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Trump, once again, posted something despicable on social media. But he'll be a former president one day. And he's going to go down as the most disgraceful one in American history because of stuff like this. The list is long. It won't be deniable. It won't be forgotten. Because we won't let it.

My friends at Niemanreports.org asked me to write about the experience of being a journalist on the ground in Minneapolis right now. I knew I wanted to tell reporters elsewhere how even this most hopeless of times has been clarifying and, in some ways, energizing. (1) share.google/ms1wKDQZmgep...

The far right authoritarian party’s ongoing project of Making Nineteenth Century America Great Again - complete with the spoils system, Jim Crow, unvaccinated populations dying, & a federal government that can’t regulate anything - continues apace.

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Tens of thousands of comments were filed to try to block this rule, but this administration has no respect for democratic input and is determined to destroy all expertise in government.

Say it again, Mr Luttig: The Roberts Court has backed the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of the President. And his White House.

“Look at my government now,” writes Hazel Inoway-Yim in an op-ed. “You did this to my family, and now you’re doing it again. You called us enemies and domestic terrorists and criminals.”

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

Deregulated, unpoliced markets are fun right up to October 1929.

"Clearly he’s ready to move on. But we who live here are not. For my household, it’s a memory bank of riveting performances over decades." Trump's looming destruction of the Kennedy Center is a local story, too:

The problem of ICE/CBP reform is we have a monster rampaging through our democracy and are trying to restrict *which* cities it can pillage and *how many* civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...

I wrote about some recent historical parallels. What's good and bad in them.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/historical...

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

Historian here President Abraham Lincoln opposed the Mexican War as a land grab for slavery when he was a first term Congressman from Illinois.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

NEW: South Carolina's measles outbreak has reached 876 cases, and for the first time, the state has confirmed encephalitis—brain swelling—in some children who have gotten measles. Encephalitis can cause long-term neurological damage, including intellectual disability. www.wired.com/story/measle...

Courts are meant to serve as a check on political power, not a branch reshaped when rulings become inconvenient. Expanding the court in the middle of ongoing political disputes sends a clear signal that judicial independence is conditional. 🔗 Utah News Dispatch: buff.ly/SCWO7VY

Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival. As adrienne maree brown reminds us, “What we practice at the small scale sets the pattern for the whole system.”

I don't often wear political t-shirts, but I'm proudly sporting this one today. I'm an immigrant. I teach American (and international!) college students, research the U.S. economy, consult with policymakers, write books, raise my kids, pay taxes, and try to make this a better place.

2/ ". . . The alarmists have been right, and the people telling us to calm down have been wrong, every step of the way."

"It's just being realistic to say that MAGA will try, somehow, to prevent voters from having their say. Will ICE try to prevent blue districts from voting? If that fails, will they reject the results, in a midterm version of Jan. 6? "Call me alarmist, but remember . . ." - @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/2

“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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.

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

These vast new prison camps would allow for the detention of 80,000 more migrants, more than doubling Trump/Miller's capacity for deportations. Yet resistance is breaking out in red Virginia, reddish parts of New Jersey, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Utah, and more. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

I encourage you to consider that the @cato.org is right about this

Good article here. I ask, we should all ask, why Sen. John Curtis and Sen. Mike Lee over and over again vote to give lifetime entire to judges who are not willing to state that the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a violent mob on January 6, 2021. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Oof. This is messy. The Utah County Clerk tells @fox13news.bsky.social's Jeremy Tombs he's identified more than 500 fraudulent signatures on the citizen initiative to repeal Prop. 4: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

The Trump administration's demand for sensitive voter data poses serious risks. Listen to The Briefing with Michael Waldman to learn more: bit.ly/4a0Lilv

"Remembering the Holocaust does not mean waiting for gas chambers before we speak. It means recognizing how ordinary policies - immigration bans, detention regimes, and mass deportations - prepare the ground for mass violence." www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

New postdoc opportunities in my group at Rutgers-New Brunswick, working on sea-level rise projections and/or coastal climate risk assessment & management

Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting judicial warrants for everyday criminals! Imagine if we had to go through the process of a criminal trial for everyday criminals? Imagine if we had to go through appeals! Oh wait, I don't have to imagine. It's called the Fourth Amendment.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Riffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Calling a judge “unelected” for blocking an unlawful policy flips democracy on its head. In our system, elections choose who governs; the Constitution requires federal judges to be appointed, not elected, so courts enforce how they govern within the law and the Constitution.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

“Scientific integrity is essential to a functioning democracy.” Our friends at @ucs.org explain how authoritarianism chips away at truth piece by piece—attacking science, silencing experts, and weaponizing propaganda—and lay out what scientists can do to defend democracy, starting now. ⬇️

“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

The last major treaty limiting nuclear weapons expires in two days—and Trump’s unwillingness to cede American power may escalate the already dangerous game of nuclear chicken, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes.

They want you not to care. They want you not to care that this is wrong and it is happening and it's happening all around us. Most of all, they want you not to care about these people. And we can't let them.

DHS has a Fourth Amendment problem. @hannahajames.bsky.social of the @brennancenter.org explains why the agency’s new policy allowing ICE to enter homes to conduct arrests is not only a break from past practice, it violates the Constitution. www.justsecurity.org/130497/dhs-w...

“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...