Tom “T.M.” Wolf

I had a blast talking about Sound, novelizing, and balancing the writing life with the non-profit life with @penamerica.bsky.social. A short thread with some of the tidbits I mentioned while chatting with @baldereg.bsky.social about my novel written like a musical score 🧵🔽 @faberbooks.bsky.social

J. California Cooper wrote that the future has a past. I reflected on the 1990s, the future of Black America after liberal democracy gives way to whatever we build today, & the many silences about what we’ve already lost. Oh, and A Different World. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/o...

Welp, govern by the unitary executive theory, lose by the unitary executive theory…

Welp, govern by the unitary executive theory, lose by the unitary executive theory…

Want to put the brakes on this runaway presidency? Here's a to-do list. Get the details in our new @brennancenter.org report: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

The Brennan Center is tracking the administration’s threats to elections and working to ensure that your vote is protected. Follow our experts to keep up with what you need to know about the midterms.

It’s all about corruption in this final push before the midterms. The striking findings from the @financialtimes.com’s survey echo @cnbc.com’s final All-America Economic Survey, too, where voters pointed to corruption as one of the top issues facing the country right now www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/c...

@bartongellman.bsky.social profiles Utah Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson, who defied the Trump admin's demands for her state's voter rolls. "I’m standing up for our voters.”

that is, effectively, the logical endpoint of unitary executive theory

Want to put the brakes on this runaway presidency? Here's a to-do list. Get the details in our new @brennancenter.org report: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner. trib.al/JrKgx0A

Your all-too-regular reminder that the Supreme Court's opinion gifting criminal immunity to presidents is an anti-constitutional abomination... www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

NEW from the @financialtimes.com: 70% of voters are very or somewhat concerned about self-dealing and other corruption in the Trump Admin, including 1/2 of Trump voters. This echoes our polling, which shows that corruption and affordability are linked in voters’ minds www.ft.com/content/2770...

Super important.

Your all-too-regular reminder that the Supreme Court's opinion gifting criminal immunity to presidents is an anti-constitutional abomination... www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

BREAKING: We're challenging the DOJ’s attempt to preemptively block Alaska from certifying their election results if President Trump’s preferred candidate doesn't win.   The Trump administration doesn't get to reject election results it doesn't like.

When the president abuses his power, Congress must step up — as it has before. Here are seven solutions to rein in executive overreach. bit.ly/4BoERWk

The Brennan Center is tracking the administration’s threats to elections and working to ensure that your vote is protected. Follow our experts to keep up with what you need to know about the midterms.

It's way past time to put the brakes on this runaway presidency. This new blueprint from @brennancenter.org shows Congress how, with solutions to end presidential immunity for crimes, check abuses of emergency powers, restore Congress's control over federal funding, and more.

US executives quit as Trump turns control over massive Alaska energy project to Putin underlings. The former chief executive of a $25bn US gas export venture says Russian energy giant Novatek was given control of the project by Trump, triggering a mass resignation of company leadership

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I've just posted a draft of a symposium essay called "Indian Law and the Problem of Historical Rupture." It's an effort to explain why the history-and-tradition movement has gotten basically no traction in federal Indian law. Read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It's way past time to put the brakes on this runaway presidency. This new blueprint from @brennancenter.org shows Congress how, with solutions to end presidential immunity for crimes, check abuses of emergency powers, restore Congress's control over federal funding, and more.

"Debate" has been corrupted by codifying it into a competitive sport imo; at this point it is rarely a method for good faith actors to hit upon best solutions or refine a shared reality; it's mostly a vector for bad faith actors to keep failed and destructive ideas in perpetual zombie currency.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

If, like Justice Kagan, you think the whole project of originalism is misconceived, have we got the litigation guide for you. Countering Originalism will show you how to neutralize originalist arguments: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Here‘s how to start putting some limits back on our runaway presidency 👇🏻

Few better things than picking up new songs blasting out the windows of cars passing through the autumn night… youtu.be/ucBwsAgimY0?...

When the president abuses his power, Congress must step up — as it has before. Here are seven solutions to rein in executive overreach.

Let's be clear: the state certification process is just that -- a state process. There is no role for the federal government to play that's not inherently improper. 1/5

With one click, you can get the latest from @brennancenter.org experts on all the issues you’ll need to know about this election season: voter protection, election certification, executive power, election administration, campaign finance, and more.

Straight from our leading expert on election certification ⬇️

Dutch intelligence obtained a Russian hack of Kushner's phone and then hacked it themselves to find:

Here‘s how to start putting some limits back on our runaway presidency 👇🏻

If, like Justice Kagan, you think the whole project of originalism is misconceived, have we got the litigation guide for you. Countering Originalism will show you how to neutralize originalist arguments: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

New: The Brennan Center filed a brief in RNC v. Mi Familia Vota presenting research by two political scientists and a historian to show the Supreme Court how “show your papers” requirements and changes to the 90-day quiet period before an election can burden voters. bit.ly/4sBaIz7

Follow Brennan Center experts to stay informed about our work to protect your vote and safeguard elections.

Kagan, 2010: "We are all originalists." Kagan, 2026: "The whole project of originalism is kind of misconceived, and it’s not a very good match with the Constitution we have." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

It’s here!! Wild to have an actual copy of the book I spent 13 years on in my hands! If you want to preorder a copy of The Political Supreme Court, there’s still time before the official release date on October 27: a.co/d/08PThSrx. (Or uncpress.org/978146969713... if you’re avoiding Amazon)

We’re back with our second story about how Trump’s purge of the FBI killed a sweeping bribery probe in D.C. This time, we take you to South Carolina, where two powerful politicians escaped scrutiny: Sen. Lindsey Graham and Rep. James Clyburn. THREAD 👇

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

You’ve seen "You Can See Everything." Now you can see everything Elizabeth Holmes said under oath. I rounded up the full transcripts from her criminal trial, plus video of her 2017 SEC deposition. See it on Slip Opinion, and subscribe (it's free) for more: annabower.substack.com/p/you-can-se...

Because four of the Justices have book contracts with a party's corporate parent, the Supreme Court LACKS A QUORUM to hear BMG v. Vetter, and one of the worst copyright decisions in recent memory is affirmed by default. It's just one bad look after another. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

René Magritte, The banquet, 1958