That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

Bad Bunny has done so much to bring Puerto Rican history and culture to the mainstream. Some of the ideas he’s exploring were also contained in an incredible jazz album from 2000, by saxophonist David Sánchez.

Inside the emergency of the Federalist Union Network (or FUN), which is filling in gaps in public sector union organizing and strategizing that have accumulated over decades. Plus, how influx of ICE workers is changing federal unions. From @dankaufman70.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/m...

Absolutely 100 percent unconstitutional.

As promised, today @rooseveltinstitute.org releases a blog post previewing our topline findings from @jacklandry.bsky.social and my upcoming paper analyzing the impacts and costs of the SSI Restoration act of 2024! rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...

NEW from me @rooseveltinstitute.org: The World Trade Organization Sides with China + Rules Against Biden’s Clean Energy Law: Will It Even Matter? Amidst the flooded zone of news in the last few weeks, this development slipped by virtually unnoticed. Thread 🧵👇 rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-wor...

First autoworker contract in the South outside the Big Three. Go @uaw.org ! www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

NEW from me @rooseveltinstitute.org: The World Trade Organization Sides with China + Rules Against Biden’s Clean Energy Law: Will It Even Matter? Amidst the flooded zone of news in the last few weeks, this development slipped by virtually unnoticed. Thread 🧵👇 rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-wor...

Americans still disapprove of the administration’s tariffs by a margin of 2-to-1. A majority say tariffs will be bad for their families in the years ahead, while fewer than one in five expect any benefit. That’s not surprising, given how chaotically they’ve been rolled out. 🧵

On the new "Buy European" plan, via @alicemhancock.bsky.social: "Some advantage has to be given to European companies that are betting on European jobs... Our factories pay for the wealth and the stability of the state.” www.ft.com/content/b92a...

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Breaking Reuters: A team working for Tulsi Gabbard last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines. The goal was to work with the FBI to investigate claims that Venezuela had hacked voting machines in Puerto Rico. The probe did not produce any clear evidence of interference.

It's a new day! @rooseveltinstitute.org has an official DC office in the Golden Triangle neighborhood! This is after over a decade as a New York org with a DC lurker presence in coffeeshops and workshare spaces. We'll be doing book talks, happy hours, and more. Stay tuned!

So many of my @washingtonpost.com colleagues and @postguild.bsky.social siblings were laid off today. Please help me support them through our GoFundMe.

An enormous loss for our community. The real day punk died? Help keep hope alive by subscribing to Chris's Substack.

Very cool job alert. The Democracy Revival Center is hiring a research director. Care about how our political system is contributing to the decline of our democracy–and how it could be revived? Want to write, publish, and edit about it? This is for you! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pure spite. DOT wants to prohibit free buses. That could be a problem for Mamdani in NYC. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The folks at Public Citizen are hiring for a research director for their @pcgtw.bsky.social international division. Give it a look! publiccitizen.applytojob.com/apply/gkJ2jy...

Larry Summers, seen here somehow managing to have the worst gender politics in the room while in a one on one conversation with JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN.

Deep dive into the FOIA process that provided the footage for Netflix's The Perfect Neighbor. www.documentary.org/feature/publ...

NEW📰: A constitutionally sound tax plan to make the ultrarich pay their fair share that: ✅ Targets extreme wealth ✅ Closes trust & inheritance loopholes ✅ Ties payments to cash events, making it enforceable Read our latest from @bdgesq.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4rk6wBM

RFK floating a "friendly destination" for hospitals that source medical supplies domestically. Could include "targeted Medicare payment adjustments to help offset higher costs." subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2...

So, uh, about getting alleys plowed and trash collected – well uh – “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” www.popville.com/2026/01/so-u...

Poorly handled. One *might* have asked for a public commitment to rule out use of force to secure regime change. Even asking about whether the US will forswear using its coercive power to achieve regime change is answered by Helms-Burton and over 50 years of US policy, as Rubio says.

GM is ending the Chevy Bolt EV, but is reshoring some production from China and Mexico due to Trump's tariffs. www.motortrend.com/news/gm-kill...

President Biden's statement on what Trump & Vance are doing to Minneapolis.

NEW📰: Concentrated wealth and power threaten free speech at public and private colleges alike. @lookheron.bsky.social argues the real issue isn’t public funding, but governance, power, and who is willing to defend academic freedom when it’s under pressure. https://bit.ly/4aeVtnD

🚨"A Market for War? The Reinforcing Logics of Europe's Security Turn" is out! What history tells us about the EU's likely political path given today's geopolitics & the emerging European military-industrial complex--& why the EU's new security role urgently requires better democratic accountability.

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Regulation isn’t good or bad by default. The question is whether it serves the public interest. @resnikoff.bsky.social’s report on lessons from YIMBYism offers a pragmatic framework for generating supply—from housing to childcare—for the people who need it most. https://bit.ly/49uNdj8

"Whereas Roosevelt held up the Western Hemisphere as a model of international cooperation for the world to emulate, the Trump administration uses Latin America as target practice." Greg Grandin on how the Good Neighbor League bettered US politics & diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

Jennifer Szalai’s review of Furious Minds was featured on the Book Review this weekend!!! Amazing.

Phife Dawg, circa 1996: "Analyze, that's what I do to emcees That be talkin' 'bout they this and that, money please. Ego, I'm on my own jock skill. 'Cause if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will."

Trump: "I'm the tariff king and the tariff king has done a great job"

Just pause and take that in.

As we await the SCOTUS decision on tariffs as soon as tomorrow, here's a look back and forward to which of the bad options they might select.

JUST IN: Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

After reading a summary of the opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said to the courtroom, which contained SG John Sauer and his deputies: "Seeing who's here, it's not the case you thought." We still don't know when #SCOTUS will release its tariffs decision.

The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down 81k over the last year, & another 5k jobs were lost in November Transportation (especially auto manufacturing), wood, & electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well

Trump: oil companies could be “reimbursed by us, or through revenue” for Venezuela investment. Actual investor: “No one wants to go in there when a random fucking tweet can change the entire foreign policy of the country". www.ft.com/content/84e0...

NEW: Following Wednesday's ICE killing, D.C. residents take to the streets, chanting "ICE out now." A protest at 14 and U streets in Washington, D.C., stopped traffic for roughly an hour on the evening after an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Tonight, a photo essay at Law Dork:

Trump announced new caps on salaries, dividends and stock buybacks for defense companies. Until production ⬆️, "no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 Million Dollars ⁠which, as high as it sounds, is a mere fraction of what they are making now." ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

"Some influential US investors in Venezuelan debt & oil industry players also want to see Machado kept out of any Trump plan..., viewing her as too radical. They prefer what they see as the safer option of working with Rodríguez to make quick profits." www.ft.com/content/0186...

Joint Statement of major EU/NATO countries on Greenland, together with Denmark:

Nicolas Maduro being represented by lawyer for Wikileaks' Julian Assange and Pras of The Fugees. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Come work with us on the Reimagining the Economy team at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ⬇️

South Africa brings us our first League of Nations mention of the day, and it’s not a happy one

Junk fee executive order in NYC, nice one Mamdani. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-do...

From CHIPS director: "The cost of NEPA — that dual risk of delay and litigation—was vastly disproportionate to what it achieved. If the goal is to include environmental or other policy terms in awards, Congress has more straightforward tools." factorysettings.org/p/an-inside-view-of-nepa-in-practice

🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/