I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

If ever there was a day I could have used a new Have I Got News For You. Is there another platform it’s on, since pre-empted for breaking coverage?

NYC came out tonight! Union Square march was peaceful and energized. We stand up for Minnesota and ourselves.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the violent racist authoritarian lawless scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

Figures Trump’s tariffs are going to jack up the price of hygge.

As you watch this analysis, which is VERY clear, remember that Trump, Vance and Noem have been straight-up lying about it from day one—and that Renee Good still had a pulse when ICE refused to allow her medical attention. Call it what it is: state murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

No, we don't have the resources right now for a general strike. We don't have the rent and food funds or the bail funds or the child and healthcare funds. But the response to that isn't "welp, we're fucked, so much for a general strike." It's to start organizing those things in your community.

There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

This is really important. Amazon causes the pressure for speed and reaps the benefits. Contracting leaves workers vulnerable; who should pay for your long-term organ damage due to heat exposure in the summer? The small business, or Amazon?

Particulate pollution in the air down a whopping 22% in NYC’s congestion pricing zone. Not only are the streets less congested, but so are our lungs. e360.yale.edu/digest/new-y...

Barbarity

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

No one should gloss over how appalling this is. A president who feels this comfortable demeaning women, and so many others, is nothing short of embarrassing and shameful.

This is a pedophilephile administration with a predator at the top.

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It corrupts our political system every day.

Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”

Oh thank God. Proud graduate here.

#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

WHY? Why? Why? For shame.

BREAKING Three Russian warplanes entered Estonian airspace and remained there for nearly 15 minutes, leaving only when they were forced to by NATO aircraft. Estonia has invoked NATO Article Four in response to this provocative action by the Putin regime.

Yes. He also paints liberals as being obsessed with money, as if a government is not created because of and tasked with distributing from a shared pot of money. That’s the whole thing. SOMEONE gets the shared money.

DC statehood absolutely needs to be a non-negotiable for every Democrat running for office. and senate dems must support abolishing the filibuster to push it through

Welp I am afraid I cannot answer any emails at this time. Or change any channels; she sat on the remote to achieve this.

Tomorrow night, Stories on Stage at Pangea, NYC 7pm (6 for dinner.)

I really feel this. I miss listings deeply, and not just because I would love people to come to Pangea tomorrow night for a great event of new work. I miss knowing what’s happening in NYC, and browsing Eventbrite is in no way an adequate substitute.

Legit question. If billionaires on mass leave the state because they’re asked to pay taxes, how many billionaires who decide to stay does it take to make up for the near-zero taxes paid by the other billionaires in the first place? Like, two?

Ok. When you’re supposed to identify which squares have a motorcycle, does that mean any portion of a motorcycle? Just the main parts? Anything silvery and gleaming? I just had to do it five times in a row so I am clearly getting life wrong.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Who here agrees if Elizabeth Warren were a cranky fat man we would have most of our country’s problems solved in about five years? #lizandpetearemydreamteam

I get very upset if I find I have been watching a tv show and Josh Segarra hasn’t been in it yet. Feels kinda unfinished, you know?

I am watching Season 3 Ep 1 of The Handmaid’s Tale right now and… so much to say, but… that scene where the camera lingers over Serena putting on her armor… ooooooooooh that’s so good.

Me, I am in favor of health, education, nutrition and clean energy.

Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

I miss Movieline magazine. Anybody else miss Movieline magazine? Is there anything like it out there?

What’s important is buying pillows that best amplify your cat.

Oh thank God, they’re going to cover the I-Beams at the Kennedy Center with some gaudy material. Children’s arts orgs across the country have lost their funding but those kids can get a factory job that pays for craptastic columns that frame Kid Rock.

Sinners is the movie I have been thinking about since I saw it a week ago. It’s a masterpiece. Also a fun time when you’ve got an acoustic guitar teacher pushing you to bend notes and hit the bass harder.

How about a beautiful grown up girl and life-saving medication. Can I have 30 pills? Thank you for taking my decision-making responsibility away, it’s awesomely relaxing.

This. It’s baffling. WTF. This is not a book-deal-after-Presidency situation here. It’s an every-evil- greedy-villain-from-every-movie situation and their normalization strategy seems to be entirely effective.

Anybody else miss the Shredded Heaven from Zen Palate? That used to be my comfort food and they could have had all my money lately.

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

What do we do? How can we bring even more pressure to this? Dictators do this. All the time. A country that follows the rule of law will bring this man back. Who the f are we. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

UCONN WOMEN!!!! ❤️💪💪❤️💪❤️💪

Felt great to be out in NYC with this gang. #handsoff Let’s do it again.

Why are there so many movies out right now that I have never heard of?

Lotta bad stuff going on, some good stuff. But @melanielynskey.bsky.social in scenes with Elijah Wood on @yellowjackets96.bsky.social is full greatness and that’s my 2025 thank you very much.