A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

A remarkable counterpoint to American foreign policy today -- talking "the art of diplomacy" with Stuart Eizenstat, a master at the craft: www.pbs.org/video/stuart...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

'Bitcoin Bros' is out now! Explore why cryptocurrencies and risky digital financial investments have become so intertwined with perceptions of masculinity and gender identity. Get your copy: https://bit.ly/4rwBcjh

“Prior to his arrest, the man was fine. Four hours later, he was taken to a hospital emergency room. He had ‘swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain.’”

For anyone who wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. Do you remember last October? The details slip away fast but holding onto them helps us hold onto who we are joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

'The Folkways of Congress' is out today! This volume examines how the norms of the U.S. Congress have changed and what it means for legislature in an era rife with political conflict. 📖 Read a free chapter: https://bit.ly/49YySvE 📕 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4kjEwvP

It's hilarious that Trump is lazily going through the motions of the National Prayer Breakfast as his cult is planning to erect a literal golden idol of him.

Today is a great day to unsubscribe from WaPo if you've been holding out thus far

Democracy Dies -Jeff Bezos 2/4/2026

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Or perhaps someone else can buy this paper from Bezos—since he seems to view it as an albatross—and donate it to a foundation established to run it as a nonprofit. Bezos gets a capital loss, the buyer/donor is a hero, the rest of us get a world class newspaper. The Knight Institute is ready to help.

I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today. I'm an immigrant. I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

I ask my colleagues in Congress — House and Senate — to join me. I ask the American people to continue speaking up. Your voice makes a difference. #FreeLiam

!!!!! Yeah, Minneapolis, Venezuela, same thing.

It would be cosplay if it weren't so deadly.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

If Democrats haven't announced their proposal for the Donald Trump No Guns in Public bill by the end of the day, they're missing an easy shot

In case you're in Milwaukee the first week of March, come hear how immigration to the Midwest will help the region's economy, despite what some would have you believe: boswellbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Damn. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I love this spectacular Ruffed Grouse Pennsylvania resistance bird by Jen Rand ( @jenrand.bsky.social ). The star is a nod to the Quaker tenet of nonviolence, and the style harks back to PA Dutch folk art.

You know, I had thought that the New York State bird was the eagle.. We do have eagles— I’ve seen them. Not as common as our red tail hawks though, who hang out on skyscrapers and trees and dive bomb the pigeons. But the NY state bird is actually the eastern bluebird which I have only seen in GA.

Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

To be so relentlessly ignorant (and shameless about being so) is also a superpower.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse. Anyone who's had a loved one in ICU knows what angels these nurses are. You're at your lowest point in your life, worried about losing your loved one, and they're often the source of comfort & empathy when you need that the most.

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

COLBERT, on the so-called “Board of Peace”: “.. Paying a billion dollars to obey Donald Trump seems a little steep. After all, CBS got to do it for just 16 million." @latenightercom.bsky.social #$PSKY

If you want one more thing to be pissed off about… www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In the chair for Sunday Rotation tonight on WRTI 8-midnight. 8pm hr will be dedicated to entirely to jazz 🎸 guitarists ✌️

Machado presenting Trump a prize and testifying to his love of liberty and democracy while masked secret police invade Minneapolis, abduct people, and beat peaceful protestors is an affront to every American trying to preserve democracy at home. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-nob...

This is not a sane use of US federal law enforcement resources.

It is hard to explain institutional collapse to voters; videos where state actors are clearly acting in abusive ways explain themselves.

If money is in U.S. government-owned accounts, then the executive can't simply use it in violation of the law, regardless of where the bank accounts are located. Congress controls all "property of the United States." Article 1, Section 3.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...