look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.

Who would'a thunk it? Ground coffee prices stabilize, ground beef price growth decelerates after tariff removal... It's like basic trade theory works! #EconSky @taxpolicycenter.bsky.social

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

This, from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, is really perfect. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

Trump has repeatedly claimed ICE targets the “worst of the worst.”

Halftime performance showed how most Latinos love America, even if some parts of America do not love them back. It showed the reality that Latinos and Spanish are part of America's culture, its history, present & future. As references to salsa show, this is not a new phenomenon but a good reminder.

Michelle Obama, exactly as she is. Beautiful, graceful, intelligent, and strong woman. Joy is resistance. Grace is power. #SheShed

Really important article. “Many people have questioned and even accused some of Epstein’s victims of prostitution. Here’s the reality: Sex trafficking, whether you are a minor, or an adult, is when someone induces you to have commercial sex by using force, fraud or coercion.”

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

NEW: Republicans in Congress have unveiled a new bill that would impose the most extreme voting restrictions ever proposed at the federal level. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"It’s time to wake up. Trump seems keen on influencing the vote in states that will decide margins in 2026 and the outcome in 2028. And that he has the FBI participating in his effort is a terrifying demonstration of just how many guardrails he has steamrolled..." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This 👇

With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States. www.wired.com/story/donald...

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Corruption beyond compare. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... [Gift article]

Invoke the 25th Amendment.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

A cartoon by Paul Karasik. #NewYorkerCartoons

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

That heaviness you feel after events like yesterday is real. We've all accumulated a lot of mental and emotional weight in the first year of Trump's disastrous presidency. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...

“Doctors Without Borders says it performed more than 22,000 operations and treated more than 100,000 trauma cases in 2025.” Israel is kicking them out of Gaza in the next few weeks, citing among other things its criticism of the way the army has conducted the war. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/w...

"A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars, not start them, and who has demonstrated already that he has the courage and strength to stand up and fight for peace" -- Tulsi Gabbard, 10/27/24

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

We can’t afford a Democratic Party that’s divided between fighters and folders.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely. By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma

An Oregon couple was deported and forced to leave their toddler behind in the United States. Their child, a U.S. citizen, is now separated from both parents because enforcement moved faster than law, humanity, or reason. This is family separation by design, not accident.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Survivors of human trafficking deserve justice and compassion, not criminalization. Pleased that the House passed our bipartisan legislation to provide much-needed relief to trafficking survivors.

When Trump calls female reporters “piggy,” “ugly” and “stupid,” it doesn't reflect badly on the women. It's just more evidence that the males of MAGA are manspreading their own insecurity. My weekly Stop the Presses newsletter. Read and subscribe for free.

Affordability is dominating the discourse. What I don't like about the conversation is that it focuses almost entirely on prices—as if the only way to make life affordable is to make things cheaper. But affordability is determined by prices *and pay.* 1/

We have a winter postcard project! These pink slip “accountability” cards aim to make voters think about what Jon Husted has and hasn’t done for them. We’ll be mailing them starting in January and continuing at least until the end of February – so grab some now to do over all the holidays.

In its first year the Tyrese Maxey Foundation gave away 400 meals. The following year, that number increased to 1,000 meals, and in 2024 the foundation gave out 2,000 meals. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixer...

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

apple.news/ASX57YORQQoG... My small town. @indivisible.org @knoxohindivisible.bsky.social #noice

🚨🚨 RED ALERT — #Ohio's Republican supermajority is trying to rush several harmful bills through the Statehouse next week before anyone notices Click on a bill or two and take action: OhioBills.wtf

How Wall Street turns your monthly bills into its debt payments. #News #Finance #WallStreet #Debt #Infrastructure #politics

Heartbreaking and disgraceful

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Remarkable: In Virginia and New Jersey, Spanberger and Sherrill erased the GOP edge among working class. Per exit polls, each got 50% of noncollege voters, big gains over previous contests. Shocker: Anti-Trump politics appeals to working class, too! New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

“It turns out Trump likes some aid, and he’s good with white refugees.” @nickkristof.bsky.social is a real one www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last several months, and Graff nails the thought: “It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.”

“Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, fueled by dissatisfaction with President Trump's impact on the economy, immigration, race relations and the nation's global standing.” Even 30% of Republicans don’t want this www.axios.com/newsletters/...