It was extremely obvious that the boomer resistance libs were right from day one, and it’s extremely telling how many of these guys find that amazing because they find the people personally kind of dopey.

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

Powell, showing more guts than almost any GOP legislators: "The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Fed setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President." www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Maybe right-wingers should be reading some of those humanities scholars instead of trying to purge them from universities.

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I hate the grotesque Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism, and anti-Palestinian bigotry I see in much of the Israeli and Diaspora Jewish communities. It’s not everyone, of course, but it’s enough to make me sad and angry. I hate it on its own terms, but even more as antisemitism gets worse and worse.

Horrifying. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

This is the correct response to ICE: apple.news/AyGT4-kXUStm...

i don't really believe the proper reaction to "fuck newsom, i won't vote for him" is "suck it up or get fascism" it's more like "if we can beat fascism, we can beat newsom"

Tens of thousands of people in Toronto took to the streets to amplify the voice of the Iranian people to the world. Aerial view of Toronto ‎January 10, 2026 Video: x.com/behrangrahba...

The same crowd that screamed “Don’t Tread on Me” now demands total obedience at gunpoint. Alanis, we’re going to need a remix.👇

if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed. everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.

I do wish some these pundits would show a bit more humility. Beyond just “sorry I was wrong” for a half second and then proceeding to tell everyone what to do again. Because i’m not sure how helpful their advice is in dealing with Trump and GOP now.

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Still using X? Or even worse, paying for it? If the hate speech wasn’t a good enough reason for you to leave, I wonder if Musk’s AI stripping clothes off your daughters and wives at the request of other users is? Those with big followers in mil hist should check themselves @almurray.bsky.social etc

Absolutely vile. Everyone still on X needs to ask themselves why they are still on X. There is no good reason to still be there.

I called PA gov Josh Shapiro's office @joshshapiropa.bsky.social and asked him to stop using Twitter / X. I have previously called my congressman @congressmanboyle.bsky.social to do the same. X is a force for bigotry. It impedes resistance to Trump + GOP. No more excuses. Leave the platform.

Lmfao

Arrest the murderer. Everything else is social media conversation.

Everyone who opposes Elon Musk's ideas, who opposes Donald Trump, who opposes the GOP agenda, should leave Twitter / X immediately. Every Dem elected official, every journalist, every scholar, every activist, everyone. This is a solvable collective action problem.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

15 years ago, a group blog I co-founded with a bunch of doctoral candidates in history won an award. It was called PhD Octopus. Still one of the best things I’ve ever done.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.

Very happy to share my review of Shari Rabin's excellent book "The Jewish South: An American History" (Princeton, 2025). Reviews appears in the journal Jewish History. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Six reasons why Trump’s attack on Venezuela was very wrong:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here? And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site? No money for Musk, ever, please.

I agree with sentiment but people can learn from mistakes. In college I stupidly supported the Iraq war for humanitarian reasons. That was wrong. being wrong humbled me and made me skeptical not only of future interventions but also of my own understanding of the world. Humility can be helpful.

There are really four levels to what happened last night: US, regional, global and Venezuela. I'll go through them in that order, as it moves from easiest to hardest in terms of making sense of them. 🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... Globe and Mail does a deep dive into ancient Greek history to communicate Trumpian threat to Canadian sovereignty

Pro democracy arab intellectuals used to say that there was a difference between the US and Russia or China, because the US at least rhetorically espoused particular ideals. That space between reality and rhetoric could be leveraged, they thought. There's no such delusion today

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

"Statistics show that crime in Philadelphia is at its lowest level in 60 years. But we found a guy with a Confederate flag hanging off the front porch of his New Jersey home who says that's not true."

Also the Conservative Party of Canada is terrible.

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

Interesting article by @phoebebovy.bsky.social in @thecjn.bsky.social about divergences between Canadian and American Jewish experiences in regard to the struggle against antisemitism.

Excellent op-ed by @abesilbe.bsky.social in @haaretzcom.bsky.social on how the Mamdani mayoralty can have positive effects on liberal Judaism

Mamdani is out here reducing crime on day one.

This is not true at all; Harvard has dozens of people teaching the subjects broadly defined as constituting "Western Civ," in departments as broad as History, Philosophy, Classics, Art History, and more. But more than that, it is shameful to see a rabbi engaging in this anti-intellectual nonsense.

One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have

This is correct: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...