The 2026 midterms are in 280 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 1,015 days; and it’s been 40 days since the Trump administration was required by law to release the Epstein files.

Erika: 'sex sells, baby' www.realitytea.com/2026/01/23/c...

Melania Trump’s $75M Amazon documentary directed by Brett Ratner is a first-week box office flop. Two-thirds of the film’s staff requested not eveb to be credited at the end of the film. Melania herself pocketed $28 million from the licensing sale. newrepublic.com/post/205753/...

Executives who donated to Trump’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Republicans wrestle with Trump administration positions that contradict their beliefs on gun rights, states’ rights and limited use of federal power. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

Alex Cole @acnewsitics MAGA went from ''teachers should be required to carry guns" to "carrying a gun makes you a criminal threat" in record time.

Trump claims deployment of Ntl Guard reduced crime, but homicide rates began falling during Biden’s admin, & there are many more cities that didn’t have the Guard that saw crime rates go down than cities that did. theweek.com/crime/homici...

They’ll bend the Second Amendment for ICE raids, but not to protect five-year-olds from bullets. That’s the moral rot.

adamdbowles The reason so many American evangelical churches welcomed Donald Trump into their culture is because racism, authoritarianism and misogyny were already there to greet him.

lainycarslaw Dear Pretti Family, the entire world is learning that your son was an absolute hero. He is the best of all of us and he is going to change the world. I believe that🩵

LOL - a new one on me, but made me grin

Domestic terrorists

the puke

Jeff Tiedrich:

Aug 2017 - Trump's 'fine people' chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and 'BLUT UND BODEN' (blood and soil) where Heather Hoyer was mowed down by one of the protesters demanding that a monument to the Confederacy remain in the public square

Remember the McCloskeys? The couple who threatened BLM protesters, was pardoned by the Missouri governor, and embraced as folk heroes by the Republican party?

“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.” — President Bill Clinton, 1/25/26

This sums it up.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

So TikTok users woke up today to a fun little pop-up demanding they agree to new terms of service. And then they actually read them. The privacy policy helpfully explains that TikTok may collect information you disclose about your “racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs,

The GOP animated by fantasies of crushing liberals & minorities, is devoted to achieving one-party rule. It's the intention of its base, DC & state politicians, Supreme Court judges, propagandists & ideologists, and of course its would-be Supreme Leader. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...