Tom Malinowski

Listen to Eisenhower on the men who perished on D-Day: They "gave us a chance, and bought time for us, so that we could do better than we have before." cbsnews.com/video/eisenhow… via @CBSNLive

Actually, there is a pro-Egypt super PAC spending tens of millions in Michigan. AIPAC has always lobbied against restrictions on aid to the Egyptian dictatorship. And El-Sayed has, to his credit, said he opposes aid to Egypt. Wish there was more nuanced debate on all this.

Maggie Haberman spent an hour with him in the Oval Office in March and came away with a number. Seventy percent of his mind share, by her estimate, goes to the renovations. The ballroom. The arch. He interrupted an unrelated meeting to call Emmanuel Macron and ask what it is like to stand under the actual Arc de Triomphe, whether it has a visitor's desk, whether people jump off it. Someone had asked him what should go on top of his own version. He was deciding between that and a giant gold cast of his own fist from Butler. Meanwhile nobody around him seems fully certain he understands how depleted American munitions are after this war he started with Iran, a live open question from a reporter who has covered him for a decade. There is no policy agenda left, by Haberman's own account. No immigration bill in the works, no legislative program, nothing beyond retribution and construction. He is not governing a country right now so much as decorating a legacy he has already decided he deserves.

I don’t want to be an alarmist, but a commander in chief who wants to blame foreign cyber attacks against American assets on domestic partisans so as to avoid admitting he made a mess of things, is … suboptimal.

There's a lot of problematic people in the lineup of this AES event, but the fact that Katie Halper, who denied Assad's crimes against his people in Syria, is one of them is a *really* bad look.

Actually, while AIPAC's members obviously despise antisemitism, opposing this scourge is not part of its formal mission. What's more, it has supported extreme MAGA candidates who espouse explicitly racist goals that appeal to the same dark angels of our nature as antisemitism.

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

Is Google dumb? Or is it evil? Genuine question. The ability to fake satellite imagery with simple prompts was rolled out yesterday to all users & the potential harm is so blindingly obvious, it’s almost as if they’re profit-seeking chaos edgelords who simply don’t give a shit

In a piece about Trump shaking down CEOs for money for his projects, I can't help but chuckle at this. Poor Zuck. Forced to figure out how to dole out millions to appease Trump. But hey, not as bad as the Biden team pushing him to take some Covid disinfo off the site.

Some thoughts on the Gaza agreement announced overnight, which despite my reservations and concerns, I hope will be implemented. 1. Donald Trump is trying to collect "wins" and "achievements" ahead of the midterm elections. His party is entering that election at a disadvantage, but because Democrats may choose weak and unpopular candidates in specific states, much like Republicans did in 2022, there's a reason for Trump to at least try achieving a surprising result like the one Biden secured four years ago. 2. The will to provide Trump such a "win" was an important motivation for all sides involved in this agreement: Hamas, Netanyahu, Qatar, Egypt, UAE and Turkey. All of them hope, each for their own reasons, that the transactional president will remember their role in the agreement and the positive media coverage it has generated and will continue to generate. You can like it or not, but that's the nature of diplomacy, especially in the Middle East, under Trump. 3. Netanyahu and his band of liars in the Israeli media (and the last few suckers in the American media still buying his spin) are already trying to oversell the agreement and present it in terms that contradict the Board of Peace statements and briefings. Of course, the October 7 Prime Minister can't just say the truth on this one, which goes something like: "I'm trying to stay on good terms with Trump ahead of an election here in Israel that will determine my personal fate and whether or not I go to jail in 2027." 4. For Hamas, the agreement is a way to buy time and survive, which is basically the organization's overarching goal since October 7. They lost most of their leadership and thousands of their fighters; they will also, I believe, give up some of their weapons to the new Gaza-based Palestinian government, which is a good thing. But at the bottom of all their decisions is a simple calculation: being able to say, "we committed the most deadly and humiliating attack against Israel since the start of the conflict, and survived as a movement and an organization to tell about it." 5. Hamas was able to say that yesterday, before the agreement was signed, and it can also say that today, after the conclusion of the negotiations. So in that regard, the agreement is preferable to the murky post-war reality that preceded it, in which Hamas was recruiting again thousands of young fighters, holding on to all its weapons, and controlling 99% of Gaza's population, making money off people buying fuel and cigarettes. Changing even a part of that terrible reality, by collecting some of the weapons and allowing progress on reconstruction under a non-Hamas government, is better. It means coming to terms with the fact that Israel under this government failed to dismantle Hamas and allowed its survival even before this agreement was signed. 6. Do I think the agreement will be fully implemented over the next 300 days, as I understand the timeline? (Correct me if I'm wrong on the time period, @lizarozovsky - BTW, everyone should follow Liza, diplomatic reporter for @haaretzcom who has been covering this story for months while many journalists ditched it once the Iran war started.) I'm highly skeptical. But I'm also asking: what are the alternatives? Netanyahu, in his quest for political survival at all costs, ignored David Ben-Gurion's national security strategy of seeking short and decisive wars, which was based on Israel's unique internal and external challenges that make it dangerous for this country to have long wars of attrition. The result is an Israel that is hated, isolated and denounced around the world like never before, and is totally reliant on the support of one man (TRUMP) to avoid crushing international sanctions. Going to war in Gaza once again based on the same promise of "finishing Hamas," which this government failed to achieve after three long years, would have been suicidal unless Trump promised his full backing. And Trump, for good reasons, can't give such a commitment after his bitter experience with Netanyahu in Iran and Lebanon. 7. For me and my family, these are all very personal, not only political, questions. My six-year-old daughter will start school on the Gaza border in exactly one month, as we rebuild our life in the same home where Hamas tried to murder us on October 7. We've learned over the years to be highly skeptical of premature victory announcements and diplomatic celebrations. When these things collapse under the cynical realities of the conflict, most of those announcing them are not around to face the consequences. Still, I don't see a better alternative to the 20-Point Plan that Trump presented last year, at least not with Israel's current position of isolation and exhaustion under this government. So I have some hope that the agreement will succeed, even partially, and deliver a period of quiet. For us on the border, that would be significant after three years of war and trauma. And maybe in the long run, with different Israeli and Palestinian leadership, this will become a first step in a broader positive change for the region.

