Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14hIf Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent. 1993366586
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18hOver the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error. 441863528
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsAnthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.ms.nowOpinion | The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real. This ABC lawyer just admitted it.Anthony L. Fisher: ABC’s lawyer says the network is tempering its coverage of the government because of the administration’s threats. 3940407
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17h1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people. 30233621289
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.” 10412182
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This is how you write a headline. 7945721452
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I dunno. Maybe it’s time newsroom executives told Trump to go fuck himself, and told their reporters to stop treating him like a normal president. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...nytimes.comJustice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Gift Article)Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump. 628282
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Question reporters should be asking every Republican elected: Your president trusts Putin, praises Putin, is beholden to Putin, and wants to help Putin annex more of Ukraine. What are you going to do about it? 12382126
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.” 10412182
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule. 22453177
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Russia is resupplying Iran with missiles. Guess who is, in effect, paying for those missiles when we pump $$$ to Russia for diesel? That's right. Another masterstroke from the genius-in-chief. 35811300
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“A politicized Department of Justice erodes the rule of law,” writes @barbmcquade.bsky.social “Our society becomes less safe and less just, allowing the powerful to prey upon the vulnerable.” share.inquirer.com/OamclM. Part of the @inquirer.com series called “The Case for Impeachment.” 25322
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals 210101723431
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇 20954592499
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/10/2026👇👇👇👇 26241021667
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump really thinks Putin has gotten him out of a jam.  48721116
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule. 22453177
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Y'all have persuaded me. TRUMP DOES NOT KNOW WHERE IRAN IS. 56016
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up Newspete1456.bsky.social @pete1456.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Once again trump is reaching out to Putin to interfere in our elections Russia if ur listening i need diesel 03211
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsThe Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A notable Fourth Estate development. Editorial Boards have been silent on defending and following the Constitution except for @inquirer.com and @sentinelcolorado.com Are there others ? 04118
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The lying liars at DHS said ICE agents tried to block Oscar Belgal from driving away, and believed their lives were in danger. Lies. Always lies. 413144
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026Trump makes genocidal threats against Iran and then IMMEDIATELY pivots to whining about not winning the Nobel Peace Price. You can't make it up. 2303959962
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We are governed by the worst 4% of humanity. www.dignity.us/2026-dignity... 16617
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Really pathetic how major news organizations still fall for Trump’s bullshit. 615528
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What the hell us this doing on @ms.now? 5408
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/10/2026🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote. 10588218
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Y'all have persuaded me. TRUMP DOES NOT KNOW WHERE IRAN IS. 56016
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsRalf W @raflw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Russian refining capacity has been seriously degraded by Ukrainian drones. What exports could Putin even manage. It's just lies to try to fool farmers and OTR truckers.pbs.org 1339
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Incoming White House press secretary Katie Zacharia *already* has negative credibility. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comTrump Taps Far-Right Commentator as New Press SecretaryKatie Zacharia has been tapped as the new White House Press Secretary, replacing Karoline Leavitt as the mouthpiece for Donald Trump's administration. 103514
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026So this is all midterm theater. And what did Trump give Putin in return? Money to kill more Ukrainian civilians? 1117653
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My understanding is that the US doesn't need diesel. It's other countries' needs that are driving up global prices. US refiners make billions of excess profits charging US customers global prices. In fact we are a major exporter of diesel. So WTF? And what did he give Putin in return? 33233103
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This story is still atop the NYT homepage. Did an editor denature it, or did it come from the reporters that way? 1268
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026WaPo for some reason didn't provide an AI summary of the reader comments in response to their editorial urging the passage of a bill that some call a fossil-fuel wish-list. So allow me! Those Post readers are sharp! wapo.st/4B2wrDS 13113
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc... 412130797
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Stop writing headlines as if Trump's DOJ is remotely credible! www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/1...washingtonpost.comKennedy Center doesn’t have to answer questions about Trump’s role, DOJ assertsThe ongoing court battle has prompted an unusual debate about whether executive privilege can extend outside of the president's official responsibilities. 48622
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/10/2026NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence. 476102623545
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Does he think because Iran is in Asia, they'll fire from the west? Or did he just go wild with his Sharpie again? Evergreen link: presswatchers.org/2026/09/dona... 44114
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's a farcical attempt to mimic due process. 2275
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026FFS! The White House press corps is SO GULLIBLE. There is no such thing as a "committee of inquiry"--and putting it in quote marks is not enough. Trump picked out 3 lickspittles who have no authority to do anything to anyone. This is just another way to smear Lisa Cook. They should be embarrassed. 16723
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsCollins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Holy smokes. What on earth is going on here? This is not fact-checking! At best it's poorly-informed nonsense but it feels very much like calculated misinformation. #MEpolitics 1620331
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsMichael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You rang? (He can 'establish' what he likes, just not empower it how he likes. And real issues about how any 'decision' would be reviewed.) bsky.app/profile/mfro... 0114
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Is that a different document? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 100
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsJon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: The feds' petition has been made public in unredacted form. Here's the full filing (with signature blocks below): cst.brightspotcdn.com/58/76/38fc5d... 711845
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsDavid A. Weinberg @davidaweinberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Another day, another blatant scheme to try short-circuiting the rule of law: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govEstablishment of a Committee of Inquiry to Investigate Allegations of False Statements by Lisa DeNell CookMEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC POLICY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF 02317
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Can I get some legal experts to back me up and amplify this? Too many damn articles are saying "Trump established..." @stevevladeck.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @martylederman.bsky.social who else? 2349
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is hilarious. You can't hide the name of the government prosecutors asking a judge to hide something! DOJ running scared! 06017
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Can we please stop reporting on Trump's supposed "committee of inquiry" as if it's a real thing? He can't just order people to show up and defend themselves before some sort of MAGA Star Chamber. 313528
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the idea of letting Iran turn Los Angeles and San Diego into radioactive rubble. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...ms.nowOpinion | The cunning strategy behind Trump’s ‘Let them take out’ L.A. statementsTrump's ambiguity is the point in his new “warning'” about Iran attacking cities in California. 12511
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Shoddy WaPo write-up of El-Sayed/Rogers debate by Erin Cox. El-Sayed never said a word about Rogers's mom, so "exchanging words about each other’s mothers" is both-sides baloney. Then she repeats Rogers's lies about El-Sayed and just says El-Sayed denies them. wapo.st/4ibaMldwapo.stTakeaways from Michigan Senate debate between Abdul El-Sayed, Mike RogersEven mothers were not exempt in a fierce debate in the race for a critical U.S. Senate seat. 99324
Reposted by Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne 592669473