Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

It’s so fucking infantilizing to be told over and over about ignoring bait, like we’re all chomping at the bit for a fight or something What I wouldn’t give for just a single elected to have our back instead of this shit that implies we are some unruly mob in need of constant checking

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

Honestly, I think a desire to punish Walz for offering an alternate model of masculinity is driving a nonzero percentage of this atrocity.

ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.

If you’ve never heard of Lidice, please read this: english.radio.cz/81-years-lid...

someone's gotta go in and tighten the gyre. we can't be having all this widening, it's not sustainable

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

So just to recap: ICE killed someone in Minneapolis today. It is, so far, the city's only murder of 2026. ICE also harassed people at local daycare centers and a high school The president and cabinet members then spread clear, horrifying lies about the victim, the events, and the city in general

very ready for the Nuremberg Trials to start

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

“In an ideal world, I would have liked to see Donald Trump's presidency annulled: his every act as president made null and void, as if it had never happened.” www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Hey Montanans who voted for Trump/Daines/Sheehy/Downey/Zinke: remember that they’ve all systematically been breaking the USPS for all of us, and sometimes our mail goes out of state to deliver to our neighbors. Fucking unreal.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Big news out of Montana: Dr. Thomas Weiner has lost his license and will never practice medicine there again as the medical board finally responds to reports that he hurt and mistreated people. They noted Scott Warwick, who got 10 years of chemo etc, died from it, but never had cancer. Context 👇

ATTACKED www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...

I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.

Hell yes. Say no.

Bill Clinton is an avatar for the old neoliberal establishment. He’s rotten & so are they. The Epstein Class’s time is coming to an end. Both sides, everyone, is gonna have to reckon with this. Get on board with taking them down & fixing our country or get out of the way.

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC, the dedicated Trump administration operatives who help cover up his vicious sex crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Special MAGA Propaganda Unit. These are their stories."

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Man I remember Malheur so well. Such a clear signal of what was to come. Some of the most privileged & entitled white men in the f'ing world engaging in open lawlessness in the name of their own imagined victimhood ... ... and getting away with it. That's the true American template.

This story will fuck you up and it should

every trans kid brings more value to the world than any chickenshit politician willing to sacrifice them for political points

Call this what it is: A fascist power play to viciously curtail freedoms in the heart of the free world. If the administration is able to do this, nobody is safe. Not you. Not your loved ones. Nobody.

I’m trying not to be mad about institutional conservatives breaking with Trump over saying hateful things about Rob Reiner but not over pepper spraying babies at Sam’s Club

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

It says a lot about our political media environment that Democrats are called upon to defend things they never said and Republicans are allowed to emerge unscathed for things they're literally recorded saying.

I had a holler about that terrible ~ family estrangement crisis ~ piece in the NYT

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Another great thing about the iOS update is that my texts are being consistently autocorrected from “the weekend” to “The Weeknd” as if I am making plans with just this one famous musician on the regular instead of, you know, discussing a specific time of the week

🎶 if he’ll drive you to the crime then he’s a fed. If he’ll drive you to the crime then he’s a fed. If he’ll drive you to the crime, then you’re gonna do the time. If he’ll drive you to the crime then he’s a fed.”

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

This entire weekend

ICE snatched a human rights hero. Guan Heng risked his life to capture video of Uyghur concentration camps. After escaping to the U.S., Guan was in hiding for years, not knowing his work had been crucial to substantiating China's mass detention practices. On Monday, he has an asylum hearing in NY.

For @prospect.org, I wrote about SINNERS as the movie of 2025 (not necessarily the best, but certainly the one that best fused popularity and acclaim) and why Hollywood treated its success like a threat. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

Yeah, because what I most want after I’ve run in a panic to a gate a mile away is to do some pull ups

I love these snapshots of old training dates, it's about as close as you can get to proving objectively that something is very very wrong with the country. The machine built by feeding it decades of data and news stories is like "shut the fuck up, that shit can't be true." Immune to frog boiling.