Your regular reminder that Gavin Newsom is neither a fighter nor a Democrat nor an original thinker. Praising Reagan is Pelosi’s thing.

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

How I feel about AI

The most compelling case that Epstein was murdered is there’s no way a guy that wired into world power didn’t think he was going to get away with it again.

93% want to raise taxes on the rich. "74% think the label of 'socialist' either doesn't matter or is a plus." It's like I keep saying: Average Democrats are bucking the party's centrist quisling leadership. We're all Berniecrats now.

Liberals say that Trump's plan to steal the 2026 election undermines our democracy. They're wrong—Trump's plan to steal the 2026 election undermines our republic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: One of the biggest reasons the right wing couldn't make Charlie Kirk stick as their Reichstag fire is that none of them, including his own widow, actually and sincerely gave a fuck he died

Yup. As with conservatives, every centrist accusation is actually a confession. They’ve been using that “driving away people like me” rhetoric forever because they’ve been voting GOP all this time

Analilia Mejia was doing ICE Watch trainings at her campaign events. She was preparing future constituents for encounters with immigration agents. And she won. In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, one of her big priorities: end ICE's mass surveillance. prospect.org/2026/02/11/p...

“The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it.” ~Carter G. Woodson, father of #BHM

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said. (Published Dec. 2025)

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

So wait, my dad has a bunch of ancestors, and then I have *all* of those ancestors, plus a whole other set? And my kids have all of those plus a whole other set? And it just keeps going like this? Folks, I’m sorry but this is a Ponzi scheme.

"Beers on me when I see you at training" Yeah more training ain't gonna fix this human rights violating mess. Abolish ICE. Shatter it into a thousand pieces and scatter them into the wind.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. We must not fund ICE. The Constitution gave Congress the power of the purse. Congress must use that power aggressively and fearlessly if our country is to survive.

Imagine having your whole crimes against humanity impunity ride on the health of an unpopular near 80 year old in the throes of obvious cognitive decline and possibly vicious incontinence.

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

i’ve had cats so long that people i like think they’re boring me because of my slow blinking

Somebody check on Tom Friedman to see if he's okay

Dear Marieke Cumin Smoked Gouda, Kroger stopped carrying you long ago, but I'll always remember you.

“OUR city isn’t [insert name of a much more livable & successful city here].” Trust me, we know that. It’s abundantly obvious that you’re not that city. That city made, and continues to make, much better choices with fewer excuses. The real question is, do you want YOUR city to be better or not?

Spotted Captain America while rewatching "The Good Place."

Inject this into my veins

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

This is why I can't understand the incrementalism. There's horror shit happening to kids in these places. Horror shit. OK? That has to matter. The longer we wait the longer these kids suffer.

It is not a kind world but I suppose we could make one

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Elie is right. It is always better to be prepared for something that didn't happen than to be unprepared for something that does. How many people that throw around "doomer" also said SCOTUS would never fold on immunity last year? The point is we don't know what's gonna happen. Better to be ready

never forget what they took from you

Please…my apes…

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth

finally, the ICE reform we’ve been waiting for: no masks unless you really want to wear them

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

I will always like seeing birds building nests in lit signage

Many said we were exaggerating a year ago when we argued that Trump is a clear and present danger to our democracy. A year later they are eating their words. It’s up to every single one of us to save our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

MAGA Man tries to beat up high school kids. Emphasis on *tries*. :)

Trump’s DOJ is filing domestic terrorism charges against political opponents.

Work from home in this pre-warp captain's chair

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

would it surprise you to know that the ol’ gray lady published this column back in June and would it further surprise you to know the answer was “yeah why not?”

BARI WEISS: I think it's so telling. Liberals only want to talk about the bad bunny. Whereas rational people like you and me, I think, people who can agree to disagree, we want to talk about the good bunny. BILLIONAIRE CHILD RAPIST: [nodding]

We have returned the Lorax to the Dr. Seuss estate. He was a massive bummer.

Someone outside the US: So, let me get this straight. The groundhog... Me: Is clairvoyant, yes

performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

I once again will reiterate that I wholeheartedly, sincerely, without a single iota of sarcasm support Josh Shapiro running for the Democratic nomination for president on the basis that Biden was too mean to Israel

Both a brilliantly written analysis and a righteous rant to boot. Everybody please read this:

Scalding, amusing, and accurate.

ever wanted to go to jail on a civil case?