I have never been retroactively madder about a federal government shutdown than when I realized today that the 2025 October supplement to the CPS was never administered, eliminating a key source of data about college enrollment patterns last fall. 😡

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

How dare they not cast someone born from a swan’s (er, Zeus’s) rape of a Grecian queen and hatched from an egg?

Huh. Portland Press Herald's typically sycophantic, power-coddling columnist goes rogue and spells out the ugly truth about who Susan Collins has become. Didn't see that coming. (Try to look past -- or at least hold your nose during-- the Joe Lieberman encomiums.) #MEpolitics

Tell me you never worked in a restaurant without saying you never worked in a restaurant.

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Man Murders Eight Children seems like a more accurate headline and doesn’t speculate that anyone else may bear responsibility in his motive. A fight didn’t kill them. He did.

Right on @jrothst.bsky.social www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026...

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

A Wegmans is a terrible place, where the management has moved everything since your last visit, the exits—casino like—are hidden from view, the many sample trays are cesspools of semilethal microorganisms, and all customers but you are tranced out center aisle with a cart 3X as large as needed.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

If you’re in Sacramento on April 9th, come to our 12-1pm lunch panel to hear new insights on this research and what it means for California policy. eventbrite.com/e/priced-out... (9/9) END

NEWS: We’re releasing new research today on who is leaving California, where they go, and what happens to their finances after they move. capolicylab.org/priced-out-r... 🧵(1/9)

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

We did this with tariffs. Now we’re doing this with war. And some insiders are making a fortune off the chaos.

Last summer, a restaurant coworker from the early 90s told me he still played the folk music tape I made for him 30 years ago. A proud moment.

Elect a clown, expect clown shoes.

[Exit Murderer.]

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

She got her start mimicking Olympia Snowe and claiming her hero is Margaret Chase Smith. A look at her voting record shows she’s a right wing radical who opportunistically switches position if her vote isn’t critical. MCS rolls over in her grave any time someone calls Collins a principled moderate.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

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Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

Absolute best halftime show ever

Good grief. As a Mainer, I was ready to stan, but that just made me uncomfortable and kinda nauseated.

Uncanny valley. Non-human. Touch some primal nerve of revulsion.

Is ICE turning The County woke? Probably not but: "Many northern Mainers...have joined grassroots activist groups and attended ICE observer and de-escalation training. Others have offered mutual aid to neighbors and sent money to help immigrant families." Interesting read. #MEpolitics

Yesterday we kicked off NYC’s Free Tax Prep season. That means filing your taxes at zero cost, keeping every dollar of your refund, and not getting ripped off by for-profit companies.    Nearly half of all New Yorkers qualify. Get help—virtually or in person—at nyc.gov/TaxPrep

I demand the part be played by a woman who was actually hatched out of an egg. This is the only way to be faithful to the mythology.

‘We’re fed up:’ Midcoast students walk out to protest ICE

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Portland, Maine. I’ve never seen so many people in Monument Square, and I’m sure many of them are my friends and loved ones. I wish I was with them, even if it will be -1 F tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iT6...

Portland Maine ICE detains 18-year-old USM student in Westbrook www.pressherald.com/2026/01/21/i...

DHS says they have a “list” of around 1,400 people to round up in what they’re calling “Operation Catch of the Day” — a completely disgusting and inhumane name for their terror campaign in our state.

The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

7. Troublemaker, by El Lissitzky, 1913

Ooh, new project.

When you're willing to toss your Leica, shit has gotten real.😳

"People who start work in a recession tend to earn less over the course of their careers, von Wachter’s research found, making for more divorces, smaller families, and worse health." Prof. Till von Wachter, faculty director of CPL's UCLA site interviewed -> www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

In 2019, Sonoma County overhauled its system for awarding Housing Choice Vouchers and more than 12k people signed up for a new lottery. A new study (in Housing Policy Debate) focuses on the outcomes of that lottery and the people who were selected to receive a voucher capolicylab.org/mitigating-t...

One of my two starter hardle.org words was “it” today. Hardle 1/2/2026 | 2/10 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 0️⃣0️⃣ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0️⃣5️⃣ Play #hardle on hardle.org

This is awful. So many business tied to a true working waterfront.

This is hilarious, but I gotta put in a good word for the Moccamaster. Ours is 15 years old and still makes coffee every bit as good as the first pot. Before splurging on it we’d gone through at least one cheapo coffeemaker per year (the hard water of Ithaca, NY, is not kind to coffeemakers).

NEW -- What the hell was that? And why? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

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I have long had an obscure, complex theory about Susan Collins that explains these things. Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube. That's it. That's the whole thing.