In response to yesterday's news, Elly Brinkley, Staff Attorney at PEN America said, “Writing an op-ed is free speech, plain and simple, and that right applies to citizens and non-citizens alike. What happened to Öztürk was an unthinkable miscarriage of justice.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/u...

Amazing a whole story about Eddie Bauer filing for bankruptcy can leave out the fact that it was owned by private equity from 2009 to 2021 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...

At least four Palestinians were killed and several others injured after an Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City's al-Nasr neighbourhood. Israel has violated the ceasefire at least 1,500 times since it came into effect, according to Gaza’s Gov't Media Office.

America's best literary critic www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

MAGA lobbyists are demanding that Trump's antitrust division settle the monopolization case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster. The top lawyers in the department don't want to do it. So now the #2 at DOJ Antitrust just quit.

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“Nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” 😃🤣🤪

This! #Musicsky youtu.be/fN8ks3zNHqE?...

RIP Chip Berlet, a legend on this beat, who provided a blueprint for how to do anti-fascist research idavox.com/index.php/20...

Becca Rothfeld = America's best literary critic

Eric Alterman, I read this book and I endorse this message www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/b...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

NBC in the tank for Fascism: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

😡 OH DEAR GOD. CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR. Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.

ok this is a lot. even for me.

It just guts me that the Washington Post lost a *quarter of a million* subscribers because of Bezos's sucking up to Trump, and his reaction is, "Obviously the Post should stop covering books and international affairs." www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

He packed his lunch for Italy and is filled up a whole plane?

Becoming more and more convinced that Bezos entered a quid pro quo agreement with Trump, where the quo is “destroy the Washington Post.”

Page One: @us.theguardian.com

“The question is why so many others have refused to see what [Trump] has never bothered to hide.”

SWORN TESTIMONY!!! June 18, 2016 "I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."

corrupt or not, tariffs are not "free-market policymaking"; weird to let this person say this anonymously

Where is Jonathan Ross? A month ago he killed Renee Good. Is he on the streets, armed and ready to take more lives? Is he in a cushy office somewhere, living a good life off the taxpayer dime. Is he at a training facility, teaching feds to step in front of cars, kill, and say they were afraid?

New from the Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research: nexusproject.us/nexus-resour...

The rightwingers' excuses for Trump's overtly racist post have been pro forma but I gotta say I didn't expect one to them to suggest that the president is physically blind.

I am not sure I’ve ever been more furious.

Epstein Files: the musical

Trump posted more than 60 times on Truth Social last night, but he handed his phone to an “unknown staffer” when the video depicting the Obamas as apes was posted? GTFOH

Every American to the left of Susan Collins is somewhat responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it’s unclear if the President is responsible for the video he posted.

The correct answer is “That’s actually refined Nazi propaganda of the sort both parties rejected for 70 years until Trump and his fans reawakened that monster.”

"Economic Insecurity"

AIPAC listen to me, it is extremely vital that you spend all of your money, literally all of it, on running ads against Chuck Schumer in 2028 because he said a mean word about Netanyahu one time in 2024

My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The New York Times takes on the Cohen Building story. Hallelujah. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a... If you want to know more, here’s my TNR piece that broke the story plus two detailed follow-ups: newrepublic.com/article/2010... newrepublic.com/article/2012... newrepublic.com/article/2042...

The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.

Try to imagine the Times simping this hard for a Democrat, any Democrat.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

Unfortunately very timely essay from @ssinnar.bsky.social & Darryl Li about some states’ effort to reframe civil rights advocacy as terrorism. knightcolumbia.org/blog/red-sta...

NCAR will also undertake scholarly research and analysis on antisemitism through a team of experts in Jewish history and political science, led by its Director of Scholarship, Eric Alterman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College.

Evil Empire #2 www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...