SCHIFF: Are you saying it's just fortuitous that $143m went to a subcontractor that you worked w/ extensively as gov of SD?
KRISTI NOEM: I had no choosing of contractors.
S: Can you state for record that you or Lewandowski had no communication with any agency involved?
N: To best of my knowledge
Congress has the power and duty to demand real answers about Trump's Iran war, and to stop the war if those answers aren't good enough. It needs to own its actions. open.substack.com/pub/mariamcf...
Congress has the power and duty to demand answers about Trump's Iran war, and to stop the war if those answers aren't good enough. If it fails to act, it owns the war too. mariamcfarlandsm.substack.com/p/if-it-fail...
“And if there’s a traumatic event — ... a war — .... Would fear once again lead people to ignore rights and values as it did... in Peru?” From my 2017 @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social piece, warning about how an autocrat could use war to justify repression here:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-p...
So energized by the "State of the Swamp" SOTU response event organized by Defiance.org! (Based on his tirade against Robert DeNiro, the event clearly got under Trump's skin). Here's a clip from my panel, on brutality and hope: www.youtube.com/shorts/y43KE... @represent.us
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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"The administration has been quick to investigate those who were shot"--yet those claims have repeatedly unraveled in court. Meanwhile, "there are only two cases in which civil rights or criminal investigations into the officers’ conduct have been announced." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
You don’t have to know Spanish to like Bad Bunny's messages of unity and love at the Superbowl half-time show. Fortunately, he's not alone. Artists are increasingly and bravely speaking to rising authoritarianism and brutality--and that really matters. mariamcfarlandsm.substack.com/p/bad-bunny-...
If your eyes glazed over at the story about the Trump family's UAE crypto deal, you’re not alone. But it’s time to sit up and pay attention. The Trump network's schemes to profit from the presidency put all of us at risk. open.substack.com/pub/mariamcf...
So the President is suing the IRS, which is part of the branch over which he presides, for ten billion dollars.
Will the IRS settle with him? For how much?
Why not just direct the Treasury Secretary to write DJT a check for $10B? Or $20B?
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Big news with two GOP senators calling for Noem’s removal. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Wonderful lunch conversation with @mariamcfarlandsm.bsky.social CEO of @represent.us & @robrichie.bsky.social CEO of @expanddemocracy.bsky.social — we talked about strategies to build a stronger & more resilient democracy with reforms like #RankedChoiceVoting
Demand accountability now--at @represent.us we're making it easy for you: act.represent.us/letter/ice-a...
The Pretti and Good executions are part of a pattern of growing abuse encouraged by senior officials, and total lack of accountability. That's a recipe for escalating brutality. The answer to these crimes is not shuffling staff. It's ensuring full accountability. open.substack.com/pub/mariamcf...
THIS. "The ultimate goal is bringing to justice those who have engaged in blatantly unlawful... conduct. But what is needed immediately — urgently — is deterring such conduct from happening going forward." By @barryfriedman1.bsky.social
@stevevladeck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
Many generations have been here before. A crucial reminder:
Remember that the legal standard for deadly force is whether the agent reasonably believed that he was in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.
That is the only question that matters. And that standard is plainly not met by what we see in the video.
In my human rights work I've worked on cases of extrajudicial executions in countries like Colombia & Egypt. Hard to interpret this killing of a man already on the ground as anything other than that. We must all stand up to this brutality, push for accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.
Excellent @nytimes.com recap of Trump's use of the presidency for self-enrichment--clearly the priority here. Citing Aristotle: the country may call itself a republic, but when its "aim shifts from public good to private gain, its constitution becomes an empty shell." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Really should not dance around that word. Not just corrupt or improper or whatever. It's bribery. He's selling pardons. Call it bribery.
In the last 4 days:
-- Elise Slotkin says she's being criminally investigated by DOJ
-- ICE illegally goes "door to door" in Minneapolis
-- FBI raids the home of a WP journalist
-- DHS illegally arrests, detains 100+ Somalians with legal refugee status
Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.
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