Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

This was BEFORE he caved... Hard to win elections when you voters despise your leader.

Our grotesque split-screen: starving the poor / gorging the ultrarich "With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars to giant private-equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real-estate investors, and a variety of multinational corporations."

“Loyalty to Trump has helped the president elude political consequences for felony convictions…Now many of his supporters have extended similar grace during a government shutdown that is emptying the pantries and refrigerators of the most vulnerable Americans.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Every article about Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package should highlight his other major accomplishment this year — destroying USAID, which has led to 600,000 deaths thus far, more than half of them children. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

#BREAKING: Senate Republicans nixed an attempt by Democrats to fully fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits after those monies dried up over the weekend amid the government shutdown.

Hold on let me prepare a frivolous $1 billion lawsuit

“All I see right now is wreckage and short-term gain at the expense of long-term health.” The destruction of CDC. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

Gotta log off for a while after this one. Just too much.

A good, heartbreaking piece from @epress.bsky.social on the human cost of Trump's gutting of civil rights enforcement at the Department of Education: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The administration’s fixation on DEI programs has been exhaustively covered. Its abandonment of civil rights law enforcement — which has effectively transported parents and students back in time, to the era before the 1964 Civil Rights Act — has not been. My piece: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

But Trump gets a ballroom and Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout

The peace president who would keep us out of foreign wars!

Shocking that Trump’s favorite ‘chainsaw capitalist’ is not complaining about the $20 billion bailout Argentina is getting & that the billionaires who stand to benefit are also not displeased. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

This both-sides’ing would not be applied to any other country carrying out such a lawless campaign.

“The group chat members spoke freely about… the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Proud of my alma mater today. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

As a subscriber to @nybooks.com for more than a decade, it was pretty surreal to open the mail this morning and see this review of There Is No Place for Us in print.

“Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar” Never forget or forgive that Trump, Rubio, & Musk *chose* to inflict this monumental level of death and suffering on the poorest & most vulnerable people.

no words

"Bucking tradition" is wearing white after labor day, this MFer is shredding the Constitution and tearing the Union apart.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

How soon before reports on poverty and unemployment are also phased out? apnews.com/article/trum...

“In the Fort Worth area… people post on Facebook asking for babysitters who had not had the Covid vaccine. Other new mothers commonly seek breast milk donations from women who were not vaccinated.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Cancel culture. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”

RIP Robert Redford. Working with him on "Reckoning with Torture" was one of the most amazing things I got to do at the ACLU. I'm still hoping that Doug Liman will make this film one day. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

The political juggernaut that Democrats cower in fear of

Ken Stern, the lead author of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, explains why schools like Columbia that have adopted it are fueling a form of McCarthyism from which “we’ll all suffer.” An essential read. knightcolumbia.org/content/a-ba...

Very troubling stuff that I’m not seeing in the corporate media.

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

“They beat me with metal chains. They kicked me… They said, ‘You’re going to die in there.‘“ From Jonathan Blitzer’s harrowing and essential new article on the Venezuelan targets of Trump’s mass-deportation program. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Robert Jay Lifton, One of Most Important Writers Ever on Nuclear Threat, Has Died open.substack.com/pub/oppenhei...

You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.

A dangerous quack lies shamelessly about an unprecedented assault on science and public health, this is how it is blandified.

This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

“Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor.” www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labo...

How to portray an authoritarian assault on public health, independent expertise and the truth as a reasonable undertaking that “some critics” find troubling.

“Our shared commitment to our country, our oaths of office, & our mission of helping people before, during & after disasters compel us to warn Congress & the American people of the cascading effects of decisions made by the current administration” FEMA employees wrote www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

They just decided to torment this man in one way after another for no apparent reason — pure Kafka.

Read @epress.bsky.social "all of this is being done under the pretext of protecting Jews, who alone are entitled to protections that other groups apparently don’t merit. It is hard to imagine a more effective way to breed anti-Jewish animus." @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Hua Hsu considers the budding rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, the two brightest lights in men’s tennis.

By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk. Puffin Foundation Fellow @epress.bsky.social for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Careful, thoughtful @epress.bsky.social on vs “new antisemitism” and the politics of a definition. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Two very good pieces about what it means that universities are using the IHRA definition of antisemitism to delineate the outer boundaries of political speech on campus. Here's one by @epress.bsky.social in the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Wrote about Columbia’s embrace of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which is likely to chill campus speech, violate academic freedom and make Jewish students less safe. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

"What began as a modest effort by a few members of a small congregation to reach out to migrants would evolve into a deep experiment in solidarity — one that would challenge the community to confront its stereotypes of immigrants and change the makeup and the mission of the church for good."