Jeremy Konyndyk

Excited to take part in this - we are underway - tune in!

Shunned Myanmar leader thrilled at US contact after Trump tariff letter Min Aung Hlaing expresses ‘sincere appreciation’ for letter from US president threatening 40% tariff

That sinking feeling when you accidentally send a tariff letter addressed to the leader of a ruling military junta that the United States refuses to recognize or (otherwise) engage with.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

“Federal law enforcement officers on the scene declined to say what the purpose of the raid was, and directed the Reformer to an email address for ICE’s media contact. Some declined to identify which agency they were with. Most wore masks.”

That's called secret police and it looked like it.

For example, the most persuasive reason why Musk decided to eliminate USAID appears to be that he believed social media conspiracy theories that it was full of criminals. And so now USAID no longer exists, and credible estimates suggest that 300,000 people have died as a result, two-thirds of them children.

While Jake Tapper is saying that covering up Biden’s decline was worse than Watergate, the case is weakened by the fact Biden did not make obviously bad decisions as a result. But Musk’s decisions really do seem like those of a guy who is way too online and on a drug associated with paranoia.

“If Trump can so much bad in such a small amount of time, why can’t we do so much good? Now is the time for us to be impatient, too.”

The federal government is going into a multi-season tank job without even having a draft lottery to look forward to

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Great moments in government efficiency!

Judge says US must allow migrants a chance to challenge in court any deportations to Libya A federal judge has found the Trump administration can’t deport migrants to Libya unless they have a meaningful chance to challenge their removal in court.

Judge says the Trump administration can't deport migrants to Libya unless they have a chance to challenge removal in court.

YouTube video by Ryan Goodman What a Declassified Memo Means for Trump's Alien Enemies Act Cases | @AWeissmann

Monday's declassified U.S. Intelligence Community assessment of lack of ties between Venezuelan government and TdA gang is a GAME CHANGER for Alien Enemies Act litigation.

It will also send ripple effects in how judges treat DOJ's credibility.

Check out @weissmann.substack.com and my conversation

Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.

Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

Not a great time for the top U.S. intelligence and defense officials to be people the president picked because he liked their TV hits.

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It turns out that if you gut public goods, you create far greater private costs.

Cutting Deep Abroad and at Home: Slashing Foreign Assistance Causes Worldwide Harm Please join the Center for American Progress for the third in a series of virtual events highlighting the impact that DOGE’s cuts are having on the lives of everyday Americans; this event will focus...

New DOGE cuts event: Join @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social, Chloe Schwenke, and Jordan Schermerhorn on April 28th for a discussion on the global impact of the abrupt cuts to U.S. foreign assistance and how these cuts affect Americans here in the U.S.

Today's shaping up to be a good one. Trump backing off from firing Powell and Elon Musk is preparing his exit having failed spectacularly in his Doge mission and simultaneously ruined Tesla's outlook.

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

To prevent anti-constitutional, authoritarian control of the United States, blue states will need to end most cooperation with fascist-aligned federal agencies.

Governors need to start talking about it publicly because massive public support will be necessary to pull something like this off.

First time we’ve seen this in any poll in a long time.

Another set of masked officers. ICE HSI must be really afraid of the cameras.

I think the Ozturk case suggests that 1) yes, Canary is being used to ID students for deportation 2) someone in State is OVERRIDING evidentiary analyses (like the one WaPo reports that said there was no evidence against Ozturk) to sustain Canary "conclusions."

Marocco and Rubio sometimes disagreed over the scale and implementation of foreign aid cuts. During a 90-day review of U.S. assistance programs, Marocco advocated for deeper, far-reaching cuts, while Rubio pushed to keep as many lifesaving initiatives as possible, officials said.

WSJ reports that Pete Marocco is out at State. It politely. says that Marocco disagreed with Rubio.

From court filings, it appears far more likely that Marocco bureaucratically overrode Rubio.

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Nothing to see here but Florida's royal family laundering public funds into the royal family's campaign slush fund. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

YouTube video by Palestine Red Crescent Society والد الشهيد المسعف رفعت رضوان| Rifat Radwan filmed his final moments

These are the words of his father: "Rifaat arrived at 12:00am. He apologised, saying, 'I am sorry for waking you up.' He took his shirt, I looked at him, and then he left. This was the last time we heard from Rifaat.’" www.youtube.com/watch?v=muZQ...

The footage was filmed by a young paramedic, Rifaat Radwan. He was killed several days after the IDF resumed bombing of parts of Rafah. At midnight the night before, he called his father and asked if his mother could wash one of his work shirts -- the rest were covered in blood, he said.

PRCS Press Conference "Justice for our 8 medics" الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني العدالة لمسعفينا الثمانية YouTube video by Palestine Red Crescent Society

The full 19 minute video of the second wave of shootings is here (from 25:35). It is deeply harrowing. When the Palestinian Red Crescent screened the film at a press conference earlier this week, the room was in tears by the end. www.youtube.com/live/DXPsOEX...

- The area was not, as IDF claimed, a combat zone at the time of the killings, meaning the ambulances were under no obligation to announce their arrival. The IDF told residents to evacuate several hours after the killings had finished -- indicating only then that it was now a de facto combat zone.