Last August, the president instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally from the head count. https://to.pbs.org/4qr2xCH

Once again: the Trump administration isn't opposed to clean energy. They're opposed to cheap energy. Because it threatens the livelihood of their mediocre friends who can't compete against cheaper sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

First two human storage facilities slated for PA (off I-78 and in Schuylkill County) to house / concentrate detainees. Kudos to this TikToker who made the video based on a Philadelphia Inquirer report....and to Michele, the Substack re-poster! substack.com/@democraticw...

Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.

concentration camps coming to your neighborhood any day now - looking at you, Berks County, PA. www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Garrett has to be at or near the top of the list of journalists who’ve stepped up to the plate for democracy The officers who murdered Alex Pretti were nurtured in this toxic culture

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Aron Wright is one of those musicians whose songs often get used in TV shows, especially for those moments near the end of an episode where several storylines wrap up wordlessly. (This is one of those songs of his.) See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1qO...

11 people had the right to worship freely, until a Trump supporter shot them at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh.

The press has bowed before Trump for eight years. He learned from their subservience and took the next logical step. It is time for the media to become part of the resistance. Better late than never. We should welcome them with open arms! bit.ly/3Z9W0B6

Our history matters! www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

If humanities were useless AI companies would not be scrambling to ingest all the work of writers/thinkers/artists/journalists/etc. They, in fact, cannot do anything without that kind of work. But devaluing it is a great way to get people to give it to you for free/little $$, or justify stealing it

The US version of TikTok has new Trump-approved owners. @telliotter.bsky.social, senior writer for Wired, talks about the new era of TikTok in America, including a controversial new terms of service and concerns about surveillance and censorship. www.wnyc.org/story/tiktok...

IMMORAL… This drawing was made by one of the 5 year old El Gamal twins. It shows children behind bars with the caption, “I’m 5 years old.” An immigration judge denied them bond, citing “insufficient assets.” These children could remain in detention for years while their case is appealed.

Brendan Carr's FCC is moving to remove the decades-long exemption which network daytime (i.e. THE VIEW) and late-night talk shows have from equal time rules, meaning that if Colbert or Meyers wanted Hakeem Jeffries on this year, they'd have to invite his opponent, too. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Children are being deprived of medical attention! During Trump's 1st term there were 4500+ reports of child #$EX @buse in detention. Oversight & accountability have been gutted by Trump in his 2nd term & thousands of kids have been detained. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/press-releas...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Trump wants to make Greg Bovino the fall guy. He thinks we won’t remember that Vance, Noem, and Miller all called Pretti a terrorist and still refuse to hold his murderers accountable. We can’t let them get away with it.

I say again, this does not even approach a scintilla of the accountability that is required. These are PR moves.

Handmade signs show up after Park Service employees removed the formal display describing slaves in the President's House in Philadelphia.

Oof

Look if you keep talking about non-voters and you're not mentioning voter suppression in the same breath, you're not serious about addressing the problem of people not voting www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...

FIGHT www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

Holy fucking wow.

Consider: What can you offer as resistance? Be creative! Then offer it. This is a great example.

It’s not your imagination. The chaos caused by the Mad King has reached new heights—and we are only one year into his prescribed four-year term. It will likely get worse before it gets better. But we can survive and prevail if enough of us continue to resist on behalf of all of us. bit.ly/4sMdrFv

*DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES

If Republicans retain any vestigial memories of principle or patriotism, now would be a good time for them to act on distant memories of duty and honor to save America. Trump is embarrassing a great nation and endangering global security to assuage his fragile yet monstrous ego. bit.ly/3ZkwYz5

Springsteen at an unbilled performance at a Parkinson’s benefit Sat. in NJ— “…send a message to this President. And as the Mayor of that city has said, ‘ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.’ So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”

There was good news on Friday. Trump backed down—for now—on his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act. Trump’s advisers in the White House are waking up to the fact that the cruel, militaristic tactics used by ICE are angering the American people as never before bit.ly/3Nq2v03

A federal judge in Minnesota just last night specifically ruled that DHS cannot arrest, detain or retaliate against peaceful demonstrators

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

We’re officially 58 days out from the special election on March 10, 2026, to fill the vacancy caused by Marjorie Taylor Greene. If you haven’t requested your absentee ballot yet, you can do so here: securemyabsenteeballot.sos.ga.gov/s/

This may be quite problematic for mail ballots. Many states count ballots that are postmarked by Election Day if they are received within several days. At Trump's urging, Republicans are currently trying to get the Supreme Court to ban these grace periods nationwide boltsmag.org/ohio-ends-gr...

The "We Didn't Start the Fire" tontine is down to three: Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan, and Bernhard Goetz.

Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. He is objectively pro-crime. The Trump administration is a criminal organization. He is turning the U.S. into a mafia state.

One day, the cost-of-living crisis is a “con job.” The next day, he’s flying into Pennsylvania to pretend he’s fixing it. The real con was his promise to lower prices. Pennsylvanians know it's all bullshit. https://apnews.com/article/trump-visits-pennsylvania-e39cd8b6253e521d909370012bf3e7af

The destruction of the White House is such an ungodly abomination that, of course, the New York Jets are involved.

A quick rundown of who I am and what I’m doing. By the numbers.

7 million people joined together & marched in the USA No Kings Protest making it the largest in American history! While other countries joined in our movement such as 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇦🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇵🇦🇵🇹🇪🇸🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧🇦🇺🇩🇰🇮🇸🇻🇬🇳🇱🇯🇵 & many more It is not about the people in power. It’s about POWER of the PEOPLE! #DefendersOfDemocracy

Best I've seen.

Aerial view of No Kings in Philly...spilled out of the Independence Mall venue.

Ask yourself WHY is the ultra right wing zealot, Leonard Leo, spending so much money trying to kill Absentee Voting in Maine??

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Brazil’s stand for rule by law – and civilians

Wow. History made. Clipse just became the first hip-hop act ever to perform at the Vatican, backed by John Legend and the Voices of Free orchestra. They performed “The Birds Don’t Sing.”