Quite literally the sort of thing Hannah Arendt meant when she expounded upon the concept of 'the banality of evil.'

Then you’ll love this shot

well said, judge.

Unions don't just benefit their members, they are a source of countervailing power against elites who want to control our political economy more generally.

CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social has kept the CFPB alive more than one year after Elon Musk tweeted “RIP CFPB” It’s long past time for Congress to impeach Russell Vought for the damage he’s done across government. An important oped from NTEU 335 President Cat Farman: thehill.com/opinion/fina...

SCOTUS stands up against POTUS on issues where capital opposes POTUS (Fed independence, arbitrary tariffs...). Anywhere else?

a whole lot of folks whose jobs *should* require knowing this would do well to print it out, tape it to the wall next to their desk, and develop a habit of reading it three times a day.

It's genuinely a hard problem in polling to distinguish "this sentiment in the electorate helped drive support to a candidate" and "people's support for a candidate helped drive this sentiment" (and I don't think this obviates the polling's usefulness in highlighting which narratives are at play)

I'm a health reporter at @stateline.org and @statesnewsroom.com. I'm looking for experts and researchers following the effects of #ACA subsidy expiration and #Medicaid coverage loss on chronic illness, specifically #diabetes. DM's are open and open to research links. s chatlani AT stateline dot org

Edsall asked me to quote but mine weren’t included so I’ll poast my response here. Turnout matters, but isn’t mentioned in the piece. It’s not the same group of voters. Also see @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social on how black and white people define “I identify as conservative” differently

ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

The Trump administration has paid $128.5 mn for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, which it now proposes to convert into a concentration camp. Only 2 yers ago, the facility was acquired for $29 mn by a Moscow-based real estate company, PNK.

Yes, this. 👆 Researchers have done studies that show that the other people following the debate gain more (learn more) than the two central “debaters.” So, it’s worth the trouble and heartache, @anamariecox.bsky.social.

AN EXCEPTION, KIND OF: Sometimes, if everyone is being decent, you can find an *area of agreement.* This is different than "winning" a debate. This is just finding out you don't disagree as much as you thought, or that you disagree on the issue but share some values. I love this when it happens.

Today is a good day for Bay Area residents of a certain age to pair the dreary overcast and rain with music by American Music Club and/or Mark Eitzel. sun-13.com/2020/07/02/a...

The vibecession was primarily driven by lower sentiment among the upper and middle classes, not the lower classes.

Because for some people Kamala Harris “wasn’t clicking” for them. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Courage in pushing back against autocracy is inversely related to net assets these days. Thank you, @aaup.org <caveats apply to unverified AI response>

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

2025 construction jobs total increased by only 58,000 jobs, slowest (non-recession) jobs growth in over 30 years. Not out of line with volume of construction business, which was down 5.3%. In fact, jobs should follow business volume, but almost always exceed volume growth.

Jobs report Construction Jan added 33k jobs. revs to 2025 deleted 36k jobs 2025 went from 8299K down to 8264K Still no volume added to support jobs. Jan construct unemploy rate went from 3.8% in Sep to 6.9% in Jan., adds 66k jobs, but total workforce jumped 340k. Rate does this every winter.

DHS using its massive budget keeping Americans safe from the worst of the worst [checks notes...] scratch that... a guy running a great restaurant who used a drug TWO DECADES ago. bsky.app/profile/nath...

If you feel you or people you know need more evidence that DHS agents lie about the circumstances of their assaults on US residents, read this thread.

Probably just a coincidence too: "Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s."

Data center construction is up 18% over the last year, computer investment is up 50%, and investment in software development is up 9%. Combined, annual tech investment has crossed the $1T mark and is now roughly equivalent to 3.5% of US GDP, a record high

How does recent growth compare to recent years? Economy added 0.36 million jobs over 12 months to Jan 2026. Deceleration to slowest outside pandemic in many years.

3/ Prime working age employment population ratio rises to 80.9%, the highest since July 2024.

BLS #jobsreport better than expected for Jan, but confirms much slower 2025 than orig. reported -Payrolls +130k in Jan vs. +48k in Dec -Payroll revisions (-898k for Mar '25 level), in line w/ expectations, bring 2025 job gains down to 181,000 from 584,000 -Unemp down to 4.3% in Jan from 4.4% 1/

RULE VOTE FAILS, 217-214. Three Republicans- Thomas Massie, Kevin Kiley, and Don Bacon - buck the party to allow floor consideration of measures to end Trump's tariffs. The first such measure, likely on Canada tariffs, could come up as soon as tomorrow

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

DC grand jury declines to indict Senators Kelly, Slotkin seditious conspiracy (MS Now broke the story more from CNBC) www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/k...

Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

It took me only 5 minutes to contact my US senators this morning on the way to work. Let them know how you feel about DHS funding and what you'd like them to do.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Harold Meyerson points out that while we have shells of political parties, primary electoral institutions (+ the media environment + freewheeling campaign finance rules) render them mostly powerless to discipline potential candidates.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Good work by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social verbally boiling down the argument that emerges from findings of research conducted with @adambonica.bsky.social soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

This is the person whom DHS claimed had run his own head into a wall multiple times. DHS lies

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.

After a generation of one side relentlessly using all of its power to shape the ideological composition of the federal courts, and the other side straining to show everyone how noble they are—fair and measured and eager to bind themselves by the norms of the past—you get this.

The goal is clear; mass deportations over due process. An order of removal does not become "final" until the Board of Immigration Appeals denies an appeal. After that, ICE can deport the person unless they file ANOTHER appeal to a federal circuit court AND get an emergency stay.

We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota Devastating Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne... 🧵

If you want to get really angry, read this declaration by Kira Kelley’s client. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley, climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira..., who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released

Individual detainees' constitutional rights on the line, discussed in plain language: DHS detains now, searches for a legal authority later, while being slow to respond to court orders due to systems failures & possibly intention (e.g. slowness returning detainees rapidly shipped off to TX).

Good riddance to bad rubbish

I did hear it over Pacifica radio. Did anyone hear it on an @npr.org program? (Asking sincerely)

You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.