fresh audio product: • Stacy Horn @stacyhorn.bsky.social on the damage mortgage fraud did to East New York • David Backer @schooldaves.bsky.social on how we finance schools and how we could do better www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

We live in a grim cartoon: "Netanyahu joins Board of Peace"

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Years ago, a guy who worked for Gallup called me to complain about how a bunch of right-wing Christian fundamentalists ran the place. Guess the news on the Holy Donald is too bad to keep reporting. Because their explanation is bullshit.

Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Becca Rothfeld on the (non-)aesthetics of liberalism thepointmag.com/criticism/li...

That AIPAC magic no longer working. Politico email alert: "Malinowski vowed to oppose any candidate the group “openly or surreptitiously” supports in the June primary for the full term, and called on the Democratic Party to have “nothing to do” with the organization."

Making America Great Again: "The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began…. Americans’ ratings of their current lives have also declined…." news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...

Profound thought of the day, from Ben Shapiro: "America kicks ass." www.city-journal.org/article/ben-...

National security Israeli Court Denies 5-year-old Palestinian Cancer Patient Life-saving Treatment Because of Gaza Address - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

"The whereabouts and condition of Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian who was arrested by ICE last year after participating in pro-Palestinian protests at New York's Columbia University, are unknown after she was hospitalized this weekend…." www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

I took down Andrew Cuomo, now I'm running for City Council to take on the cost of living crisis.

Apparently the world is a better place because we can financialize this question polymarket.com/event/will-j...

lol stay mad

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

New interview with @doughenwood.bsky.social sky.social for the Behind the News podcast about my new book, The Story of Capital. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Today in dystopia

Uh what?

Because billionaires have feelings too. Join the March for Billionaires in San Francisco on Feb 7, 2026 marchforbillionaires.org

@szunes.bsky.social how helpful of you to redbait Michael Parenti for the NYT.

Only half way through, but the Harvey interview is exceptional and looking forward to the new book: www.versobooks.com/products/337...

I know this is only a very partial view but it’s still beautiful

Once again, people are dramatically canceling their Amazon Prime memberships. A reminder that the following companies use Amazon Web Services: 3M Adobe Airbnb BBC BMW Coca-Cola Facebook Instagram J&J LinkedIn Netflix Pinterest Snap Sony Toyota

fresh audio product: • David Harvey @davidharvey.org on his new book, The Story of Capital • excerpt from Mark Carney’s Davos speech • Adam Federman on Trump’s Greenland obsession www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Ouch. The Director of Communications at Yoram Hazony’s Edmund Burke Foundation, which organizes NatCon (the Thiel-backed conference that fueled JD Vance’s political ascendance), has resigned, as explained in this piece that she wrote for Tablet Magazine. 1/29/26… 1/

U.S. Deports Eight Palestinians to West Bank Using Private Jet [owned by a Trump crony] www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

As a part Italian American, I renounce any association with this project apnews.com/article/trum...

It’s interesting that Rupert Murdoch was willing to lose pots of money on The New York Post (though it turned profitable a few years ago) to, among other things, promote right-wing politics. Bezos, who believes in nothing but Bezos, didn’t feel the same about the other Post.

FT's Due Diligence: "Musk has big plans. He said the deal was needed to launch data centres into space, build factories on the moon and colonise Mars." Gil-Scott Heron: "I can't pay no doctor bills But whitey's on the moon Ten years from now I'll be payin' still While whitey's on the moon…"

Yay Tish

It's all here—Trump, crypto, emoluments, hideous excess. Some crypto guys spent $300,000 on a two-story sculpture of our leader. It's going to be installed on a Trump golf course in Florida. They launched a coin off it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...

"Since prison for Epstein’s fellow abusers gets unlikelier over time, America’s deeper question is whether it can restore a culture of shame." - marvellous, marvellous column by @edwardluce.bsky.social:

The MAGAfication of Nicki Minaj www.vanityfair.com/news/story/h...

It’s funny how people speak of Das Kapital, but never Die Traumdeutung.

Walter Rodney, quoted by David Harvey: "one knows that [Marxism] is absurd without reading it and one doesn’t have to read it because one knows it is absurd.”

Now we know.

The eugenics agenda takes several forms.

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

And to think his mother worked for the short-lived left tabloid PM.

I should be used to it but it’s still striking to read this in a @financialtimes.com column: “in an effort to avoid the effects of US institutional degradation” @katie0martin.ft.com www.ft.com/content/cada...

This all makes me very sad.

Huh? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

Warsh isn’t the total hack Hassett is, so this is bad news for “debasement trades”—bets that Trump is undermining the role and value of the dollar. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

And I married into Gen X!