The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

The false equivalence is beyond irritating and this particular false equivalence is ludicrous. It is the political right that tries to oversimplify history, ESPECIALLY slavery & anything to do w/ America's history on race.

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

stablecoin bullshit alert, riding on a clunky whatsapp metaphor @aldasoro.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7b60...

My preview: stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/a-year-wit...

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

Teaching about the Great Depression and the New Deal (not sure it’s the Holy Grail of macroeconomics). At any rate, who said this?

It’s fine that some people support Gavin Newsom…but *they* are the ones being irrational if they believe this is the best we can do.

Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

Kudlow after Trump lies to him for 15 minutes straight: "You have to love President Trump's optimism. You may not agree with every number, but you have to love his optimism."

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

Before her retirement, this judge oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail. In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist. Revisit our 2021 story with @wpln.bsky.social:

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers in St. Paul that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

@houserepublicans.bsky.social We The People know.

I don’t want to depress you all but the entire media and political class will have moved on from this latest Trump racist outburst by tomorrow, Monday at the very latest. He gets away with it every time - because he is allowed to get away with it, and because he floods the zone.

#WolffBites: Gallup Poll shows 40% of US women would like to leave the US to live. Big increase from 2018 and much higher than for other developed economies (OECD). Another angle to view decline of US. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

The Big Tech business model: steal the world’s data to build machines to replace the world’s jobs while flooding the internet with slop to make the world doubt reality, and then hope like hell you can escape to outer space before the world’s anger towards you catches fire

At Davos, the tech oligarchs seem to have given up on people organically adopting their technology, and are instead asking what government can do to “make diffusion occur.” open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

“The masses of the people, however, did not realize how much the industrial tycoons, the Army and the State were benefiting from the ruin of the currency.” — William L. Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”

comforting to know that in a world of chaotic change, Martin Wolf remains an unrepentant, deeply misguided, monetarist.

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

"I'm not on the ballot" is the spectre haunting the Republican Party.

"can i use this clip from a movie or a song that i like" motivates about 50 percent of what i choose to talk about on my youtube page www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRIK...

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."

This would be a 2018 environment on steroids. We’re talking Texas governor’s race against Abbott being very close and Florida on the table.

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

[butterfly meme] is this deescalation? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

The series has been great again this year, and if you missed hearing from Scott Fullwiler, Stephanie Kelton, Tim Foxon, Pavlina Tcherneva, Phil Lawn, John T. Harvey or Maryam H'madoun and would like to catch up, here is a link which will allow you to do so. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

Forget greedflation, the issue is gradeflation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

Abolish DHS

A kindergartener is one of a growing number of children in Maine who have been left without a parent as the Trump administration carries out a major immigration enforcement effort, according to local officials.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

"You can't have guns." Where my 2A folks at

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Is the suggestion here that the Goods and the Prettis aren’t “real victims,” that they don’t deserve the administration’s concern?

Census shows a dramatic slowing in population growth from declining net migration--immigration is slowing and emigration is rising, the latter can reflect both voluntary deportation & brain drain www.census.gov/newsroom/blo...

"At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, exhibit text that described the United States being “hungry for gold and land” and breaking promises to Native Americans was ordered changed or removed." #NationalParks 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...