MAGA’s Lust for Fascism open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The Emperor’s New Oil Wealth open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

Brazil succeeded in holding coup plotters accountable. "If — when the glass has been swept away & the trials are over — those who empowered, guided, mobilized, and legitimized [the riots] are never held to account, then... the conditions for repetition remain intact.” jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...

📢 Out now in the ❄️January 2026 issue❄️ of #JAERE! 📢 "Quantifying the Welfare Effects of Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Evidence from China" by Qing Ji, Chunan Wang, Xiaoyong Zheng, and Ying Fan. Read it here: buff.ly/mAmBDBU 📈📉 #Econsky

100 years from now, people will look at clips like this and be like "Really, that was the guy?"

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s failed congressional campaign still owes $326,000, including refunds for illegal donations, vendor debts to GOP firms, and penalties delayed as the FEC remains paralyzed. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

Page One in South Carolina: utility bills. $XLU

Is the US headed toward an electricity crisis of its own making? I and several other folks in this article say: yes www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Walz: "Republicans want to tear this state down. Republicans want to tell you it's too dangerous to talk down the streets. Republicans want to tell you there's nothing good that comes out of Minneapolis/St Paul. Republicans want to tell you everybody with brown skin is stealing money ... "

Five years later, January 6 still matters. Not just because of what happened—but because of what happens if we decide we’ve already heard enough. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy

“Dokoupil began an interview with a CBS News medical journalist by asking what this expert would say to ‘parents out there who are celebrating,” because they thought their kids were obliged to be injected with too many vaccines.’ ” variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says U.S. May Be Drastically Overstating Jobs Numbers - WSJ www.wsj.com/economy/jobs... "The country could be losing 20,000 jobs a month, Powell said, a concern that was part of the decision to cut interest rates"

ICYMI: There is a very weak relationship between economic growth and House seat change in midterm elections. Midterms are a backlash, not a referendum www.gelliottmorris.com/p/midterms-a...

The United States Was Not Founded As A Christian Nation - Secular Coalition for America secular.org/2026/01/the-...

In short, you're not creating a "level playing field" if Trump & Burgum are, through other means, effectively imposing a ban on solar power. Unless they stop doing that, any permitting reform is simply a blank check to fossil fuels.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

"the pro-low-income worker tilt of wage gains during the Biden recovery was something we haven’t seen since the “Great Compression” of the 1940s." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-new-k-in...

Trumpian imperialism in action: kidnap the head of the regime, leaving the rest of it in place so as to access the oil reserves for the US companies. Then realize the oil is actually quite expensive to extract, so go ahead and SUBSIDIZE the oil companies. Perfect. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

".. The trader’s final bet came at 9:58 p.m. ET on Friday .. ".. 'It’s more likely than not that this was an insider. That’s a lot of money to put in at that price, without a lot of news.'" @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/americ...

New year, new mayor, new (great) NYC DOT commissioner, same great #CongestionPricing program ... not a bad way to kick off January!

The administration is doing its best to rewrite January 6. But the historical record of what really happened is not going away.

"All this extra motion brings greater risks. If AVs are 20% safer than human drivers and expand total driving by 30%, total crashes would increase by 4%. (The effect would be higher still if people shift to AVs from transit, which is exceptionally safe.)"

Absolutely true, and somehow not-discussed point: The US **ALREADY** has all the strategic advantages it could gain by "owning" Greenland. Through treaties and (until now) close NATO cooperation w Denmark The US has a naval base & 'space force' base there. You see USAF planes at Grndlnd airports

Folks: The attempted coup of 1/6 is screamingly w/us 5 years on—in reality, spirit, & implication. Here are my thoughts over recent years. I’ll never forget the shock of that day. Nor can we all. m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2W-... m.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwq... m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDbJ...

Was not a fan of the Mamdani primary campaign, but since winning he’s made a number of reassuring moves on crime and education and really leaned into housing abundance in a promising way. www.slowboring.com/p/zohran-mam...

This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

Protesters have blocked the streets in Tehran’s Gomrok area as they attempt to take control of all streets in Iran’s capital.

Not only did the man who had tried to nullify the results of a democratic election and incited a violent insurrection return to power without ever being held accountable. He also signaled to the nation that those who commit political violence in his name would be protected and revered.

Trump is forcing dirty and obsolete coal plants to stay open against the wishes of local residents. These plants are poisoning our air and water AND ordinary Americans are paying MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A DAY to keep them open. Join our fight to close unprofitable coal plants: lcv.org/no-coal.

The changes are a “systematic attempt” by health officials “to erode public confidence in childhood vaccines,” said @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social. “Their longer range goal is to make vaccines unavailable by making impossible demands on the vaccine producers” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Note that some of the fraud in MN was discovered by HHS IG, and HHS and SBA IGs were fired at a time when GOP was celebrating the latter predicting he'd find $200B more COVID related fraud. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/t...

In the era of affordability politics, making clean energy cheaper may be a more viable emissions mitigation strategy than making dirty energy more expensive. My latest over at The Climate Brink digs into the debate:

7/Why target Venezuela/Greenland? Because they offer rents that can be extracted and distributed to the insider clique. The broligarchs have a long term interest in these places. techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i...

Congestion pricing has improved commute times, bus speeds, noise levels, traffic safety, and businesses and restaurants have seen more profits. A runway success by any measure. And a model for other cities too. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A malignant narcissist is never satisfied. Tearing apart rule of law in America is not enough. Now he’s bent on destroying the world order that has provided relative peace & stability since WWII. No one has ever made him stop. Not John Roberts, not the voters. www.americaamerica.news/p/this-is-wh...

As of this week, millions of Americans are now paying thousands more for health insurance. If the President and Congressional GOP think Washington has the capacity to "run" Venezuela right now, why won't they fix the insurance cost crisis they've created here at home?

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made huge strides in 2025. For the first time, wind and solar supplied more power than coal worldwide, while EVs accounted for more than a quarter of new car sales.

Less traffic, less noise, fewer crashes, more economic activity, higher quality of life. Econ 101 FTW🥊 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maduro’s mistake wasn’t dealing drugs with cartels, it was dealing drugs with the wrong cartels.