A closer look at Trump's 2027 budget

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

OoOoooOoo watch party? I literally do not know how that works.

Escalate on the Trump Admin’s ‘ICE at the Polls’ Plans Now talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/escal...

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They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

I now announce to my cats on the reg, “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.” Has about the same effect.

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities. This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

Despite increasing use of observational data in public health, researchers are still hesitant to use strong causal language (for fear of overpromising). New paper and comment in @bmj.com sets out new guidance on appropriate use/misuse of causal language www.bmj.com/content/392/...

“The cuts include empty slots for more than 1,500 physicians and 4,900 nurses. In total, the V.A. chose not to hire replacements for roughly 14,400 unfilled medical vacancies at its health care division. Those jobs were the equivalent of about 5 percent of the V.A.’s medical staff as of December.”

this seems like something we should be funding

…shit.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

Did you hear Stephen Miller came out against the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? This is such a succinct, informative short video from Bouie, the perfect distance between a thread and a column.

“No.”

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Holy shit new “Minnesota Nice” definition just dropped. ⚡️baller ⚡️

Call me Ishmael.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

The US officially withdrew from the World Health Organization today. Per Trump we can work "one on one" with other countries Has he heard of the concept of an international outbreak? I.E. PANDEMIC? No WHO, no USAID, underfunded CDC global health center. We are less prepared than we have ever been.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

"Research would tell us that most ICE agents entered into these jobs in part because they want approval, and they want to affirm their masculinity in public," said sociologist Nicole Bedera. "An ICE watch works by surrounding these people ... with disapproval."

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

I suspect 9 of 10 Americans are unaware that the Hmong are here because they aided the US in the Vietnam war, and then had to flee as refugees afterwards. Quite the “thank you” we’re giving them 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).

Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU

i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics

At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"

ICE Drones coming to a city near you.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

“The demographics of American workplaces, gold-standard studies of workplace discrimination, and the EEOC’s own data belie the idea that white Americans experience systematic discrimination. These data all show the opposite of the Trump Administration’s fact free claims.”

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

for too long, news has meant connecting viewers with facts, context, and expertise. but here at cbs, we are committed to making sure the news is just whatever you already believe.”

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly.