We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

Dear @nytimes.com, When you say "gave wrong information," do you mean "lie"? If so, say the word. If not: why not.

Believe it when — and if — you see it.

Hegseth's unconstitutional retaliation against Sen. Kelly was so brazen that an exasperated federal judge used more than a dozen exclamation points! Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!" "That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Clearly, not part of the Epstein Class. Should I have what my mother used to call subpoena envy?

Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators

And if they had they’d have lied about it.

Messenger: [throwing message into the bushes] your excellency we would very much like to not be shot

A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

Weren't GOP senators demanding $500k because the DOJ researched their call records on January 6th?

Many of the obituaries for the late an wildly talented Bud Cort mention his breakout role in Harold and Maude, and thst film’s director, the legendary Hal Ashby. But they forget to cite Colin Higgins. Who wrote it. Without whom: no Harold, no Maude.

I got a call from a man who wanted me to be on his television show to promote my book. All he knew of the book was a clearly-AI generated summary. Also: there was no television show.

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

Welcome to our weekly game, Violent Atrocities or Gross Incompetence? in which we try to decode minimally informative breaking news without scaring the chickens

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

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.

“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.

Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

Yeah we’re gonna need you to be 99.999% less reasonable. Your constituents are being kidnapped in the streets, disappeared, and murdered, the minimum acceptable response is hair on fire rage and the voting record to back it up.

Chuck. Once again: read the room. 76% of Democrats want ICE *gone*. We don’t need you to convince us that you’re “reasonable.” We need you to convince us that you have courage.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

If you think “the only thing more powerful than hate is love” is a partisan polemic directed at you, perhaps there are a few questions you should be asking yourself.

And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

If you think “the only thing more powerful than hate is love” is a partisan polemic directed at you, perhaps there are a few questions you should be asking yourself.

The Epstein Files as the new Social Register.

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

Verne's birthday reminds me... Screenwriter and USC Professor Howard A. Rodman, past president of the Writers Guild of America West, wrote 'The Great Eastern' where Verne's Nemo suffers a second death, assumed to be as provisional as his first. Too few are aware of this amazing novel. Find a copy.

Happy birthday Jules Verne! 🙏 #BOTD French novelist, poet, and playwright. “I dream with my eyes open.” Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth Major French literary figure who he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism.

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump. This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

To every US athlete who makes the podium in Italy: Please take note.

When you’ve lost Luttig…

I am tired of writing posts that essentially serve as obituaries for decency, quality, and merit. I hope we all survive long enough to write obituaries for the other stuff.

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

“I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.” —Pasolini. “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” —Gramsci.

"He's not a godly man, but he's God's man..."