Concise diagram of an effort to create a dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie. Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

"Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from inter­national leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I review @andrew-yang.bsky.social's upcoming book and political prospects. www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... Congress rebuffed Trump's science cuts. Background: www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-admini...

A look at how much worse things have gotten in just the past few days. open.substack.com/pub/damonlin...

a year in and trump is in free fall with the public across every conceivable issue

The EU making a free trade deal with Mercosur and opening the path to more Chinese electric vehicle sales. Canada buying more cars from Mexico and South Korea while also cutting a deal for Chinese EVs. The world didn't stop because the US threw a tantrum. Mostly just pushed others closer together.

Good idea. apnews.com/article/fake...

This is the way.

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

"Tyranny requires constant effort, and even more so when trying to impose it on a country which has no history at the national level of overtly authoritarian rule. Hence there are cracks in the façade." substack.com/home/post/p-...

In an interview yesterday with Reuters, President Trump boasted that he has accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.” www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

"The right-wing talking points, the disgusting social media comments cheering on the violence, the expected milquetoast both-sidesism of legacy news media have all contributed to a surrealness around the actual events on the ground..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

We've gone from broken windows policing to breaking windows policing.

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

Joe Rogan condemns Trump's 'Gestapo' for 'snatching up people' www.alternet.org/joe-rogan-tr...

No president has ever more clearly deserved impeachment, conviction, and disqualification than Donald J. Trump after Jan 6, 2020. The failure of most Senate Republicans to do their duty will echo for eons. They should be forever defined by their disgrace, cowardice, and betrayal.

Greenland's prime minister says: "We don't want to be part of the USA (...) If we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark" www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

A libertarian nightmare. reason.com/2026/01/12/t...

Remember who you are, liberal.

"Remember who you are, American" is good advice, though. Those who remember will reject this malevolence.

New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

"The current expansion and abuse of state power could get much worse." Crispin Sartwell on "The Trump Administration as a Refutation of Classical Liberalism." www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

This is a must-watch.

My latest at Splice Today. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...

"I'm not paying masked thugs to shoot moms in the face. Period." - @ericswalwell.bsky.social on why he won't vote for ICE funding, in this interview:

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

More good news. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

This is good news. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.

one very obvious best-practice for living with people who are different from you is: do not shoot them in the face

Small minds in a large universe. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

This is the ICE agent President Trump says was "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over ... hard to believe he is alive."

BREAKING: While DHS claims a woman in a Minneapolis suburb "weaponized her car" during an ICE raid, you can see in this video (posted by the Minnesota Reformer) there was no real threat when the officer shot the woman in the face and immediately killed her. THIS LOOKS LIKE MURDER.

Surreal seeing Trump sweat over the possibility of impeachment, and implore Republicans to win/cheat in the midterms not for any legislative agenda but to avoid getting impeached, while leading Democrats go "oh no, not that" when asked about impeachment in the face egregiously impeachable offenses.

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

I analyze current policy. www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...

These guys are all on the same Telegram channel where the orders come down

Agree. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors. He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on. Inhuman.

virtue of a thought-provoking book such as The Primate Myth is that it may cut across ideological lines in unpredictable ways. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...

I review The Primate Myth. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...

"The outcome of this struggle remains open. It will turn less on the strength of the authoritarian government than on whether enough citizens act as though their efforts still matter—because, for now, they still do." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Via @livboeree.bsky.social I came across a fascinating analysis of evil. www.splicetoday.com/writing/demo...