We have a Secretary of Defense warning of "wicked ideologies" in the nation's (and world's) top universities, just in case you're wondering how our arc of history is bending.

We are living through a period where we have mass government layoffs literally causing countless deaths while at the same time DHS has so much money that Noem will have a different luxury jet for every day of the week

The far right hates law enforcement.

Pulling this shit while the president extracts billions for his family and is currently demanding taxpayers give him $10 billion is pretty goddamned rich.

The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China. Corruption has consequences.

News: The Trump administration told Congress it won’t share the classified underlying intelligence—a conversation two foreigners had about Jared Kushner—that led to a whistleblower complaint against U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard, citing claims of executive privilege. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Okay, folks- I know we all have plenty to do, but if you're at all concerned about the White House & historic preservation, please consider submitting public comment on Trump's ballroom project; info in this thread. First, a direct link for submitting written statements: www.ncpc.gov/participate/...

More lawless slaughter at sea—this time three people reportedly killed in the Caribbean. Don’t let the administration’s specious terrorism talk fool you. The term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict is murder.

Republican congressman Tony Gonzales, father of six, texted his female staffer at 12:51 a.m.: "Anal?" The woman later died after pouring gasoline on herself and lighting herself on fire. www.24sight.news/p/texts-from... @24sight.news

This is the Crockett ad that features the screenshot you're seeing that links Trump, Abbott, and Talarico. Can't say I like it. I got spoiled during the NYC mayoral primary when progressive Ds avoided attacking each other like this. Feels bad!

New Hampshire’s state motto is, “Live free or die.”

I keep waiting for the Trump banner to be installed on the Supreme Court building.

Actually the refunds will go to a bunch of Wall Street firms including the one now run by Lutnick's son who have been buying up the refund rights. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

Next up: the Supreme Court.

Pretending God, & not herself, is responsible for her child’s condition is evil.“‘We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina Moran Lopez. ‘Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.’”

Once upon a time, this woulda been a big deal. Now? Normalized sh*t. This guy believes "wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote & Christian enslavers were on 'firm scriptural ground'" led a service at the Pentagon. We can't let ourselves go numb! wapo.st/4aX8vXf

This. The administration-& Congress- is treating Good as if she was less than human.

At some point, Noems, her lover/right-hand man Lewandowski, & Lyons must be sanctioned. Lyons made at least 2 false statements to Congress: not misstatements but out-and-out lies.

It's neat that there is a Republican primary election in Texas between a guy who had an affair with his staffer who then committed suicide and a guy who has expressed opinions sympathetic to the white supremacist Rhodesian colonialists and called the Civil War the "war of northern aggression"

The word “conservative” has been stretched beyond its meaning. Toth is a radical rightwing demagogue. “Far right” is a better descriptor than “conservative.”

Wow.

The Forbidden Interviews. Surely a topic at the (fake) University of Austin.

Now the Ranch belongs to RW kook Don Huffines. Bring out the ground penetrating radar. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

The Texas GOP Senate primary, the AG primary & even the RRC primary is rotten w/racists & proto-fascists-& a likely criminal. Voting for the least worst in the GOP primary might be an option, in case the miracle doesn’t happen again this year.

I am wondering whether to vote in the GOP primary. Reitz, a GOP candidate for Texas AG, wrote on X that “the state’s counties ‘may soon be renamed Calcutta, Delhi, & Hyderabad Counties given how bad the invasion of un-assimilated & un-assimilable Indians has become.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Vast majority of this wealth is an untaxed, unrealized capital gain. Some of these billionaires borrow against their immense wealth at low rates for living expenses to avoid paying tax. When they die, the capital gain is no longer taxable. The strategy is known as “buy, borrow, die.”

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Great article on what a failure and a joke Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" turned out to be, after he made outlandish promises about how revolutionary it was going to be. Reminds me of something, just can't put my finger on what...oh yeah, just about everything Musk does washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

I was almost hoping it was Cruz-who you know has dirty laundry somewhere-but it didn’t sound swarmy enough. And Rubio has the Florida connection.

Why isn’t Jordan recused, since he has also been accused of ignoring sexual assault?

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

A while back, I wrote about the deprofessionalization of the FBI. Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social study how authoritarians build loyal security forces. They pointed to a sense of impunity being a key factor. That is what we are seeing now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Stone clerked for Scalia, Edith Jones on the 5th Circuit, Justice Daniel Winfree on the Alaska Supreme Court. He was also chief counsel to Ted Cruz. Gotta love “conservatives.”

The lack of support is not nothing. But odds are that Miller, like Smith, should have been prosecuted.

FYI, Trump has not backed away from the cartoon video of him pooping on the American people.

No need to go to the island if Epstein brings the island to you.

the musk boys are never ever beating the allegations

it's grim, but the reality is that Trump wants more innocent people to die here in the Twin Cities and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress are either ambivalent about more lives being taken or outright support it

The rich & powerful could simply not show up. But in Texas, we still have a statewide holiday, Confederate Heroes Day, now on the same day as MLK Day—a choose-your-hero adventure.

HHS goons are using administrative warrants to subpoena social media companies to investigate people who write milquetoast criticisms of their tactics—& then sending officers to interview the offending person. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The French are “investigating X in relation to seven accusations, including complicity in distributing images of a child of pornographic nature, denial of crimes against humanity and fraudulent extraction of data.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/w...

More lawyers need to lose their licenses.

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."

They pulled all agents off trafficking investigations to have them go after landscapers & roofers.

A DHS spokesperson: "This is the best healthcare [that] many aliens have received in their entire lives". "When she felt dizzy and vomited twice, agents did not grant her request for medical care." "Excrement overflowed from the toilet" The land of opportunity, no more.

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Texas had a number of places that until this decade were named things like “Negrohead Lake” & that, before 1963, their names incorporated the racist slur. www.texastribune.org/2021/05/25/t...

You could add up all the corruption in US history from every Administration and not even sniff Trump’s year in office. Every other President in history gets impeached unanimously for this. Every one.

Trump & Abbott both posted about this race. Tim O’Hare, the radical RW county judge, has for weeks filled my work inbox w/exhortations to vote for Wambsganss-a truly radical nutcase. This was not a race that flew under the radar.

I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...