Heard any interesting/heartening thing from the courthouse today. Jurors. Usually people do their duty but they’re a bit crabby about it. Judges can sense it. Not since the ICE invasion. Fewer absentees, fewer excuses, more commitment, more focus. It’s like civics matters & they‘re defending it.

Hackman would have turned 96 today. He is missed — but it’s always good to watch him grab racists by the balls. “Mississippi Burning” (1988)

Folks blame government, but: "new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants & administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Cartoon for @airmail.news

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

LOGGING ON

This isn't fixed with better training.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

When reached for comment, Meta spox Andy Stone cited the company's policy on "sharing personally identifiable information." But ICE List does not contain the info detailed in the policy... www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

Today's a good day to revisit Stephan and Chenowith (here their 2008 article). www.belfercenter.org/sites/defaul...

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

The One Ring basically the lawn darts of Middle Earth. Recalled 3000 years ago, still showing up to cause trouble.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.

three days ago:

I see someone I follow here posting that they want to kill themselves (not for the first time) with replies turned off. Please do not. Please talk to someone. No matter how bad things are - and maybe they are really bad - this shouldn't and doesn't have to be the end of the story.

SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

My wife and I have been wishing we'd started a list last year of the bonkers actions that mattered most to us. This is even more comprehensive and a great help in spotting patterns and discussing impacts with those you know who might not be aware of these. Thanks, @rosenzweigp.bsky.social

I wrote EVERYBODY LOSES (out today!) because I believe sports fans—and really all Americans—deserve answers to basic questions that the people behind the betting boom have largely avoided. Thread 🧵

I think we should not go to war with the country that gave the world LEGO

“America will be respected again, like never before”

If the shoe fits… and I kinda dig the idea of everyone sending their useless trophies to the White House!🤪😂

Finally, it’s a pity that there were so few foreigners. Even in Shanghai, where you do see many, it doesn’t really feel like a global city. The new deglobalized world will be a very impoverished one…

Final note, though: it’s cliche at this point, but experiencing Chinese infrastructure is truly mind-blowing. Shanghai to Nanjing is about the same distance as NYC to DC. Imagine you flew into JFK, took a 40-minute express train to Penn Station, and then a 61-minute bullet train to Union Station.

Second: it’s striking how, from the outside, people perceive very little domestic opposition to what Trump is doing. We talked about No Kings, etc. but the general sense, from Chinese and other participants, is that there is very little resistance.

First, the most memorable moment: when one of the Chinese participants (no names, it was Chatham House rules) drily observed that China is right now waiting to see what comes out of the ongoing American Cultural Revolution… Ouch!

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

Her father faced bribery charges. She donated $2.5M to a pro-Trump Super PAC. Trump's Justice Department gave her father a lenient deal, overruling prosecutors. She gave another $1M. Now Trump has pardoned her dad. @kenvogel.bsky.social @susannecraignyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Join the ACLU's Know Your Rights: Protest Safety and De-Escalation Training TODAY, January 15th at 6:30pm. We'll be joined by our colleagues at ACLU National and Senator Chris Murphy to make sure we in Connecticut know our rights before heading to the streets. RSVP NOW! ▶️ act.aclu.org/a/ctkyr

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

That is what was relayed

The problem with brainstorming sessions is the "no bad ideas" rule doesn't apply outside. Instead of a plan that won't pass, spends millions and takes months to rollout, only to be useless without cameras and people at liberty to use them, here's an idea that's totally free and immediate: No masks.

A motorized hand that oozes lotion from its pores, patented today. US 12520926

Why is nobody asking me to come on TV and yell about things? I have many things to yell about.

I love the part where Zack de la Rocha chants this over and over until Tom Morello comes in with the breakdown riff

It's taken about six months of headlines like these, and you have more than enough work already, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social, but I'm finally convinced it's time you opened a London office for whatever it is that bodysnatched the Economist.

this dude is making anti-bangers to poison AI datasets and they kind of slap www.instagram.com/reel/DSI_CTK...

Vile stuff. J 6 insurrectionists Taunting police about their pardons from Trump as they use racial and homophobic slurs towards them. And nobody will bat an eye.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

This, from Bryce Elder, City editor at the FT's Alphaville, is a laudable entry on the subject of the Elon Musk/Grok 'undressing' scandal. It identifies the senior executives at the company who are responsible for it (and 'paints' them in what seems to me to be an appropriate light).

🚨 🚨 🚨 IT’S PHONE CALLS ☎️📱 FOR THE PLAQUE DAY Join us! 1. Like and REPOST this 2. Call 202-224-3121, ask for your House Rep, and (courteously) tell them you expect ACTION on the Plaque 3. Do Speaker Johnson’s office, too 202-225-4000 4. Post a comment with how it went 👇🏼

4/So what is going on? @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue the confusion is people using old models of global politics. This is not balancing or spheres of influence. It is international politics based on elite cliques rather than national interest i.e. neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Every hit song from Django Reinhardt to Taylor Swift owes its existence to a man named Francisco Tárrega noticing how well Spanish and Moroccan folk music fit together on guitar while traveling near Gibraltar in the late 1800s.

It is almost like the FIFA prize had no real meaning.

why not the APGAR score?

RIP 2025 2025-2025

I remember meeting up at a concert in Harvard Square and being sincerely kind of nervous about it, worried I wouldn’t be able to keep up. That I wasn’t going to be funny enough. Like I was hanging out with a beloved famous comedian or something. Which is what he was, in fact.

they should invent a year that's better than the one before it