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Good morning readers. I’ll take member questions in comments and during this afternoon’s live chat. Subscribers can expect the chat invitation around 2 p.m. eastern. A handful of potential topics:

  • The mid-air collision on approach to DCA. Specifically, my view that congressional Dems should demand an investigation of whether Trump’s lawless, destabilizing blitz against the civil service, and/or the loyalists he appointed to the Pentagon, contributed to the crash in any way. Political, yes, but a completely—completely—fair point of inquiry.

  • My broader view that we deserve a Democratic Party that can be counted on to fill the breach in these moments. Who wouldn’t sleep much better through these next years if there were a real cop on the beat?

    Participate in the AMA

  • The impoundment crisis that was, but may no longer be?

  • Elon Musk’s harebrained scheme to trick civil servants into quitting their jobs.

  • This is the right way to respond to Trump when he does something illegal. Respect to Phyllis Fong.

  • Crunch time for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and the Republican senators who will determine just how badly to compromise our government.

  • This is good to see.

There’s obviously much more under the sun. Feel free to pick my brain about any of it.

UPDATE: Early for once, in part because I’ll have to sneak out a little early, too…

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