In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

An email dripping with faux mysticism, Harvard name-dropping, and creepy self-regard is not enlightenment, it’s a warning label. If you have real knowledge about Epstein and the machinery that protected him, stop hiding behind cosmic word salad and speak under oath, on record,

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

taps my sign

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

US Citizens Commit 95% Of Welfare Fraud

Amazing that we have a Vice President that does not understand that basic premise of being an American. Time to nuke the Ivy League.

JD Vance is the most loathsome character in American politics, and it's mostly because he's immediately recognizable to anyone with an interest in politics as The Worst Guy From Your PoliSci Class

Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.

If you're thinking about Washington Post, "well, to hell with them, they did it to themselves," then count yourself on the side of management. Because, no, labor didn't do this to themselves, didn't grind the paper down, yank it right, & rip out its spine. That's capital. Now we'll all suffer.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.

BREAKING: a trusted source tells me that The Washington Post also laid off the entire team that manages live video, video-on-demand, and *video creators*. What is going on!

Yes, I know the Post can hire freelancers: my Editor-at-Large @kcchengphoto.bsky.so tells me that Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal also eschews staffers for wires and freelancers. But it leaves photojournalists with minimal financial stability and institutional support in dangerous situations.

INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.

I mean, if nobody at the CIA has put 2 and 2 together on identifying Putin's assets in the US Government by now, then maybe we should fire them all and hire somebody competent, like Barney Fife.

I don’t like this

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

This is the section of the US code the letter cites in the last paragraph. Sounds like the law requires an employee with a whistleblower complaint to inform the IG & the DNI of their intent to go directly to Congress themselves if the Director and IG don't facilitate that process as required by law.

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

A must read! garrickmcfadden.medium.com/i-was-wrong-...

"Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery containing the war graves of dozens of British, Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars, satellite imagery and witness testimony reveal."

The hits just keep on coming. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Speaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.

Every detention center in the US is a Gaza without the bombs. There's malnutrition, no due process, family separation, harassment, sexual assault, LIES, no medical care, no names, no way to contact anyone or a way out, overcrowding, disease, no press, no oversight, and ethnic cleansing.

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...

okay but democratic voters want to abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who works for it, so

ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb The Conversation Compares ICE to paramilitary forces in other countries in making conclusion & how Trump is using it the way an authoritarian does for violence on political enemies bit.ly/46hyKoB

Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes

While trying to make a Fox News moment, he insulted Donald the Hut.

Update: the spending bill passed. No anti-trans riders were included. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The jobs used to be an instant partnership at a BigLaw firm with a litigation practice (and especially if they do white collar defense) The ones that hang on instead of quitting will be lucky to hook on with a wingnut welfare outfit or Stephen Miller's fake law firm.

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

If I Had Legs I’d Hold Myself In Contempt To Get 24 Hours of Sleep, a grueling psychological thriller

Alex Pretti & Renee Good were killed by members of DHS tactical teams. I went long on ICE/CBP's 'Special Response Team' & BORTAC, Homeland Security's paramilitary units that are now using SOCOM-style tactics & firepower for civil immigration enforcement & protest suppression

Buddy that's WHY she's advocating for him.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

It's Elmo's birthday

They weren't rookies The two federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti had a combined 20 years of experience with BP or CBP, and simmered in a toxic culture with an absurd crime rate that must be erased, not "reformed" My new column on what really killed Alex www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

US immigration policy: pushing capital overseas since 2025. 🤡 @bloomberg.com #$GOOGL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...