Pinky Weitzman

The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to decide when the nation goes to war. President Trump’s strikes on Iran are flatly unconstitutional. There’s been no deliberation, no vote, no clear justification. This is a flagrant abuse of executive power.

When a president threatens to "nationalize" elections, we all have a role to play in ensuring the midterms are free and fair.

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

This is outrageous and un-American. Full stop. Let's start with the basics: being an observer or a protester does not make you a "domestic terrorist," as I explained shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good. 1/12 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

They are inmocent CHILDREN. The cruelty is staggering.

Sure hope Chief Justice Roberts is enjoying tonight’s headlines.

Bernie never strayed from his battle cry around fighting wealth inequality and corruption - the perfect public servant to administer the oath of office to Zohran Mamdani.

Serious question: have any high-profile evangelical or tradcath leaders spoken publicly about the moral imperative of funding SNAP?

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

Bike fest in Brooklyn

Bike fest in Brooklyn

Bike fest in Brooklyn

Bike fest in Brooklyn

I ❤️ NY

Times Square

Today’s NYT spelling bee with letters m o b i l z e

Sam Ezersky understood the assignment for today’s pangram.

State and local officials can take steps now to prepare for federal interference in the midterms.

Canada. Australia. France. Brazil. Germany. The UK. Spain. Romania.

Trump says ‘I don’t know’ when asked if he’s required to uphold Constitution The president also downplayed fears of a recession and spoke of potential successors when his four-year term ends in an NBC interview.

Yes, Presidents do have to uphold the Constitution. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The dream is dead

Call Congress: Reject the SAVE Act The SAVE Act could block millions of American citizens from voting.

🚨 The House will vote on the SAVE Act - a vote suppression bill that could block 21 million American citizens from voting - this morning 🚨

Call your members of Congress and tell them to vote no: secure.brennancenter.org/content/call...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Don’t dismiss the power of mass protest to rein in an authoritarian leader whose power depends on individuals remaining passive.

A masterclass in public speaking.

The administration's executive order and the SAVE Act could both have the same effect: *blocking millions of eligible U.S. citizens from voting*. Get informed and get involved:

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Bluff: called. Well done, @theatlantic.com

My feed is increasingly looking like the pre-credit montage of headlines in a post apocalyptic action movie.

History will not look kindly upon this.

This won’t stop at green card holders.

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Don’t let the fox guard the henhouse.

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in New York issued an aggressive order against the DOGE goon squad at the Treasury Department barring them from any and all access to the Bureau of Fiscal Services and ordering them “to immediately destroy” anything they may have downloaded from the systems.

Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks

The fix continues to be in.
www.propublica.org/article/elon...