Most Texas Districts Said No to Bible Lessons. The State Could Require Them Anyway

“another attack on the country’s threadbare social safety net by health libertarians whose strategy for making America healthy again appears straightforwardly to mean letting more of the country’s weak and vulnerable suffer and die.”

There are two ways to frame what happened in Fulton County today. A) FBI and others indulging Trump in his weird 2020 obsession B) A threat to future election integrity and democracy itself. Media coverage has been A. But scholars & practitioners who study democratic backsliding see B.

Eight people have died in dealings with ICE so far in 2026. These are their stories

“Masked men shouting at and violently dragging people — most of them, full-fledged U.S. citizens — out of their cars. Agents pepper-spraying protestors while they’re pinned down to the ground. And federal officers shooting and killing the brave ones who chose not to stay silent.”

“the price of allowing the preferences of any president to dictate the policies and practices of organizations…is to destroy the legitimacy of those organizations. The price of letting any president rule over the country with no limitations but his own mind is the destruction of our democracy.”

I’ll tell you who’s not shocked - the -almost 75 million people who voted for Harris.

I haven’t seen this pop up in local Higher Ed news, but with the takeover of NJCU by Kean complete, current NJCU managers (non union) have until 6/30 to accept a voluntary severance. Union staff have not been guaranteed a job past 6/30 either.

Pure evil “5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders: School district leaders argue ICE agents are following students and their parents while driving to and from school.”

“Whatever they want to do, it’s not going to wash away what was done to us and to the Capitol,” Gonell said of Republicans. “It’s about accountability and what was the betrayal [that] was done to not only us, but to the American people.”

“private school choice allows schools to discriminate against certain students, entwines government with religion, involves a large fiscal cost, and has shown fairly poor, or at best inconclusive, academic results. It changes fundamentally all the basic traditions of the education system.”

“European governments have reached a difficult conclusion: The Americans are the baddies now.”

If his lips are moving… FACT FOCUS: Trump highlights familiar false claims as he reviews his first year back in office

If his lips are moving… FACT FOCUS: Trump highlights familiar false claims as he reviews his first year back in office

“economists from across the ideological spectrum warn that Mr. Trump is setting the country on a path that will, in the long run, leave the economy less dynamic, the financial system less stable and Americans less prosperous in the decades ahead.”

"Superior technology ultimately wins out. By the time the automobile industry is dominated by E.V.s, G.M. and Ford might have fallen well behind China, thanks to the Trump administration. This isn’t industrial policy; it’s industrial suicide."

“A new study from a German think tank found that foreign exporters paid only 4% of the US tariffs, with the rest paid by American buyers.”

"Our calling is to hold those in power accountable, reminding them that true authority is measured by how they serve the most vulnerable, pursue mercy, and reflect the justice of God’s kingdom. Anything less distorts the gospel and risks turning faith into an instrument of oppression"

A fascinating exploration of how the University of Austin quickly (and predictably) became just another Right Wing project.

"The review looked at more than three dozen studies and found no evidence that acetaminophen increased the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children." #autism

“Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.”

Champion of the common man right here.

Greenland may turn into this generation’s Sudetenland. Let’s hope, for the sake of the world, Europe doesn’t emulate Chamberlain.

BREAKING - the NY Giants have presented the Buffalo Bills with one of their Super Bowl trophies because they came really close to beating them in 1991

"The Trump administration’s dismantling of federal agencies has hit cancer research hard. It has led to budgets being slashed, grants canceled or delayed, while clinical trials – often the final hope for children with terminal illness – have been suspended or closed."

After 56 years, Indiana University is canceling the MLK dinner hosted by their Black Student Union.

“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

“Trump’s new frankness about the most basic civil-rights laws shows another way in which he hopes to restore MAGA’s sense of home: His administration is going to reclaim the pride of white people who believe that their country has left them behind, no matter who gets treated badly in the process.”

“Out of 49.5 million voter registrations that have been checked, the department referred around 10,000 cases to Homeland Security Investigations for further investigation of noncitizenship, or roughly .02 percent of the names processed”

The Trump admin lied to justify an action? I’m shocked. “Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.”

“In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.”

“6-year-old girl left alone after ICE grabs N.J. dad picking up dinner outside his door 'Where's papi?'”

US tariffs are taxes on Americans. The Trump tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,500 in 2026. They are the largest US tax increase as a percent of GDP since 1993. Impact tracker by @taxfoundation.bsky.social —>

telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

Glad to see my town council (all Republicans) pass this unanimously. Sure, some of them did it purely for the also valid practical reasons, but important nonetheless.

“The footage of an ICE agent killing Renee Nicole Good “has confirmed all the mounting fears about what happens when unchecked, extralegal, and largely untrained military forces are set loose in an American city,”

ProPublica found over 40 cases of agents using chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing.

"Members of ICE conducted raids in Warren Township on Monday morning, removing people from their cars and detaining them in multiple instances "

What to Do If ICE Invades Your Neighborhood

I thought the immigrants stole all the jobs? Did they take them with them when they got deported? “Employers added just 584,000 jobs in all of 2025, a sharp decline from 2 million jobs in 2024. It was the weakest year for job growth outside of a recession since the early 2000s”

“The one constant in Marco Rubio’s career is that he has betrayed every mentor and every principle he’s ever had in order to claim power for himself.”

Just awful. ICE detains up to 10 in laundromat raid, including N.J. high school student www.nj.com/morris/2026/...

This is the thing about Trump - he’s constantly telling us what he will do. Those of us who listen will consistently be told we’re overreacting. Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

What a way to celebrate 250 years, huh?

Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had promised that his panel, which released new guidelines this week, would have no “conflicts of interest.”

This is what indoctrination looks like. Vouchers, Patriotism and Prayer: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake Public Education

"Revulsion and desire are two sides of the same coin, and it is clear that Trump covets the kind of unaccountable power Maduro enjoyed — to enrich his family and cronies, to intimidate political opponents, to muzzle the press, to flood the streets of his country with armed men who do his bidding.”

"US inflation expectations rose in December while perceptions of job availability were the worst in at least 12.5 years, according to a monthly survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

But we can’t afford to provide healthcare to our own citizens… “U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person”

“Trump learned in the final days of his first term that the Constitution is riddled with ambiguities, loopholes and untested limits. And in the years since, he learned it’s nearly impossible to punish a president who decides to test them.“