Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

as ever: archive.org/donate?origi... The Internet Archive is probably the org I've supported/urged ppl to fundraise for the most, after my own org, #MEAction. Seriously, if you won't miss $5/month, it's always a good time to support the Archive.

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos. American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

Trump promised to lower costs. Instead, thanks to his chaotic economic policies, families paid an extra $2,120 in 2025. Trump’s broken promises have consequences that show up in Americans’ bills.

Parents are afraid to send their kids to school, classrooms sit half-empty, children are being taken to detention facilities. We’ve crossed a line. I stood with education leaders to discuss the growing harm federal actions are causing to children, families, and our schools.

Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March

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.

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

“L’ennemi du bien est le bien”. - Voltaire I’m not fluent in French (or can even carry on a conversation that doesn’t involve a baguette, jamón, and beurre), but I hope this encourages at least a few people to look up the translation and heed the words during these troubling times.)

ICE is an entity that didn't even exist until 2003. Its functions were tasked to other entities for generations. If its thuggery is abolished, those functions return to Customs/CBP. Not so with basic constabularies, organized and maintained in every society for centuries. Abolish ICE. Not policing.

Have they made the final decision to rebrand the FBI as the Fraud Based Institute?

Well, Bezos had to find a way to pay for the Melania “documentary” somehow, didn’t he? ($40 million purchase price and 35 million in P&A) Time for us all to bow to our feudal, high-tech overlords.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... A worthy read during these perilous times.

I’m sure everyone already knows this, but I find it curious that the two federal officers who murdered US citizens over the past three weeks were well trained. Not the poorly trained ICE thugs we see in Democratic cities. Food for thought…

Bill Kristol sees this shit clearly. I don't know how so many elected Democrats don't.

Dear World Leaders, Please consider pulling out of the World Cup. The U.S. doesn't deserve the cooperation of your respective countries, as long as we remain an unwelcome host for int’l travelers (let alone her own citizens). There needs to be a price. - A concerned American and true patriot.

Hello from Portland Maine, where 88 of about 550 kids were absent from my youngest’s middle school yesterday, hiding from ICE.

“A framework of a deal” needs to be etched into his unfinished tombstone when the part time resident of the White House finally passes way.

Every American - Republican and Democrat - should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy. apnews.com/article/ice-...

This is a very big deal. And Powell is a mensch. If democracy survives, he should get a presidential medal of freedom.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.

Epstein Files Are the Law Now — SO WHERE ARE THEY? youtu.be/EPe7udJkYbc

Defeat Fascism With These Paywall-Free, Fact-Based National Newsrooms open.substack.com/pub/publicen... US adults spend 2 hours on social media every day. If 15 minutes of that time was spent spreading fact-based, pro-democracy messaging—reposting across all platforms—it’s game over for fascism.

None at all.

A moral reawakening in America is the answer and the only answer. In politics lies only hopelessness. Thank you my friend, Ian Bassin, and Reverend Raushenbush. substack.com/@ianbassin/n...

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

Scary as hell.

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

Anyone withnessing the chaos and barbarism of the untrained thugs masquerading as law officers for the last nine months understands ICE is raw human trash gathered into a lawless street gang. That's all. This isn't policing. It isn't legal enforcement. It's just incompetent, undisciplined terror.

'America First' was a lie.

If you’re a resident of California, here is a free privacy tool that is well worth investigating. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Please, this should go without saying 😭

A Dem senator pressed Trump's FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, on the agency's independence at a hearing today, noting it says "independent" right on the FCC website. Minutes later, with the hearing still going on, the website updated. The word "independent" was gone. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

My new life goal.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Please read my latest article in Southbay magazine. Available in newstands in SoCal (if such things still exist), libraries (open for the moment until the gov’t defunds them) and online through the link below. www.oursouthbay.com/jack-jablons...

This is totalitarianism. Not rule of law democracy. And everyone who excused thus is potentially signing this nation’s death warrant.

We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence. All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said. Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Slaves built the White House. Modern day slave owners (corporations bending the knee to King Donald to fill their chests with gold and platinum) financed the construction of the new East Wing. Things haven’t changed at all. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

It’s far beyond a perilous time for our country. There are no sides when a President calls for the execution of people who disagree with him. Stand up… before it’s too late.