"The administration is filled with out of touch people living in a bubble."

No more compromising with obvious bad faith actors who want fascism. No more apologizing for their loftiest goals. No more shrinking from bad faith attacks that they’re “too far left.” Just fix shit and hold the bastards accountable. That’s what the people want.

tuck this one away: instead of telling someone with or recovering from covid "feel better!" (an imperative!) or (worse) "get well soon!"—two things someone with a virus with long-lasting impacts on one's health has no control over—try "hope you're getting the rest you need" which almost no one says

The lack of leadership is infuriating, and all too transparent that they are out of touch and couldn't be bothered. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

ProPublica reporters have gone deep on the implements that ICE and other federal agents are using on the streets of Minneapolis. From 2020, on tear gas: "It has been found to cause long-term health consequences and can hurt those who aren’t the intended targets" www.propublica.org/article/tear...

Their challenge coin is a laughing skeleton wearing a crown, with vultures on it's shoulders. Looks less like something you'd give "law enforcement" and more like something you'd give to the death squad of a king.

nice 😎 “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp. Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.”

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account that he personally controls in Qatar. All perfectly routine stuff, right? www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

More economic fuckery: Saks Global files for bankruptcy after Neiman Marcus takeover leads to financial collapse www.reuters.com/business/ret...

U.S. healthcare spending rose by 7.2% to $5.3 trillion in 2024 from $4.9 trillion in 2023, driven by increased health insurance enrollment and a jump in use of medical services, particularly in private health insurance plans, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Wednesday.

We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.

*as an ICE goon is kicking my face in* Hold still so I can scan your code, sir

RFK Jr. and his minions have cut funding for the prevention of suicide, school violence, and training for recognizing and assisting those in distress.

one other thing that will have to happen after The Regime falls is for the 'wellness' industry to be legislatively regulated out of existence

"My deepest fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible. The point is not to get back to normal. Normal is how we got here."

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Plagiarizer says what? futurism.com/artificial-i...

That we're in a place, at a time, when someone has to write this headline, this article — it's almost unfathomable. Please do read @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social's take. www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

Northwestern researchers followed 63 long COVID patients using a mobile app and found women and those with smell or taste loss were less likely to improve. Recovery often fluctuated day to day but was more variable in those who eventually got better. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

was your visa revoked? or do you know someone impacted by this decision? @wired.com wants to know -- feel free to signal me at leahfeiger.86

Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

What we are seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg. The focus on blaming the vaccines instead of the virus will only continue to make things worse. Condemning a whole generation that has not even born yet. #COVID #LongCovid

Recent research indicates higher rates of neurodevelopmental disorders among children exposed to #COVID19 during pregnancy.

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Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

I assume the phrasing "all federal funding" here isn't accurate since that would include all the handouts for farmers that USDA distributes.

State sanctioned child abuse.

Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

"If you take it, we will take every single base of the Americans, from Aviano from Ramstein, from Romania to all the other military bases — [they] will be confiscated, you will lose it — if you take Greenland," Gunther Fehlinger said. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

this is a deliberate, obvious, ham-handed coverup by an administration that hopes to use it to provoke even more violent confrontations to feed their social media addiction

KPFA, 'Against the Grain': 'The Afterlives of Viral Infection' '..a look at the complicated history of long lasting post-viral conditions. Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishment has..ignored..invisible illnesses like long Covid..' kpfa.org/episode/agai...

We have allowed lunatic shit to get normalized. Some of it is the “flood the zone” strategy in action. But some of it is the failure of media to call out bad faith right-wing bullshit for what it is—and I don’t mean in opinion sections. I mean in hard news reporting. Objective reality has one side.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Storied newspaper chain McClatchy recently shuttered its Washington bureau and laid off staff. Now its told union leaders it wants to publish AI-generated stories without human review and create AI impersonations of reporters for podcasts. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...

An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

“On Thursday, the company announced a new “AI Inbox” tab, currently in a beta testing phase, that reads every message in a user’s Gmail and suggests a list of to-dos and key topics, based on what it summarizes.”

The Danish high command clarifies that Danish forces have standing orders to use lethal force to repulse any military attack on Greenland, including one by the United States. Denmark will invoke article 5 of the NATO treaty calling on other NATO members to assist it in repelling the invasion.

Dusting off this oldie that my dad introduced me to when I was 11: youtu.be/-MkRuV0aCcI?...

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

maybe I'm just jaded from spending my entire adult life watching sexual abuse committed with impunity, but i dont think X will suffer any consequences. society likes to pretend it cares about sexual violence, but actually doesn't.

In utero #COVID exposure linked to brain changes, developmental delays, anxiety, and depression At 2 years, 14% of toddlers in the prepandemic group were at high risk for developmental delays, compared with 51.6% in the COVID-19 group. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance. Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...

Member of the ruling mafia party describes US as “dominant predator” in the Western hemisphere.