Netanyahu is a war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but the only references to Netanyahu in the Epstein files are emails sent exchanging articles about him, or others discussing him. I think it's very bad that the most popular left-wing streamer on the internet is a raging antisemite.

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now. It's harrowing stuff: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Apropos of that Trump video — there is a reason why, when researching my book, I came to believe that Barack Obama's election was the moment when America's democratic crisis began. It set off a racial backlash to civil rights that has been the defining force in our politics since.

i feel like american political elites are completely unprepared to tackle with tangibel threats to their democracy beyond "shaming random people for being too to win wisconsin" because they don't actually think democracy itself could disappear. in brazil and south korea they do believe it.

A story relevant to ICE election threats. On Election Day 2022 in Brazil, the Bolsonaro government had Federal Highway Police place roadblocks in his opponent Lula's northeastern strongholds. But courts intervened; Lula won. The highway police chief is now serving a 24 years prison sentence.

Excellent @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social piece on how the murder of Charlie Kirk set off a right-wing civil war over whether it's okay to hate Jews www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The bloodbath at the Post is the worst day in US media in quite some time. Hundreds of talented journalists laid off because a billionaire wants to curry favor with an authoritarian president.

This is the essential problem in media now: the economics are absolutely brutal, and there's only room for one New York Times. Other great publications shrink, specialize, or source their funding to a billionaire — and we're getting a brutal object lesson in the dangers of that last option today.

There's something uniquely disgusting about Elon, the man who has done more than any other human alive to immiserate the world's poorest, claiming to want to end poverty

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

So Yoram Hazony claimed that Tucker Carlson wasn’t an antisemite because there was no “15 minute explainer video” proving that he was. Except *his own team* had made exactly that video (runtime: 14 minutes, 57 seconds). And he buried it www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @vox.com's @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @npr.org's @cgrisales.bsky.social about the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis and the guardrails that could keep our democracy safe. ❓What do you think is the administration's endgame? 📻 Listen:

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Political scientists see non-violent resistance as much more effective--and it's not just from aggregate statistics. Rather, it's the way that peaceful resistance undermines the state's repressive capacities. This op-ed by Berkeley prof @owasow.bsky.social explains this logic 🎯. Give it a read!

Every future interview with Stephen Miller should begin and end with asking him to apologize for smearing Alex Pretti as a domestic terrorist

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Bovino's resignation is not a minor defeat for the administration. It is proof that they cannot escalate indefinitely, that they are still constrained by opposition activism and public opinion. These constraints will make it very hard for them to consolidate an authoritarian regime. They're losing.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the unbearable hypocrisy of pious Second Amendment defenders saying Alex Pretti deserved to die because he had a gun www.vox.com/politics/476...

Oh my god she admit it

This is a must read

I think this is basically correct - they are failing and flailing and very unlikely to succeed at consolidation through violent repression but they are doing and will continue to do an enormous amount of damage as they try

Really good piece. This is not a particularly promising path for authoritarian consolidation, but the ride until they are out of power is looking bloodier and more traumatic by the day.

"So it’s not only that federal agents kill an American citizen like authoritarian thugs, but their superiors in Washington justified that killing with the kind of bald-faced lie that recalls Tehran and Moscow." Trump is an authoritarian regime, but increasingly more like the on in Iran than Hungary.

Trump’s authoritarianism is becoming less subtle — and more vicious, writes @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social.

This is a clarifying moment: one that reveals the particularly vicious form of authoritarianism taking root in America today www.vox.com/policy/47639...

This is a moment when we will find out who is willing to call out obvious lies - and who is willing to let themselves by duped by them

Alex Pretti was a nurse who tried to help a woman attacked by a federal officer. They killed him for it.

We have just witnessed state security services execute a protestor in cold blood. If they can get away with it, we have entered a new, exceptionally dangerous stage in America’s authoritarian slide.

No word for this other than murder www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Nixon tried to deport John Lennon to punish him for anti-Vietnam war activism

First Trump's tariffs tipped the Canadian and Australian elections to the center-left parties. Then his interference in Brazil flipped Lula's numbers, and Greenland threats revived the Danish left — both ahead of 2026 elections. Trump is the international left's best friend.

Next book project. Extremely excited.

This is really good, and the writing is lovely. "The very term racial profiling has come to seem precious, carrying as it does the memory of a time when people in power would deny doing it."

There's also been a shift in character in activism. In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact. In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.

One tweet that illustrates why the entire Republican party caved to Trump: they just hate Democrats that much

A lot of overlap with the Jewish social justice tradition, as both are very fond of the Old Testament prophets. To illustrate twhy, I picked a passage from Isaiah *at random*:

Biggest cultural events of the past year in film (Sinners), TV (Heated Rivalry) and streaming (Kpop Demon Hunters) were actually...all very good? 2025 was shitty year for humanity but a pretty decent year in pop culture.

When one says "this is un-American," it's less history than a normative exhortation. You're saying "this violates the principles America claims to stand for, and should stand for in a just world." It's not erasing the evils of slavery or Native genocide: it's calling the country to account.

People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.

5 year old at bedtime: “You‘re the best dad ever. I hope you never die. But you will.”

Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name

I've reported on this kind of thing happening before — in Hungary

And you can't read this without recalling what he did demand: negotiations over the U.S. "acquiring" Greenland, which Europe/world cannot enter into because it implies it's for sale. The only thing that's negotiable is U.S. military access. So there is NO diplomatic track to "get" Greenland.

Here is the full transcript of Trump saying he isn't planning to use force in Greenland. What stands out to me is the incoherence of his comments: there are so many internal contradictions in this short passage that it's hard to treat as a credible renunciation of violence.

Yes, this is my overwhelming impression listening to it. He repeatedly demanded full ownership of Greenland, and made an explicit threat to punish the Europeans if they don't give in. He then threatened to punish Canada over its prime minister's speech!

I listened to the same speech and this was not my understanding of what Trump said. He didn't permanently rule out force, he just said he wasn't planning on it now and thus left it open as a threat

The defining line of Trump's speech: “what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing.” He really has no idea what he's destroying.