Their fraudulent circular funding scheme is so blatant and obvious any rational administration would be investigating right now

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Moral clarity is NOT a complicated concept.

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

Notice how Mamdani, who famously ran on an affordability platform, did not have to involve grocery prices in making the moral case why ICE should be abolished

01/20/26 PM! You can put me on mute & block me. I don't care. I'll not stop! There're NO Civil Rights in Trump & Kimberly Richey’s Deranged America! I'll repeat this Every Day until Reality Sinks In. No children's rights, women's rights, disability rights, minority rights! 150 yrs gone! Get Angrier!

Iran’s central bank using vast quantities of cryptocurrency championed by Farage, says report

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

Trump: "I was gonna call it the Gulf of Trump, but I thought I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to."

Let them eat one Taco

ICE abducts an entire family with children in Minnesota How is this being allowed to happen!?!

Donald Trump wants to end freedom of speech and make it illegal to criticize him or his regime.

Underwater, and yet these numbers are still way too high for this 💩 show…

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.

He’s not wrong.

NYT Editorial Board: “How Trump has pocketed $1,408,500,000 — he took an oath to serve the 🇺🇸 people. Instead, he has focused on using the presidency to enrich himself.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

She’s leaving the position she didn’t have.

ICE physically attacks lawyer—stand between her and clients they're trying to detain. "Don't push me!" lawyer yells. "Why you trying to pick them up?" "It's none of your business," agent scolds. "It is my business—I'm their attorney," she replies. "It's EXACTLY my business!"

POTUS: useless U.S. Congress: feckless Supreme Court: lawless Senior Dems: spineless Legacy Media: worthless

Here's how WaPo and the Times handled this. The Times didn't mention the anti-Somali racism. WaPo simply said Trump "revealed his thoughts about Somalia." WaPo cited Trump praising Hell's Angels without noting he did it while attacking "vicious people" from "the Congo." An alternate universe

Shitty newspapers, shitty editors, shitty publishers, shitty values.

Better batten down the hatches. Ted Cruz is getting on a plane to Laguna Beach in winter.

Russian propagandists claim that “Trump is destroying NATO, Europeans are not allies of the United States but vassals, and Europe is an American sphere of influence.”

A small group of tech workers, including Google and Amazon employees, signed a petition calling on CEOs to speak out against the federal agency.

Trump's now crowing about his first year accomplishments. www.c-span.org/event/white-...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that retailers are running out of stockpiled goods imported before tariffs and "don't have endless options."

The tech bros did a pact with Trump. They would get him elected president. He would transfer vast amounts of wealth to them. Has Trump performed on his promise? Yes. In spades. www.ft.com/content/674b...

This MS NOW documentary from Houston shows ① federal officers appearing to ram an immigrant’s van with their vehicle, ② officers placing a high school student in a chokehold and ③ confiscating the 16-year-old’s phone (which was later found to have been sold at a tech-for-cash pawn shop kiosk)

Matt Wuerker, Politico

71% of Americans believe that Donald Trump has turned America into a bubbling mass of chaos

I came to Congress to do the job: to work for people and protect them. Now I’m facing 17 years in prison for standing up to this administration and to ICE. But if they think I’ll back down, they are wrong. Read more:

Teresa Ribera gets it right: it’s time to reframe the Green Deal as a Freedom Deal in the face of Trump’s tariff threats, geopolitical bullying and increasing energy dependence from America - @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu #FreedomDeal #GreenDeal #Euro

all the crime and corruption in one place

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is joining President Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

Please! Listen to this whole clip. Newsom is like your a**hole neighbor who is often right. I’m glad he went over there, because I think they still don’t get it. They needed to wake up a year ago. The one reporter says, “You make it sound like he’s dangerous.” Well no sh&$, Sherlock!

hard to believe that the Charlie Kirk firings / pearl clutchings happened mere months ago but here we are

And I feel some obligation. I’m an American who has seen the American science system — I did a PhD at MIT, worked at Harvard medical school for 8 years in two awesome postdocs, then was research faculty at UChicago.

I also said that science determines truth via scientists using data to *convince* their colleagues. I have had scientific results before that people did not immediately believe. So I worked harder. I gave talks. I wrote about the ideas and I convinced my colleagues. That’s the way science works.

We have a billionaire ownership problem with our media in America. I stand by that too.

PS: I forgot to add that it's no coincidence at all that the emergence of science and liberal democracy happened at the same time. Science and democracy need each other, and it's also no coincidence that reactionaries hate both, as @markhisted.org and @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social discussed with me

And here’s the link to that podcast discussion which I very much enjoyed.

True for science too. Let’s not back down bsky.app/profile/ezra...

The American science system is amazing. It has been my dream, and a privilege to work in this system for so many years. I've seen so many good people sacrificing in service of society. It is a terrible tragedy that these authoritarians and liars are trying to destroy the U.S. science system.

That’s not science. That’s billionaires and oligarchs corrupting science, and boosting junk science. That’s what’s called the merchants of doubt strategy. (It happens in law too. That’s a big reason why Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court: rightwing oligarch money)

What happened with the Covid contrarians, including the great Barrington people, is that their fringe ideas could not convince the scientific community. So their their bad ideas were artificially boosted— wealthy oligarch money behind AIER and Fox and WSJ opinion boosted them.

I said rightwing billionaires like Larry Ellison and Anschutz and the Murdochs buy media outlets b/c the billionaires’ agenda is unpopular. As @warren.senate.gov recently noted. Billionaires use those media outlets to promote antivax lies to divide the public. I stand by that.

Wait this was real! Trump shares altered map of U.S. flag covering Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Trump is in Davos crazy posting. He is delusional and that's a fact, not an opinion.