Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Attacking anyone who questions his policies using the biggest bully pulpit in the world (no doubt directing vast quantities of vitriol, harassment, threats, etc. toward Hess)

The forgotten hero who helped eradicate one of humanity’s oldest killers William Foege helped give us a world without smallpox. Trump is marking his death by letting measles come back. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Savannah Guthrie, in New Video Message, Promises to Pay for Return of Her Mother The “Today” show anchor, in a message on social media with her siblings, said the return of their mother Nancy “is the only way we will have peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Good morning, #FirstAmendmentPeople. #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FreeAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #PeacefulRedress apnews.com/article/immi...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“MAGA-aligned military commanders” is a phrase that shouldn’t exist. Telling subordinates they have to go see the president’s wife’s bribe movie shouldn’t be a thing either. Even in the best case scenario, undoing Trump’s politicization of the military will be long, difficult, crucial work.

"the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s 'The Birth of a Nation' in the White House in 1915"

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

“She seemed like the model tenant: 33, a nurse. There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black. The rental agent talked to his boss, Fred Trump. ‘I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/u...

“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” he said. “It was the eighties, I was a teen-ager, but I remember it: they put us all in the back.” www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

“Trump treated black employees differently. A former hotel exec said Trump criticized a black accountant: “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.” nyti.ms/3qriGio

“In 1989, Trump took out ads in newspapers urging the death penalty for 5 black & Latino teenagers accused of raping a white woman in Central Park; he argued they were guilty as late as June 2019, more than 15 years after DNA evidence had exonerated them.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Not how the rule of law works. Precisely the opposite, in fact.

US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via @henryburke.bsky.social

X awards $1 million to creator with a history of racist, Hitler-supporting posts www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

The evil that Trump & Vance are doing on a daily basis in our names.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

The new appointee in charge is learning the costs of politicization. He has no criminal justice experience. The people who know what they are doing are leaving. Actual criminal prosecutions are not being done. Authoritarianism inevitably bends towards incompetence.

Full story: apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

The real reason Trump let the New START nuclear arms treaty die--and the especially egregious lies he told while doing so. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A ‘wellness bro’, a cosmologist and an RFK Jr crony: meet Bari Weiss’s new CBS News contributors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rep. James Clyburn’s ‘First Eight’ warns about today’s war on Black wealth Clyburn’s history lesson on the first eight Black representatives recaps the playbook used to strip Black wealth. Read free: wapo.st/4aC2W0c

Psychiatrist Says Kennedy Was ‘Not Accurate’ in Discussing His Keto Studies Dr. Christopher M. Palmer said in an interview that the keto diet, while promising, did not “cure” schizophrenia as the health secretary had claimed. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed... Read free: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Good morning, #FirstAmendmentPeople. #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FreeAssembly #FreedomOfReligion #PeacefulRedress

This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

Would be comical if it weren't so sinister. What happens if they grab voting machines in 2026 before the results are official?

The Trump regime's plan to rig the 2026 election is becoming clearer: - Send ICE to polling locations to intimidate voters - Attempt to federalize the elections and seize control of administration in critical states - Cast doubt on the results and declare they've won - If needed, seize ballot boxes

Using tech to manufacture BS anti-vax claims

Professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social speaks to the danger of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated false claims. “Every American should be worried about that, because if they can lie about this, what else could they lie about?” he says, via @npr.org.

I just read the declaration that Kira Kelley asked J. Blackwell to consider. This immigrant describes being -unlawfully arrested -taken from one overcrowded & filthy prison to another over 19 days -held incommunicado & ICE never telling him a court ordered his release He describes an American gulag

US Citizens Commit 95% Of Welfare Fraud

Great piece on Trump's absurd lie about non-citizens voting www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

The murder of Medgar Evers was an act of racial terror. That fact is not partisan. It is historical. Calling it anything else is not “restoring truth.” It is erasing it.

Real opening for Dems to run as the law and order party. So much corruption. So much abuse of individual rights. So much battery. So much contempt of court. Chaos, disorder. Run as party that will enforce the law against criminal goons. Of course Dems would need to stop funding the criming, too.

"That's just not true, as you well know" -- Sen. Chris Coons is a bit taken aback after CNBC's Joe Kernen pushes the great replacement theory during an interview

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

The silver lining: after the regime is toppled, reconstructionist Democrats will be able to remove fascists from federal agencies via the same mechanism on their way to making a new non-partisan civil service. But the full project will take decades.

To Britt's credit, she apparently is doing some stuff in private. But a few behind-the-scenes phone calls are just not enough given the magnitude of the threat we face.

"This was not the first time Ms. Britt had been disturbed by something she heard about the second Trump administration." "disturbed" is the new Susan Collins "disappointed" You can, you know, do something. There's this part of the Constitution called Article I.

"Ubreu had been detained after federal agents rammed into his car and broke his car window...he had been delivering groceries for mutual aid work through his church when he was detained. She said he’s a legal immigrant." AND they won't give him meds that he'd likely die without. Heinous & cruel.

Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:

"This is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation....What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so."

The NYT editorial board increases its rating for democratic threat on stifling speech and dissent after Minnesota www.nytimes.com/interactive/...