JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent.

Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

I didn’t know Kaleb Horton, but I loved his writing. Life can be so sad and unfair. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Good morning— or good afternoon— from Athens.

I'm glad Ezra Klein wrote this, and he's totally right on the path forward. Because of his positioning as an establishment-friendly centrist liberal, maybe Dem leaders will listen, which would be great.

Blue states should start indicting Pulte's relatives where they have jurisdiction. It's the only way to stop Trump's deliberate weaponization of the legal system.

Renewed respect for Eric Adams.

Shout out to all those people — mostly on the other site— who assured me that Trump would leave the Fed alone even as he destroyed the CFPB.

This had to be computer trading. What I want to know is where were the billionaire family's financial advisors while all this was going on? No one noticed?

Today’s Must Read. This tale of a busted billionaire friendship — complete with Hollywood adjacent lunacy and a psychic promoter of crypto —is absolutely insane. www.wsj.com/articles/tay...

This is absolutely true… and why I am forever suspicious of people who claim to be “happily married.” Or, as we used to say in journalism, “show, don’t tell.”

There’s a sucker born every minute… and some of them come highly credentialed.

Trump's planning to cook the BLS economic books.

Working class Americans who supported Trump for his trade/tariff plans wanted more American manufacturing jobs and rebalanced trade not tariffs used to boost Big Tech monopolies’ power to crush smaller businesses worldwide, abuse our privacy & hurt kids. American jobs? What jobs?

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

"America is never going to return to a functioning — let alone thriving — democracy as long as we pretend that it’s not a crime to sell access and influence in the White House for coins that go straight into the pocket of the president or his children."

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Not middle aged. The median age of a CNBC viewer is 67. I once went to a shiva where the widower and his guy pals were watching it. It’s for bored retired guys playing with options and day trading.

Trump Mobile seems like such small potatoes compared to the crypto cash grab. It's almost like a grifters-gotta-grift type offering.

Any Democrat voting for the Stablecoin bill should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage.

Dems need to act like an opposition.

The deals Musk cut with foreign governments while they were facing Trump's tariff threats.

A new report by ‪@warren.senate.gov‬ staffers compiles these and other disturbing facts about Musk's 130-day stint in the administration