Meghan McCarthy
@meghanmccarthy.bsky.social
Founder @Maternie. Free daily newsletter on all things women’s health: maternie.com // Once banned from Twitter for daring to mention JD Vance living in my neighborhood. // Always a congressional reporter at heart.
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Budget Impoundment 101 | Bipartisan Policy Center
BPC answers commonly asked questions on the impoundment process and the relative authorities granted to the legislative and executive branches ahead of 2025 budget…
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ONGOING REMINDER: The White House doesn’t control agency spending. Congress appropriates that money and without their say, it can’t be changed in meaningful ways.
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We have a president who virtually never thinks rationally, logically, or even in sequential steps. Nor can he fully comprehend causes and effects. His base of knowledge on virtually all subjects relating to governance and economics and world affairs is minimal. (1/2)
May 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We have a president who virtually never thinks rationally, logically, or even in sequential steps. Nor can he fully comprehend causes and effects. His base of knowledge on virtually all subjects relating to governance and economics and world affairs is minimal. (1/2)
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Crypto billionaire Justin Sun got his White House VIP tour. It was one of the perks promised to the top buyers of Trump's memecoin, and nobody spent more millions than Sun to secure the privilege.
May 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Crypto billionaire Justin Sun got his White House VIP tour. It was one of the perks promised to the top buyers of Trump's memecoin, and nobody spent more millions than Sun to secure the privilege.
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Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...
May 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...
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Trump is doing this right now btw
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
April 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Trump is doing this right now btw
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Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.
April 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Trump defying a 9-0 Supreme Court decision is the reason I say "if we still have free and fair elections in the United States" when I talk about 2026 midterms.
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Days later, Trump has revealed the full scope of the scheme: Summary deportations of U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison where they have no constitutional rights or hope of return.
If SCOTUS doesn't stand up for Abrego Garcia now, it will effectively approve this plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...
If SCOTUS doesn't stand up for Abrego Garcia now, it will effectively approve this plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Trump Administration Is Sticking to Its Gulag Plan in Defiance of the Supreme Court
Trump is now brazenly defying the Supreme Court.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Days later, Trump has revealed the full scope of the scheme: Summary deportations of U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison where they have no constitutional rights or hope of return.
If SCOTUS doesn't stand up for Abrego Garcia now, it will effectively approve this plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...
If SCOTUS doesn't stand up for Abrego Garcia now, it will effectively approve this plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself.
SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then.
Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then.
Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself.
SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then.
Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then.
Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.
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I suggest you read this by Professor Noll. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
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March 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I suggest you read this by Professor Noll. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
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Maybe everyone who lives in a ‘special economic zone’ should have to appear before their local tech lord and swear oaths of fealty and then those local lords could in turn deliver their own oaths to an overlord, and promise to raise armies to support him when he calls his banners…
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
March 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Maybe everyone who lives in a ‘special economic zone’ should have to appear before their local tech lord and swear oaths of fealty and then those local lords could in turn deliver their own oaths to an overlord, and promise to raise armies to support him when he calls his banners…
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as dhs secretary, kristi noem now gets to kill dogs on an industrial scale
TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off
The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.
The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.
TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off
The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
as dhs secretary, kristi noem now gets to kill dogs on an industrial scale
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Really worth watching this. Rep. Bill Keating is clearly feeling a little out of his depth here—not quite sure what to say, not quite sure how to react—but he sees work that needs doing, sees a stand that needs taking, and so he just does it. He just does it. Right on.
Texas Republican Keithself storms out of the meeting he's supposed to be running because a Democrat asked him to treat his colleague Sarah McBride with respect. These people would not last one day as a trans person.
March 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Really worth watching this. Rep. Bill Keating is clearly feeling a little out of his depth here—not quite sure what to say, not quite sure how to react—but he sees work that needs doing, sees a stand that needs taking, and so he just does it. He just does it. Right on.
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I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.
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What Mike Johnson is calling a "clean CR", i.e., funding bill, is really an Elon licensing deal, free 6 months to keep up his wilding spree which has already gutted the VA, slashd social security, cancer cure research and more. Johnson needs Ds help to pass it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...
Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword?
(Ed.Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom line...
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March 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What Mike Johnson is calling a "clean CR", i.e., funding bill, is really an Elon licensing deal, free 6 months to keep up his wilding spree which has already gutted the VA, slashd social security, cancer cure research and more. Johnson needs Ds help to pass it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-...
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A vivid illustration from @pbump.com of Trump's singular ability to reshape reality. Republican voters' views of Zelenskyy dropped almost 40 points *overnight* after Trump called him a "dictator" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
March 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A vivid illustration from @pbump.com of Trump's singular ability to reshape reality. Republican voters' views of Zelenskyy dropped almost 40 points *overnight* after Trump called him a "dictator" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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The number of protests that are gonna happen in the coming months just because it’s finally getting warm outside is going to be nuts
March 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The number of protests that are gonna happen in the coming months just because it’s finally getting warm outside is going to be nuts
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this is where i am at. there is going to be an election... and trump/musk are going to try very hard to rig or circumvent it. we need to be preparing now to win and enforce those election results.
I think it would be very difficult to stop the states from holding elections. Whether Trump/Musk will accept the results is another, very different question (they will not). But even Russia and Hungary have "elections" of some kind.
March 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
this is where i am at. there is going to be an election... and trump/musk are going to try very hard to rig or circumvent it. we need to be preparing now to win and enforce those election results.
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"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
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March 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"Despite multiple attacks by the eagle, the goose remained unbowed. The raptor, defeated, flew off."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What flag will Martha-Ann Alito unfurl today? What flag denounces feeding malnourished babies and fighting tuberculosis? What flag demands we yield to Will to Power?
Let me assure Justice Roberts, his conservative brethren, and the FedSoc forces that put them there that the President of the United States is right: we won’t forget what you’ve done. We’ll remember where you’ve brought us.
March 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What flag will Martha-Ann Alito unfurl today? What flag denounces feeding malnourished babies and fighting tuberculosis? What flag demands we yield to Will to Power?
by all means, keep moving
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
by all means, keep moving