Shawn H Phillips

They’ve had since Feb. 13 when they were first ordered to do so. Maybe get the people who know what they’re doing back to work ASAP to disperse the $ out as ordered. And jail Marocco for contempt of court.

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

As one of the biggest purveyors of Medicare fraud while he was CEO of Hospital Corp of America, Sen Rick Scott was an expert in lining his own pockets. The people who have paid into SS their whole working lives are NOT the fraudsters. Look at healthcare industry for the fraud. Ask Sen Scott!

Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible. (Published Feb. 2025)

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Irreversible tipping points in the climate system — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the wide-scale collapse of coral reefs — are closer than scientists previously believed.

Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

Rep. Jim Himes: "You have a very serious allegation of the compromising of intelligence for political purposes — something DNI Gabbard said she would not permit. Here is a textbook example of twisting intelligence to achieve a political end. That is not okay."

Facts matter.

Hello, in case you were wondering about this: because false positives are so common and prostate cancers tend to grow very slowly, doctors do not usually recommend prostate cancer screening for men over 70.

I took this pic of then Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office back in September 2015. I’ll never forget how, during the 2020 campaign, he would make a point of saying the press is NOT the enemy of the people. Thinking of President Biden as he takes on this next battle. Godspeed Mr. President.

Climate scientist Jeff Masters explains how our new Energy Secretary Chris Wright is using numbers selectively plucked from IPCC reports to mislead Americans about climate change.

President Biden is a man of deep faith and extraordinary resilience. Chasten and I are keeping him, and the entire Biden family, in our prayers for strength and healing.

"Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the National Park Service budget could result in more than a 75% reduction to the National Park System. With 433 national park units across the country, that would essentially wipe out budgets and staffing for at least 350 national park units."

During a winter storm in Jan. 2024, the Northwest barely had enough power to meet demand. Energy prices surged to 18 times the usual price. Power lines were so congested that owners of the transmission network made an extra $100M selling access to the highest bidder. With @opb.org

Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Are Elon Musk and DOGE benefiting from the changes they’re imposing on U.S. government and bureaucracy? Listen to ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson explore this question in his latest investigation on two DOGE aides, Christopher Young and Gavin Kliger. 📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social

👀 The Trump administration has been arguing that one of the people it deported to Mexico — despite fears of persecution — said verbally he was not afraid to go there. Now, in a late Friday filing, they say that was a mistake. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

During President Trump’s tour through the Middle East, the White House released daily lists of the dozens of deals it said he had secured during his visits. However, at least half a dozen of the contracts were announced before Trump even took office in January, according to a Post review.

A federal judge on Friday indefinitely prohibited the Department of Health and Human Services from terminating $11 billion in public health grants set aside for states.

NEWS: When a man sued the Trump administration for sending him to Mexico despite fear of persecution, ICE had an answer: the man told them himself he was not afraid to go there. Tonight, ICE filed an "errata" saying they have no evidence of this exchange www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks.

The AEA decision granting the temporary injunction to the NDTX detainees illustrates how the Trump admin shot itself in the foot with Abrego Garcia. By insisting they can’t fix an error, they increased the irreparable harm and need for urgency in protecting due process rights

Read this entire THREAD but here’s the biggest news:

Here is what we confirmed: After Musk’s rise to power in the U.S. government, the State Department has repeatedly coaxed, lobbied and browbeat this tiny West African country into giving business to Musk’s satellite company Starlink.

"This isn’t about Charl Kleinhaus. It’s about the Trump administration showing us—very clearly—that none of its stated concerns about the “antisemitic activity” and opinions of other classes of immigrants are real. It’s all just cover."

A former FBI special agent is currently out on $100,000 bond after being arrested for attempting to expose what he described as a covert Russian intelligence campaign to gain influence over leading American tech figures—namely Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. kyivinsider.com/fbi-agent-go...

In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas. (Published Jan. 2025)

Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK Jr. who oversees the CDC and NIH doesn't want you to listen to his medical advice, especially around lifesaving vaccines. 👀

Additional evidence of what I've been writing about for some time now—which is that the algorithms for Musk products have been politically tampered with nearly beyond recognition. Twitter, Grok, press releases about Optimus... none of it can be trusted to be free of the pernicious influence of Musk.

Finally, something we can all agree upon: “I don’t think people should be taking advice—medical advice—from me.” —Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.forbes.com/sites/mollyb...

Imagine being worth billions of dollars and deciding to suck up to a guy who ordered the murder and dismemberment of a journalist he didn't like because you might be able to make another billion dollars Maybe just spend the money you have and keep whatever is left of your integrity?

Wrote about the masked, plainclothes immigration goon squads. Gift link: wapo.st/438r062

🚨NEWS: Amid dire warnings about artificial intelligence, Republicans are trying to sneak a line into their massive budget bill that would prevent states and cities from regulating or limiting Big Tech's deployment of AI in any way for at least a decade. www.levernews.com/gop-chooses-...

We need more regulation of AI, not less. This is so dangerous and shortsighted.

In other words, in order to avoid angering Trump, Apple plans on lying to consumers. The company will raise prices due to tariffs but invent other reasons. www.wsj.com/tech/apple-i...

NEW: Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Trump’s attempted takeover of the Library of Congress after a brief standoff with DOJ officials this morning. w/ @ktullymcmanus @jordainc t.co/BJ79oZAj9C

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

I don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant

This is an absolutely rip-roaring opinion by three judges all originally appointed by GOP presidents (two Trump, one Reagan). Among other things, they find that GOP lawmakers *intentionally* discriminated against Black Alabamians when they passed a map that did *not* create a second Black district.

To be clear: the Trump administration is trying to send migrants to Libya specifically *because* of their gross human rights record - not in spite of it. They want people to be afraid to come here, so they’re sending them to the worst places they can find.

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic. “The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