If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money. Famously, we know that's people working in child care.

He thought we were supposed to view Marty as a good person? The same movie I watched?

Wild to associate "neoliberalism" with "elections." One of my go-to definitions of neoliberalism is the attempt to circumscribe the "economic" sphere as separate from the "political" sphere.

Journalists often talk about how the media's business model is broken, but I would gladly pay the first news organization that starts profiling the individual ICE and CBP agents involved in terrorizing people

not sure that’s how it works

JUST IN: DOJ says it has finished reviewing *less than 1%* of the Epstein Files for potential release. Only 12,285 documents have been released while more than 2 million remain under review. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hey, DOGE, here's your waste: booking the Hilton for your ICE agents. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why the fuck does ICE think it's entitled to the Hilton. That's our money

We used to at least pay lip service to quaint ideas like "universal human rights," even if our actions failed to reflect those principles. Increasingly it seems like we don't even bother with the pretense; the idea that there might be moral limits on the exercise of power is openly ridiculed.

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

What a joke www.theguardian.com/business/202...

With all the Boston City Council drama today, I'm not sure that there is a vice chair yet. What would be the most amusing way for the Council to determine who the vice chair is?

a day later, the state legislature signed an act for a constitutional convention that would usher in Alabama's racist 1901 constitution. The McKinley visit was pretty much him giving them permission to do it

and a retreat from the GOP's commitment to Black civil rights in the South

The Trump administration just conducted an illegal attack on Venezuela and has spoken about attacking Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Denmark. These Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense: Fetterman Gallego Kaine King Reed Rosen Shaheen

The people who believed that Trump is an isolationist are the dumbest people alive. The guy and his whole team are imperialists who believe in racial hierarchies and power by brute force. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

The "This is actually a distraction takes" suffer form lacking a clear, coherent, unifying theory of Trump. If you believe that Trump is a greedy, megalomaniacal, racist, narcissistic prick who does not care about other people, things aren't distractions. They all flow naturally from who he is.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

We underestimate how impactful harassment and threats of violence are on politicians. Clear, large uptick in the number of major incumbent politicians not running/retiring specifically due to harassments and threats of violence. The harassers are like 0.1% of the population but hugely impactful.

It's revealing to remember that McKinley was one of Trump's favorite presidents: tariffs and imperialism.

Boston Mayoral Inauguration party at BPL

Evidence that I do, in fact, own a suit

Death cult administration www.npr.org/sections/sho...

My insurance premiums tripled.

If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.

The MA Senate, for example, has more white guys named John or Michael than women of color. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/04/m...

It was a law enforcement operation so Senate Judiciary Committee members were ... excluded from the briefing:

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Interesting analysis that shows how, u unsurprisingly, the real divide was on axes of income and age www.dropsitenews.com/p/zohran-mam...

Eyes wide open, folks. They're revealing the supervillain plot.

Breadon gets her 7 Elected City Council president

Cllr Weber was offered Ways and Means Committee by both camps

*very facilitator voice* In this space, we don't like hostile verbs like "break," so we won't be doing any ice-breakers. Instead, we are going to do a "warmth-building" exercise.

I think Hortman's murder absolutely crushed the man

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Congrats @lizbreadon.bsky.social on the start of your term as Council President!

Take, referring to a specific situation but universally applicable: Sometimes, process arguments are progress arguments. Sometimes, process arguments are content arguments in camouflage. It's always good when people own up to when their process arguments are content arguments.

The show is about to begin

What's a good, not politically motivated write-up of the situation in Minnesota?

Ban stock trading by lawmakers in Congress. Full stop.

Bullies are never coherent - it’s always about maintains power and control

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

It's wild that so many people believe that imperialism needs to be rational, coherent, and well-planned to count as imperialism. Imperialism is very much rooted in the idea that reason, coherence, and planning can be afterthoughts as much as power is concerned!

Doing legal things in the military is illegal, and doing illegal things is legal, when Trump and Hegseth are in charge.

Genuinely find this upsetting to watch. It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

hate it when my elite pedophilia related government cover up gets in the way of my domestic ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns while I’m trying to invade other countries

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Good line from @wutrain.bsky.social about Symphony Hall representing Boston’s unique blend of science and the arts in service of the public good.

At @wutrain.bsky.social’s inauguration