No more blank checks The Congressional Democrats especially the ones in the U.S. Senate must make a stand in the upcoming government funding fight

Here we go again. Just like March @chuckschumer.com and Sen Dems will have a decision to make wrt whether to keep giving blank checks to the Trump regime: will they fight or they just meekly surrender in the name of bipartisanship?

My case for why Ds must fight as polls & pol. dynamics favor them.

klein and thompson living up to the worst accusations of their critics tbh

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.

Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

New WSJ poll: The Democratic Party is 30 points under water with registered voters, considerably worse than the GOP (-11). www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

“It’s a self-licking ice cream cone of crazy” former Congressman @denverr.bsky.social explains why Trump’s $10 billion dollar lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over the Epstein story may come back to haunt him.

Screenshot of series of Twitter posts by Joshua Siegel, @SiegelScribel. 1st: "NEW in ME: Permitting pipes back up, as Dems return to table despite GOP’s gutting of solar/wind tax credits under megalaw. EPW Chair Sen. Capito and ranker Sen. Whitehouse met yesterday to discuss what a bipartisan bill could look like. They are already engaging w/ ENR leaders" 2nd: "Sen. Whitehouse told me along w/ permitting reform, he hopes to pass bipartisan Water Resources and surface transportation authorization bills this Congress (with a big caveat....)" 3rd: ""None of them are going to get done until we have some kind of a trustworthy understanding going forward, that if we pass a big bill, it will actually be faithfully executed by the Trump administration," Sen. Whitehouse told me" 4th and final: "ENR ranker Sen. Heinrich argued permitting reform legislation would take the issue out of the hands of Trump and his efforts to overhaul rules through exec action. "We should create as much certainty across the energy sector,” he told me. Full report avail for ME subscribers!"

What are we doing here, @whitehouse.senate.gov & @heinrich.senate.gov?

How does this result in anything but a disaster that validates & normalizes Trump 2.0 "drill, baby, drill" agenda?

Negotiating with Republicans, days after they passed the awful Reconciliation Bill, sends a terrible signal.

HERE’S WHERE WE ARE WITH THE AI MORATORIUM:

They put the amendment in.
They took the amendment out.
They put the amendment in and they shook it all about.
They did the Hokey Pokey and they turned themselves around.
That’s what the Senate’s all about.

Last night, Republicans agreed to a so-called compromise on the AI moratorium. Don’t be fooled: This is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and it will devastate state attempts to protect children online. That’s why I filed an amendment with @cantwell.senate.gov to strip this provision

Red alert for the big bill blocking state tech laws!

There’s a new draft of the AI moratorium and it’s WORSE. The exceptions narrowed so “generally applicable” laws only survive if they do not create an “undue OR disproportionate burden” on AI. This creates huge uncertainty for which laws survive.

The best thing we can do now is flood Congress w/ calls to support the war powers resolutions blocking unauthorized war w/ Iran.

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Please share so Congress knows we don't want war with Iran!

Democratic strategist David Plouffe to become Coinbase’s newest adviser The former aide to Kamala Harris and Barack Obama is jumping into an industry tightly embraced by Donald Trump.

Former Obama Campaign Manager and Harris Campaign Senior Advisor David Plouffe has been announced as the latest member of crypto giant, Coinbase's "Global Advisory Council." This is another example of a DC insider cashing in by selling their influence to the highest bidder

The Blockchain Association Just Bought the CFTC The revolving door isn’t just corrupting the CFTC—it may end the pretense of a Commission altogether.

Today the Senate Ag Committee is holding a confirmation hearing for Brian Quintenz, Trump's nominee to be chair of the CFTC.

Quintenz was not only the quasi-lobbyist for Marc Andreessen's multi-billion dollar crypto VC fund, he stands to be the most powerful CFTC chair in memory

NEW: We've teamed up with Project South to sue the DHS and the FBI for failing to provide "Cop City" records on the surveillance of protesters
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ICE Quietly Scales Back Rules for Courthouse Raids A requirement that ICE agents ensure courthouse arrests don't clash with state and local laws has been rescinded by the agency. ICE declined to explain what that means for future enforcement.

NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws.

WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week.

by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance" Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

BREAKING an @axios.com: Our new poll tested how voters respond to populist arguments vs abundance-aligned arguments and found that voters clearly prefer populism.

Importantly, this was true not just among Dems but also independents — and in some cases even Republicans.

Trump’s meme coin dinner borders on bribery.

Buyers have thrown millions of dollars into Trump's crypto scheme to get special access to the president.

America is NOT for sale, but it appears our president might be.

End Trump's crypto corruption NOW. Join us Thursday ⬇️

CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

NEW: “By withdrawing the CFPB’s data broker rulemaking, the Trump administration is ensuring that Americans will continue to be bombarded by scam texts, calls and emails," says Sean Vitka, executive director of Demand Progress.

A scoop:

The FBI says scammers posing as DHS agents are contacting foreigners (from UAE, Saudi, Qatar, and Jordan so far) who are studying in the U.S. or planning to do so, claiming they have immigration issues, and threatening prosecution or deportation if they don't pay. www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...

Link to the rule: rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Breaking news: @SpeakerJohnson is trying to stop Congress from investigating the admin through September by procedurally manipulating the rules around Resolutions of Inquiry. Vote is TOMORROW — and would stop, eg, inquiries into SignalGate, which otherwise can FORCE floor votes:

'Taking the Side of Cancer': The War on Medical Research Is Being Fought Through Contracts Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

A group of NIH employees sent a letter to GOP senators explaining why an arbitrary 35 percent cut to contracts is completely absurd.

"There are lives at stake."

Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful.

Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13.

“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

In light of the SCOTUS decision in the Maryland man rendition case, I urge @raskin.house.gov to lead a delegation to San Salvador to demand Abrego's immediate unconditional release into your custody. You'll have to fly commercial because we all know Trump will not make a USG plane available to you.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.

NEW: WIRED has found even more Venmo accounts tied to Trump officials of Houthi-war-chat Signal fame, leaking personal contacts and financial transactions, including one payment from Trump's national security advisor, Mike Waltz, which simply reads: 🍆

Statement from Albert Sellars LLP on Trump’s Executive Order "Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court" Fuck that fascist nonsense. Albert Sellars logo: the word Albert with an x where the upper right stroke is left as a dot, followed by the word Sellars in a san serif font.

Our official statement from Albert Sellars LLP on President Trump's recent executive order.

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.