Boston’s brutalist cCity Hall is a shocking sight just steps away from the Old State House and Faneuil Hall. Its meaning, to the people who pass by on the street, has changed as well.

Sure, you can’t get an abortion and the minimum wage is $7, but you’ll save 20 cents on eggs.

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

I wonder if he will quietly vanish from public life or let this wound fester for a couple years before he joins the canceled rehab tour on Fox?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

The news last night that a faction of Democrats in the Senate had agreed to end the shutdown was a gut punch, but it underscores a point I’ve been considering for the past few weeks: for totally different reasons, I don’t think either party is going to survive the second Trump administration intact.

Shaheen is retiring; Virginia is solid enough Blue territory that Kaine shld be replaced by a Democrat who is serious about preserving American democracy.

Politics is the acquisition and exercise of power. A lot of elite Dems somehow do not get this.

The news last night that a faction of Democrats in the Senate had agreed to end the shutdown was a gut punch, but it underscores a point I’ve been considering for the past few weeks: for totally different reasons, I don’t think either party is going to survive the second Trump administration intact.

The Dems absolutely do neg get how to use power or why the voters hate them. Talk about a giant sucking sound. We had a good run.

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Politico: “New York is quietly preparing for a Donald Trump takeover of the country’s largest city… Gov. Kathy Hochul has devised a virtual war room & convened a series of conversations with law enforcement, business officials and activist groups to stop or at least mitigate any federal incursion.”

Absolutely amazing (in a good way).

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

Two days after the election, we seem to have settled into the confirmation-bias phase of analysis. Whatever your priors going in, you will, with 48 hours’ reflection, come to see that the results prove your vision of politics.

Last night, Democrats crushed the GOP in a way that can only be seen as a rebuke of Trump’s lawless overreach. Excellent news! But it also makes the next year even more dangerous for democracy.

Imagine how much better Democrats would have done last night if they'd folded on the shutdown.

Last night, Democrats crushed the GOP in a way that can only be seen as a rebuke of Trump’s lawless overreach. Excellent news! But it also makes the next year even more dangerous for democracy.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

Dems are very excited today because they are likely to win some high-profile victories NYC, NJ, and VA. I think things may be dicier than they imagine (especially in the NJ gov's race), but we'll see. But if they are successful, it will not be the awesome victory they expect. 1/2

Obama: “as for the president, he’s been focused on critical issues like paving over the rose garden so folks don't get mud on their shoes, & gold plating the Oval Office & building a $300M ballroom So Virginia, here's the good news. If you can't visit a doctor, don't worry, he will save you a dance”

When the leadoff man got on, they needed to bench Ohtani. Paid the price there.

Thanks to the federal government shutdown, 42 million hungry Americans will receive no or reduced SNAP benefits. This is not a funding crisis, though—it’s a political crisis.

The vast majority of Americans think of politics as an activity that happens over there. It’s as if it’s a sordid arena sport conducted by trashy people. Donald Trump, in spandex with a floppy red tie battling scrawny democrats who have to keep pushing their horn-rim glasses back up their noses.

The vast majority of Americans think of politics as an activity that happens over there. It’s as if it’s a sordid arena sport conducted by trashy people. Donald Trump, in spandex with a floppy red tie battling scrawny democrats who have to keep pushing their horn-rim glasses back up their noses.

So they’re bringing in a foreigner? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

More big news: the Senate just passed my bipartisan resolution to end Trump's global tariffs. This is a huge win and shows how unpopular Trump's tariffs really are. Now it's time for Mike Johnson to abandon his 6 week vacation and get this passed in the House.

Chinook salmon have returned to the Klamath River in Oregon after being absent for more than a century. The announcement came roughly a year after the last of four major hydroelectric dams on the river was demolished.

If you slice the population into categories based on age, sex, race, and education, you get 14, and Trump is underwater with 13, half by huge margins. Depending on the poll, more Americans strongly disapprove than approve.

Trump is dominating the national stage and getting almost everything he wants, but at a high cost: most Americans hate what he’s doing.

Umm, because they’re Nazis? 🤔

It’s always interesting to watch people around Trump. Like Rubio in this post, they affect a face halfway between a poker player and a tween developing an embarrassment complex about dad.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Not all these issues have the same political salience. Few people are going to get riled up about foreign policy. But the three issues on which Trump is massively underwater are also three of the most salient issues to voters.

Probably the best photograph I’ve ever taken of some ducks.

This would be the biggest scandal of any previous administration and if it gets any notice at all, it will be as a fleeting page 13 story.

Shot: "Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who has already apologized for earlier misogynistic and racially insensitive remarks and [a Nazi tattoo], confirmed that he wrote a series of Reddit posts that include homophobic slurs, anti-LGBTQ jokes, & sexually explicit stories denigrating gay men.”

Things are escalating very quickly, but I think this is the right move.

Imagine Obama doing this. MAGA would literally storm the White House like the Bastille.

Yes!!! Exactly this. And we know from sociological research that people tend to change their views based on the people they're hanging out with, so if you let them hang out in the tent without indulging their bigotry the odds are very good that they'll start rethinking the position

“We have come to expect a dose of political theater in the political branches…. By design of the Founders, the judicial branch stands apart. We rule on facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda.” Judge Susan Graber, in her superb dissent. More:

Some words from Susan Graber, the dissenting judge in the case of Oregon v. Trump, capture the stakes when the rule of law crumbles to accommodate an autocrat.

Donald Trump is renovating the White House the right way. --Ezra Klein

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

Excellent reporting from @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social, a clearheaded analysis of actual conditions and challenges on the ground in Portland (spoiler, not war ravaged or burning). This bit at the bottom also warmed my heart. Kudos to @theguardian.com for co-publishing with @streetroots.bsky.social. ❤️

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