Barton Gellman
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Senior advisor @BrennanCenter | Author 'Dark Mirror' & 'Angler' | ex-Atlantic & Wash Post | Lecturer, Princeton | Contact: https://bartongellman.com/contact
This story is not about Russia - It's about Patel strapping people to polygraphs to see if they're laughing at him. It's about Gabbard trying to harvest emails to see if anyone's not MAGA enough. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
This is a real disappointment that will have significant internal and external costs for Zelensky. Suspect the Trump admin either took its eye off the ball or just didn’t care, especially after Amb. Brink left.
Latest: Zelensky has signed law stripping powers of Ukraine’s independent anticorruption agencies, according to two sources close to the president. It has not yet been published on the presidential site.
District court judges voted today against keeping Alina Habba in her role as interim US attorney. Instead of abiding by that, AG Pan Bondi announces she's firing the woman who would've replaced her. A Watergate-style attack on the rule of law.
.@USAttyHabba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant. Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just…
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday issued an opinion for our times, ordering the Trump administration “to stop violating the law!” newrepublic.com/post/198160/ju…, the Clinton-appointed judge ruled that Trump’s Office of Management and Budget broke the law by taking down…
For years, Sacramento has been running an illegal scheme using power meters for mass surveillance. Last week, we asked for a court order to stop this practice for good. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…
The Justice Department has cut $820 million in grants to small organizations around the country that work on promoting public safety. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
Trump also tried to leverage federal regulatory authority to punish news outlets in his first administration. The difference this term is the unwillingness of corporate owners to fight winnable cases in court.
When I hear friends say in fits of righteousness that they have canceled subscriptions to the @washingtonpost, I look to send them stories like this. A toddler is dead, there were failures; Journalism that matters. @paulschwartzman: wapo.st/4lJgDhd
Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.
Just absurd. A huge chunk of the workers who built the Empire State Building were Irish immigrants or the sons of immigrants, and Mohawk "skywalkers" from Quebec played a key role in erecting the building (and many other skyscrapers). They weren't "illegal," but that's because…
While the administration cites public safety to justify its immigration crackdown, the Justice Department has quietly stopped funding programs that actually prevent crime. Our experts explain which initiatives were cut and how that affects communities. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the administration to effectively shut down the Department of Education is technically temporary. But the damage is done. bit.ly/4eUmw8E
It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
The White House said it would ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool covering President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, its latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to Jeffrey Epstein. wapo.st/44Zli7A
Honestly, how is this any different from a PR/marketing firm? Or a talent agency?
New: WP Ventures, the “third newsroom,” is changing — some of it will now report to biz side leader Suzi Watford, while the editorially related stuff will stay in the newsroom. “The next iteration of WP Ventures will be developed apart from The Post newsroom.”
The Brennan Center filed an amicus brief in Washington and Oregon’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order on voting issued in March. 1/2 brennancenter.org/media/14161/do…
"There are voters like me who followed the rules, provided all the information election officials asked for when they registered to vote…. Please, do not remove the voices of registered North Carolina voters." - Mary Kay Heling, North Carolina voter testifying before Congress…
total mentions on Fox Business so far today Obama: 53 Epstein: 1
JUST IN: President Obama's office responds to Trump's comments.
President Trump is attempting to shift the public’s focus away from the building crisis around the release of sealed documents detailing the Jeffrey Epstein case by urging his Justice Department to go after former President Obama. ow.ly/6Z2J50Wtv7b
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America should have reverse ICE. A team of foreign-deployed agents that search for the most capable men and most attractive women that should emigrate to America. A million Wernher von Brauns. A million Melanias.