Ken Hughes

SHOCK DEVELOPMENT: Dems Crack Down on Fraudulent Fundraisers An overdue reckoning with the fact that those annoying text messages do the party more harm than good.

"'It’s an erosion of your trust, of our donors, and of our people, and that’s a really costly thing to lose and a really hard thing to get back.'" Dems are doing something about it. @lauren-egan.bsky.social on fraudulent fundraisers: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

How RFK Jr. Mastered Fake Science—and Screwed Us in the Process He’s Making America Great Again—for lethal pathogens.

"He has perfected the art of undermining public confidence in vaccines by leaning on a tiny handful of fringe researchers and then sounding 'sciencey,' to give the impression he’s an expert himself."

@citizencohn.bsky.social on RFK Jr.'s fake, lethal "science": www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-ken...

Et Tu, JD? The president’s dutiful sidekick already seems to be planning for life without Trump.

"A sane world would have seen mRNA tech’s debut for what it was: a quantum leap forward in medicine with a surface of potential we’d barely scratched"

-- @eggerdc.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com Morning Shots www.thebulwark.com/p/et-tu-jd-v...

here's the full intro to justice kagan's dissent in rucho, which @adamliptak.bsky.social quoted in his really useful piece. it's a powerful dissent & i strongly urge folks to check it out: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18p...

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

We've gone from the alt-right being the fringe of American politics to DHS going full fascist - recruiting people to ICE with messages about "Defend your culture!" and "Save America." Deeply alarming for anyone who has picked up a history book.

Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows.

Read free:
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U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

What they voted for: groceries they could afford.

What they got: a billionaire who keeps shoving his hand deeper into their pockets.

Read free:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Good morning, #FirstAmendmentPeople.

“You don't get scared of monsters; you get scared for people.”
—Stephen King

#FreeSpeech
#FreePress
#FreeAssembly
#FreedomOfReligion
#PeacefulRedress

Pretextual retaliatory investigations of a prosecutor who previously brought charges against Trump via "a highly unusual use of a civil rights law". We are becoming a banana republic very quickly.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

Screenshot of opinion by Judge Karen Henderson: KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge, statement respecting the denial of a stay pending appeal: “Throughout the 1600s, the Stuart monarchs engaged in a titanic struggle with Parliament regarding who would reign supreme over the public purse. That struggle was marked by civil war, regicide and a new wellspring of liberty in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By the end of the upheaval, Parliament emerged supreme in matters of taxation and spending. Our Constitution followed suit, granting the Congress plenary control over the public fisc. Recently, the Executive has once again locked horns in a struggle for control over the purse strings. Across a slew of cases, recipients of congressional funding have challenged the President's ability to unilaterally freeze or "impound" spending.' Today's case is but the latest chapter in the ongoing saga.”

Karen Henderson is the longest-serving Republican appointee on the D.C. Circuit. She’s deeply conservative but not Trumpy.

In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.

"Medal of Honor recipient Florent Groberg, who suffered catastrophic injuries saving the lives of fellow soldiers targeted by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan... Groberg, then 29, shoved the attacker away moments before the explosives detonated, preventing far greater carnage."

Laura Loomer knocks Medal of Honor recipient in new attack on Army An unofficial adviser to President Trump, Loomer chastised Army Secretary Dan Driscoll over a social media post recognizing the combat actions of Florent Groberg.

NEW: Laura Loomer knocks Medal of Honor recipient Flo Groberg in new attack on Army

With back story and reaction:

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Shout out to the colleagues who ask why I bother studying a settled issue like women’s suffrage.

Justice Sotomayor suggests—implausibly—that justices somehow have a vested property interest in their office. Yet another reason why relying on judges to be reformers is an absolute disaster.

Judge Henderson's 27-page opinion was pretty blunt: The founders all agreed Congress power is "at its zenith" when it comes to federal spending — and every administration has agreed, until now, that Congress could set the terms of public disclosure too. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

“Normally, threats to public servants aren’t inspired from leadership of their own organization.”

"everyone wants me to run"

OK, a few things on this absurdity:
1. The 2020 Census was conducted by the Trump administration.
2. The only systematic results of undercounts that the Census has acknowledged were undercounting communities of color in almost all states.

The call is coming from inside the house

Trump's first surgeon general

Ground and laws will be broken simultaneously.

Trump: "The crime numbers [in D.C.] get worse."
Official statistics: Violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low.
The Trump regime is inventing lies to justify military control over our cities. It's what dictators do.

icymi, timely given Trumps ramping up in DC

"...under the delusion that he’s building peace and making America great again, Trump has taken steps that will likely weaken democracy, splinter Europe, deepen the pariah status of Israel (without advancing a durable peace), and isolate the United States."

In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails

"...justices have reshaped American elections not just by letting state lawmakers like those in Texas draw voting maps warped by politics, but also by gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and amplifying the role of money in politics." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

Opinion | ‘Acute, Sustained, Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada Finds Its Voice

"As America dismantles its elite institutions one by one, that aspirational connection is dissolving. The question is no longer how to stop comparing ourselves with the United States, but how to escape its grasp and its fate."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...