If you read this @nytimes.com article expecting a section talking about how the President's family making deals with a foreign power is inherently corrupt, you'll be disappointed.

Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders:
1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month.
2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Ocean Beach, San Francisco” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

In RFK Jr and Trump’s upside down world, people being medicated for psychiatric problems is the root of violence, not, as logic would dictate, the other way around.

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

How do you publish a news article about a president pardoning the son of someone who just gave him a million dollars without using the term "conflict of interest" or consulting a legal expert.

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

New, at Can We Still Govern: Former 18F employees explain what was lost when they it was zeroed out by DOGE.

"18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/requiem-fo...

What happened to USAID foments a constitutional crisis the likes of which most Americans haven't seen in their lifetimes.

You can't just eliminate it. When/if courts say so, will Trump/Musk defer? Courts don't have armies.

The story I've been waiting to read: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Within 24 hours of the Bourbon Street terror attack, reporters pieced together a pretty complete picture of the suspect. But a key early bit of misreporting confused the public — and the president-elect — and now it's warping the political dialogue. I wrote about it here: www.cnn.com/2025/01/02/m...

New paper out from our NSF Collaborative grant testing the widely used minimal group paradigm across multiple racial groups in the US! Overall, minimal group effects hold, but exploratory analyses show stronger effects with older kids and White kids. #psychology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...

NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.

www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

When I was a lawyer in the White House, I can’t stress enough how much we all cared about following the rules - the black letter law and the informal limits of tradition, morality and shame.

You really can’t fathom yet what it will mean for the most powerful actors to care about none of that.