The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

The next Government shut down looms on January 30th. Dems should shut it down with the demand it only reopens after the resignations of Noem, Homan and Bovino. They will have the overwhelming support of the American people.

Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Trump takes gummies

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

> @conorsen.bsky.social

Lovely stuff from John Oliver as always. Any organization Bari runs is simply a vessel for oligarchs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

A bit of linguistic cartography to brighten your day. This map shows how the words for camel 🐫 spread across the Old World.

Yea fuck this keep it closed down come hell or high water

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Atlas doesn’t shrug. It kneels.

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Towns without a monorail will be at a significant cognitive disadvantage.

It's the old Satre quote about antisemitism.

From the FT Alphaville archives: Everything you don’t actually need to know about the economics of Succession on.ft.com/3UW7hC7

I mean at least he's admitting the part none of them dare say: that they think being shaken down by fascists is preferrable to paying more taxes because the fascists are asking for less money

ICE's budget increased so much that they are now just blowing $2.4 million for 25 Chevy Tahoes and custom car wraps. They zeroed out life-saving foreign aid that will ultimately kill 14 million people under the guise of "waste, fraud, and abuse."

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

They want you to be talking about a Sydney Sweeney ad and a Cracker Barrel logo weeks after they gave billionaires a trillion-dollar tax cut paid for by ripping away health care from you and your family. And somehow, everyone's just going along with it.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Setting sun on a full weekend with the family. Museum, CLTFC win, and a new Mediterranean spot.

But clearly, the market likes this:

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

1. Chris Cuomo has posted a blatantly fake video of @aoc.bsky.social It’s so fake that it’s clearly labeled as parody AI at the top. Video on in next post.

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do. Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

2-year olds:

The mother of all front running cycles. Late last year imports starter to pick up, notably from China. The 2018 continued through the next administration but many firms rightly bet that it would escalate via much higher tariffs w/the president’s return. Gains were turbocharged as…

Where is the pizza tracker outside of Skydance or Paramount offices?

China's fastest growing sectors: solar energy, electric cars, electric batteries America's fastes growing sectors: essential oils, cryptocurrency, ponzi schemes

Trump had promised to focus on rounding up immigrants with criminal records during his 2024 election campaign. Government data shows that actual ICE arrests skew heavily towards immigrants without criminal convictions. www.ft.com/content/bba4...

Active satellites Big Brother is watching 👀

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

The path is very clear: Republicans are creating a system to allow anybody—you, me, whoever—to have their citizenship revoked, sent to a prison camp in the Everglades, then exported to a labor camp in a third-world country. That entire pipeline could be in place in 24 hours.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

But we won't get caught like this: youtu.be/CXbncoiKLn8?...

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

Interesting stuff from Victor Vescovo on deep sea mining: time.com/7287891/deep...

This channel has been doing a really entertaining job cataloguing the activity on Mt Everest this year. This story about the sherpas is quite special: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPaF...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...