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1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

Immigration agents called immigrants “wets”… … and ”tonks,” from the sound a metal flashlight makes when it hits a head. Meanwhile, HQ told officers to “turn the creativity knob up to 11” and arrest more “collaterals.” It’s all in text messages and other docs. calmatters.org/justice/2026...

I want my money back from this scumbag turncoat The answer is NO- nobody wants you Dems carried your sick ass with empathy and grace for your situation and you need to explain why you're pleading with R's to save you from yourself F ALL THE WAY OFF FOREVER

And @npr.org still had to mention the Platner implosion minimum 4 times this morning while reporting on the win of Troy Jackson Didn't hear this tidbit! Maybe hire @marisakabas.bsky.social if you're counting on donations to replace the fascists taking your funding

I spoke to Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign manager who shared on the record for the first time that Moraff was banned from campaign events/activities after the team learned of allegations of sexual misconduct (including assault) from six different people. www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.

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Liz Oyer says she's received deaths threats since testifying against Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General — and that Missouri's Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have helped fuel the violent threats against her.

Elon Musk pleads: please, please don't watch my interview with The Economist. By all means, watch it here: www.economist.com/insider/the-...

Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.

It's been hard to do my job this year. Being back reporting — and in print again — means more than I can say. Please spend some time with my story about a Trump administration crackdown on faculty speech at West Point, and one professor's lonely rebellion. wapo.st/4fo0lts

Power, Opportunism, and Ideology in Republican Politics About cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right. My new piece:

also reminded of the ongoing Vichy Twitter addicts who come on here every couple of months to give a purple faced tirade against the entire userbase because some of us were annoyed at a bad article they or their friend wrote

They’d rather be told they’re liars who should be subjected to violence by those who don’t read their work than be told they are stenographers who are failing at their stated principles by those who do read their work.

Reasonably clear now that Fox News knowingly disseminated malicious information about a man who was executed by ICE agents at their request. This should be good for another $787 mn in libel awards. But more significantly evidence of Fox's operation as a firehose of government lies.

Phang: Judge Sullivan found, in both fact and law, that the acting attorney general conceded he violated the law—a law that is intended to bring sunlight and transparency to one of the worst crimes, indeed multiple crimes committed by multiple perpetrators, in American history.

NYT: “.. The stunning admission offered an unvarnished glimpse into the way President Trump has .. sought to leverage the budget as a tool to assist its allies — or as a cudgel to hurt the president’s foes.” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Oh, so it was exactly what it looked like. Got it.

The errors here are all strategic and there are two of them: First, someone (Caine, it's Caine) needed to tell Trump, "if you order us to do this, we will try it, max effort, but it is impossible and we will fail to achieve it." He needed to say that *bluntly* and given the reporting, he did not.