It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you

Also: Trump’s own judge holds the regime in contempt, election deniers lose in Colorado, and MAGA’s Kansas City map dies. Plus, the first of our 12 GOP Senate investigations drops tomorrow.

September 28, 2026

Good morning, evening.

Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"

Also: Nevada checks DHS’s “noncitizens” and finds citizens, a judge throws out Trump’s lawsuit against a pollster, and Illinois writes the AI rules Washington won’t.

September 27, 2026

In our Intel Briefing this week, we dive into four big topics:

A Reason To Smile

and the American people are paying for it

Trump explains to the Chinese president how he’s destroying democracy

Also: Trump tells the UN he’s keeping Venezuela’s oil, bans three newsrooms and loses in court, and Republicans can feel November coming.

Also: North Carolina’s ballot trap under fire, data centers get the grid upgrade bills in California, and 260,000 shorted DoorDash workers win more than $115 million

Your weekend reminder that the fight is working

Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

Trump spent his day kowtowing

I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.

Donald Trump's super PAC plans to spend up to $500 million to buy the midterm elections. Megadonors from both parties — almost all billionaires — have spent another $1.8 billion. ENOUGH. Get big mon...

You know what I’ve been saying about Iowa…LFG!

Ahead of President Trump’s meetings with the Chinese President, three big things should be on the agenda:

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

Also: four places moved to stop data centers last week, a court struck down the regime’s six-hour deportation rule, and thousands linked arms around the Kennedy Center

and continues his attacks on our Free Press

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

makes a run for it

His own judge killed his scheme, FEMA’s cuts stopped, the Kennedy Center still isn’t named after him—and five more.

On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.

Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

Progressive Mexico.

This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...

On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...

On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.

These have been low weeks for me, and I have written less than I wanted to. I have been trying to put my ideas in order so I can keep going. My wife knew that, so she showed me a number. Since 2022, ...

We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another c...

Last night was the second night of the Republican midterm convention Trump staged to fire up his base.

It’s becoming a problem for all of us

City Hall’s lawyers made a list, then tracked who came looking for it. Plus: an HHS study that only asked about one side’s violence, and the clipboard that beat Trump.

He’ll be working 24-7 for him

Most of us in the U.S. are with you

What it still means

The question is when, if, and how Congress will stop him

He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States

Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.

Plus: an Arkansas nurse beat a utility, two Kansas neighbors beat a city, and a Denver-born citizen ICE deported made it home

And: the machine that fed ICE 47,000 home addresses, the memo that sank the regime’s own lawsuit, and the state that fought Trump’s health care cuts one person at a time

What do these corporations all have in common? -SpaceX -Palantir -RTX -Northrop Grumman -Microsoft -Nvidia They are all corporations whose stock Trump just purchased — and who do business with ...

Since yesterday, President Donald J.