Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026💯 “[Trump] would be liberating them from the drudgery of covering the same staged events and briefings as a legion of other journalists. He is also giving the news media an opening to do away with the antiquated, corrupting and infantilizing rituals of the White House press corps.”economist.comAbolish the White House press corpsWith his spitefulness to the press, Donald Trump is giving it the chance to reform how it covers the presidency 001
Reposted by Jeff AlworthSenator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful. 15554165
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump whining bitterly that no one showed up to televise Xi’s visit because he’d banned them from the White House is the ultimate chef’s kiss. “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” (Fran Lebowitz)deadline.comTrump White House Bars CNN & MS Now From Covering Xi State DinnerHours after a federal judge ordered the networks' access to be reinstated, the administration blocks them from covering a dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. 141
Reposted by Jeff AlworthSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jon Husted just voted to continue the Iran war for the 14th time. While Ohioans are paying record high costs at the gas pump and the grocery store, Jon Husted is voting for more war – and costing you more money – every chance he gets. 251292432
Reposted by Jeff AlworthTina Kotek @tinakotek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oregonians have voted by mail for almost 30 years. It’s safe, it’s convenient, and it’s trusted. My opponent, Christine Drazan, sponsored a bill to end it, following right in Donald Trump’s footsteps. As long as I’m governor, I will always protect your right to vote. 56716
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If Democrats take power in Nov in either chamber, they need to go after racist criminals like Miller. If they can’t do that, they serve no purpose at all. 191
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Stephen Miller is leading an unprecedented and intense White House drive across a host of government departments to accelerate the removal of undocumented immigrant children from the U.S. using tactics that critics say are cruel and racist and, in some cases, flout federal law.”theguardian.comTrump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant childrenExclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist 012
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“However, *if* Roberts were in favor of Trump’s order, he might well follow his previous practice of delaying a final ruling on the substance of a case…. later allowing him to meddle in state elections when it mattered the most—in a presidential election that might decide the future of the court.”jeffalworth.substack.comThree Votes to End DemocracyIn a case so preposterous no one took it seriously, at least three conservative justices signaled they would allow the USPS to interfere in state elections. Not great, Bob! 000
Reposted by Jeff AlworthAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." 130252302018
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 10/09/20262026 in a nutshell: last night, a US president offered voters $5,000 to vote for his party, and the collective reaction was “But that would be really expensive!” rather than “But that’s a bribe!” We have normalized corruption in the US and it is going to be very hard to abnormalize. 020
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Why do people insist on pretending the Trump administration is not an explicitly racist enterprise meant to reestablish White supremacy? It’s not genteel to say such things out loud, perhaps? Meanwhile, from the South China Morning Post 020
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The new Trump coins sell for more than their $1 value, but they're merely gold-colored, not gold. They also appear to signal the death of liberty (1776-2026). Just a chef's kiss all around. 110
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is by far the best things I've read about Trump's corrupt scheme to steal the midterms (re: mail ballots), and one of the best things I've read during the Trump years period.publicnotice.coTrump begs SCOTUS to let him unleash midterm chaosThey’ll find that fraud if they have to throw out millions of lawful ballots to do it. 011
Reposted by Jeff Alworthhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Hampshire College started with a grand promise: to serve as "a vehicle for the realization of self in society." This fall, the school will close its doors. I talked to some of its founders, faculty, students, administrators, and board members about what its loss means thebaffler.com/latest/class...thebaffler.comClass Dismissed | Hannah GaisPrivate liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary. 20407144
Reposted by Jeff AlworthRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Same with Mamdani and so many others. A brown Muslim guy is responsible for a billion others; a white guy like Platner is not even responsible for himself. 244362
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Imagine being so corrupt you get banned from Kalshi. 010
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Some of the wreckage of the Trump administration can’t be fixed. Once you’re dead, you’re dead. “Trump is working to cut global health funding to developing nations by billions of dollars by 2030 … targeting programs that combat the spread of AIDS, Ebola and TB, among other deadly diseases.”washingtonpost.comSecretive deals may cut billions from U.S. global health spending, analysis showsThe planned reductions — targeting programs that combat the spread of deadly diseases — coincide with an administration push to make developing nations spend more. 011
Reposted by Jeff AlworthG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/08/2026This is a great podcast in that it shows how analysis of politics that is grounded in data and empiricism (Bouie) has an uphill battle in DC/NY against ideology and pure uncut reactionary ignorance (Cottle) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’As primary results trickle in, both parties are wrestling with what they stand for — and where they’re headed. 25553112
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This was an astonishing podcast. Two White commentators disinterestedly talking about the malignancies of Trump and the GOP, but what they really wanted to talk about was the crimes of “woke.” Some of their (White) peers were made to feel bad about bigotry. This was the real reign of terror! 1/2 100
Reposted by Jeff AlworthAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 28/08/2026My boyfriend witnessed someone get rather dramatically kicked out of a bar last night for going up to the person singing a Dolly song, telling him he was doing it wrong, and confiscating the mic to do it badly herself 201095105
