if you took my advice last year and bought used leather pants, wore those leather pants, and then resold them on eBay, you would have made more money than if you invested in bitcoin

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Let the Republicans shut down airport security and disaster response for the sake of letting ICE hoodlums continue to wear masks. Let them do it.

Framing here: I personally would say "Republicans stymie" rather than "Democrats fail":

President Trump has made $4 billion since his second inauguration. And now, he's suing the Treasury Department and IRS for $10 billion more in "damages." So we're filing a brief urging the court to reject President Trump’s scheme and protect taxpayers.

Name them shame them

This goes to my longstanding soapbox: everything is a disability policy from housing to health care to urban planning to mass transit.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

It’s so CRAZY to me that the UK is mobilizing criminal charges against everybody they can within the law for the Epstein files. And over here in the US? Nothing. It is FULL mask-off white supremacy driven authoritarianism. Laws are for the poor.

‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: ‘Mine, Baby, Mine!’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

my two asks for electeds (reasonable ones, imo): 1) what can you demand in this current budget fight to free the hundreds of kids in DHS concentration camps? 2) will you pledge to dismantle DHS, abolish the paramilitaries, and close the concentration camps for good, once democrats are in power?

the current crop of NHGOP lawmakers have declared public education enemy number one, and they've got a reliable ally in Gov Ayotte

Trump said he doesn't want homes to be affordable, he said the goal is to keep home prices high. I just watched his press conference. He only cares about the other people who were with him at Epsteins, nobody else.

ME "so he's knocking down the Kennedy Center" "because nobody wants to go there with his name on it?" "yeah" "so fucking stupid" "so fucking stupid, but I 70 percent believe we got knocked off the timeline with ... what do I believe?" "the Large Hadron Collider, CERN" "yeah the Large Hadron what?"

When the people who make “cool” hate you and refuse to entertain you, and the entertainers who like you are decidedly not cool, you just shut the whole thing down.

1/x 🧵 ICE has booked at least 3,800 children + (Drawing by a 5-year-old detained in Texas with her mother. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” You don't have to know your Bible to hear myriad echoes here, but phew, those too.)

Police never had a problem identifying themselves until Trump started using them to terrorize Americans.

The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they’re all like D+40

This whole thread is exactly how I feel. I want to talk about housing policy and multimodal transportation not …. this.

Today’s Senate vote is an important first step toward unifying Democrats against the escalating violence carried out by ICE and Border Patrol in our communities. Republicans don’t have the votes to jam through this toxic DHS bill.

If DeWine supports Haitians in Ohio, it’s time for him to consult his god, understand he will never be president but he can be defender of free people and America in a way most presidents will never be, and do everything in his power to keep the ravenous monsters who run his party out of his state

"We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations." Who knows why, but Jimmy Carter's letter on the Voyager Golden Record started doing numbers on tumblr tonight

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

" Nobody sane thinks today that the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."

People are going to shit on anything Dems do. But depending on the details “end roving patrols” could be humongous. Based on earlier reporting that may mean Border Patrol can’t send agents all around the country. In Chicago & MN Border Patrol caused more mayhem & violence than ICE did. Numbers… /1

In New Hampshire, every bill that comes before the legislature has an open committee hearing where anyone can show up and testify. That's something you can do if donating or signing isn't enough!

The Trump administration is cosplaying the occupying army that committed the Boston Massacre—and is acting notably MORE belligerent than the British after that shooting! A history lesson from Harold Meyerson: prospect.org/2026/01/27/n...

it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat

There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

Of course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months. He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.

We raised all the men out there, good and bad. We changed their diapers. We fed them with our bodies. We gave them life and kept them alive until adulthood. We have spent exponentially more time observing them than they have us because they take our presence for granted. We are not afraid.

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem think you will believe them over your own eyes. No. Alex Pretti wasn't a terrorist. He was a VA nurse. When agents pushed a woman to the ground, he tried to help her up. His last words were “Are you okay?” Enough. Kristi Noem should resign.

Chuck Schumer's starting position should be as maximalist as possible -- complete abolition of ICE, resignations of Bovino, Homan, Noem and Miller, unmasking of all agents, and prosecution by state authorities of the murderers. Don't start with what looks like a compromise half-measure.

What kind of city do we want to live in? Paris is at the forefront of urban transformation to make the city more people-friendly. This approach improves quality of life and is a valuable asset.

I interviewed two of the mods of r/Minneapolis about their tireless work this month: “I just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, we’ve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism.” www.wired.com/story/reddit...

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

For nine straight years, Hoboken, New Jersey hasn’t seen a single fatal crash. Here’s how they did it. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-city-where-traffic-fatalities-vanished/

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

It is ok not to watch the videos. It is ok not to watch them again and again. If you do watch, research shows that playing a game like tetris can short circuit the trauma response of intrusive memories. We all need to stay as strong as possible. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/vide...

If Democrats really want to have a big tent party that can win in 2028, they will have to make room for people who support having masked secret police indiscriminately murder American citizens.

There has been a lot of warranted discourse about California's pro-housing laws underperforming, but in cities where YIMBYs have won local elections and implemented in good faith, the last 10 years have seen an absolute sea change in permitting.

1. ICE and CBP leave Minneapolis and stops terrorizing American cities; 2. We get a full, independent investigation into the killings; 3. No more detaining and deporting U.S. Citizens; 4. The masks come off; 5. The mass arrest quotas and warrantless arrests end.

Reminder of a great resource for ways to support Minnesota www.standwithminnesota.com

The best part about my country has always been everyday Americans living their values according to what this place *could* be. It is so beautiful to live aspirationally, b/c we know the truth, and we know how far we have to go. To resist is to live+act as a citizen in a better time, even if not now.

Defendants in the ongoing DOJ voter rolls litigation (including MN as such plus some already granted intervenors) should file this letter immediately along with a motion for applicable sanctions and also asking for a criminal referral.

I prefer my lawlessness eradicated rather than merely reined in, but maybe that's just me.