I'm thrilled to see three friends (and clients) nominated this year: Kevin Young ("Night Watch," Poetry), Amanda Vaill ("Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution," Biography), and Carl Kaplan ("Troublemaker: The Fierce Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford," Biography)!

We have a system set up to prevent this, and we have a party that has set itself up to prevent the system from working.

Wake up folks! It's happening all around! Keep your head on a swivel. Stay alert, stay alive.

Dolly Parton Turns 80 Years Old www.tmz.com/2026/01/19/d...

The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...

I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.

As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, his words from 1961 continue to ring true. His legacy continues to guide us as we demand equality and justice and push for systems that work for ALL, not just the privileged few.

Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Sneako, and Clavicular were all in a night club in Miami singing and dancing to the Kanye song "Heil Hitler" which they requested be played.

🤔 Why do we see so much harmful content online? Because social media algorithms push it to our feeds. Algorithms have a huge impact on how people perceive digital spaces, but they are not designed with safety in mind. Here's all you need to know about how algorithms work & why it matters👇

A nonprofit last year released a damning investigation finding that gig platforms are using algorithmic systems not simply to manage workers but to systematically extract labor while evading legal obligations, yet the response from government has been timid, David Sathuluri writes

Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

WHY are Americans still clueless about these draconian tech cabals that are literally taking over the world? The three of the wealthiest leading this are not even American-born citizens; they became billionaires many times over on our U.S. taxpayer money.

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration

ICE should not be menacing our streets and endangering our neighbors. We stand with Minneapolis today and call on the Trump administration to stop attacking our communities.

'This is already the Putin model: authoritarian rule that enables smash-and-grab oligarchy by those in the regime’s good favor. Trump is making it unusually explicit that in this sphere of influence, Trump-approved oligarchs will be enriched" newrepublic.com/article/2049... via @newrepublic.com

Rick Scott: "This is the start of changing Venezuela, then we're gonna fix Cuba, Nicaragua will get fixed, next year we'll get a new president in Colombia. Democracy is coming back to this hemisphere."

RAJU: You say military action is not gonna happen against Greenland, so it is responsible for the White House to continue to raise the specter of military action? MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not gonna take 1,000 gotcha questions this morning trying to pit me against the White House.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

they're doing it for gender, imo

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.

Trump tells supporters in a new fundraising email that if they don’t donate to him within the next hour, Democrats will steal their "tariff rebate checks" and give them to "illegals," that the country is "boiling over," and that only an immediate cash transfer to him can stop total disaster.

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨 After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner! The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is… 🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...

Love it www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Another opportunity to destroy our Constitution The 14th Amendment As the lower courts have ruled Trump v. Barbara violates our Constitution The Barbara case is from New Hampshire where Federal Judge in July blocked the citizenship order in class action suit by ACLU on behalf of families

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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

It looks like the moratorium on state-level AI regulation is unlikely to make it into the NDAA -- GOOD NEWS! On this issue Americans are UNITED. Contact your elected reps & let them know that you will not tolerate a Trump executive order that shuts down our right to regulate Big Tech & AI! usa.gov

If you read that Mike Pence op-ed last week citing some Founding Fathers about antisemitism and Jews' return to Israel... well, you're going to want to read this from @wthrockmorton.bsky.social (spoiler alert: Pence got some key arguments very wrong). warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/did-the-fo...

Folks in the US: Contact your Rep or Sen TODAY to let them know that we must not have any AI regulation moratorium in the NDAA or ANY legislation. Keep the right to regulate AI in the hands of everyday people! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... #AI #artificialintelligence #technology #digitalrights

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

The truth shows up in bank accounts, not in whatever delusional, all-caps post he puts up about a 'Golden Age.'

When asked on Air Force One if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger at the female reporter's face and said “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

I don’t know why, and I don’t want to make a big hairy deal out it so ICE’s Special Media Prosecutor Division doesn’t notice, but People Magazine has been incredibly straightforward with their Trump headlines when he’s being a weird old asshole. They’re a quiet Facebook behemoth, so this is good.

Here's an edited down version so you can share it on Bluesky (less than 3 minutes) Credit to bsky.app/profile/male... www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DEmg5N/ #ICELawlessness

They’re all just looting the treasury now

The artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after border patrol agents posed for a photo in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago, saying the scene represented “fascist America”.

We will never see eye to eye with republicans on healthcare. It’s because most of us believe healthcare should be a human right, affordable to anyone. They see it as a profit-rich enterprise for big pharma and insurance. This is why any solution they put forward is invariably a non-starter.

More misogynistic bullshit from Bobby Bullshitter

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

Did you know that Oxfam research found that the richest 10 Americans made over $698 billion dollars this past year? This extreme concentration of wealth alongside the hardship of many is no accident. This is what oligarchy looks like. @rebeccariddell.bsky.social  oxf.am/InequalityRe... 

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.