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Sen. Maize Hirono (D-Hawaii) channels all of us with one bracelet.
This should be interesting… 👀
So, I've jumped into the shallow end of the Substack pool. We'll see if I jump into the deep end.... jcapehart.substack.com
This bill could have passed in the middle of the night. By speaking this long, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries guarantees that this bill will be voted on in broad daylight.
Last week, we hosted @jonathancapehart.bsky.social in San Francisco for a conversation with @radiobwatt.bsky.social about Capehart's book Yet Here I Am. Watch the video: youtu.be/vunTQfr97pg?... Photos by Sonya Abrams
Thank YOU, Brian!
Join me in conversation with Brian Watt at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco…6pm PT/9pm ET! www.youtube.com/live/8JySTFj...
BREAKING NEWS: “Yet Here I Am” made the New York Times Best Seller list! 🫢🥹
“I am so ready to fight this guy,” he told me. “I might have felt pressure, but I have not felt one iota of intimidation. I’m not scared of his goddamn jail.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
“We just need to keep on suing. We need to keep on fighting.” Minnesota AG Keith Ellison www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
At a time when Trump is putting pressure on Dem elected officials around the country, Ellison is the least bit afraid. “I might have felt pressure, but I have not felt one iota of intimidation. I’m not scared of his goddamn jail.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
TONIGHT at 7pm at Politics and Prose watch the live stream as Amb. Susan Rice interviews me about my book “Yet Here I Am.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMyX...
Here are the book tour stops so far…
The book tour begins! Thank you, @todayshow.com, for a wonderful welcome home! @grandcentralpub.bsky.social www.today.com/video/msnbc-...
My first national interview for my book is tomorrow (May 19)! On the @todayshow.com at 9am. Pre-order & tour info: www.msnbc.com/yet-here-i-am
We lookin’ real cute. Thanks, Washington Life and 📸 Tony Powell, for a wonderful feature and photos. washingtonlife.com/digital-edit...
“There’s a war at home and we’re losing. Unions under attack. Farmers f---ed over.” he says in the video. “Only 2% of Congress come from the working class. We built the damn table. It’s time we had a seat at it.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
“I live in the real world. This is how we talk,” Nathan Sage told me. “I’m going to say the things that need to be said so people understand that we’re tired of what’s going on. We’re going to fight for what we believe in.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This book tour is going to be fun. Starts one week from today!
A reminder from FDR…
Two airliners abandoned landing attempts at Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday afternoon when an Army Black Hawk took a “scenic route” near the flight path and circled the Pentagon before landing at a military heliport.
Seen on the way to dinner…
One more time…. @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social
Thanks so much! 👏🏾
Happy Easter from Miss Lady and me!
Thrilled to receive a ⭐️ review from Kirkus Review! Thank you! Pre-order 👉🏾 www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/jonat... #KirkusStar #KirkusReview
It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.
TONIGHT: Growing calls from the far-right to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was convicted of killing George Floyd 5 years ago. Floyd's girlfriend, Courteney Ross joins @jonathancapehart.bsky.social to share her take at 6pm ET on @msnbc.com
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
Two special elections for congressional seats in Florida could change the balance in the House. Dems have raised a ton of $, but Repubs are still favored to win. Dems need to get EVERY REGISTERED DEM VOTER to the poll & every Republican voter concerned abt social Sec. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
NONE of this is normal
"You hear Donald Trump say 'we're not going to touch Social Security, we're not going to touch Medicare, we're not going to touch Medicaid' when it's already in the GOP package that they're working to get rid of...they're coming for your nana's checks" Ameshia Cross #SundayShow
"I can't believe that this administration would come in, violate the law, disregard the constitution, gut the Department of Education and threaten families across this country with their kids future" @newjerseyoag.bsky.social #SaturdayShow
"This is just the latest thing of Social Security, something that, once again, was a third-rail in politics. People talked about reforming [it] but people never really did it" Jasmine Wright reacts to the concerns surrounding the possibility of gutting Social Security #SaturdayShow
"They've been mishandled from the very beginning" Pamela Newkirk shares her thoughts on the challenges of corporate DEI programs #SaturdayShow
Mark Joseph Stern on the DOJ's insufficient answers on the Venezuelan migrants deportations, saying how tattoos like "simple innocent images were essentially rebranded as gang affiliation. It's absurd...it shows why this admin. did not want to grant these men any due process" #SaturdayShow
A painful metaphor for America in a second Trump administration that is fewer than 100 chaotic days old. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@jonathancapehart.bsky.social Let’s ALL begin pronouncing DOGE the way Jonathan Capeheart does: DODGY!!!
