Brian McKeon
@bpmckeon64.bsky.social
Former USG natsec official. Proud alum of POTUS 46 and 44, @notredame & @georgetownlaw. Usual caveats apply.
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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The problem is they can't replace Obamacare with a more "republican" plan that isn't a disaster, because the ACA IS the Republican option: It was Romneycare with the serial numbers filed off!
NEW: As health insurance bills rise, Republicans are still seeking an Obamacare alternative
There is no legislative product yet.
No consensus in the party about a plan.
But top GOP lawmakers and policy figures on Capitol Hill have begun discussing concepts.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
There is no legislative product yet.
No consensus in the party about a plan.
But top GOP lawmakers and policy figures on Capitol Hill have begun discussing concepts.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
As health insurance bills rise, Republicans are still seeking an Obamacare alternative
Premiums for millions of Americans in red and blue states are expected to more than double on average next year unless Congress finds a solution.
www.nbcnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The problem is they can't replace Obamacare with a more "republican" plan that isn't a disaster, because the ACA IS the Republican option: It was Romneycare with the serial numbers filed off!
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When Democrats lose an election, we beat ourselves up over it for months.
When Republicans lose an election, they convince themselves within 24 hours that they really won.
When Republicans lose an election, they convince themselves within 24 hours that they really won.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
When Democrats lose an election, we beat ourselves up over it for months.
When Republicans lose an election, they convince themselves within 24 hours that they really won.
When Republicans lose an election, they convince themselves within 24 hours that they really won.
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“I really don’t care. Do u?”
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“I really don’t care. Do u?”
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AAA gas prices: up w/w, down y/y
Today’s National Average: $3.084
One Year Ago: $3.107
Today’s National Average: $3.084
One Year Ago: $3.107
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
AAA gas prices: up w/w, down y/y
Today’s National Average: $3.084
One Year Ago: $3.107
Today’s National Average: $3.084
One Year Ago: $3.107
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On four separate occasions, Donald Trump lied about the outcome of the 2020 election. Not once did O’Donnell correct him. None of these lies made it into the final broadcast. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...
60 Minutes Obeys in Advance
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
On four separate occasions, Donald Trump lied about the outcome of the 2020 election. Not once did O’Donnell correct him. None of these lies made it into the final broadcast. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
An image of the Trump-Vance presidency smashing a wrecking ball into the White House to build a monument to Dear Leader—during a government shutdown—captures 2025 pretty well
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Just three months ago they were brazenly denying that there were any #Medicaid cuts at all in the budget reconciliation law, despite the $990B in cuts being the largest cuts to the program in history which will make 7.5M people uninsured.
KERNEN: There was an op-ed in the Journal urging Republicans not to get soft on some of the Medicaid cuts that we saw in the beautiful bill
BESSENT: The spending cuts that occurred in the one big beautiful bill were the largest in history and we're not gonna go back on them
BESSENT: The spending cuts that occurred in the one big beautiful bill were the largest in history and we're not gonna go back on them
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just three months ago they were brazenly denying that there were any #Medicaid cuts at all in the budget reconciliation law, despite the $990B in cuts being the largest cuts to the program in history which will make 7.5M people uninsured.
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It doesn’t seem like it should be remotely controversial that if you’re killed by police while obviously storming the US Capitol that the military shouldn’t go out of its way years later to honor you, but then again Trump just rehung a portrait of Col. Robert E. Lee at West Point, so….
From @markhertling.bsky.social — retired Three Star General, veteran of our modern wars.
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military
If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.
www.thebulwark.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It doesn’t seem like it should be remotely controversial that if you’re killed by police while obviously storming the US Capitol that the military shouldn’t go out of its way years later to honor you, but then again Trump just rehung a portrait of Col. Robert E. Lee at West Point, so….
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Wow we’ve come a long way from 1968
hey hey rfk
how many kids did you kill today
how many kids did you kill today
August 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Wow we’ve come a long way from 1968
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Authoritarian theater turns out to be pricey.
So....
1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz"
2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump.
3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order.
4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
1)The state of Florida spent >$200 million to build the facility it calls "Alligator Alcatraz"
2) It opened in early July, christened by Trump.
3) Now it is closing, due to a judge's order.
4) It will cost $20 million to dismantle the center, which was used for about 2 months.
