It was shocking to hear of Glen Hansard’s death today. Less than two months ago Glen sat with me for an hour long interview on 1A / NPR. He talked about his outsider’s view traveling America, and more importantly, played two songs live. the1a.org/segments/glen-…

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Glen Hansard, the Frames frontman and 'Once' star who won an Oscar for Best Original Song, has died at 56 following a motorcycle crash in Dublin. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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I love radio because you can have a real, sustained, in-depth conversation and cover topics and nuances other mediums don't quite allow. Here's the interview @juliaangwin.com and I did today with @toddzwillich.bsky.social on NPR's 1A. A joy and a pleasure. www.npr.org/2026/07/20/n...

'If You Can Keep It': The Power Of Dissent In 2026 : 1A

One of the most critical parts of a democracy is the right to dissent. But if democratic norms weaken, that right can become harder to exercise. And when authoritarianism creeps into a government, dis...

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Talking sports on 1A w: @toddzwillich.bsky.social this morning at 10

Scoop: Her DACA status doesn't expire till 2027. ICE deported her anyway, separating Jessica Treviño from her 3 U.S. citizen kids “I'm not mad at the country, I'm more mad at the president,” said Sarah, Jessica’s 14yo daughter. “Why is he just separating families?” www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

The Trump administration is deporting ‘Dreamers.’ Their kids are paying for it.

Jessica Treviño Villegas’ DACA status was still valid when she was deported to Mexico. Her children, who are U.S. citizens, are now navigating life without her.

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Trump's nominee for Surgeon General deleted posts before her nomination saying the administration was delaying announcing that measles was spreading again in the U.S. until after the midterms, attacking Trump personally, and lambasting Trump's Tylenol/Autism comments. www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/p...

Exclusive: Deleted tweets reveal new surgeon general pick criticized Trump and RFK Jr. health policies | CNN Politics

Just two months before she was selected as President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier suggested the administration was hiding that measles was spreading widely enough in ...

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.@brianbeutler with a reminder to journalists attending Saturday’s dinner with Pres Trump: History is being written today. We’re all players, and history is watching. “Some of your faces will be filmed and photographed; some of those images will circulate for centuries.”

NEW: ICE detained DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco 12 days after his youngest child was born prematurely. The father of 3 U.S. citizen kids was driving to deliver milk to her in NICU "I never got to hold her" Juan told me, sharing his story for first time w/ @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-det...

‘Americans at heart’: ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU

Juan Chavez Velasco’s case reflects a growing pattern: The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.

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A White House official talking about infighting in the Texas GOP Senate primary. It’s the qualifier that really contains worlds.

Trump's racist post is very similar to Musk's "Seig Heil" @ the inauguration. If don't want to be seen as virulently racist / Nazi, you clearly say it wasn't your intention, I made a bad call, etc. OR, you mock people & let their worst fears linger. The aftermath is its own, clear choice.

We are now 42 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

SCOOP: Trump admin plans to deport at least 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran, sources tell me, @davidrohde.bsky.social Flight is as early as Sunday. Two men set to be on it are gay & “terrified” of returning to Iran where being gay is punishable by death www.ms.now/news/trump-d...

Literally no different than South Park would do it

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg

Trump has repeatedly said he reserves the right to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the US military in American cites. Here. his Deputy Atty General refers to ICE-involved violence in Minneapolis as “an insurrection”. On the right, Trump’s NYT interview

This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 7mo ago

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2)

Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.

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So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message: Trump has us living in a distortion field. He's openly coddling a *child sex trafficker*, apparently so she won’t tell what she knows. We've blown past it instead of sounding the alarm. www.offmessage.net/p/the-5-alar...

The Trump-Epstein Emergency Isn't in the Files

Trump has distorted the political landscape so badly that it's warping the moral intuitions of people and institutions of account.

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Turns out Hegseth forced Adm Holsey out of his command because, at least in part, of friction over the so-called “drug boat” strike campaign.

Todd Zwillich@toddzwillich.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message "Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes" www.offmessage.net/p/mark-kelly...

🚨 My first SCOOP for @ms.now: Mike Johnson has secretly been working to tank a provision to mandate IVF coverage for active duty service members from the Defense Reauthorization Bill—even as Trump has pledged to expand access. Here's what to know 👇

Mike Johnson works in secret to strip IVF health coverage from defense bill

The speaker is working behind closed-doors to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that would mandate health coverage for in vitro fertilization for all active duty military.

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New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message "Maybe it was blind luck that led this group of national security-oriented lawmakers to bait Trump into a debate over war crimes just as the Post was working up a story about potential war crimes" www.offmessage.net/p/mark-kelly...

Mark Kelly's Double Tap

National security Democrats launched a preemptive strike on Trump's misuse of the military. Weeks later it's paying off in ways even they didn't predict. Or maybe they did.

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WH Press Sec on Trump's dehumanizing tirade against Somali immigrants, where he called them garbage: "Epic moment" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting

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Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

For me it was the fact that when the President was asked about releasing a record of the debasement and humiliation of girls and women, he somehow reflexively resorted to language intended to debase and humiliate a woman.

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

The Trump administration is going to make it harder for the public to learn about wrongdoing by withdrawing protections for whistleblowers. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I’ve been thinking about this exchange all weekend. Even with everything else, the fact it hasn’t brought politics and the news in general to a screeching halt is surreal. There’s a new book “Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows” about how collective knowledge drives collective action, or inaction. /1

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Reporter: Have you ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell? Trump: I haven’t even thought about it. I haven’t thought about for months. Maybe I haven’t thought about it at all. Reporter: Why can’t you rule it out? Trump: I don’t rule it in or out

In case after case—Comey, James, Maxwell,Homan, J6, etc—Pam Bondi has shown that she runs DOJ on behalf of Trump, personally. Now that Trump is resigned to releasing the files he fought to bury, the question HAS to be: Has Bondi altered or destroyed records in her possession to protect Trump?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."

"Like Trump, some of the most prominent players on the American right have talked openly about Orbán providing a blueprint for a Christian nationalist takeover of the federal government." www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

What Trump learned from Hungary

The president has long praised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a model strongman.

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Rhodes amassed weapons to use on Jan 6 and was convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump freed him from prison. Now, using Trump’s “invasion” rhetoric, Rhodes urges Trump to use his militia as a private army. www.rawstory.com/amp/stewart-...

Convicted Oath Keepers' founder announces militia's relaunch to enforce Trump orders

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