The right wanted Hunter Biden to stay in the headlines, so he did. They wanted "her emails" to say in the headlines, so they did. They wanted Biden's age to stay in the headlines, so it did. This? Corruption with measurable ill effects on FBI performance? It will vanish before the day's out.

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

It's kind of wild how explicit it's gotten: the GOP is the party for people of low moral character. If you're a scumbag, a grifter, an abuser, or a predator, it will welcome you and defend you. Low moral character is not a barrier; it's a desideratum!

More on why housing is central to climate policy.

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune fortune.com/2026/02/23/h...

🥁 🥁 TODAY we launched a new policy platform: Housing Policy That Solves Climate Change. Americans face a dual housing crisis. Supply shortages drive up costs, and too many people have to drive too many hours to get to their homes, schools, and doctor's offices.

This is so important. Everyone is talking about energy costs these days, but *housing costs* are a bigger portion of family budgets & arguably a more severe nationwide problem. Also, the potential for climate mitigation via more/cheaper housing is *enormous* & under-appreciated. Love seeing this.

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

It is, legendarily, extremely difficult to trim back a federal bureaucracy once you've created it. It's even more difficult when the bureaucracy in question can invoke "security." Which means: if we want undo this bloated monstrosity, we need to demand it loudly, early, frequently, & explicitly.

Tapping the sign.

The American people are systematically deluded about their own country. We have worse health outcomes, more shootings, more people in prison, less vacation, less paid time off, less parental leave, higher childcare costs, higher infant mortality, lower social trust ... on & on & on.

The federal EPA wants to force Americans to give as much money as possible to oil companies. State and local leaders have a duty to their constituents to fight back. Here are 16 ways to cut pollution – by making HOUSING more available and affordable. via @climatecabineteducation.org

Housing👏policy👏is👏climate👏policy!

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

Is this going to be one of those things that everyone assures me they can't do until they do it?

New Congressional Dem report shows that the GOP's Big Ugly Bill is going to benefit Big Oil to the tune of *$3.5 billion a year*. Kinda makes those campaign contributions look like pocket change, no?

Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).

During protests in Iran last month, government forces killed 7,000 protesters, most of them gunned down over three nights. Today big crowds of student protesters rallies at three top universities, chanting “Death to the dictator” and “Our target is the entire system.” Courage.

Trump loves tariffs but the economy doesn't paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-...

About growth in Europe and the US; it’s not the story you’ve heard open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Larry Ellison is buying CNN. That’s a disaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwy...

Exclusive | U.S. Power-Plant Pollution Rose Sharply in 2025 - WSJ www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

and mobility choice is not possible with massive road and highway funding

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The result reeks of a “political deal” in which the president steered the ownership of a major news outlet to his crony. That’s unconscionable in a free society — but a familiar tactic of authoritarian leaders like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/paramoun...

If you want to see where CBS is headed, and what fate might befall CNN, just take a look at the headlines that grace Bari Weiss's original website.

They Helped Women Fight Online Abuse. They Were Barred From the U.S. - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

Bird Losses Are Accelerating, New Study Finds - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

One answer to the puzzle of why Republicans would push policies that punish Republican women is an embrace of Christian nationalist values, such as the idea of "the household vote" i.e., the head of the household decides who the family votes for. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

The SAVE Act requires citizenship ID to vote. It may be that some Republicans truly believe that lots of non-citizens are voting, but that is just not the reality. So who will the law impact? People without ID docs and people whose ID docs are not current - which is mostly women.

New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern?: The SAVE Act is a truly extreme voter suppression bill, but in ways that might surprise you. White Christian Nationalism is driving the bill more than a cynical focus on maximizing GOP vote share. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

My team and I have been anticipating this for months. It is unconstitutional and illegal. The media should note: Last time he issued an EO about voting, we sued and won. If Trump issues such an order we will sue again and we will win again.

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulating by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING: The DOJ recklessly failed to uphold constitutional rights and liberties by allowing the FBI to seize 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, using a faulty search warrant application, former top department officials alleged Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

One measure of economics GOAT - Marginal REVOLUTION marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Quraishi says that if ICE keeps arresting people and detaining them without bond under the legal theory that has been rejected by hundreds of judges, and any of those cases come across his bench, he'll immediately order DHS and DOJ personnel hauled into court to explain themselves.

Susan Glasser: Trump’s Industrial-Scale Lies open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

One of the key reasons the ACA was created was to get rid of these low cost junk health care plans like Trump/Oz are recommending. Now we are going back to that? What a disgrace.

Trump State of Union Reminds Us Repub Party Is Truly Lost www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state... “It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang with cruelty & brutality as organizing principles & violent bravado as main form of polit. expression

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect prospect.org/2026/01/29/i...

Opinion | How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Fact checking Trump’s State of the Union address | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/p...

A SOTU Like No Other open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... "So little truth, so much time"

This is the most important thing happening in the world right now. Trump and Hegseth want killer drones + mass surveillance of Americans. Anthropic refuses to build it. While most tech companies fall in line, they are prepared to pay the price for their principles.