I can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.

The World Order Is Dead. What Comes Next? Five takes on the collapse of the post-WW2 order and where we may be heading www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Timothy Snyder - The Mad Stamp Collector Foreign policy as fable open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78 His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments When the National Portrait Gallery replaced a portrait of President Trump this week, it took down a biography of his first term. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/a...

As a former advocate for survivors of domestic violence, I cannot describe how much it pains me to hear the Vice President say we owe a debt of gratitude to man who shot a woman in the face and then called her a fucking bitch.

Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor President Trump promised to fill the appeals courts with “my judges.” They have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency The cuts went far deeper for some agencies and offices: They have had the effect of hollowing out decades-old functions of the federal government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

In this special issue, Hammer & Hope commissioned the photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson to show us the Trump administration's arrest and deportation campaign. hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

US Army in WW2 pamphlets for GIs: 'Fascism is government by the few, for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “People run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world, are also among the most carbon and methane intensive to produce, refine, and use. Additionally, to maintain current production output will require more than $50 billion in new energy infrastructure investment. By @mckennapr.bsky.social...

The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

The Oglala Sioux Tribe announced that ICE abducted and disappeared 4 tribe members from Minneapolis. This is so fucked. Our tribal nations have inherent sovereignty, and the Oglala are part of the Lakota Nation.

Sherrilyn Ifill - Whether It Is ICE or Local Police, the U.S. Has Normalised Anti-Democratic Law Enforcement Practices The Grotesque Excesses of ICE Sit Within the Broader Context of Police Brutality open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Why the white America Trump dreams of is just a fantasy

surprise--he lied Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had promised that his panel, which released new guidelines this week, would have no “conflicts of interest.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

Iranian government threatens further crackdown as protests grow www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Breaking News: A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from freezing $10 billion for child care and social services in five Democratic-led states.

Kristi Noem managed, while governor of South Dakota, to get herself banned from the reservations within her state’s boundaries. That’s not easy to do. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Breaking: NEW YORK (AP) — Judge stops the Trump administration's freeze on child care and other social service funding for 5 states for now.

A long-awaited update of federal employment data shows crippling staff reductions in some federal agencies and offices: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

YES, this. How many years did these same orgs refuse to call a lie a lie, and then all we have are lies and they're like ... why does no one trust us? It's not some failure of middle-school civics teachers. People hate being lied to maybe hate it more when you know it's a lie but refuse to say so.

Anne Applebaum - Federal agents are violating the rights of Americans www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.

Timothy Snyder: Maduro in Minneapolis 'The worst thing that Maduro did is just what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths. After Minneapolis, Maduro’s lies are being repeated: in American English, by American authorities.' open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

What Gen McCaffrey says. And note that major US broadcast news outlets decided that the German president's remarks were not reportable news. They're afraid to cross Trump.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “With the resources of the world’s richest nation and most powerful military at his disposal, Trump is claiming borderless license to turn on his perceived enemies,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes.

Breaking News: The U.S. boarded an oil tanker in the Caribbean, the latest such move in the Trump administration's campaign to control Venezuela’s oil exports. It's the fifth tanker to be boarded or seized by U.S. forces in the last month.

Here are the key takeaways from The Associated Press' reporting on the Trump administration's cuts affecting the U.S. water systems.

Russia Says It Used Nuclear-Capable Missile to Strike Western Ukraine The attack seemed intended to send a message to Europe as it strongly backs Kyiv in the peace talks. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...

Agents in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have Fired at Vehicles at Least 10 Times The confrontations over the last four months have left two people dead and prompted criticism of federal agencies for allowing officers to open fire on moving vehicles. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...

What to Know About the Protests in Iran Galloping inflation, a currency crisis and anger at the regime have fueled demonstrations across the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?

Pope Leo decries world's 'zeal for war' in fiery Vatican speech reut.rs/4bpdUa8

REVISIONS: Change in total nonfarm payroll employment for October was revised down by 68,000, from -105,000 to -173,000, and the change for November was revised down by 8,000, from +64,000 to +56,000. So employment in October and November combined is 76,000 lower than previously reported.

MAGA’s defense of Renee Nicole Good’s death sits uncomfortably with the White House’s defense of January 6 rioters, Jonathan Chait argues. theatln.tc/0SMiwqqn

Venezuela Mourns the Dozens Who Died in U.S. Operation For all Venezuelans, the nighttime raid opened a period of deep uncertainty. For the families of those killed, it meant the grim task of burying their relatives. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...

This is a big deal.

Jacob Frey: Trump Is Lying to You. The Trump administration’s false narrative about and demonization of the victim are only part of a bigger lie. It wants the US public to believe that ICE’s heavily militarized crackdown is an effort to keep cities safe. It is not. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12 ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12 ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14 Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

Republicans chose this. They wanted armed troops terrorizing, assaulting, and shooting unarmed Americans in the streets.

For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.

excellent op-ed piece: What happens when no on can say no to Trump? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...