The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

fine, since this is all anyone thinks about anyways

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Wemby is saving basketball. Or at least the All-Star Game. He set the tone to: Actually Try.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I enjoy #luge, but it does look like a spatchcocked chicken in spandex hurtling down the ice. #olympics

STORY: The GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross Bill Ackman gave $10k to was created by a man with a profile image of what the ADL called a white supremacist hate symbol, who called Good “a stupod bitch who got what she deserved.” It's raised over $400k and is still live. theintercept.com/2026/01/12/i...

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.

"As someone who is definitely NOT antisemitic, I strongly believe all the Jews should be sent to their own country on the other side of the world."

People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse

⚡️NEW: Poland Repurposed a Nazi Factory Site to Make TNT to Drop on Gaza State-owned Polish company Nitro-Chem produced 90% of the TNT that U.S. weapons manufacturers used to make "Mark Series" bombs, according to a new report. By Alexander Zaitchik www.dropsitenews.com/p/polish-com...

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

it's so funny how trump keeps keeps threatening to go after bill clinton if this epstein stuff doesn't go away but no one cares

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

Do the math. It don’t add up

They do not have a plan, they’ve never had a plan. They’ve also never had the votes to repeal the ACA which is *OVERWHELMINGLY* popular, nor have they been able to get the Supreme Court to overturn it, so instead they’ve just shut down the entire government to try forcing Dems to stop funding it.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Notable that FIRE (@thefireorg.bsky.social) filed an amicus in support of bullying trans youth. This is why trans people don't trust your transphobic organization, @aricohn.com. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

e pluribus, numnum

🚨Gaza Media Office: Israel Allowing Only 28% of Agreed Aid (171 Trucks/Day); Bans 350 Food Items Israel is violating the humanitarian protocol of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, the Gaza Media Office said Thursday: ▪️Only 4,453 trucks have entered out of 15,600 agreed since the ceasefire began...

The Supreme Court today questioned Trump's use of emergency powers to levy tariffs. Perhaps they're finally realizing what the rest of us already know. Other countries aren't paying for the tariffs. We are. https://youtu.be/AfVGUiet39E?si=d0zTlOiRdMCuv6ke

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Imagine treating your readers with this much contempt (giant image of Ross Douthat).

stay tuned

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?” No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

Those who are most able to fight back are behaving like cowards while everyday people are standing up

1. Most people on SNAP work. 2. They get it because their wages are so low. 3. SNAP is a subsidy for companies who don’t pay a decent wage. 4. Immigrants do not get SNAP.

"Andy Ngo and other far right extremists have been targeting Avalos since at least as early as July and trying to paint her as violent and a 'member of Antifa.' On court record, Ngo has admitted that his social media posts can lead to violence." It's projection from the right. All the way down.

Bird Conservancy of the Rockies loses federal grants over mysterious “DEI” accusations

Proud to say I voted in that poll. For some reason I was thinking it was longer ago than 2011. Feels super long ago.

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

I mean this is stuff I heard Neo-Nazis say ten years ago

tl;dr the CFTC legalized predictions markets recently, so every gambling company is buying an approved derivatives exchange so they too can run prediction markets that exempt them from state gambling restrictions Any semblance of limits on gambling in this country is deader than the dodo

UT System hasn't signed yet. Not too late to contact the board of regents, the president's office, the alumni center, and Development (fundraising). cbsaustin.com/news/local/i...

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. There is no more "center" anymore, despite what pundits say. Watch.

"The UN report, unveiled Wednesday, says changes to welfare systems have made it harder to access benefits by tightening eligibility rules or imposing stricter conditions, contributing to the kind of economic precarity and alienation that drives people to the far right."

The new Pentagon press corps appears to be a who's who of pro-Trump propagandists. And a security nightmare. At least one of these—Tim Pool's Timcast—was tied to a network of influencers that received money as part of a Russian influence operation. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025. This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies. Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024. Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...

None of the people sitting at the anti-antifa round table with Trump today would exist if it weren't for Twitter. None of these people would flourish without rage baiting the algorithms. And this is where we are now.

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…