"The exclusion of incarcerated women from protection has nothing to do with crime or justice. It's about power and expendability. Incarcerated women are disproportionately poor, Black, Indigenous, and Latina. We're the women society has always found easiest to ignore and abandon."

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

No mention of Epstein on Page One. @nytimes.com

Epstein makes Page One. If you can find it. @wsj.com

Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/

There's a striking divide between independent economic analysts willing to say the obvious, like Skanda Amarnath at Employ America ... 2/ www.employamerica.org/monetary-pol...

Cash for concentration camps

This was before Bruce; www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHx...

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )

We’re just not a free country. Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

Children are dying in the US concentration camps www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...

Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.

Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.

This. Remember they cut healthcare for this.

Yeah not only are these terrible, they bear little resemblance to other asks that party caucuses are making. I just got a Hispanic Caucus list of "non-negotiables" that has like 20 other things on it. The Senate Dems are squandering the moment in real time.

"Libertad para los niños” or “Liberty for the kids” www.texastribune.org/2026/01/24/i...

💯 creeps have got to go (and be prosecuted when we have a legal system functioning again)

This is what we need to hear from Democratic leadership, not cost of living appeals

Lots of scrambling today by the terrible regime. I want to argue that our goal should be to get Miller removed, that has to be the focus. Noem, Bovino, etc are all just middle managers. The architect of the terror regime is Miller. A thread: bsky.app/profile/simo...

Worth reading, and will be helpful when people start referencing the Dual State.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

From a FB post about Alex Pretti:

How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border. Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE). Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.

I have questions for the NRA

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Take note: this is exactly what happened at the end of Reconstruction. Black people were on their own without any political or legal recourse to the terroristic violence they faced. It is living in a reign of terror with a very violent end.

Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/

'the only solution' An atrophy of the societal imagination.

there is no reason to vote for anything or move any process along at all until the lawlessness ends, at minimum

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

No women 🤷

The F word that shouldn't be taboo. The EU needs to expand and finetune its fiscal engine going to address poly crises.

Care about gun control? Climate change? Gun control? Abortion rights? Gun control? Universal health care? Gun control? Higher education funding? Gun control? Abolishing ICE? Gun control? Ending murder on the high seas? Gun control? Etc. Your platform is <institutional reform>

#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

"If money is the ongoing process of issuing and deleting credits, it cannot be solely understood as an inert quantity that reflects past accomplishments. Money cannot be something we need to hoard to create a livable future." moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/10/d...

Thought-provoking critique

We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project.

FIFA Graft Prize

La famille d’un pêcheur colombien tué lors d’un bombardement des forces armées américaines contre de supposés narcotrafiquants dans les Caraïbes a porté plainte contre les États-Unis devant la Commission interaméricaine des droits de l’homme (CIDH)

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

External to what?

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Ah yes, a useful exhibit for a successful Pigouvian Tax, and why their use as revenue generators is misplaced.