There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

The Trump admin keeps insisting that a lot of the accusations in the Epstein Files were baseless, and surely some were. But the FBI held FOUR different interviews with one of Trump's accusers and then SIX more with another accuser, which suggests the agents thought *these* women were on the level.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

We don’t need constitutional amendments or decades to undo the destruction caused by an openly corrupt, bribe-taking, illegitimate Supreme Court. We need sustained public pressure on this regime’s opponents to undertake realistic & plausible solutions that meet the moment.

Proud to have co-authored this piece for the PMs last week exploring how the ultra-rich have created a system that gives them the means to commit these crimes in the first place and then to evade punishment, rewards peer silence w/more wealth + creates a desperate underclass ripe for exploitation-1

Did it start with Kavanaugh? I can’t remember if there were others before him—he’s the one who made a big impression on me! But all of these scumbags have clearly learned this is a winning strategy for navigating Trumpworld.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Concentration camps

Epstiarchy (n.) — a corrupt system of rule in which oligarchs maintain power through extreme wealth, mutual protection, and the capture or abuse of legal and political institutions; marked by egregious crimes that are widely known yet go unpunished. Syn: The Epstein Class; Oligarchs of the Island

After a generation of one side relentlessly using all of its power to shape the ideological composition of the federal courts, and the other side straining to show everyone how noble they are—fair and measured and eager to bind themselves by the norms of the past—you get this.

“Partisanship is inherent and permissible in the legislative districting process” — Ted Cruz in September, in an amicus brief supporting the Texas gerrymander. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local institutions honest.

In related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I have often found the opposite to be true: the laziest, least informed people revert to “both sides are bad” because it lets them seem sophisticated while requiring them to know nothing and stand by nothing.

Won't someone think of the billionaires??? @taxgreed.bsky.social www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Also: Billionaires quite literally will not save us.

We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.

I have nothing to add to this

Look, I’m not saying we should do this, but it’s definitely time for creative problem solving

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho... This is an excellent article by @vermontgmg.bsky.social — it explains what ICE is, how it’s changed (and what was always there).

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

They're murdering innocent Americans trying to practice their constitutional rights. Why? Because this regime has decided it's in the business of killing innocent Americans and then smearing their corpses. That's the whole story.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

/6 Watch, as this unfolds, two key things: (1) how blatantly the Gestapo will lie, and demand that you ignore what you can see plainly, and (2) how uselessly, how pathetically, how impotently the media will treat those lies and dither at this murder, craven publicists to evil.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

If our administration is as racist as the Left claims, then why have the past two civilians we've murdered been white? by J.D. Vance

It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.

We’ve had Snowmaggedon and Snowpocalypse. This one is ❄️ DYSNOWPIA ❄️ What do you say @capitalweather.bsky.social????

However, by expanding transfer authority, the agreement would give the Trump administration greater flexibility in using the appropriated funds and potentially allow it to paper over the severity of the cuts in the near term, even as the cuts set the IRS up to fail in future administrations.

It rescinds more than half of the Inflation Reduction Act funds remaining, and at current spending rates the remainder would almost certainly be exhausted during the current administration.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

I'm qtd in @cadystanton.bsky.social Tax Notes piece on proposed IRS cuts in the bipartisan FSGG bill “[G]iven how deeply the IRS has been cut already, no one who wants a functional agency should be patting themselves on the back right now,” Christopherson said. www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

Good piece defending Fed independence by Jason Furman, until the deep denial seemingly required in elite discourse. Trump and the GOP have pursued higher prices, lower employment, and a less stable economy, valuing corruption most. Why assume that’s all an accident, rather than revealed preference?

Maybe society should put up guardrails around the suicide whisperer, I’m saying. Maybe we _don’t_ need the self-annihilation intelligent assistant chatbot.

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do? Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious. And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.

This is just monstrous ... www.axios.com/newsletters/...

From a 2014 post on Ottoman coin collecting. And DAMN I not need that unexpected gut punch on this sleepy vacation morning. ottomanandturkishcoins.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/a...

The public has supported raising taxes on the ultrarich and corporations for years, but policymakers have failed to act. → Raising taxes on the rich makes good economic and political sense. EPI’s latest report from @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social 1/

“There are some stories where there are no winners—only losers. This is one of those stories.”