Two stories that remind us that resistance is not futile. Jerome Powell is defying Trump; and Mark Kelly is suing Pete Hegseth. Both men are taking a stand. As we have learned the hard way over the last year, we can’t take that for granted. open.substack.com/pub/charliesyk…

Hey, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

Kristi Noem with and without makeup and hair extensions

This morning, ICE denied me entry into their detention facility at 26 Federal Plaza for my weekly, unannounced oversight visit, citing Secretary Kristi Noem’s "new" policy requiring 7 days’ notice. A court has already ruled that members have a statutory right to conduct oversight, but now

GOP Rep Lisa McClain's (R-MI) husband bought six figures of xAI stock a few days before Pentagon announced new partnership. So lucky!

Dear Bari Weiss Congratulations.

The funny thing is Trump wanted the cameras & the videos from the very beginning. When he first started the ICE raids last Spring, he had Dr Phil embedded with them. Trump wanted a big spotlight put on ICE’s brutality, cruelty, & lawlessness. He thought it’d be a political

Nice to see Donald Trump helping to bring NATO together What a shameful time for America.

À la demande du Danemark, j’ai décidé que la France participera aux exercices conjoints organisés par le Danemark au Groenland, l’Opération Endurance Arctique. De premiers éléments militaires français sont d'ores et déjà en chemin. D'autres suivront.

Kasparian: Lankford's bill was not some easy like, oh, we're going to be hands off— Todd: Sure it was Kasparian: No, it wasn't. It was a Republican wishlist Todd: It was not. Kasparian: Please be honest

I honestly thought the war against Denmark would come before the war against Minnesota

I’m tired of my taxes paying for this puffed up, swollen faced ghoul to run around in costumes and lie to me on a daily basis

After claiming that fraud only happens in blue states Scott Bessent explained, "When Republicans commit fraud it's to protect their families, guns, escorts and restricted country clubs so it's fine"

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The Nobel committee reminding Americans what an actual prize winner sounds like:

ABC News I think perhaps this can no longer be defended. The man seems mentally unwell…

Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying….Everything that is in these files—it could bring an entire house down. And if it has to, it has to. If it brings down Democrats, bring

The absence of courage in grown men is one of the defining characteristics of the Trump era.

This quote gives me life: "As George Orwell wrote in ’1984,’ ‘war is peace, freedom is slavery, [Karoline Leavitt] Karoline Leavitt is a dumbass.’" Thank you, Stephen Colbert.