Blast from the past: Boston Globe “special section” on Clinton Impeachment
Look back on simpler times, when the GOP pretended that lying about an affair was sufficient grounds to remove a president from office. Look, and despair.
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Prepared remarks: Center for American Progress panel on June 30, 2025
I am slated to appear tomorrow afternoon at a virtual panel hosted by the Center for American Progress entitled “Uniformed Disservice: How Trump’s Agenda Harms Veterans and Service Members“. Below is the outline of my prepared remarks. I encourage you to join me and the other panelists for an informative and challenging discussion.
Appearance on the Plutopia podcast
I recently sat down with the folks at Plutopia, Wendy Grossman, Jon Lebkowsky, and Scoop Sweeney, to talk about my past, our precarious present, and the dire future we seem to be careening toward. Watch or listen here. Enjoy!
About yesterday’s Senate “shadow hearing”
As I noted previously, I was invited to testify at a “shadow hearing” held by the Democrats on the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, about the firings happening at VA.
Mar. 13 NPR “Consider This” talks about risks of DOGE data access, with cameo by me
NPR’s Ailsa Chang; Elizabeth Lair of the Equity and Civic Technology Project at the Center For Democracy and Technology; Jonathan Kamens, late of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron, talk about the risks of DOGE having access to federal government data and how the Privacy Act of 1974 is being used to push back on it.
I appeared briefly tonight on the NBC Nightly News
I appeared tonight on the NBC Nightly News in a segment by Peter Alexander about bad stuff the Trump administration has done recently and how people are reacting to it (I imagine this may be a daily segment?).
Boston Herald article about my termination by DOGE
The article about my firing from USDS and VA is fair, accurate, and even-handed.
I endorse Kamala Harris for president
It shouldn’t need to be said, and yet, it does.
Again, our leaders fail us
There’s a strong parallel between how community institutions are treating coronavirus and how they treated Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency. They haven’t learned anything, and as a result the rest of us are, once again, going to suffer. When Trump began his presidential campaign, many of us sounded the alarm early and continued to do… Read More »
Sean Spicer’s “gaffe” wasn’t an accident, and his apology was inadequate
Denying that Hitler gassed people wasn’t a gaffe or a mistake, it was an accurate representation of the White House position on the Holocaust.