They want you to think that democratic socialists believe everyone should live in poverty.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

That's our president archive.ph/nJI4J

Very reassuring article about the president's health. I mean, depending on what you're rooting for, that is.

I'm entirely serious about this: until you internalize the view that urban America is Real America, you won't see the urgency of structural reform of an American government whose fundamental structures so disadvantage its population centers—the great engines of its prosperity, progress, & culture.

Zohran Mamdani has yet to give a solo press conference since taking office.

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

The more you know…

🧪A few more hours to go…

Not everywhere! We're several episodes deep in our Stranger Things marathon over here.

It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”

“Part-owner Umi Hassan said she lived here right after 9/11 and didn’t feel as marginalized and fearful as she does today. She’s unable to sleep at night and carries her passport everywhere. Tears running down her face, she asked, “What else can I do to be an American?””

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Miller's "tactics have triggered a sustained cultural backlash in defense of the specific migrants in Trump-Miller’s crosshairs and of immigration more broadly as a positive good for the country. Miller has helped drive Trump’s approval on immigration—once a “good” issue for him—into the toilet"

This is the face of fraud in Minnesota. Aimee Bock. Her attorney is Nancy Hylden, friend of mayor Frey. I want media to stop every single white woman they see and ask them if they’re involved in fraud

Are you f*cking kidding with this? A nearly ONE MILLION DOLLAR payday for the outgoing CEO of these struggling non profit news outlets in Chicago?! Laying off reporters, cutting back critical staff but spending 1M on this? Shame on the board that agreed to this. Shame.

“Flu vaccines only offer protection if people get them and in the U.S., only 42% of adults have gotten a flu shot this year. That leaves many people unprotected in face of a likely bad flu season, says Daskalakis. He'd like to see the CDC do more to encourage vaccination.”

Banning soda and candy from SNAP is about getting retailers to pull out of SNAP and denying low-income people access to *all* food. And boosting administrative costs to direct benefits. newrepublic.com/article/2048...

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids. Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed. White dude alleges fraud. Every Republican backs white dude. That's the current story in Minnesota.

The countdown of our 25 most-read articles of 2025 can't stop, won't stop. Here is #6.

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

Vance defended the administration’s vile immigration policies in a way that fundamentally degraded his own family: people he is bound by vows—which should be sacred to a Christian—to love and protect. trib.al/g43mrDD

Impressions from the Antarctic Peninsula.

With another influx of users, a nudge to remind people to use alt text

Did my cats write this?

Annie, maybe white men just don't write books worthy of the best of the year lists. www.startribune.com/2026-reading...

I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.

Santa's little helpers are formally known as subordinate clauses.

Yep, this definitely tracks. So much for an independent DOJ.

If you're shooting random Jewish people to protest Israel, then yes, that is absolutely an antisemitic attack on Jews.

Entering northern Indiana on I-65 there's a large black billboard that screams in block letters HELL IS REAL. Yep, welcome to Indiana! There are reasons I left this place.

The 1.6 million number marks the largest-ever effort to strip permissions for immigrants who attempted to migrate to the country through legal means, advocates said. n.pr/3Y9sCuc

Gross incompetence or malicious compliance?

Truly cannot remember a time when a NEWS company tried this hard to keep people from seeing its NEWS product. Incredible.

I'm going to go take a shower, and when I come back, I want a new president who hasn't groped young girls.

New in PN: Make America Weak "It's become clear that Trump's efforts to sabotage America’s economic, political, and defense relationships with major democracies abroad are part and parcel of 'policies' he’s been pursuing at home — all calculated to make our nation more susceptible to autocracy."

I have watched this in full and the segment is well-reported and devastating. We know why it got killed, and we know why we must see it.

Anyone who isn't a mouthpiece for MAGA is an "enemy of the people," First Amendment be damned. He's the least American president we've ever had.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

what should you do? call your senators. what if they're GOP? call. some house GOP voted against both. what should you say? try one of these scripts. make it your own! they're less than a minute with built-in bail outs. yes, you should threaten your vote. who's your senator? tap here: reps.fyi 🧵

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.