You’ve gotta be kidding me. This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump. Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies. Really embarrassing stuff.

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Grandpa has lost it

Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.

As angry as I am over our present situation, I welcome this reminder that we are ALL in danger - even those who voted for this. (And we need some of them to get it to stop.) open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

This essay was good

And so we begin a new week in this ongoing nightmare. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The only “men” who would do this job, that WE as taxpayers are footing the bill for, are the SAME “men” who beat their spouses and children. As a survivor of domestic violence I SEE these people. They are sick and should be jailed, period.

ICE zip-tied CHILDREN in the overnight Chicago raid. “I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other." #MomSky

Trump sending troops from other states to attack blue states is an act of war. Trump is committing treason. Period.

I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_. In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽

Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Do we really have such abysmal collective memory that we need to be *told* that the right has a history of censoring free speech? Have we really swallowed so much reactionary-centrist bullshit about "cancel culture" that we've forgotten that primal political truth?

🔥 open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

When all the best sourced information is behind a paywall and free broadcast is monopolized by oligarchs, it's no wonder we live in different "realities." Bookmarking this one so I can re-read it. open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl? As @charlotteclymer.bsky.social points out - this is going to be interesting. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

New reporting from @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Great news

probably of Trump. A year ago, @alizawrites.bsky.social @socalmom.bsky.social and I walked the streets of DC at night with absolutely no fear. So just get out with that BS.

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

When the Right lies about the Left, it's called "Free Speech" but when the Left tells the truth about the Right, it's called "Inciting Violence."

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

I took Tylenol during my first trimester due to headaches. My daughter said her first word at 9 months (cat), and was able to respond to people at 15 months in full sentences. She also went to one of the 7 sister’s colleges. Reach your own conclusions.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

My fellow Georgians...Just don't. For the love of Georgia, do not vote Raffensperger into power in the State of Georgia.🍑 Georgia needs unity and healing, not another Kemp. Raffensperger is not the one. He's just another distractor. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

If you can't get Kimmel tonight, you can watch it on You Tube tomorrow. It's free.

Tell Donald it was me. I want him to know.

Release the dadgum Epstein files! #MomSky

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.

There’s now a huge opportunity for states to sue Sinclair and others in their states because they do the bidding of the government. This breaches the 1st Amendment. @democraticags.bsky.social @normeisen.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Measles cases hit record highs with RFK Jr. in charge. Now, his hand-picked vaccine panel just voted to make it harder for little babies to get vaccinated for measles and other diseases. How does that keep our kids safe?

This is what Trump and his Republican minions are trying to do to America. The only people who benefit from privatization are the rich oligarchs sacrificing the public good for their own profits.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Credit to our friend @jesscraven101.bsky.social : For anyone who wants to let the Disney CEO know just how badly he messed up, here’s some good ways (allegedly) to contact him: We’ll post the best messages y’all send to our social media pages:

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

You’re about to see a push on the right to designate a bunch of nonviolent people on the left as ANTIFA because they don’t like their rhetoric. Dangerous times.

A small way to fight fascism is to fight the illusion that now will last forever.

I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing.

I remember a time when no entity could own more than seven television stations. And they couldn't own more than one in any given city. AND they were required to prove they were serving the public interest. Let's do that again.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump era “girl journalists” are symbolically on offer for jowly old White men in power. “ The “Girls” get full access…as long as they’re attractive & social & playing along (even if just flirting) & NEVER challenge the men’s superiority or the party line. You’re gonna make it after all, Olivia.