While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test... McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes* Arkansas state house special election. Flip from R to D.

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: “What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

Bret Baier on a call he just had with Trump: "He said there is a plan. He points to Venezuela as a template."

important point from @queenmab.bsky.social's article: Texas's abortion bounty hunter law didn't stay an abortion bounty hunter law, or stay in Texas Kansas's new anti-trans law lets randos sue people they suspect of using a public bathroom designated for the "opposite sex" for $1,000

That story is now live:

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Did you know Epstein was involved in the rise of crypto? Check out this short for a brief overview. #crypto #epsteinfiles #bitcoin #coinbase #lutnick #bannon #trump #epstein

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

They came here to flee war. Now these same people are hearing & hearing about explosions in a place they came to be safe. They—we—want peace. Every civilian from Israel to Iran, and everywhere in between & beyond, deserves empathy. I’ve seen far too many heartless reactions already.

I think it's once again worth reviewing Trump's serious psychiatric disorders and how they relate to the performance of the duties of his office this morning.

I’ve been talking about this for over a year and now time is up. This is the Trump administration’s final ploy to seize elections to avoid accountability over the files. How we respond now determines if we are a free nation moving forward. #deconstruction #exvangelical #news #currentevents

@jerseyvindicator.bsky.social reports that the Roxbury, N.J. site sold for $129.3M. ICE now has 32,500 detention beds in 9 sites. With the Roxbury figures, we know that the U.S. government has spent nearly $827M on warehouses. Water use to the site is capped at 11.7K GPD — estimated use: 216K GPD

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Apparently it’s just fine to post an AI picture of our only black president and his wife as apes for the world to see. But, not fine for anyone to declare black people are not apes in front of the POS who posted the picture. Got it.

NEW: Federal judges say many courthouses are plagued by falling concrete, tainted water & erratic elevators. They blame DOGE-inspired cuts at GSA & ask Congress to shunt it aside www.politico.com/live-updates...

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Things Mike Johnson hasn't called "detestable": - DOJ covering up the Epstein files - Stripping millions of Americans of their health insurance - Trump’s masked ICE agents killing people on our streets So, forgive us if we don't give a damn. See you on the Mall at 8.

I like my presidents well rested, coherent, and surrounded by experts who are willing to say when something is wrong.

Senator @CoryBooker’s decision to help confirm Kushner’s criminal father is aging about as well as expected — he was just banned from their government after failing to show up when summoned for meddling in their domestic affairs

BREAKING: Peter Mendelson arrested #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

It's exploitative. It's corporate from beginning to end. It's about increasing profits not democratising art. It's theft. It's wasteful. It's lazy. It's beloved by eugenicist, white supremacist billionaires and cynical authoritarians. It's here.

DHS will suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry as shutdown continues www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/... This is nothing but politics. Suspending these paid services won't significantly reduce the number of TSA personnel required at airports. But it will lengthen the lines at TSA check points.

ICE killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen—and you likely haven’t heard about it because DHS has been covering it up for nearly a year. My heart breaks for his family, who deserve immediate answers and an independent investigation into his death. ICE will be held accountable.

The President of the United States still doesn’t understand what “no means no” means.

This is what they have ALWAYS been about! #deconstruction #exvangelical #currentevents #news

Saturday's Signs of Solidarity! Over 125 Mainers were at Monument Square today - showing up DOES matter! Thanks as always to Nancy A. for capturing the power and artistry in the signs displayed. — at Monument Square, Portland, Maine

Holy cow! These amounts are insane!

Unilateral tariffs ruled illegal. Millions of Americans struggling to get by. Epstein Survivors waiting for justice. A President threatening war with Iran. What are Republicans running next week? Two home appliance bills repealing energy efficiency standards. That is the state of our union.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

youtube.com/shorts/CpDNB... For anyone new to The Korean Vegan/Joanne Lee Molinaro, she is a lawyer as well as cookbook author, and here she is discussing the SAVE act and some of the basics about how it could disenfranchise millions of people. #saveact #vote #realid

As we will soon see, FBI counterintelligence agents quickly identified Drokova as one of a large number of key RIS ties to Epstein who enmeshed him in US RIS operations. US media have been exceptionally dim-witted about this.

We all know that Trump explodes any time someone mentions Epstein So you have to think that all the information coming out which repeatedly ties Lutnick to the sex trafficker will ultimately force him to leave the cabinet, one way or another

It’s a morning for the WH to hide the ketchup bottles: Bad GDP numbers. Not great inflation numbers. Tariffs overturned by SCOTUS.

Gonna be really interesting to see what happens with the markets now that SCOTUS has shot down Trump’s entire tariff bullying plan.

So… not a hoax then?

"Of people booked into ICE custody since October 1, 2025, 73 percent had no criminal conviction, and only 8 percent had a violent or property criminal conviction." You would not know that if you listen to Tricia McLaughlin. That and other lies:

The fact that the way England treats its disciplines its monarchy is being used as a positive example shows how desperately the US is broken. The monarch are untouchable - and still were here

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

The ‘Streisand effect' strikes again. The Late Show interview with James Talarico, which CBS kept from airing fearing the FCC, has 5.4 million views on YouTube. On a typical night about 2 million people tune in to watch Stephen Colbert. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Proud of Mainers! Maine in the top 10 most rallies, actions and events of 2025. Substack columnist K. Starling, in collaboration with Harvard's Ash Center Crowd Counting Consortium documented progressive actions beginning in April last year. Maine scored in the top 10 with 1798 confirmed events.

This story is not surprising to a lot of us but also hugely important, especially for 🔭 because this is who the space sciences are being handed to 🧪 "Musk’s posts repeatedly echoed prominent white supremacist narratives and ideologies"

Everything is for sale.

I just heard someone say on TV that use of the term "concentration camps" to describe ICE facilities was "very strong language." I think ICE's concentration camps are very strong abuses of human rights.