looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

In a way, not surprising at all. Public officials like Dr. Birx (who was actually a respected expert on AIDS before Covid) and Fauci often restrained Trump's impulses and Trump hated it. He believes Covid cost him the election (and it did). His new appointees are a revenge against public health.

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Just about 1.1 million views right now of an interview that nobody was supposed to see.

This kind of is chelation therapy or hyperbaric chambers if you think about it.

Was wondering when they would get around to doing this.

EXCLUSIVE: DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, one of the most vocal defenders of Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, is stepping down.

thinking about the conversation I had with Jesse Jackson in 2019: "The truth of slavery—that Africans subsidized America’s wealth—that truth will not go away. It’s buried right now, but as each generation becomes much more serious, it will be grappled with." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Surveillance cat is always watching

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Jesse Jackson's 1988 letter to the "Deaf President Now" protesters at Gallaudet University. "The problem is not that the students do not hear. The problem is that the hearing world does not listen." gallaudet.edu/museum/histo...

Jesse Jackson's letter of support for the Americans with Disabilities Act via the Dole Archive: "When the deaf can communicate more freely, through TDD devices, we all benefit from what they have to say." dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/collections/...

Kind of amazing how John McCain is the last Republican to win a Senate race in Arizona.

I thought about this when I saw him at the DNC on the jumbotron. I'm glad Jesse Jackson and John Lewis lived to see Barack Obama. And Jesse got to see the first Black woman presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris doesn't exist without him (or Barbara Jordan).

Another thing to take into account about Jesse Jackson's presidential runs: So many political operatives on every campaign came from his campaigns. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton AND Kamala Harris enlisted Jesse Jackson alum in the presidential campaigns.

Trump, unsurprisingly, makes Jesse Jackson’s death about him, saying “Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always a pleasure to help Jesse along the way.”

C-SPAN thankfully has posted Jesse's whole 1988 speech at the DNC. Seriously. Go back and watch it and tell me you don't hear so much of what you hear now from folks like AOC, Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCA...

Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" namechecks both George H.W. Bush's campaign ("We got a thousand points of light for the homeless man") and Jesse Jackson's campaign ("We got a man of the people says keep hope alive"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvxx...

I was fortunate to meet Jesse on one occasion and when I did, I could feel the weight of history. You could feel the weight of April 4, 1968. You could feel the weight of his revolutionary campaigns for president. www.independent.co.uk/obituaries/j...

LMAO, Trump endorsed Briscoe Cain’s opponent.

I’ve said this before but AOC is one of McBride’s most steadfast supporters in Congress and has defended McBride from so much of the transphobia she faces. I regularly see her go out of her way to say hi to McBride or walk out of votes together.

Seconded. Oftentimes when I sit down to write after researching and interviewing, I don’t know what exactly I am going to write. The process of writing of discovery. It’s learning which parts go together and which don’t. It’s finding the underlying narrative. Relegating it to a machine won’t do that

Finally got around to watching One Battle After Another and it would not surprise me if Leo got the Oscar for Best Lead Actor. Also, as much as I hate to admit it, the Academy is going to give it to OBAA instead of Sinners like it should.

Chip Roy taking a break from yelling about legislation House leadership wants and then folding to vote for it.

One of those pieces you read and you don't even think you can speak. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Look no further than Johnson, who used the power of the presidency to alleviate poverty like he saw in the Hill Country of Texas and teaching poor Mexican kids.... but also escalated Vietnam.

The US economy is slowly just becoming a service sector industry for elderly Americans via @pbump.com www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

A lot of districts along the border voted for a Republican for the first time in a century in 2024 because of the border. Many ICE and CBP officers are Hispanic. But Republicans in South Texas now fear Trump's crackdown on immigrants could cost them the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Everyone seems to hate these things but aren’t they better for the climate and urban traffic than getting stuff delivered by car?

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney is spearheading discussions between the EU and a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc after calling on middle powers to join forces. The aim is to short-circuit Donald Trump’s tariffs. 🔗 politi.co/4ayYnTn

The framing might lead you to believe the 23 Democrats who sent the letter are protecting the industry, but in fact they are trying to protect state regulatory power where the markets are suing and the federal government looks to intervene. Ron Wyden usually is on the right side of these things.

"The problem is that, even now that Trump has proven us skeptics right on every one of those counts, too many libertarians continue to position themselves safely in a “pox on both your houses” perch." via @anthonylfisher.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/libe...

Giannis is such an immigrant dad, I can't hate him even though he plays for the Bucks.

Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined other AGs from 21 states in supporting a lawsuit from Louisiana that challenges a Biden-era rule expanding access to abortion pills by mail and telehealth. abcnews4.com/news/state/a...

🧵: Between this and the Swedish study resulting in that autism rates in girls and boys are largely equal, but girls are STILL misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed, seeing research validate your experiences is a very surreal experience, esp. as an autistic woman.

On this day in 1847, Missouri passed an act that prohibited Black people from learning to read and write and assembling freely for worship services. The act also forbade free Black people from migrating to the state.

New study shows self-identifying autistic adults were similar to diagnosed adults. But they more likely to be women, experienced worse mental well-being, were more likely to experience unmet support needs faced unique barriers to receiving support. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NC's Partisan Stability vs. Independent Uncertainty Ten months before November's election, Catawba-YouGov results show partisans largely settled—while true independents remain the election’s largest zone of uncertainty in North Carolina. #ncpol ncpoliticscenter.substack.com/p/ncs-partis...

That first bride at the beginning is ready to leave her man for the mayor.

Lesbian Heated Rivalry wouldn’t work because they’d all be out and married by the end of the first season/book. www.outsports.com/2026/2/5/241...

This reminds me of how Catherine Lord, speaking for the workgroup for the revision of autism in the DSM-5, said autism includes strengths but they are irrelevant for diagnosis. Yet holistic assessment would strengthen research, understanding, and practice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

YIKES. “Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Thom Tillis still doing the "Good Tsar Bad Boyars." But what does it say about the Tsar if he keeps his boyars around?

This is actually an incredible move: Obama starts by trashing the Indiana Pacers and then admits "nobody terrified me more than Reggie Miller with a possible three point shot at the end of a game." He bookends it by saying Reggie pushed off Michael Jordan.

I wrote about the cowardly lions of corporate America under Trump and their decades-long push to shape the country’s political life and democracy, no matter their protestations to the contrary now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

During her 11 months as the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has wasted millions of dollars and done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters, and to America’s ability to communicate with the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Education Department abruptly canceled a federal program that helped underserved students, affecting programs in 11 states and D.C., because the grantees had mentioned DEI in their applications.

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

Good retort by Matt to AOC’s remarks in Munich.

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?