Mathew Helman -- also mathelman.bsky.social

Democracies collapse not just through force, but through the naïve self-confidence of elites. What should alarm us isn’t that strongmen follow similar playbooks, but that our elites do too. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…

NEW: @RoyCooperNC is expected to enter the US Senate race for the North Carolina seat being vacated by @SenThomTillis, giving Democrats perhaps their best chance of flipping a Senate seat in the midterms next year. Developing story from @ec_schneider politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

This is a huge scoop. @SecDef's defense of his role in the Signalgate sage has been to aggressively argue the information he contributed was unclassified. This reporting really undercuts that claim.

When Biden was President the conservative supermajority on the court was beside itself regarding executive authority. With Trump back in office those concerns have vanished.

No wonder the Pedophile Protection Party shut Congress down early.

BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Trump’s emergency appeal booting Dem appointees from the Consumer Product Safety Commission Apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent This follows a prior grant allowing Trump to remove labor regulators (Trump v. Wilcox) @CourthouseNews

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV

Circling back here.

.@SenScottBrown, the other day, you told @hughhewitt that #Epstein is "over." After today's @WSJ report that @AGPamBondi told Trump that his name IS in the #EpsteinFiles, do you still think #JeffreyEpstein is "over"? #NHSen #NHPolitics #EpsteinTrumpCoverUp #EpsteinCoverup

If you thought Epstein's 50th birthday book was unbelievably creepy, his 40th birthday party was even more perverted. The elites around Epstein dehumanized these girls. open.substack.com/pub/tarapalmer…

And now we learn Bondi will not attend the CPAC "Summit on Human Trafficking," after all. The stated reason is a torn cornea.

Alaskans are calling out Dan Sullivan for voting to slash public broadcasting — a lifeline Alaskans rely on during emergencies. "The warning that they would have, would come from KCHU Public Radio. Without that signal, it keeps me up at night to think about what could happen."…

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV

SCOOP: Roy Cooper is preparing to launch his Senate campaign next week, @stephen_neukam reports axios.com/2025/07/23/roy…

🚨 Scoop: Roy Cooper will announce a Senate bid before next month, multiple sources tell Axios. Democrats will land their top recruit of the cycle. Cooper, a popular former governor, will boost Dem chances in NC. Big win for Schumer, Gillibrand and donors, who all encouraged…

SCOOP: The Pentagon’s inspector general has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar with the matter said.

An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to help provide a free option for making calls in areas where cell service is unreliable or nonexistent. abcnews.link/WDh4r0Y

An electrical engineer in rural Vermont is reviving old pay phones to help provide a free option for making calls in areas where cell service is unreliable or nonexistent. abcnews.link/nwxwObc

NYT: The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan. nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli…

"If the Trump administration is able to repeal the endangerment finding, it would not only erase all current limits on GHG pollution from cars, factories, power plants....It would prevent future administrations from trying to tackle climate change..." nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli…