something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

anyway the Wall Street Journal is very excited that we redirected billions in taxpayer dollars away from affordable local fiber access and instead gave it to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for expensive, congested, already-deployed satellite service that destroys the ozone layer and ruins astronomy

Florida may send bounty hunters after women and doctors jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-ma...

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

part of me is annoyed that I left the US due to conditions created by Stephen Miller immigration policies and a media industry clearly in crisis but I still feel like it was partly my fault, even though the border officer also felt bad for me today

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Ski Slopes Are Empty as a Labor Dispute Shuts Down Telluride, Colo. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

What the Times doesn’t explain is that FL ⬆️ New College’s budget by 75%, all while now having a graduation yield the second lowest in the state, lowest placement rate for BA holders, lowest starting salary, and falling SAT scores and GPAs for incoming students www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

As Howard Dean said in 2004 when the Democrats did this shit: “I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.”

Republicans motivate their core voters to show up every cycle and they do. Democrats just assume their equivalent will do the same and spend the entire cycle pursuing swing voters, meanwhile depressing core turnout. Then they blame those core voters when they lose. The cycle must be broken.

Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening. Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual. Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.

As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025.

The right wing meltdown about the NY mag photo shoot is telling. She is not some elite richie rich but they complain about her that way because she is striking and beautiful in a way that cuts against the Mar a Lago aesthetic. But even more, those photos!

Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40. www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...

DeSantis and our Republican legislature gave cops another excuse to pull people over and the FHP is weaponizing it against immigrants: Florida’s new license plate law leads to immigration detention, wrongful arrest www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

More seriously, as most readers here know I helped draft the CA billionaire tax initiative text and you just can't get out of it by setting up a couple of LLCs in Florida. We have thought about how to block these fake paper moves for 4 years.

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

HHS is trying to force Seattle Children's into doing a Sophie's choice of abandoning trans youth or see kids with cancer or other serious illness have their coverage and care disrupted. That's what this is about. Hopefully, the courts put a quick stop to this like the subpoenas.

In case you missed it over the holiday, here's my interview with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social with his thoughts on ICE in NYC and some of what he told Trump about the raids. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/zohr...

This Day in Labor History: On December 26, 1996, the government of South Korea issued new repressive labor laws. The South Korean working class rose up in revolt www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/this...

Safety or Surveillance: Vicarious Liability and Driver Monitoring onlabor.org/safety-or-su...

As Trump pushed mines to increase production, protections for black lung victims stalled www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

Florida approved the largest electric rate increase in history. Here's how it happened. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/florida-ap...

This is in reference to the unjust firing of Melissa McCool, but it’s true of every right-wing harassment campaign Universities and elite media need to be aware of this

Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.

It's a choice to write this about Trump supporters in Northern California and not about Democrats in, say, central Nashville who have been without "their representative" ever since the GOP's TN gerrymander switched from packing to cracking? bsky.app/profile/bill...

Over the past few years, tech companies have laid off hundreds of thousands while many tech executives have embraced the ruthless management style of CEOs like Elon Musk. Yet tech workers keep standing up to their bosses. What gives? I try to explain here www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here portside.org/2025-12-25/t...

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

They’re putting more veterans on the streets for christmas

Irish woman with green card, bounced 2 checks totaling $80 ten years ago. For this "crime of moral turpitude," she was held pending deportation, no bond, and put in isolation for asking for low-sodium food. It's great she's out. But also white privilege – 18 Senators wrote to Kristi Noem about her.

One of my favorites ... youtu.be/QJOnt_0EqR8?...

Telluride will close Saturday after ski patrol votes to strike www.kpcw.org/ski-resorts/...

House Democrats Squander the Opportunity on Trumpian Corruption portside.org/2025-12-24/h...

10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/1...

The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair www.wired.com/story/expire...

Merry xmas to those who partake and remember friends dont let friends donate to the salvation army

#tdih 1521: enslaved Africans on a Santo Domingo sugar plantation owned by Christopher Columbus's son attempted to free themselves and take over the land. This was the earliest recorded slave uprising in the Americas. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/en...

A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz www.democracynow.org/2025/12/25/a...

and Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, boarded The Good Ship Lollipop to the tulip fields where he continues to tiptoe to this day.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

Oh dear, how awkward...the guy who coined the term "American Dream" gave the last word of his book to a young immigrant girl & said the main lesson of his day was that people who'd amassed great wealth were not "the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound a sane philosophy of life."

“As it turns out, Todd actually agrees more with his fiercest critics, who say he’s disguising violent revolution in a cute costume, than he does with his biggest fans, who admire his puncturing of authoritarian self-importance. But powerful art rarely stays within the control of its creators.”

Heartbroken to hear about the passing of amazing Howie Klein - founder of the progressive blog @downwithtyranny.bsky.social. He was a brilliant blogger (from OG netroots) who made his mark as a big time music exec. Most importantly he was a kind human & a good friend. Rest in power Howie.

A Swedish Answer to Labor’s $8 Trillion Question onlabor.org/a-swedish-an...

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...