Outside the Civil War, the military budget for fighting Americans on our own shores has always been and should always be $0

Companies associated with Trump's sons have received $1 billion and counting in government contracts since he returned to office. We've never seen anything like this coming out of the White House. 📸: @ms.now @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

"Unrivaled moneymaking run." No, #BrokenTimes, it is unprecedented CORRUPTION. Use the word. If you can't say this, you can't report what is actually happening.

So SCOTUS decided more cases in silence. This isn’t ok. “In its term that ended last October, the Supreme Court passed an important milestone that went unnoticed: For the first time, it decided more cases by secret ballot, and with few signed opinions, than it did for cases argued in open court.”

I’m old enough to remember the bicentennial. I was just a kid, but clearly remember how exciting the celebration was. Fireworks. Tall ships. Etc. So over the last couple decades, I’ve really looked forward to the 250th. This year’s celebration? Politicized and underwhelming. So disappointed.

So the President of the United States is making $1.4B *in a single year* from outside ventures? That’s just not right. Especially when, as POTUS, his office can influence the industry he profits from. We’re a long way from Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm into a trust. None of this is ok.

Egg companies drove up prices from before the 2022 midterms through Trump’s inauguration you say? “From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.”

what the fuck did yall think she meant

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

One of the most crazy-making things I've witnessed in my life is Mitch McConnell using procedural fuckery to transform the filibuster into a routine thing, such that 60 Senate votes are needed to pass any legislation. It bascially rendered normal legislating impossible!

A new poll of Mississippi's U.S. Senate race from Impact Research has Democrat Scott Colom trailing incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by just 3 points. With leaners added, she's ahead 47%-44%. Trump won Mississippi by 61%-38% in 2024. www.splcactionfund.org/wp-content/u...

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Run against corruption. Everything else follows from there.

This

Will the media treat Trump starting a war for no reason, wasting a bunch of lives, money and military equipment ending in strategic defeat like they did Biden ending a 20 year war that was going nowhere? (Lmao no, they absolutely will not)

Baseball is back.

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

This was published one year ago. Everything is, sadly, true today.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...

You know it wasn’t even sitting out this election that completely fucked us up. It was sitting out and/or voting 3rd party in 2016 that totally fucked us up. That cost us THREE SUPREME COURT SEATS. Probably a half a century of damage.

Helsinki should have finished Trump. I'm cringing at how awful Friday's meeting with Putin will be.

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

Indeed we do.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

This guy is a businessman?

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Apropos of nothing: Kamala Harris predicted this exact moment happening: “Understand that part of Trump’s plan is to put in place a national sales tax of at least 20% on everyday goods and necessities.” She warned us over & over again & she was so right.

The ICE arrests are meant to terrorize dissenters and crush the intellectual freedom that’s the whole point of universities—and the tactic is having its intended effect. Thanks to these professors for fighting back. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The foundation of democracy is not voting, essential as it is, it is an informed citizenry. That is why one of the paramount jobs of autocrats is to attack education, free thought, ideas, speech, knowledge & facts themselves. And that is just what Trump, Musk and MAGA are doing. Everywhere you look.

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

Remember when they mocked us for saying that democracy is on the ballot?

Elon Musk illegally seized the purse strings of the United States. An unelected billionaire may have access to everyone’s social security numbers.   We need answers now. This power grab cannot stand.

this is some Orwellian shit

Unlike Obama, who hobbled into office with a 7.2% victory in the popular vote, Donald Trump takes office with a clear mandate after a 1.5% victory in the popular vote.

I honestly don’t think Americans understand how much their day to day lives depend on federal civil servants and now is the time for professional commentators to write op-eds explaining

This is a disaster.

Folks there are 30 states having local elections next year. Not 2026. Oklahoma has local primaries on February 11th! Want to take back our democracy? RUN!!!!