If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $436.3 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $244.2 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $257.8 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

Everything this loser does is always projection. God I wish we had an adult somewhere in the vicinity of the white house.

The dead possum approach of Chuck Schumer or the raging filibuster of Cory Booker. Which one is more effective?

Chuck @schumer.senate.gov, while you're close to the mic, didn't you mean to ask @corybooker.com if he'll take the baton you dropped?

I am confident that had Barbara Lee or Katie Porter @katieporteroc.bsky.social won California's senate race, they'd have something to say to support and join Corey Booker on the senate floor. @schiff.senate.gov, what will you do with your power?

Did you know? There’s a directory of Black farmers: “The Black Farmers Index.” Buy and uplift local. Many are small-scale specialists and located in urban areas. I found an organic resource in my area that I will definitely check out.

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:

As we watch the GOP dismantle the federal government with swift urgency, we must acknowledge the reason we are here is Dems do not move with that urgency. When Roe was overturned, Dems held the House, Senate, and White House. Instead of codifying Roe, they fundraised off of it.

The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation - Hagan Scotten - resigns from SDNY. “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion [to dismiss Adams charges]. But it was never going to me.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

With Trump + the NFL likely to turn today’s Super Bowl into at least some degree of fascist spectacle, it’s worth remembering Colin Kaepernick (@kaepernick7.bsky.social) literally gave up his career to challenge the regime’s white supremacist project the first time around. Solidarity to the GOAT.

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

On the one hand… Ending “end racism” is the perfect endnote to the white supremacist regime currently running the country. On the other hand… a corporate platitude from a league that won’t let its black employees speak out against police brutality… WAS NEVER DOING SHIT TO END RACISM

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

This thread will be stories of how people hold the line--continue to behave responsibly and ethically.

Last week my two careers—racism scholar turned airline pilot—collided when Trump promised that his nominee for Secretary of Transportation "will make our skies safe again by eliminating DEI for pilots and air traffic controllers.” Wait, what? 🧵 1/

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

The Democratic “plan” is to “not get distracted” as Trump seizes Treasury, purges the FBI and the military, and completely defies all laws limiting himself, and then win back the House in 2026 by talking about inflation. It’s an awful plan.

On 7 April 1933, the German government issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which excluded Jews and other political opponents of the Nazis from all civil service positions. One provision aimed to remove personnel deemed unreliable due to their political beliefs.

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

It was so much simpler for Trump and his people when they could put all these documents on a pyre.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

It's not every day that @lawfare.bsky.social publishes a piece that every single federal employee should read, but this is one of those days. My @umnlawschool.bsky.social colleague @nicholasbednar.bsky.social on the illegality of "deferred resignation" program. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/brea...

What happened with the funding freeze and the bizarre recission of the memo yet continuation of the order? It was all a legal gambit to get rid of the court cases, a gambit that will likely fail because Trump's Press Secretary kept running her mouth. I explain in @thenation.com

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

Wow RFK Jr. just perjured himself on live tv

Is this what it means to have “masculine energy”

This is the future. The history of Trump is illegal order pulled back followed by slightly less illegal but still illegal order followed by still illegal but constitutionally plausible order eventually rubber stamped by his Supreme Court.

Teaching unwhitewashed history is not DEI. Stocking a Black-owned brands THAT PEOPLE BUY is not DEI. Recruiting HBCU grads is not DEI. Addressing racial disparities is NOT DEI. Treating LGBTQIA people like PEOPLE is NOT DEI Trump isn’t dismantling DEI He is reconstructing a WHITER supremacy

Read, share, act.

The extremely explicit bigotry on display is quite something. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The 4th Amendment of the Constitution bans cops from using “unreasonable” force But cops and civilians have v different ideas about what reasonable means + courts are divided on how, exactly, they should assess reasonableness Now the Supreme Court will weigh in ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/barne...

"The people who run this country should not lead comfortable lives while the rest of us suffer. If decorum is dead, let it be buried." damn that is a BAR. made me pause reading so I could find out if the writer's on bluesky lol (she is btw @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social) defector.com/the-old-rule...

I was supposed to discuss our book *The End of College Football* tonight in Washington, DC. I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States. They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

There is genuinely something pitiful about watching billionaires whimper about their oppression (which mostly amounts to the decreased freedom to oppress others) and also something disgusting and ridiculous. Welcome to the clown show. The hungry ghost parade. The very sad scorpion pit.

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

This is essentially Trump putting out a hit on Fauci www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Research has shown that GoFundMe amplifies existing biases within aid and, in some cases, exacerbates them. https://interc.pt/4g7hswE

As of this moment, the entire federal government is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment —not b/c the government has ended DEIA programs, but b/c the government is discriminating against employees and new hires based on the color of their skin. My latest in @thenation.com

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥 The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH? 🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...