Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

Trump is moving the US backward, while China is moving forward. e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Voter fraud is not a real problem. Our problem isn’t non-citizens illegally voting in our elections. The real problem is American citizens not voting in our elections. And our even bigger problem is voter suppression.

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Glad this is getting covered, but also… Completely surreal to read the NYT report on this as recently disclosed info, and just an allegation. This happened to every observer I know! It happened to me twice! I have it on video both times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

In case you didn't know

This is devastating, and infuriating. www.thebulwark.com/p/kids-arent...

Clinton was impeached for an affair. Nixon resigned over one burglary. Trump has 34 felony convictions and 1 million mentions in the Epstein files. But he's still president??? The system is broken. PUT HIM IN JAIL!!!

Requiring the gov’t to do the right thing may look like a small thing in the context of one case, but it’s important to understand just how big it is. Judge Boasberg rules in the case where the Trump administration sent men to CECOT prison. joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-boas...

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer.

I don't love Newsom, and I sometimes don't even like him... ...and then he goes and makes me so damn proud to be a Californian.

President Stubb: I think you[Ukraine]are winning this war,the reason I say this’s that Putin has failed strategically He wanted to make Ukraine Russian.It became European.He wanted to prevent the enlargement of NATO.He got Finland&Sweden.He wanted to keep our defense expenditure down-going up to 5%

Hanne Engan was deprived of insulin in ICE detention. She has Type 1 diabetes & needs insulin to survive. They deprived her of urgent medical attention & she almost died. This isn't a one off. This administration is torturing immigrants to get them to sign away their rights.🧵 #ICELawlessness

this is something i think most americans aren't talking about. trump's destructionism isn't temporary. it's a roots-and-branches approach. how will we rebuild? how will we protect against the further rise of fascism now that it's been let loose? how will we prove reliability?

Remember when people thought Elon Musk was a genius and a visionary, and...

The Fox News host smirked through his bit about Breezy Johnson, and it went downhill from there.

Why do I persistently feel these two deserve each other?

Even if he says we're not.

Wealthy women with pasdpor5s can use as proof of citizenship if their birth names differs from married name. Poor women generally do not have passports. Class discrimination.

JB Pritzker's chief of staff tells us that people appalled by ICE brutality badly wanted to join the fight. So Pritzker encouraged people to start recording. This takes seriously the role of information warfare in the age of Trump, enlisting ordinary people in it. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2059...

“We really haven’t seen an HHS tenure like this in our lifetimes," says one expert. “He’s completely in over his head at this job, has no experience, no training in areas of health he’s affecting and is causing a lot of harm," says another.

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The other night on Jeopardy, two players were tied going into final. The woman in third made a small wager and her answer was, "I hope they both bet everything." They both did, all three got it wrong, and she won. As if that wasn't already hilarious enough, turns out it was all a master plan!

"I just walked out of DOJ after seeing the unredacted Epstein files." This Trump-run DOJ acts like it has something to hide. When redactions are "extremely unnecessary" & Pam Bondi tracks which members search which files, that's not transparency. That's protection for the powerful. Full disclosure.

The SAVE Act would block millions of American citizens from voting by effectively requiring a passport or birth certificate to register to vote. More than 21 million Americans lack ready access to those documents. Stay informed by subscribing to The Briefing, our weekly newsletter: bit.ly/3Yrz5jM

Reminder: “The SAVE America Act” is not saving us from anything real — and was born out of the lies of a malignant narcissist who incited an insurrection. 🇺🇸 Thank you for coming to our TED Talk. www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...

Donald Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Oil and Big Coal. He's literally stopping coal plants from shutting down after receiving nearly half a billion dollars from the industry during the 2024 campaign.

Judas...

A rude awakening for the American people. If they are paying attention. For a start, stop watching Fox News; they are complicit in Trump's coup in progress. They are anti-constitution and anti-American.

🚨The US is now at the top of the global watch list! “Countries don’t wake up authoritarian overnight. They get there when people assume someone else will stop it.” Take a listen!👇🏼 #welcometotheregime #pinks

He’s a liar. He lied under oath. He lied to get the job. Impeach him.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2059...

It says we are idiots who will deserve whatever hell this cockroach and his buddies want to feed us...

Damn, even Stephen gets to be a muppet. Fun to see but not believable.

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov, y'all know what to do, gents. The vote is no, make sure you tell the rest.

Who needs the specter of AI domination over humanity when we seem intent upon eliminating ourselves through our ignorance, apathy, and distraction?

A million mentions and counting.

Here we go. This is the level of confrontation I wanted from Dems. If they wanna stonewall, make them pay for it.

It'll be good to see him swing.

Well, by that logic, I guess Lindsey wouldn't give a shit if Canada annexed California, Oregon, and Washington...

The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

I am truly shocked by this news...

And thus the house if cards collapses under the combined weight of lies, corruption, carelessness, and willful ignorance that has enveloped our political and economic lives.

When we lose our capacity and capability for careful and organized reflection into the nature of humanity, the core values that shape us and, in fact, make us human, and the shared ideals that cause us to build communities and to strive for the universal prosperity and progress of humanity... 1/2

I never fully appreciated the phrase "cutting your nose off to spite your face" until this Administration took office.