I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

spent some time in Chicago, and also at a very nice library at Yale, trying to understand JB Pritzker www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This link has been updated to include our broadcast audio. Listen to hear some of the back and forth between DeLauro and the faith leaders, including DeLauro's simple declaration: "If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE. I am telling you that." www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

For many in the US, free speech is no longer a reality. In interviews with foreign-born academics, I repeatedly encountered fear that even mild criticism of the government (DJT) could cause problems, and that green cards and even citizenship wouldn't matter. www.theredoubt.net/for-some-fre...

This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.

Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Sexual violence allegations left Brett Ratner desperate for a gig. Trump delivered.

"It's the first time that fast food workers in our state have been unionized, something we'd only seen in states like California or New York. So, this is a huge moment for us. This has been a half-decade-long fight for our members" @32bjseiu.bsky.social www.wshu.org/connecticut-...

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

Here we go

America has two major parties: One party exists to serve the demented whims of our Nazi Pedophile Mad King. One party isn’t sure whether to fund his lawless goons who are shooting legal observers in the face. We need to end the two party system.

the chairman of NYC FC's ownership group just joined Trump's "Board of Peace." Brooklyn FC just signed Peter Mangioni. soccer never really lets you just tune out the news.

honestly inspired by how regular people in minneapolis are standing up for each other www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Absolutely massive turnout at the ICE Rapid Response training in Pittsburgh tonight, hosted by Frontline Dignity. Over 500 people showed up, including dozens from out of county & out of state.

Rådhuspladsen, København, nu.

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

Mother Jones with the reporting on why Musk and the other broligarchs want with all the priceless federal data they looted: bsky.app/profile/moth...

A reminder: Keith Ellison is pursuing a case with Hennepin Co Attorney Mary Moriarty. @eamonwhalen.bsky.social profiled her as a candidate back in 2022—along with @boltsmag.org (and @taniel.bsky.social). A moment to reflect back on why that election mattered www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

Here are some interesting words Tony Dokuopil wrote as a Columbia media studies Phd student 20 years ago lamenting a new age of "Careerist Journalists." www.cjr.org/behind_the_n...

Friday’s release included many photos of Bill Clinton, a former president, but little new information on the current one.

Please allow me to rant for a minute. It's absurd that so many things—alarm clocks, fitness wearables, car features—require a separate subscription these days. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This quote from Ben Smith in Mother Jones' profile of Benny Johnson. Honestly, great call from the haters. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about Benny Johnson, a documented plagiarist who’s become something like MAGA’s content creator in chief: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They must be busy preparing for tonight’s town hall with Bari Weiss and Erika Kirk.

When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally. I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate. And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

A relevant tidbit about the housing status quo this Free Press writer is so determined to uphold: in Connecticut, four-fifths of residentially zoned land requires a minimum lot size of *one acre,* seventeen times the size of a standard New York City lot.

Phillips' LinkedIn posts about FEMA aren't inspiring confidence: “Specifically, [FEMA] have failed to deliver a comprehensive and detailed plan for working with the faith community,” and “those with a Christ centered approach” respond best to disasters.

Shades of Michael Brown.

did it in four words hemmingway

Today's hearing featured GOP justices ready to take us to a system of election by oligarchs.

Creepy rotting zombie hands.

An important message for Democrats: the best way to fix a broken constitution is to not be constrained by the rules of a broken constitution.

that isn't just racial profiling -- this sounds a lot like ethnic cleansing.

Very ironic. There’s fascinating and troubling history here, as @pemalevy.bsky.social described earlier this year, going back to a stroke-incapacitated Woodrow Wilson.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Sixty years ago this week in the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: "Saturday, Richard J. Robbins, 19, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Arlo Guthrie, 18, of Howard Beach, N.Y., each paid a fine of $25 in Lee District Court after pleading guilty of illegally disposing of rubbish...." web.archive.org/web/20201125... 1/2

Have any news outlets that ran scathing front page headlines, op-eds and editorials about Biden pardoning Hunter admitted that they were wrong after we've seen Trump maliciously prosecute Comey, James, McIver etc?

Had a call from a senior football official and his view on this ruling by FIFA to ensure Ronaldo gets to play at the World Cup: “Unprecedented.” Was a different precedent last year when somehow qualification rules emerged to ensure FIFA’s Club World Cup had a Lionel Messi team in it.

for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes

Pretty sure I just saw Zohran get a more vocal endorsement from Trump than he did from Schumer

This @pemalevy.bsky.social / @ariberman.bsky.social joint effort on John Roberts is a must-read. "The Roberts court has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws. Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired. They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

We were promised an ump who called balls and strikes. We got federalist society angel hernandez. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...