Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular. Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

A Klan rally without the hoods.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

Trump's trollsuits are all garbage. Any company that settles is *choosing* to pay a bribe. When media outlets fight, they win. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cnn-...

Judge Nachmanoff shut Halligan down after she tried to defend it, and Comey’s attorney declared, “There is no indictment.” With the statute of limitations now expired, the entire case may have just collapsed. 2/2

California Voters Approve Measure to Offset Damage of Trump’s Red-State Gerrymandering Blitz talkingpointsmemo.com/news/califor...

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

“The use of force that I’ve seen has been exemplary — the least amount of force necessary to accomplish the mission,” Bovino told @cbsnews.com Friday. “If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them. Don’t protest and don’t trespass.”

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Third batch of documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, and Prince Andrew.

Ezra Klein, watch this.

Looking forward to the federal takeover of Tusla, Oklahoma's police department. More in tomorrow's Popular Information. popular.info/subscribe

At least three people died in a mass shooting in a Target parking lot in Austin on Monday. The suspect has a "mental health" and criminal history, local authorities said. Texans may want to know why their GOP leaders just banned a proven legal tool for preventing this www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/u...

The man who attacked the CDC fired more than 180 shots into the campus

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

I am so used to former President Obama not commenting on President Trump’s statements and social media posts that I was shocked to see his spokesman issue this statement:

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

You did this, Susan Collins. #mepolitics

Abolish ICE remains the correct position. Those who called for it in 2018 showed great foresight. Here’s a reminder how The Washington Post treated it. This is how legacy media treats good ideas from the left—with scorn and dismissal to build consent for the status quo.

HANDS OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS. Senate Republicans and their big oil donors are trying to sneak language into the Big Beautiful Bill (for Billionaires) that would sell off millions of acres of public lands. Tell your senators to keep their hands off public lands!

Four Democratic members of Congress from Illinois, Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez, and Jonathan Jackson, were denied entry to an ICE facility in Broadview, just outside Chicago, despite federal policy allowing them access without prior notice.

Senator Ted Cruz 2013 on Obama attacking Syria: "The residual presidential authority to act militarily in the absence of a declaration of war is based on an imminent, direct threat to the United States." "[Acting] would be contrary to the Constitution" Senator Cruz 2025 on Trump attacking Iran:

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

impacts on Alaska’s glaciers; defunding watershed protection efforts nationwide; and canceling a $220,000 project to safeguard the ancient Native American campus mounds at Louisiana State University. For perspective, one of Trump’s golf weekends costs more than all of this combined.

hate to break this to you but ...

If Paramount pays Trump a bribe to leave them alone, let your reaction be known in the only way Paramount cares about: Cancel your subscription.

"Paramount Set to Pay Mobster After Shakedown for Protection Money."

subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius. www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans believed in states’ rights www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

its crazy watching the president openly brag about using the presidency to extort law firms into working pro bono on the post-presidency legal defense he thinks he'll need when he's out of office

If you’re wondering where your 401k money went, it’s in Trump family pockets now. #TrumpTake401k

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to **$1.3 million** for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen

So you want… more ghg emissions? kcra.com/article/trum...

Take my tariffs out of your margins. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen... "He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...