I'm not prone to conspiracy theories at all, but given how much Pizzagate was right-wing projection of an elite pedophile ring that a lot of funders & conservatives themselves turned out to be a part of, Trump's claims of election cheating does make me look a little sideways at districts he carried.

Selling the new top tax bracket and 90% rate that will eliminate billionaires: "Listen, we can't just give these people money. That's not going to solve anything because they have a culture problem. Impregnating teens, no family values, no work ethic. We need to create the right incentives."

They should just replace Bari too. Let her fall on the sword with him.

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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

Next year, this should be the punishment for last place in my fantasy league.

🚨As if DC didn’t already have enough to deal with, today we learned the Senate and House will vote next wk on SJ Res. 102 and HJ Res. 142 to disapprove a bill to decouple provisions of DC’s tax code from the feds. This would blow a $820 MILLION hole through the financial plan!

The fastest growing state by population is also the leading state in losing the battle to an already defeated and solved disease.

I can't wait for the next administration to strip him of his pension.

An entire city learned to be legal observers after a 17 year old was brave enough to bear witness to George Floyd's murder. I am heartbroken that Minneapolis experienced this violence, but thankful to Darnella Frazier and the people who followed her example.

There are normal people with walkers with more courage in the streets of Minneapolis calling for abolition. What a disappointing retreat from leadership on display here.

And their murderers are still free and collecting paychecks from us while being vile, awful people that no decent people will willingly and publicly say kind things about. Fucking ghouls, this entire administration.

Hell yeah, Stewie.

I will re-up my years long theory, from Trump 1, that the thing that binds the US together now is not the Constitution or rule of law or shared culture/values. It is the health and stability of the dollar as a coordinating mechanism. That's it. And ending Fed independence and trade will end that.

A lot can be done with just rescinding the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 (the legislative cap on the size of the house) and 16 year term limits on the supreme court staggered such that every POTUS term appoints one. But yeah, this is feeling like a full rebuild is needed.

ICE surrounded, beat, and murdered another person in Minnesota. They need to be stopped while we still can stop them.

The union I helped to build among the staff at University of Minnesota 30+ years ago was part of the general strike today What an amazing, strong, brave community that state is

Fucking infuriating and awful. These absolute monsters.

Is this what Mike Judge ate before working on Common Side Effects?

@schumer.senate.gov, as a New York voter, I'd like to see you whipping votes for defunding ICE and DHS immediately.

They are doing this with our money and in our name to the children of our communities. And they won't stop until forced. And will try again unless tried and imprisoned for the crimes they are committing knowingly and willingly every single day.

They had to kidnap someone's child to keep us all safe. Obviously.

"We understand that life is busy. With our new agentic AI platform, we can now respond to your group chats with your friends on your behalf and in your voice. Now, you can maintain your friendships without the distraction of having to read messages from friends and loved ones."

I was checking out the new pubs at an Elsevier journal and a reading assistant popped up when I landed on a journal article. I guess we will be the last cohort of academics who can reliably read article length technical writing.

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

"We're going to the toy store. No, no, the *other* one."

For all the alarming things the administration is doing to weaponize our own government institutions against us to project strength, I take some hope in seeing the fragility of their position and the number of professionals who refuse to be a party to this. (🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...)

I don't say this lightly, but I believe blue state governors need to have a plan in place to block the federalizing of the National Guard and be ready to deploy them to block ICE if necessary. What ICE is doing to citizens in anonymity & with DOJ backed impunity is a suspension of the rule of law.

Literally legal and Constitutional behavior being reported as though it was a reason for suspicion. My friends and family are part of these efforts. Are you going to portray us as terrorists when we get executed in the street? Nothing is more American than monitoring power to ensure it isn't abused.

We are going to need to start designing the process for arresting and processing all of these ICE agents in 2029. Every single one of them involved with this violence across the country.

There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right? With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

"Babe, I'm sorry. I know it was our life savings, but it was ERIC ADAMS! I *trusted* him!"

Potomac will always call to me. But the Hudson is where I am home now.

This feels like a Batman: The Animated Series plot or something. Cartoonishly evil in a way that is somehow both unsubtle to people who understands how and why this matters and subtle to the general public who does not really.

Costco is co-locating housing above a new store in South LA, 800 units. Unbelievable that we've been building malls & big box stores for, what, sixty years, and never figured this out www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...

Minnesota law enforcement have video from multiple angles of an unjustified deadly shooting in Minneapolis. Therefore, they should arrest and prosecute the shooter for murder. The fact that the killer is a federal agent should not alter that basic logic. If anything, charging is even more important.

If agents of the state can murder citizens who are doing the most basic civic task, the country is not only not a democracy, it is not even a law-governed constitutional state—not a free country in the most fundamental sense.

Illegal impoundment. Again. Without even attempting to justify or provide evidence of the claims driving the impoundment. If we still have a Constitution and the rule of law, this administration needs to be held to account. www.axios.com/2026/01/07/t...

This is fascism. If we still have a Constitution and the rule of law, this administration must be removed from office and new elections held. People need to be in jail over this.

Just came across this, on the final narration of the Twilight Zone episode The Obsolete Man (in which Burgess Meredith plays a librarian on trial in an authoritarian state), and Rod Sterling’s final narration definitively hits hard right now.

As a society, we seem to have lost the instinct in product and service development to ask, "if used in the most irresponsible way possible at scale, what would this do to our daily life and culture in this sphere of human activity?" and that's probably one of the most important questions to ask, imo

Troy City Council had its first meeting with its new members and the all democratic city council. Thursday January 8th, 7pm will be a meeting totally devoted to public comment. Come share your visions for Troy.

No. God, please, no. We are rebuilding. We have an exciting young core. Let them develop and grow.

fantastic article with data showing how congestion pricing is one of the most effective transportation policies ever. as a day 1 congestion pricing supporter it has been so satisfying to see the program be so successful www.nytimes.com/interactive/...