JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Jane Mayer
@janemayer.bsky.social
New Yorker writer, author Dark Money, The Dark Side, Strange Justice, Landslide, wife & mom.
This is clearly not acceptable
!!! Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
Follow the money yourself: open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
Report: Everyone but Trump wants Col. Vodka out: www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-reb...
Can’t wait to see this: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
NPR’s @quillawrence.bsky.social reporting Driscoll resigned after telling President Trump that the U.S. was losing the Iran war
Presidential immunity only covered “official” crimes, so…I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
In 10 days Trump has slurred 4 female reporters as “Horrible” “Piggy,” “Ugly” and “Stupid.” people.com/trump-snaps-...
“I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer.” Trump retreats from oath he swore to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
You can see why Trump cut foreign aid 1st- but after that he’s increasingly fighting public opinion.
