Current political reporter at TPM | past economic equity reporter @ the Philadelphia Inquirer; Knight-Bagehot Fellow @ Columbia; Billy Penn & WHYY; Philadelphia City Council; The Philadelphia Tribune
Layla A. Jones
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Greg Bovino was welcomed like a celebrity at one of the world’s pre-eminent fascist confabs.
Some of the organizers and other prominent attendees have:
-called the Holocaust a “fairy tale and a lie"
-been convicted for hate speech
-vandalized a synagogue
Providers are scrambling to figure out what's covered under the new HHS substance use treatment grant rules. The admin has denounced harm reduction, putting billions of grant $ at risk.
One anonymous former SAMHSA staffer told TPM: “It has fatal consequences.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ugly-la...
What the Pentagon’s Snub of Mormons Was Really All About talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-th...
Trump Makes Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence
The latest round of the fight over refunds for the Trump tariffs struck down by SCOTUS will come down to $11.4 billion, govt says -- judge wants feds to comply with his order to pay it back, DOJ says importers at issue have to sue first. Erik Larson was in court:
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click thru interactive about the 97 people included in @lawfaremedia.org's count lawfaremedia.github.io/jan6-pardons/
Floored by the scope, detail, and accompanying interactive on this piece about all the pardoned J6ers who kept committing crimes. author @katherinepomps.bsky.social please come to the front! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social
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Being Black is so funny sometimes because you have to research, report, and explain things that are intuitive to most anybody in the community and, in fact, things that Black people been saying for generations. thoughts reading this Nikole Hannah-Jones piece www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...
Trump's CBP has actually done a pretty good job handling the massive task of refunding IEEPA tariffs, several people told me. But the administration plans to appeal to make it harder for thousands of businesses to get what they're owed: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tariff-...
In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...
In case you forgot, Pulte is the Federal Housing Finance Agency head...
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A judge urged the Trump administration to back off its appeal of his order to fully refund $166 billion in tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court, saying it was unnecessary and would only create…
