Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

well, there it is

I can't overstate how central outlets like Politico were in propping up the MAGA fake-populist election season lie that Trumpism cared about unchecked corporate predation (usually with helpful quotes by Matt Stoller).

Amazon Prime, but for gulags. "This administration is actively aspiring to a system of [the] magnitude [of the Soviet gulag, Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps] to reshape society, to its racial, political, and cultural preferences for generations to come."

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

It more and more seems like the world wants USDA certified organic, GMO free software and no one wants to pay for USDA certified organic, GMO free software. Matrix is literally a defense contractor. ICE is verified on Bluesky. Snapchat & TikTok settled on an addiction lawsuit. I can keep going

GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon? LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time

ICYMI: Canada's largest pension fund is putting BILLIONS into fossil fuel expansion and AI in the United States. Read our report:

I'd also just add that "if we don't go after immigrants, the fascists will" is the precise language Palantir's CEO has used for years to justify letting the government use his company's authoritarian tech. He is now an open, unapologetic supporter of this administration.

But note in this Toronto Star article: ON wants to switch from an 85-15 grant:loan ratio to a 25-75 grant:loan ratio. That has huge financial consequences

Here’s the thing: All non-violent political movements are engaged, at some level, in a contest of persuasion. In such a contest, images matter. Optics matter. Always.

Trump picked possibly one of the most organized parts of America to target in Minneapolis. Here's what the organizers themselves have to say about the siege of their cities.

It will not surprise you that ICE is filled with pro-Russian goons. www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice...

Trump: "We've basically stopped all windmills in this country"

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Rand Paul: "I see not even a hint here of anything aggressive on [Pretti's] part. I don't think this should take months and months. There needs to be a conclusion ... the public needs to know, if I go to a protest and shout something at people, could I be killed?"

Virginia State Police have jurisdiction over 78,000 miles of highways and conduct hundreds of thousands of traffic stops a year. Governor Spanberger recently ended a policy that allowed them to make civil immigration arrests.

NEW: Another NIH institute director hasn't been renewed — the director of NIAMS (arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases institute). That leaves a whopping 15 of 27 institutes and centers without a permanent director.

RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights? KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment

This is DARVO

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump has been convicted of child molestation and other crimes after he tried to use an anticipated payout from the Trump administration to silence one victim, according to a Florida prosecutor's office.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

I’m so tired of this shit

Four Mexican Cartel ‘Drones’ Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Excellent work by Jayapal here

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

Look up.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

another thing about AI-enabled research is that academics in secure jobs will say this is economic exigency: "funding for humanities research is drying up so I might as well use this instead" the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students

I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.

The Trump admin has used 2339A—the “material support for terrorism” statute—against Black Lives Matter protesters in Alabama and anti-ICE demonstrators in Texas. The ex-DOJ prosecutor who pioneered the use of 2339A says he's never seen anything like it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I can say without any fear of contradiction that I know as much or more than anyone in modern American journalism about the absolute, no excuses necessity of operating in the black. In many cases much more since if you’re a big player there are lots of creative ways to operate ….

It’s been frustrating how little attention legacy news has paid to how Silicon Valley is “helping this administration aggressively scale a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.” Grateful to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. We don’t have to let them build Big Brother.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

How many men mentioned in the Epstein files have vowed to “fix” U.S. education?

Jesus Christ.

The first customer for relational databases was the CIA. The surveillance program they tasked a Silicon Valley start-up with building was given the code name Oracle. That founder of that company, given the capital he needed to scale by serving U.S. intelligence operations, decided he liked the name.

People being asked to pay money to consume one billionaire sociopath’s bribery attempt of another billionaire sociopath thinly disguised as a movie is such a perfect encapsulation of this moment.

The biggest crowd I have ever seen in my twenty plus years living here. www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/t...

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Rally for Academic Freedom! (more photos to come!) #BTHOcensorship