Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2046...

people need to hear themselves

The largest oil reserves in the world are in Venezuela. The largest oil producer in Africa is Nigeria. Other than China, one of the largest unmined rare earth deposits is in Greenland. Follow the money, it's always about the money.

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

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Minnesotans celebrated that our state has the highest percentage of trans adults *anywhere in the country* - which is cool on many levels, and a testament to the work we've done on policy and the culture we've built here for care and support. 15/x www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

4.7 million kilograms of plastic enters the ocean from rivers per day

Minnesota fraud didn’t “just get discovered” — it got repackaged. A viral video became the right-wing’s new shiny object, and now they want you to forget that officials have been investigating for YEARS. The timing isn’t accidental. Here's why: brooklyndaddefiant.substack.com/p/something-...

White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids. Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed. White dude alleges fraud. Every Republican backs white dude. That's the current story in Minnesota.

No. Stop it.

Sage advice!

gift link i guess www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

Zuckerburg is paying only $190M to settle an $8B lawsuit by FB shareholders for the Cambridge Analytica crime. $8B would’ve been 3% of his net worth, and $190M is .08%. ~$75 for ordinary working people. “If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

"What I think is lacking is, was there even an attempt made to try to verify the accuracy of what he was saying, or did they simply take him at his word?" says University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley about a recent video made accusing Somali-owned day care centers of fraud.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she was ‘naive’ for believing Trump is man of the people

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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

Fuck corporate Dems. Ban it now.

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

🚨BREAKING information in the Epstein File Archive🚨 🧵 Yesterday there was another enormous drop to the DOJ's Digital Archive of the Epstein case of Epstein files. One case reported by a victim involved sex trafficking and infantcide in 1984. The POTUS was allegedly involved in 2 capacities. 1/

As farmers begin to close their books on a tough 2025, many may be left feeling unsure. Falling crop prices, rising input costs and the continuing trade wars mean that 2026 could be a difficult year for the community banks that lend to Minnesota farmers.

On the surface, grade inflation might seem simple to address, Ian Bogost writes. But it’s a strange and wicked problem on campus, with no single cause or obvious solution: theatln.tc/yjoGnzFM

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and motivation. n.pr/4jgkEJy

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

How are these fits of presidential incontinence never covered as their own news events in NYT? Hours of sick hateful bile from the curdled joyless leader of the Christian nationalists sitting in the ruins of the tinsel trimmed White House he’s demolishing — seems like a story to me.

If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.

America is not nearly angry enough about the fact that Donald Trump has turned a building we all collectively own into an exact replica of the antechambers leading to Saddam Hussein's sex dungeons and torture cabanas

Meanwhile, the poverty rate in my community is up 4%

Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises

"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?" Now that's a Christmas movie. From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968). With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole

This. All of this.

AI data centers are straining electrical grids across the country so that our president can post an AI-generated video of himself dumping shit on protesters from a fighter jet.

Trump "defending" Christians by bombing terrorist in Nigeria. Nigeria has the largest oil reserve in Africa, and Trump doesn't care about black people. Ukraine is devoutly Christian and he bends a knee to Putin. Venezuelans aren't harming Americans, but have oil. Remember "no more foreign wars"?

It's about the training data, & the weights given to the subsequent tokens & their relationships w/in the model. When you have a system trained on the internet with not enough concern given to what that might mean or look like when it comes to topics like ageing & disability? This what happens. …

Worth a read!

A long difficult read, but important. Justice must prevail.

Full ban.

“While a distorted economy leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person. Where there is room for the human person, there is room for God. Even a stable can become more sacred than a temple.“

Data centers are driving up our energy bills, stealing our resources, and polluting our water. What's not to love?