Thank you @jonathancapehart.bsky.social for having me on The Last Word to talk about what I'm hearing from Oregonians at my town halls. People in my district are pissed off—and rightfully so. They voted for lower costs. But instead, they're getting ripped off by billionaires like Elon Musk.
"What Democrats want is for their elected members to do what Trump did for his members," said @jonathancapehart.bsky.social. "Trump's followers and supporters like him because he fights. ... Democrats want their elected officials to stand up for them."
The tack-tack-tack of the hydraulic hammer was not just an aural assault on the senses. It was a painful metaphor for America in a second Trump administration that is fewer than 100 chaotic days old. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
With so much not right in America today, it’s time we emulate Lewis. It’s time to get into some “good trouble.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
TONIGHT: @reppaultonko.bsky.social joins @jonathancapehart.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
TONIGHT: @barbmcquade.bsky.social joins @jonathancapehart.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
TONIGHT: @fahrenthold.bsky.social talks to @jonathancapehart.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
Ain’t no accident and ain’t the first time I’ve done it, either. 😉
Judge Boasberg said he would issue a written order with the questions he wants answered “since apparently my oral orders don’t appear to carry much weight.” It was quite a hearing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The tack-tack-tack of the hydraulic hammer was not just an aural assault on the senses. It was a painful metaphor for America in a second Trump administration that is fewer than 100 chaotic days old. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
There will be books there! I’m signing books after the talk. 👍🏾
I’m not “nervous.” I was overtime by a full minute over and that impacted the timing of the interview that followed. Even less time than was allotted.
Book Tour 1: DC @politicsprose! May 19 at 7pm. The tables are turned: former @ambsusanrice interviews me! Join Us👉🏾 politics-prose.com/jonathan-cap...
Book Tour 2: NEW YORK CITY @92ndstreety! May 20 at 7pm with my @msnbc colleague @lawrence_odonnell! Get Tix 👉🏾 www.92ny.org/event/jonath...
Book Tour 3: PHILADELPHIA @freelibrary! May 22 at 7pm with my @newshour colleague David Brooks! Get tix👉🏾 libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @jonathancapehart.bsky.social is kicking off his book tour starting May 19 in Washington DC for his new memoir, "Yet Here I am." Scan the QR code for more information.
"I'm going to provide the kind of stability and leadership from the state level to protect people in Michigan but also to go on offense against those who threaten our way of life" @garlingilchrist.bsky.social on his historic campaign run for governor in Michigan #SaturdayShow
"Americans are very fearful about the next 12 months" @byheatherlong.bsky.social shares her thoughts on how Americans have grown wary of Trump's economy "Most people fear rising unemployment and job loss since 2009. And we remember 2009, that's Great Recession" #SaturdayShow
"Either way we went on that, [we were] going to be struggling to defend ourselves against a party that wants to shutdown American democracy and replace it with techno-state dictatorship" @raskin.house.gov shares his thoughts on this week's fight on the funding bill #SaturdayShow
I refuse to buy into the narrative that Democrats would be to blame if the government shuts down. Republicans had been crowing for months about their congressional majorities and having a governing mandate. Ok, then. Govern!
Don’t worry! The mornings will ensure that the “hysterics” will continue.
