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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 2d

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 2d

. @preetbharara.bsky.social takes a wider view on Donald Trump's weaponization of the DOJ: "Do people really think it ends at the end of the list that Trump has put out so far? What do you think happens when Trump runs out of Democrats?"

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 2d

. @repdangoldman.bsky.social to DOJ prosecutors: "You have to stand up for your oath of office. You have to stand up for the Constitution. It is daunting. You may get fired. But I promise you, the legal profession will reward you for doing the right thing."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 3d

Season 2 of Jen Psaki's The Blueprint podcast starts Wednesday, October 15th

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 3d

Psaki: "There is no longer a question of whether [Trump] can get his Justice Department to actually go after them. But just remember, he’s doing it because he is thin-skinned and petty and weak."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 3d

Jeh Johnson: "Somebody managed to snatch scandal out of the jaws of victory. This should have been a good news day for President Donald Trump."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 3d

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

"Not the only one." Reacting to WSJ reporting that the now-deleted Donald Trump post demanding AG Pam Bondi prosecute his political enemies was meant as a direct message, Preet Bharara bets there are more such messages.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he has not yet been briefed since President Trump posted to Truth Social about a signed first phase in the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: "I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene!"

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

House Democratic leader Jeffries: We're waiting for Trump.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

Coming up next hour!

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries will be Jen Psaki's guest on The Briefing.

9pmET on MSNBC

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 5d

Full video: Jacob Soboroff's @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social powerful reporting on how ICE agents are terrorizing suburban Chicago neighborhoods:

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Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 5d

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

"Every single week we have seen one-sided escalation from ICE. We come with songs and chants and signs. They come with tear gas and pepper bullets and flash bangs." @katmabu.bsky.social on ICE brutalizing protesters in Chicago.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

Rep. Dan Goldman wonders if Trump knows how his policies are impacting Americans: "I think he is fed so much dung from his staff that was put in there with a very express purpose of usurping total control of the government and cutting back as much as possible."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

Rep. Greg Casar on Republicans skipping town: "It's like the entire Republican party has taken a lesson out of Cancun Ted Cruz' playbook."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

"It's like an erosion of constitutional norms-themed Mad Libs." Michael Feinberg, former FBI assistant special agent in charge, remarks on how everyone at the FBI has pre-emptively composed their resignation letters.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

"The frantic effort to undo the rolling cuts made to the Homeland Security Grant Program, with the last $100 million slashed over the weekend, underscored the chaos unfolding as the Trump administration moves to punish political adversaries..."
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Trump Administration Reverses $187 Million in N.Y. Counterterrorism Cuts

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9d

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9d

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 10d

Psaki: "All around the world, Trump is the butt of the joke, and it's a little less funny to many people living here."

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 10d

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "It looks like the president is trying to take us off the world stage in terms of our credibility as the indispensable nation. I want the speaker to go to the president and say it's recognizable what you are doing and your deterioration."

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