Seems truly bizarre that this event will go on if this was indeed an active shooter. Like real Masque of the Red Death shit.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

Great piece by my friend @helaineolen.bsky.social on why more people in CA are going to Mexico for vet care. Why we let private equity buy everything only to drain our bank accounts is beyond me. Truly rapacious and inhumane in every way. nymag.com/intelligence...

Pro tip for those who need to hear it: if you are in such financial pain that you need to wash and reuse tin foil, doing so is not going to do much to help you get out of financial trouble.

My latest: The Rise of Pet Medical Tourism. Southern Californians, increasingly fed up with the high cost of veterinary care in the US, are flocking to Mexico for everything from canine dentistry care to feline cancer treatments.

My latest: The Rise of Pet Medical Tourism. Southern Californians, increasingly fed up with the high cost of veterinary care in the US, are flocking to Mexico for everything from canine dentistry care to feline cancer treatments.

Ray Romano, Nicholas Braun, Jake Shane, and Jenny Slate all made their Broadway debuts in All Out: Comedy About Ambition

I’m confident that the solution to widespread distrust of mainstream journalism does not involve putting woo-ish health grifters and eugenicists on national television.

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Bizarre editorial choice by @nytimes.com to portray Trump's threats toward Europe as strong and fearsome rather than as a madman and unhinged tyrant spiraling out of control before our very eyes

My latest for @ms.now: What the Brooke Rollins $3 meal meme shows about Team Trump’s economic blindness. "Trump has assembled the wealthiest presidential cabinets ever ... (But)vast wealth can leave its possessors blind to the economic struggles of ordinary Americans. www.ms.now/opinion/broo...

Top of the World is forever one of my favorite songs. Love you forever, Karen Carpenter. #AT40

New polling as 2025 comes to a close shows Americans are dissatisfied with the way President Trump is handling the economy. Managing Editor of the American Economic Liberties Project @helaineolen.bsky.social discusses the sentiment around Trump’s economy. www.ms.now/weekends-wit...

My latest for MS NOW: Trump isn't built to care about your grocery bill. "Trump ... has never presented himself as someone who could empathize with the public’s economic fears, but as a performer of a particular sort: the self-help, get-rich-quick wealth guru." 1/2 www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

This reads like a classic case of elder financial abuse and someone should be looking into it. It seems highly unlikely Eleanor Holmes Norton has the capacity to loan her campaign money to pay the staff.

For @nymag.com I reported on 88-year-old Eleanor Holmes Norton, who was recently a victim of credit card fraud. Among my findings: The Norton campaign listed a deceased person as campaign treasurer for 2.5 years Between '23-25, amid q's about her mental acuity, Norton loaned $110k to her campaign

America must adopt a single-pricing system under which each provider charges all payers the same amount for the same service or product. This will sharply lower prices for private plans, which paid on average 2.5x more than Medicare and Medicaid. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/02/a...

This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.

This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review. For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.

My latest: How Multilevel Marketing Explains Trump's Corruption. A Q&A with @bridgetgillard.bsky.social abt her book Little Bosses Everywhere. We talk abt how MLMs take advantage of U.S. tropes abt success & failure & their ties to right-wing politics. economicpopulist.substack.com/p/how-multil...

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

So now that we all know Trump and his agenda are insanely unpopular, who in the Republican Party or the business world is suddenly going to grow a spine and stand up to him?

Trump is like some demented, self-made version of Hawthorne's Rappaccini’s Daughter. He poisons everyone he touches.

I know everyone is getting a good laugh out of this -- I am too! -- but people in random states showing up at the polls to vote in other city & state elections is exactly what you should expect to happen when the local press is decimated and all politics is national.

That $1 million Intuit, er, donated to Trump's inaugural committee is going to cost Americans billions of dollars in tax prep fees.

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

ICYMI: Despite Trump's claims that the economy is doing well and that there's "No Inflation," Americans aren't falling for it. "Americans are not fooled by Trump’s reality-show version of the economy," @helaineolen.bsky.social writes in @msnbc.com .

My latest for MSNBC: "Republicans are making the same mistake as Democrats during Joe Biden’s presidency: trying to convince voters that the economy is better than it is. It didn’t work for Democrats, and it won’t work for Republicans and Trump." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

My latest for MSNBC: "Republicans are making the same mistake as Democrats during Joe Biden’s presidency: trying to convince voters that the economy is better than it is. It didn’t work for Democrats, and it won’t work for Republicans and Trump." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

OPINION by @helaineolen.bsky.social: “The former reality TV star cannot, in fact, bear very much reality.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This piece is utterly horrifying -- how California and Los Angeles's utterly inept and uncaring government does nothing to put a stop to a three-mile strip of underage street prostitution, dubbed the "Kiddie Stroll" by local cops. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent. Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

I didn’t know Kaleb Horton, but I loved his writing. Life can be so sad and unfair. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Good morning— or good afternoon— from Athens.

I'm glad Ezra Klein wrote this, and he's totally right on the path forward. Because of his positioning as an establishment-friendly centrist liberal, maybe Dem leaders will listen, which would be great.

Blue states should start indicting Pulte's relatives where they have jurisdiction. It's the only way to stop Trump's deliberate weaponization of the legal system.

Renewed respect for Eric Adams.

Shout out to all those people — mostly on the other site— who assured me that Trump would leave the Fed alone even as he destroyed the CFPB.

Today’s Must Read. This tale of a busted billionaire friendship — complete with Hollywood adjacent lunacy and a psychic promoter of crypto —is absolutely insane. www.wsj.com/articles/tay...

This is absolutely true… and why I am forever suspicious of people who claim to be “happily married.” Or, as we used to say in journalism, “show, don’t tell.”

There’s a sucker born every minute… and some of them come highly credentialed.

Trump's planning to cook the BLS economic books.

Working class Americans who supported Trump for his trade/tariff plans wanted more American manufacturing jobs and rebalanced trade not tariffs used to boost Big Tech monopolies’ power to crush smaller businesses worldwide, abuse our privacy & hurt kids. American jobs? What jobs?

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

"America is never going to return to a functioning — let alone thriving — democracy as long as we pretend that it’s not a crime to sell access and influence in the White House for coins that go straight into the pocket of the president or his children." share.inquirer.com/csKOvc