Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Outside of that the US is obviously massively richer now, 1887 was, in fact, a recession year in a decade of recessions. Which probably accounts for why incumbent presidents/parties lost in 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896.

It's hard to even explain what a disaster this is for the US economy in the short-term — as well as US innovation and industry in decades to come. Immigrants and foreign students at our universities are—as always have been—the wellspring of American invention and innovation.

More American public figures should be making statements like this, IMO. Making clear that when the Trump regime acts belligerently toward European democracies, a great many Americans are on the side of the European democracies.

State supreme court races are some of the most important in the nation. In North Carolina and Ohio, it's the reason why state and congressional maps remain gerrymandered. Not running candidates in what could be a wave year is crazy-making.

The Founders (rightly) thought financial corruption was so concerning they banned it in the Constitution three separate times: the two emoluments clauses, and the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Starting in 2017, America decided it just kinda didn't matter anymore, whatcha gonna do.

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Yet again, markets say the US is hurting no one but itself. US stocks are down more on a percentage basis than (most) of the rest of the world today:

One of the many, many priorities that awaits the next administration is confiscating the Trump Crime Family's stolen loot.

Cannot be stated that the hog people of America not only voted for this, but are too stupid to realize what they’ve done and are offended that someone would treat them this way after they treated them worse.

fascinating to compare how Wall Street reacts to the possibility that a socialist might have some power somewhere versus how it reacts to the concrete reality of a literal madman tearing down the American-led post-WWII global order

ICE is terrorizing schoolchildren in the Twin Cities again today

The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour, and only $2.13 an hour for tipped workers.

One thing most people don't understand is that we in the US enjoy greater wealth funded by other countries because they assume we are a stable and relatively friendly hegemon.

The negligence is deliberate. And deliberate negligence kills in concentration camps.

Wrecking NATO was Putins goal. Trump, Putin’s adoring lap dog, is accomplishing that for him- along with the destruction of America as a free nation and global power

I dunno folks but "follow the laws or face actual consequences" seems like a solid position for a politician to take.

It’s important to crunch the numbers given all the nonsense this administration spouts, but also worth stressing we didn’t actually need new research to know this is how tariffs work. It’s well known, it’s what virtually every economist said, & the administration just plunged ahead delusionally.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

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Yet another example of the idiocy of the Supreme Court’s immunity opinion: If Trump invades Greenland, even for the most insane reason (like not winning the Nobel Peace Prize) and against our obvious national interest, it’s an “official act” that can never be held legally accountable

You, also, wlll be completely unsurprised that Harris & her team actually did their due diligence on <everyone>. You want to be VP for a Black woman running against the far right authoritarians? Yes, everyone better do their homework first. This whole non-issue reveals stuff, but not about Harris.

I feel like this official letter is an inflection point, convincing European elites that not only is Trump genuinely insane, but the people serving him in the U.S. government are either insane or too cowardly to object.

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

cleaning up my desktop and found this little gem

WHOA This is so important because one of the key challenges to restoring a democracy after considerable autocratization is that of "burrowed loyalists" who've captured institutional checks & abuse them to sabotage a return to democracy. Yet targeting them looks like further democratic erosion!

fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?

Precisely the conduct that a federal judge held to be illegal on Friday, and which ICE continues, oblivious to the federal court order. This is a lawless organization.

I understand that it is not NYT convention to simply print WHAT THE FUCK in 128 point font across the front page but if anything deserves it this does

August 2023: 81% 👍 to 3% 👎 the 13 point drop in people who say MLK was good for the country between 2011 and 2023 kinda says it all

BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” — D. Thompson*

The message of Trump’s letter to the prime minister of Norway signals that the president “genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/U0fviLiM

Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?

Americans' economic and political pains mainly stem from unprecedented concentration of our wealth, a few dozen mega-billionaires control 12%. They buy a lot of politicians, media outlets, & influencers to distract from their power by blaming our pain on immigrants, DEI, women's careers...

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -- MLK Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.

More measles cases in one state in four months than in the entire USA in most years.

Christ. We all suspected this. But the narcissistic cockalorum actually put his “if you don’t give me the Peace Prize I’ll start waging wars” threat in writing. The petulant pillock is literally ready to kill people because he didn’t get his Special Prize.

For those looking for a way to incur a cost for politicians associating with Elon Musk's CSAM machine, this might provide an opportunity (especially if you're in KY). Literally taking the proceeds of the Child Abuse machine to run for office. www.axios.com/2026/01/19/e...

This is 100% correct and the EU should do it immediately. The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.

Jesus, legit insane

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

Senator Tina Smith says that she has received reports that another person died in ICE custody today. If true, it would mark the 7th ICE detention death of 2026 and the second public reporting today. It is only January 18th.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.