The saddest poll I have seen in a long time…

Friends, BOB IS THE BIGGEST, STRONGEST, AND SMARTEST is out in the world. I'm celebrating with gobs of gratitude to Amy Jindra Hodgson, the wonderful team at Penguin/Rocky Pond, and all the young readers who will get to know Bob and his forest friends. jeanreidy.com #picturebook #friendship #kidlit

I'm a fan of @poynterinstitute.bsky.social's daily newsletter. I was struck today by the Don Lemon quote that in this administration, “The process is the punishment.” Ironic after accusations of silencing by the right during the Biden years, this admin has no shame in intimidating the press now.

A powerful post. I am grateful to @elizagreywrites.bsky.social for the strength it took to write it. Please share.

The outcome of this is baffling and truly unjust.

People who can’t see the difference between this administration and any one previous don’t want to.

Layoffs over the last year: UPS: 48,000 Amazon: 32000 Intel: 27,159 Microsoft: 15,387 Nestle: 16000 Verizon: 15000 Google: 12000 Chevron: 8000 Paramount: 7000 Walmart: 7000 P&G: 7000 Estée Lauder: 7000 Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

Yes, it’s astonishing that Kristi Noem still has her job after the deaths, lies, and failures on her watch. But the American people have the final say when it comes to holding this entire administration - from the president on down - accountable for its cruelty and corruption.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The far-reaching effect of a bully in the White House is the why for escalating tensions in America. A president’s main responsibility is to keep the states united in hard times. Trump’s legacy of hatred is on repeat now, brute force over reason. He’s counting his untaxed billions while people die.

Friends, while you're stuck at home during the storm, this app makes it so easy to take action! I hope you download it and give it a try. 5calls.org

What an extra-happy way to start the new year! BOB IS THE BIGGEST, STRONGEST, AND SMARTEST got a big, beautiful Booklist STARRED review. I couldn't be more excited. Find out more at jeanreidy.com. #kidlit #bookreview #starredreview #picturebook #friendship #SEL

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"The whole idea of an implicit Reasonable Viewer was based on an underlying consensus about basic values, which no longer exists. Instead, we have lots of groups of loyal partisans, and their pet figures getting rich off their clicks..." Worth a read... unherd.com/2025/12/does...

This is seriously twisted thinking…

"Do you think you're standing next to a 'jihadist' right now in the oval office?" a reporter asked, quoting Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik [...] "No I don't," Trump quickly said."You say things sometimes in a campaign." Stick to the issues-not name calling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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When a US president posts an AI-video of him in a crown poo'ing on protesters in his country, you can dismiss intelligence at work here. This is classic schoolyard bullying. Humor can disarm bullies; it can also embolden them and the sycophants who laugh along. Sad days.

Major applause to the IDSNews editors and designers for this brilliant digital edition #nocensorship #studentpower issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Worth a scary listen...

“However, a number of studies into politically-motivated killings and violence in the US - over several decades - suggest that more cases were carried out by people with "right-wing" ideologies than with "left-wing" ones, though more data is likely necessary to draw a firm conclusion.” Worth a read.

Anna Gomez, the only Democratic member of the FCC, criticised Carr's remarks. She posted on X that "an inexcusable act of political violence by one disturbed individual must never be exploited as justification for broader censorship or control".

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

First, on economic security. We need to treat economic security as a national security priority—because it is. I believe in my bones that the existential threat to the United States is the shrinking middle class here at home.

"Those [...] who celebrate political violence are unwitting gravediggers who don’t realize [...] all they’re doing is digging up more earth for all of us to be at greater risk of having that empty space filled with our bodies." Worth reading/unmissable writing from @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.” ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

What would we know about life if we couldn’t appreciate differences?

The really important thing is to try and make opinion increasingly responsible to the facts. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies — Walter Lippmann

RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.

Why don't people in democracies just vote to tax the rich, so they have no where else to threaten to go?

Spread far and wide. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is a hero of democracy as is @hcrichardson.bsky.social. No one is fooled by Trump’s tactics. Anyone who supports the White House’s overreach wants a dictatorship and has no interest in anyone’s free speech or civi rights except their own.

🙏🙏🙏

"Shout out to white women in California who put Mexican flag bumper stickers on their cars to bait ICE into profiling them. It worked. They keep getting pulled over and wasting ICE's time. Be the sand in the fascist machinery." – @1NadineSmith

The point…

This guy is sick…a total abuse of power.

Worth a read…

A friendly reminder as we watch the talks in Washington, D.C. today:

In what way can this be condoned by Israel?

What could possibly go wrong?

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

If a global company is paying its workers so little that they need federal benefits, that company should lose eligibility for tax incentives.

This is what Trump is good at - recognising where Democratic gains have already been made and then pretending he’s the one making the change.

“Since the time colonists first began to contemplate creating their own country, individuals have worked […] to create an inclusive democracy. The Declaration of Independence gave them the language to claim those rights […]to turn the principles of the Declaration of Independence into reality.”