“Why do we feel a paralyzing sense of dread all the time?” I type into my Paralyzing Sense of Dread Machine that lives in my pocket.

I'm imagining an emerging technology that enriches workers and is based on stolen corporate patents while also driving up the cost of private jet fuel. How quickly would that technology be regulated out of existence and its creators imprisoned?

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Prosecuting and purging the Republican Party was Biden’s one job. When he failed to do his duty it was just a waiting game to this moment.

Geoff, you are calling the President of the United States of America a liar now, but when it really mattered, you said we couldn't even call the opposition "weird." Tell us, honest question: why are you worth your salary? (And what did CNN get wrong in this story you've denied—you never explained!)

"Oh man... what did I come in here for again?"

These are the words of a weak, incurious loser. “Honest.” “Respected.” Peter Welch is a sad sucker.

I'm confused how an American president can reduce sanctions on two countries currently killing American citizens and others and remain in office. Perhaps 'treason' means something different in the US?

Oh, there's potentially a simple fix: agree to terms with Iran, including binding a commitment to forswear military action against Iranian territory and shipping. Problem is, Trump's word is worth dog poop, and he's characterologically incapable of taking an L.

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

So many average citizens have stood up to Trump. Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting. And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?

Watch this video. This is the start of the MAGA Nuremberg tribunals. We will put Nathan Cavanaugh on trial for breaking the law, and we will put him in prison for a long time. It’s the only way to prevent this from happening again and restore rule of law.

I propose a deal on behalf of the American people: we deliver our executive branch and congressional leaders to the Iranian government to stand trial for their crimes, and in exchange they reopen the Strait of Hormuz

The pathological need to treat a course of action as partially defensible simply because the president did it will be the undoing of this country. Trump is a madman and criminal, an open authoritarian, the case against everything he does is very simple and does not evolve over time

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

"Oh, I didn't want *this* much racism & xenophobia! I just wanted a little bit, the fun kind! I just wanted to say 'retard', I didn't want a eugenicist in charge of health policy!" Oh? You didn't want this? Yeah, fuck off. Fuck off to space. Fuck off to eternity. Fuck off & never stop fucking off.

Headline: Sam Altman Condemns Kindergarten, Little League, Pee Wee Football, Children's Plays and Recitals, Sunday School, Bar Mitzvahs, Confirmations, and Graduations as Waste of Energy

Another great piece from Brian Beutler. I asked David Shor in '22 why Dems couldn't raise the salience of reproductive rights before Dobbs. He told me, "it wasn't something voters cared about much for most of the decade [!]" But salience is about possibility: it's a deliberative thing, not forensic.

John Roberts owns this.

David Shor said to me in 2022, "The issue with abortion is that it wasn't something voters cared about much for most of the decade." Just think about that: a man thought a ranked-issue poll was telling him voters didn't value their reproductive rights enough to be worth defending.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Yeah, it's disgusting and unconscionable that Trump tried to indict six Democrats in Congress for making a video that reminds service members to not follow illegal orders. May I make a suggestion? Stop voting to confirm his political and judicial nominees. Demand he resign.

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

see how easy it is when they're not as rich and powerful? now keep going

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.

The Jones Act raises costs and distorts maritime markets without delivering the shipbuilding it promised. For Maryland, repealing it would mean more port activity and real opportunities for new maritime jobs. Thank you, Bad Bunny, for highlighting the impacts of this harmful, obsolete law.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

Most people won’t do this. The Epstein class is the Epstein class because they are selfish assholes who will do unlimited crime and fuck untold others to get ahead in life. Literally in the Epstein case

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

One anecdote: so much cash has been withdrawn from Minneapolis banks to help families in hiding meet February rent that there is no hard cash left in the system. The city banks are out of dollars

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.

I know there is a lot of legit wisdom out there ready to be shared with Minneapolis—wisdom about tactics, strategy, logistics, social justice within movement politics, &c. But one's right to make all-caps demands of anyone in that city probably lies in inverse proportion to one's distance from them.

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

Data is useful and can inform strategy. But the “popularism” approach, relying on a grab bag of issues that poll well to set strategy, is fundamentally flawed because people’s brains are not linear sums of issue reactions.

Darin's claim that "Parties are pulled the direction [sic] by the most active groups in their foundations" is A CHARMING THEORY. The party ALWAYS listen to crypto, billionaires, Abundance, Matt Yglesias, Geoff Garin, Tony West, Blue Rose… when tf did those entities put in their time volunteering?

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ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

"The Democrats are pushing reforms that they know won’t work because they are doing performative, perfunctory opposition to try to quiet their base, instead of real legislating and fighting to dismantle Trump’s ICE and CBP." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Jeffries is the LEADER of the House Democrats, but he doesn't know basic facts about existing law. So what then does he stand for? What is he fighting for? What is he doing to wield the power that has been given to him by martyrs who lost their lives defending US democracy?? Anyone's guess. /5

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.