August 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Authoritarian theater turns out to be pricey.
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Bill Pulte keeps "finding mortgage fraud" because his whole family is in the business of encouraging people to "just check the box... you'll reduce your tax bill and NO ONE EVER REVIEWS THESE THINGS ANYWAY."
August 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Bill Pulte keeps "finding mortgage fraud" because his whole family is in the business of encouraging people to "just check the box... you'll reduce your tax bill and NO ONE EVER REVIEWS THESE THINGS ANYWAY."
Axios shows its corporate stripes every day.
![President Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his first six months in historic ways. Massive tax cuts. Record-low border crossings. Surging tariff revenue. Stunning air strikes in Iran. Modest inflation.
Yet poll after poll suggests most Americans aren't impressed. In fact, they seem tired of all the winning, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen write in a "Behind the Curtain" column.
Why it matters: Trump appears to be losing by winning. The more he does [link.axios.com] (including issues beyond his legislative wins), the more the general public, especially independents, shrug — or recoil.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/bafkreid7bfz6usem2jf2exo67cim52eu7qotw3bkjmmmjgb3dj4iopy6oe@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Axios shows its corporate stripes every day.
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To Axios, shipping nonwhite US residents to torture prisons; destroying the admin state with thousands of lost jobs, millions dying abroad, and gutted disaster relief, safety, and science; plus giant flat taxes via tariffs, major graft, AND a child sex-trafficking coverup is apparently “winning”
July 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
To Axios, shipping nonwhite US residents to torture prisons; destroying the admin state with thousands of lost jobs, millions dying abroad, and gutted disaster relief, safety, and science; plus giant flat taxes via tariffs, major graft, AND a child sex-trafficking coverup is apparently “winning”
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The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.
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Stunning how badly Trump and the Rs have lost the debate on what their reconciliation bill will do. From new CBS/YouGov polling:
June 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Stunning how badly Trump and the Rs have lost the debate on what their reconciliation bill will do. From new CBS/YouGov polling:
These headlines of "tense" or "city on edge" are way overblown. LA has a population of over 3M and is very spread out geographically. Most residents and visitors are nowhere near these protests and likely unconcerned.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: Los Angeles, Quiet but Tense, Braces for Fourth Day of Immigration Protests
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
These headlines of "tense" or "city on edge" are way overblown. LA has a population of over 3M and is very spread out geographically. Most residents and visitors are nowhere near these protests and likely unconcerned.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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🧵Donald Trump federalized the National Guard—the first time a president has done so against a governor’s will since 1965. But he's promising much worse.
America is in deep Schmitt. Trump is trying to enact the Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt's philosophy of dictatorship.
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America is in deep Schmitt. Trump is trying to enact the Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt's philosophy of dictatorship.
Click thru or continue…
Donald Trump’s ‘state of exception’ cracks down on California
Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt provided the gameplan that Trump and Vance are following
plus.flux.community
June 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🧵Donald Trump federalized the National Guard—the first time a president has done so against a governor’s will since 1965. But he's promising much worse.
America is in deep Schmitt. Trump is trying to enact the Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt's philosophy of dictatorship.
Click thru or continue…
America is in deep Schmitt. Trump is trying to enact the Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt's philosophy of dictatorship.
Click thru or continue…
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slowly some federal judges are beginning to move past the presumption of regularity for this administration ...
Wow, very interesting to see the Fourth Circuit directly address one of the biggest problem with civil service suits: that the MSPB, OSC, and FLRA have been crippled by vacanies and can't adjudicate claims over which they technically have exclusive jurisdiction.
Trump has so paralyzed the federal agencies responsible for protecting civil servants’ rights that federal employees may now be able to win relief directly from courts instead, the 4th Circuit rules. A very good decision for the independent civil service. knightcolumbia.org/documents/9m...
June 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
slowly some federal judges are beginning to move past the presumption of regularity for this administration ...
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We were *this close* to mass murder. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
June 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We were *this close* to mass murder. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket.
These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."
Full story here:
These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."
Full story here:
FEMA at 'high risk' of disrupting 'life-saving' disaster relief, per internal memo
The agency in charge of mitigating disasters is in the midst of its own.
www.thehandbasket.co
May 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket.
These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."
Full story here:
These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."
Full story here: