Knowing he could not win if he stuck to cities, Magyar has been traveling the country since 2024, visiting small towns and villages, many more than once. He avoided global politics and Ukraine, focused his campaign on the economy, health care, and schools. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor, making people better. And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

Congress still in recess, btw

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Any member of the House can force a vote on impeachment, but Jeffries as minority leader has the extra perk that he can force it immediately rather than within two days.

"An Indianapolis city councilor said his home was fired at on Monday, with a note left behind suggesting he had been targeted over his support of datacenters."

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

Shocking news: This year's World Vaccine Congress had a Weird Vibe www.notus.org/health-scien...

New - Gift Article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maryland sued to stop an ICE detention warehouse. Then New Jersey. Then Michigan. Each case cites the same fifty-year-old environmental law — and a federal judge has already frozen construction in Maryland using it. Arizona's warehouse went through the same process. Arizona hasn't filed anything.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, top Dem on the House appropriations panel, says DHS is *choosing* not to pay TSA workers while paying its other employees. She says: 85% of ICE + CBP are being paid 75% of Secret Service 0% of TSA workers "The Department made that decision," DeLauro says on the House floor.

Say it with me: ¡Dios Mio!

Disconcerting news from Miami federal court: No reporters — zero — have been allowed into the courtroom to see Marco Rubio testify this morning. I & others were first in line & forced to wait outside the building since dawn. When we walked in, court staff & security already filled every seat. #1A

A few years back, a friend of mine and I discussed how Robert Mueller’s report essentially said he couldn’t indict a sitting president so it asked Congress to act, which it didn’t do, while the January 6 committee asked the DOJ to take action on a former president, which it didn’t.

I'm not a political consultant but i feel like dems could probably get a lot of leverage out of pushing for green technologies that would wean the us off being dependent on oil in this particular moment

A federal judge on Tuesday reinstated more than 1,000 employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the Voice of America’s parent agency — effectively nullifying Kari Lake’s attempt to shrink the international broadcaster.

As we first reported in last night's @semafor.com media newsletter, NOTUS is rebranding/dramatically expanding. In a memo to staff this morning, the organization said it plans to "launch this new version of NOTUS under a new name" and double staff from 50 to 100.

Some news: After sweeping cuts at The Washington Post, the paper has begun reaching out to at least 10 laid-off staffers to gauge their interest in returning to the paper in new roles. Details and more in @status.news www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

They got a raw deal. www.notus.org/immigration/...

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

NEW: President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are not letting a shooting war in the Middle East distract them from their social media campaign for passage of the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

perhaps I have made a mistake

Here’s new and irrefutable evidence from the Epstein files that Howard Lutnick made false statements and was misleading about his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. It hasn’t yet caused a storm. So please give it a read and share widely.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The U.S. State Dept is reportedly developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their govts, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," as a way to counter censorship. The site will be hosted at "freedom.gov."

"The president is actively considering strikes on Iran as early as this weekend" MS NOW reporter Jake Traylor shares the latest as Trump holds inaugural "Board of Peace" meeting"

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more: www.404media.co/students-are...

🚨BREAKING: A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on Fulton County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michigan’ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

REP. STEIL: Some Dems demands put at risk the safety of members of law enforcement CNBC: You mean like taking off their masks and having a badge that shows who they are? STEIL: Well, they're known to their supervisors CNBC: No other law enforcement officials in the US are allowed to wear masks

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

We’re looking at another very big Dem overperformance tonight—in a Trump+13 district. Dem Chasity Martinez is up 61-39 with more than half the vote in. Notably, like in TX last weekend, the e-day vote has been even *better* for her than the early vote. voterportal.sos.la.gov/graphical

Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

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

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Some of working-class voters are changing their minds about Donald Trump as his administration’s war on renewable energy has cost them their jobs, labor leaders and workers said. https://www.notus.org/energy/trump-wind-energy-blue-collar-support

One reason Minneapolis remains in the world's eye is we have one of the most robust & independent media ecosystems remaining in the country. You all need this...and more! @mprnews.org @startribune.com @sahanjournal.bsky.social @minnesotareformer.com @minnpost.bsky.social @racketmn.com etc.

Scenes outside of the Washington Post headquarters right now:

In almost any newsroom, the Sports section works the hardest, but also has the most fun and often produces the best journalism. This was especially true with the sports section of the Washington Post. Wonderful obituary by @sallyjenx.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

holy shit

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...