Has anyone heard from Larry Summers lately? 🤔
We are official! Can’t wait to get started on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social this spring!
TFW you see that we lose an hour of sleep this weekend…
“Weeeellllll,” said in Black church.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Breaking News: A fire near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, doubled in size overnight as more than 170 fires burned in the Carolinas, prompting evacuations near the coast and in the mountains.
Sitting before me was the arc of one Black family’s history. Juan Benn Sr. never went to college, his path not extending beyond eastern Tennessee. But his son was wearing his shirt at the offices of [The Washington Post]. Juan Benn Sr. died 10 years ago today. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
More Velshi! 10am to 1pm Saturdays and Sundays.
Black history in a tan work shirt. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
BIG NEWS: This spring, I will co-host @theweekendmsnbc and it will expand to three hours: 7am - 10am on Saturdays and Sundays!
Did you read the piece?
Black people make history in this country every day. Through loud protests and massive marches….But more often than not, Black history is made more quietly, by acts like wearing your late father’s shirt to work. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Chris Meagher reacts to Trump's firing of top military official Gen. C.Q. Brown: "Hegseth is focused on fighting culture wars and scoring political points. C.Q. Brown is focused on making sure that we are deterring and ready for war, if it should come." #saturdayshow
"It is a life-saving tool for so many folks, especially seniors across this country." @robertgarcia.bsky.social fiercely defends USPS, which Trump reportedly plans to take over. "What Donald Trump wants to do is privatize." #saturdayshow
@andrewbatesnc.bsky.social analyzes the underlying goal behind Trump's concepts of an economic plan: "He is actively raising costs himself so he can turn around and use the revenue from those tariff taxes to cut taxes for the rich." #saturdayshow
Fired federal worker and Marine Corps veteran Andrew Lennox explains his termination and the lack of communication about the abrupt layoffs from the Trump administration: "Extremely chaotic." #saturdayshow
Kate Royce, who was fired then re-hired by the Trump administration, stuns @jonathancapehart.bsky.social: "I survived a global pandemic in two years at the toughest law school in the world with a brain tumor. It's gonna take a lot more than that to traumatize me." #saturdayshow
The Supreme Court decides not to decide, for now, about Trump’s firing of a government official, Jason Willick writes. wapo.st/3QtfbBs
With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
And now it’s Friday….
A little joy is needed so…. It’s Thursday!
Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: "The question is can you work with Republicans in the middle of a constitutional crisis when democracy is on the line? And right now, I think that this crisis is serious and deepening in its seriousness, that our job #1, #2, and #3 is to save our democracy."
To paraphrase @jonathancapehart.bsky.social from tonight's PBS News Hour: Y'all Mofos need School House Rock.
Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.
Because AP continues to refuse to use 'Gulf of America,' it is being barred indefinitely from the Oval Office and Air Force One, but its journalists will be able to retain their credentials to the White House complex, according to Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff.
The White House says it will bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely due to the news outlet's use of Gulf of Mexico
A judge blocked the Trump administration from sending three people to Guantanamo Bay, so the Trump administration sent them to their native Venezuela instead. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Shade wrapped in righteousness! “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
By refusing to drop the criminal corruption case against Eric Adams, the conservative prosecutor Danielle Sassoon provided the first dramatic check against the Trump Administration’s rampage through the federal government.
Is this thing on?
TTW it snowed on Tuesday…
A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.
NEW: Justice Department orders charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismissed @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Justice officials tell prosecutors to drop charges against N.Y. Mayor Eric Adams www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
BREAKING: A federal judge in Rhode Island just said the Trump admin violated his order halting Trump's sweeping federal funding freeze — and has ordered the government to "immediately restore frozen funding."
NEW: A New Hampshire judge has just issued ANOTHER immediate injunction pausing Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
Can’t wait for the Super Bowl! It’s these two teams, right? 😉
And you believed him when he said that? 🤦🏾♂️ He only “walked away” from it once it became toxic. But never fear, the architect of P2025 is now the OMB Director…again.