Alyssa Rayne

Priorities.

We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Stunning how far we’ve fallen already.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.”

Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement.
rsf.org/sites/defaul...

What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign.

This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

If you think they’re not coming for the very right to vote, think again.

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

What if Pam Bondi did decide to open an investigation into why I stopped posting on Twitter? Would the legacy media treat it with outrage or with skeptical bemusement?

Or would everyone just look away and hope it doesn’t happen to them next? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...

Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c...

“The document contains multiple references to CIA human sources reporting on Putin’s plans. Such sources are among the agency’s most closely guarded secrets.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "There ought to be independent commissions in every state. The fact of the matter is that doesn't seem like it's possible. We have to recognize that, even though I'd love to see it for Illinois, we're not going to unilaterally disarm when R states are drawing crazy maps."

This Is Not a Drill: When the FBI Hunts Lawmakers for Political Resistance...You’re in a Coup The coup isn’t coming. It’s underway. And unless we treat it like a five-alarm fire, we lose everything.

They’re not arresting criminals. They’re arresting resistance. And if that doesn’t shake you, read this twice.👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Lawrence O’Donnell is giving a scathing and profoundly relevant to August 2025 indictment of the lax, ethically compromised, historically disengaged White House Press Corps. It should be widely circulated tomorrow and used in every journalism department in the nation.

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

Trump rants about ordering a new census excluding the undocumented population

A depressing number of news outlets are reporting this without mentioning the minor detail that it would be unconstitutional.

The DOJ Just Hired a Man Who Cheered for Cops to Be Killed He called Capitol police “Nazis” and screamed “Kill ’em!” Now he’s working at the Department of Justice.

A man who screamed “Kill ’em!” at police during the January 6 riot now works for the Department of Justice. And the DOJ says they “appreciate his contributions.”

If you’re not chilled by that, you’re not paying attention.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-doj-ju...

The Supreme Court Doesn't Need Trump to Dismantle Democracy, But He Helps Read more here.

NEW: As the Supreme Court continues to enable Trump, we can’t pretend it will spare us from the authoritarian hill we’re tumbling down. While the Court’s brazen partisanship continues to damage our democracy, the work of lower courts becomes even more vital, @rachelrossi.bsky.social writes.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

He’s destroying the country and the white house

Grocery stores that have been eating the cost of tariffs are about to pump the brakes. Some are looking to be more transparent about the coming price hikes.

Starting tomorrow, new tariffs of 15% to 50% hit a wide range of food items.

If you’ve got a household food budget, this is a must-watch.

“We’re watching the worst president in history manipulate the worst White House press corps in history every day,” says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
And to that I say amen.
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."

Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’ Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’

NEW: Trump calls for a new census that excludes noncitizens and uses information from the 2024 election. The proposal represents yet another illegal move from the executive, as federal law prohibits using mid-decade census data for apportionment counts.

From: @jimsaksa.com

Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this."

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

This quote from Bill Burr highlights how cruelty from the wealthy towards the people who make them their wealth, is something that we accept, the status quo.

No raises this year.
No holiday bonuses!
We're laying off 20%
No dental insurance.

But executive bonuses are 8 figures.

That's wrong!

I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

Somewhere around a decade ago, a conservative activist told me that it was his mission to end abusive FOIAs of activists fishing through the emails of professors at public universities.

I think about that often.