority in the Senate that has abdicated "advise & consent"

I explained @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social @msnbc.com

ICE says it has made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 as hiring ramps up Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has made over 1,000 tentative job offers as it ramps up hiring.

ICE has already made 1,000 tentative job offers as it scales up for Trump’s mass deportation regime.

Tom Homan once spared Phoenix migrants. Now he’s Trump’s Darth Vader Pre-Trump, colleagues of border czar Tom Homan described him as reasonable. Now, they see a cruel man they don’t recognize.

“Tom Homan once spared Phoenix migrants. Now he’s Trump’s Darth Vader”

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tom-hom...

Spoiler: Tillis broke his word, crossed his “line in the sand” and abandoned his principles by voting to confirm Pirro tonight.

Senate Republicans nominees

The words “uncontroversial nominees” are doing a lot of work here.

Unfit to Serve: Jeanine Pirro Made Excuses for Jan. 6th Senators weighing her nomination for U.S. attorney should revisit her remarks denigrating prosecutors and calling defendants “hostages.”

The Senate just confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. If you want some examples of how ridiculous that is, see this piece I wrote with @normeisen.bsky.social:

www.thebulwark.com/p/unfit-to-s...

Federal agency opens inquiry into ex-special counsel Jack Smith over Trump investigations Smith led investigations into Trump’s part in the January 6 Capitol attack and the mishandling of classified documents

Jack Smith did nothing wrong.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Federal agency opens inquiry into ex-special counsel Jack Smith over Trump investigations Smith led investigations into Trump’s part in the January 6 Capitol attack and the mishandling of classified documents

Jack Smith did nothing wrong.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I forgot how great the song ‘Come And Get Your Love’ is.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief over jobs numbers he doesn’t like is another example of MAGA’s “Broken Reality.”

Trump and his followers reject reality when it conflicts with their desires and beliefs. They replace reality with conspiracy theories that confirm their beliefs.

Newsmax's Greg Kelly on Ghislaine Maxwell: "There's something else going on here. It's an injustice ... people are horrified when I say that this individual just might be innocent. But think about it. Who told us about her? The most reviled institutions in America. The media and the Biden DOJ."