The American flag comes down under a Trump banner amid stormy weather at DOJ.

This is a level of state control of university teaching curricula you don’t even see in most authoritarian regimes.

The most insane timeline in US history.

Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini was indicted in 2022 for violating federal bribery laws related to illegal donations he made. After Trump won in 2024, Velutini’s daughter, began making donations to MAGA Inc. Velutini was subsequently pardoned by Trump earlier this year.

New level of American exceptionalism unlocked

Good thing that all of our universities kept a level head and didn't make any rash restructuring decisions.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

Wow.

A giant aluminum smelter recently decided to locate in Oklahoma rather than Kentucky. Why? OK has cheap wind power. KY is stuck with increasingly expensive fossil power.

A federal security contractor that received millions from the Department of Agriculture hired notorious Patriot Front enforcer Ian Michael Elliott to work security patrols for the US Forest Service last year. My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Charles Evers met with Trump at the WH back in 2017, so naturally the president waited after he died to desecrate the memory of his brother. appalling

WHY DOES NO ONE EVER POINT OUT THE LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TRUMP *DOESN'T* MURDER?!?!?!?

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

I wish I could interview the artist behind this

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Now more than ever it is essential that we hold on to these facts

NYT publishes soft-focus feature on the shithheel provocateur who led to the terrorizing of Minneapolis. Why? WHY?

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

Bloomberg Law reporting is about as staid and boring as it gets (complimentary). This is basically the equivalent of the A.P. calling for a coup.

“What they’re talking about is a facility between 5,000 to 10,000 humans who will be warehoused in something that was built as an Amazon distribution facility … And the attractiveness of the site is because it’s next to railroads. I don’t like big encampments next to train tracks and all of that.”

It was inappropriate in Scott County, KY.

A Catholic organization honoring Tom Homan is a moral disgrace. A Catholic bishop imparting his blessing on a man responsible for such wanton destruction and desolation is a profound scandal. My latest for @ncronline.bsky.social.

Nursing home industry donated almost $5m to Trump's super PAC over summer of 2025. They then, over lunch at Trump's golf club, urged the president to repeat the minimum staffing mandate in nursing homes. Less than one month after the lunch meeting, Trump administration lawyers ... TAT: [Corruption]

A few hours ago the msm unquestioningly repeated the White House spin that Trump had changed his “tone.”

“I don’t think about her” Brother you tweet about her daily and spoke about her at a rally TODAY

Once you start noticing it you can't stop: when the real Trump falters and is incapable of defending his administration (more and more frequent) the actual Trump is "subbed out" of news coverage for an invented, imaginary, often explicitly hypothetical version of Trump who is reasonable and cogent

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

US national parks told to remove signs on mistreatment of Native Americans, climate, Wash Post reports reut.rs/4rccO6o

Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch, including the very first episode from 1969, the one where Mister Rogers visits, and the episode where Mr. Snuffulupagus is finally revealed. [kottke.org]

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

the left is winning gun rights and the 2nd amendment in the national divorce

As you can imagine, this has been making the rounds in Italian social media, quite the effective way to make ICE unpopular abroad, I’ll say.

the last year has left me with unending faith in the courage of ordinary people and bottomless contempt for the fecklessness of our ruling class

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

If you think I'm joking, I am not. The German Chancellor had to correct Netanyahu publicly.