This is the French government tweet the Trump administration is mad at. Unfortunately, the point it makes is totally factual. The US now routinely votes with Russia, China, North Korea, and other dictatorships at the UN. If you don’t like being called out for it, don’t do it.

The anger at Democrats for their fecklessness while Trump and Republicans systematically destroy the country is understandable, but it’s worth remembering that in the brief time they had a narrow majority over the past fee years, they actually got a whole lot of important stuff done! — American Rescue Plan Act (COVID relief, stimulus checks, expanded child tax credit, unemployment aid, state/local funding) — Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act / Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (roads, bridges, broadband, water, transit, airports) — CHIPS and Science Act (semiconductor manufacturing subsidies, R&D, tech competitiveness) — Inflation Reduction Act (climate/clean energy investments and tax credits, Medicare drug price negotiation, ACA subsidy extensions, corporate minimum tax) — Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (gun background checks for under-21, mental health funding, domestic violence firearm restrictions) — PACT Act (expanded veterans’ benefits and health care for toxic exposures including burn pits) — Respect for Marriage Act (codifies federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages) — Violence Against Women Act reauthorization — COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act — Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act — Juneteenth National Independence Day Act — Electoral Count Reform Act (updates presidential election certification process, part of omnibus) — Fiscal Responsibility Act (debt ceiling increase with spending caps) — Social Security Fairness Act (ends windfall elimination provision and government pension offset for certain public workers) — Creation of ARPA-H (advanced biomedical research agency) — MAT Act (expands opioid use disorder treatment access) You could add: — The Biden administration also pushed for bipartisan immigration reform and border security legislation, but the effort was blocked by Republicans. — The administration’s original Build Back Better agenda would have expanded the Child Tax Credit, lowered child care and prescription drug costs, expanded health coverage, funded universal pre-K, invested in affordable housing and clean energy, and more—but was ultimately blocked because of every Republican and a couple Democratic senators who have since been booted from Congress—though portions were later enacted through the Inflation Reduction Act.

Why does your untrained militia keep violating New Jersey’s laws?

Today the Senate is set to take its first votes on the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act. With 84 cosponsors it's expected to move fast and pass. Unfortunately, it's a bad bill that is unlikely to achieve its stated goals. The bill has 3 major flaws, if you read closely- 🧵

@Elvis_Bob Good point

@Malinowski Unfortunately, subsidized capitalism has still failed poor neighborhoods, creating food deserts where the majority of available food items are heavily processed and unhealthy. I'd rather see a hybrid, where any stores taking SNAP are required to provide fresh meat and produce.

A crazy thought. What if, instead, we gave low income folks a voucher - we could call it a SNAP benefit, or even a "food stamp" - that they could use to get a discount at any food store w/o hurting small businesses? (And yes, Republicans would call that socialism, too). 1/

BTW, I don't think people should freak out about Mamdani's groceries. It's a tiny pilot project, so no harm in trying & I'd be happy to be proven wrong. But I raise this to show the difference between socialism and other ways of lifting people up in a market economy.

@ZaidJilani Yes that's technically correct. But same point -- the transgression was the point.

@Malinowski It’s not even a war crime what’a the war? It’s just murder.

The purpose of the boat strikes was never to stem the flow of drugs (the boats weren't even bringing drugs to the US), but to satisfy Hegseth's desire to erase restrictions on killing civilians. The war crime was not a means to an end; it was the end.

Buttigieg: That is almost word for word what they told us when we were sold the war in Iraq. They said if we don't go in and invade Iraq. They said if we don’t fight them there, we’ll end up fighting them here. And that war in Iraq made America weaker. This war in Iran makes America weaker. Six months ago you didn't have to get up in the morning and worry about the strait of hormuz.

"Federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated [clean energy] funding 'based solely' on political criteria, targeting projects in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris." nytimes.com/2026/07/24/bus…