Reposted by Jeff AlworthAndrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026There is a lot we don't know about the Nepal Tibet flood. Here are some things I suspect, as someone who studies risk just a couple hundred miles away: andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/seven-expe...andrewrumbach.substack.comSeven expectations about the Nepal & Tibet flood, from a long-time student of disaster risk in the regionLike many of you, I’ve been watching in horror as video clips of the disaster unfolding along the Nepal and Tibet border have gone viral. 316066
Reposted by Jeff AlworthMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame. 938160363028
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Republicans may call Democrats everything up to devil-worshipping pedophiles as a matter of course, but God forgive a Senator who acknowledges the existence of a White House staffer.jeffalworth.substack.comNatalie Harp and the Washington RulesRepublicans may call Democrats everything up to devil-worshipping pedophiles as a matter of course, but God forgive a Senator who acknowledges the existence of a White House staffer. 040
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We all have moments when Trump’s behavior strikes us as so bizarre we question our own sanity. I’m having one now, as I look at a post by the President of the US residing in a fantasy world about touring his future ballroom with a dead 18th-century president. Any other president etc…. 010
Reposted by Jeff AlworthG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16/08/2026Very dumb discourse today. For one thing, this is a take about an unrealized future election outcome using cherry-picked data. For another, Cohn Jain et al all ignore that Haley Stevens was polling just as bad! 826331
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Bluesky’s failure to replace Twitter is a symptom of the decline of social media. Widely acknowledged as a cancer on society, people have really pulled back. I think it’s actually fine that Bluesky is so small. Network effects pervert conversation and community. This is fine. 011
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Or: a caution against stripping all context from a single election and using it as a sweeping metaphor that explains everythingjeffalworth.substack.comA Brief Note on Hong’s Loss in WisconsinOr: a caution against stripping all context from a single election and using it as a sweeping metaphor that explains everything 000
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Last week, a beloved brewery in Vancouver, WA hosted a pro-MAGA political event. The reaction may tell us something about the temperature of politics at the ground level. jeffalworth.substack.com/p/are-dems-a...jeffalworth.substack.comAre Dems Angrier Than We ThinkLast week, a beloved brewery in Vancouver, WA hosted a pro-MAGA political event. The reaction may tell us something about the temperature of politics at the ground level. 020
Reposted by Jeff AlworthRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026gets incredible air here 256145503362
Reposted by Jeff AlworthSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up. 7039131706
Reposted by Jeff AlworthAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions." 1351185634399
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It is astonishing to me that a single journalist would attend this event. It’s a sign of complicity or Stockholm syndrome. 000
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026In less than a year, AI agents are going to be marauding around the Internet. The question of whether they’re sentient or conscious will be rather beside the point when that happens. 030
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026One of the ways we’ll know whether our democracy is healing or not post-Trump is whether criminals like his son end up in prison.nytimes.comDonald Trump Jr.’s Investment Firm Posts Staggering Returns of 200%The fledgling firm, run by the president’s oldest son and his partner Omeed Malik, has made investments in A.I. and defense technology that have tripled in value in just months. 010
Reposted by Jeff AlworthJeff Alworth @beervana.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Quick, what’s the most iconic ‘90s-era Wisconsin beer, launched by a craft brewery that is the inheritor of the state’s famous local brewing tradition? If you said Spotted Cow, you got the right brewery, but I’m talking about an even more influential beer.beervanablog.comThe Origins of American Wild Ales — BeervanaQuick, what’s the most iconic ‘90s-era Wisconsin beer, launched by a craft brewery that is the inheritor of the state’s famous local brewing tradition. If you said Spotted Cow, you got the right brewe... 0138
Reposted by Jeff Alworthgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026There are a hundred reasons actual organized revolution is a long shot in this country, but ask yourself how much more we could get done if we punched up, together, even just a little bit. 418020
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026In this piece, I forward the idea that a generations-old politics of preservation on the left is dying in the age of MAGA. It is being replaced not by a more progressive politics, necessarily, but a politics of *restoration.*jeffalworth.substack.comOn the Left, the Birth of a New PoliticsDemocratic politics have for decades been focused on preservation. For the first time, this year’s midterms has shifted the ground so that a new politics of restoration is being born. 000
Reposted by Jeff AlworthJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026we may have a self awareness problem here 6156072
Reposted by Jeff AlworthMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE. 10706503020330
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The new Blazers owner is not a good guy, and he is actively antagonistic to Portland. He intends to move the Blazers no matter what the city does, and the city should tell him to go pound sand. 061
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Chuck Todd keeps pumping out his brand of terminal beltway-brained analysis: “There are two types of people in politics, there are those who are ideologues, and those that want to be in the middle of everything.” (Pols come in a lot of stripes and few are described by Todd’s reductive pair.) 000
Reposted by Jeff AlworthJeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Graham was known for … acting as John McCain’s remora. This paradox, rattling sabres while attaching himself to more powerful men, defined his career. It infused his politics with an irreconcilable insincerity: Graham could only project strength when he was standing safely behind more powerful men.jeffalworth.substack.comLindsey Graham is DeadLindsey Graham died last night of an unexpected heart attack. 011
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Graham was known for … acting as John McCain’s remora. This paradox, rattling sabres while attaching himself to more powerful men, defined his career. It infused his politics with an irreconcilable insincerity: Graham could only project strength when he was standing safely behind more powerful men.jeffalworth.substack.comLindsey Graham is DeadLindsey Graham died last night of an unexpected heart attack. 011
Jeff Alworth @alworth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is another massive part of his legacy and dishonor. He hid who he was so he could gain power among those who despised people like him. 010