Think you have to retire the phrase “immigration crackdown” when every major violent spectacle — at least those the news is choosing to highlight — involve US citizens screaming “Check my ID!”

Tell us you know nothing of how economics works without...oh, you're on Kudlow's show? That says it loud and clear then.

Oh, please, let's see just how utterly stupid the Dokoupil era can get.

Yes, Joe. We tried to tell you a decade ago.

As a person who has lived life and paid attention to things that happen around him, allow me to say - and I mean this with the utmost respect, awe and admiration - DO NOT fuck with moms.

None of the DoJ people who have been resigning over the last year are squishy liberals. Many likely would have served willingly in a DoJ run by legitimate, lawful conservatives. But this is an unhinged regime of crooks, sycophants, and morons.

Nazification of the Smithsonian: “The letter says that federal funds for the Smithsonian's $1 billion budget depend on the institution fulfilling the terms of an executive order issued by President Trump last March in which he stipulated the removal of "improper ideology" in the museums' offerings.“

I'm not sure most people have any idea how often the answer to "why can't I get the municipal service I want" is "because the police union sends their heavies to budget meetings" I heard WILD stories from a friend who was the arts rep to a midsized town's council. the cops basically had veto power!

Trump is complaining that Bondi isn't doing enough to prosecute his political enemies -- including those involved in the 2016 election and the 2020 election. This is going to get worse. Much worse. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is what happens when journalists decide their role is to police some imagined middle zone that exists halfway between the right's and left's arguments.

Today we commit to making New York affordable not just for artists, but for making art. We are proud to name Rafael Espinal as Commissioner of MOME as we stand with union workers and usher in a new golden age of NYC creativity.

I’m assuming that if it gets through the Senste that’s exactly what he will do. And that too few Republicans will vote to override & it fails. That is a very bad outcome & will harm tens of millions. But it’s also giving in a club to Democrats & saying “please bludgeon me to political death”

You need to, @kaine.senate.gov. There is no if.

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.

You did not see this kind of statement from the Turkish central bank before Erdogan staffed it with sycophants because he had carefully laid the groundwork to do so without resistance over the course of 15 or so years. And then once he did do it, inflation went from 10% to 86% in two years.

It says here that Chuck Schumer has upgraded the Baileys’ concern alert level to “apprehensive.”

Almost surely won't happen, but it should. History will remember that they have done nothing as Trump destroys NATO and Fed independence

You know the thing where Musk seems smart until he starts talking about things you know about? Finance dudes are about to go through that with Trump.

Delusional.

A strong and competent government does not spin out over people putting stickers on parks passes: www.npr.org/2026/01/09/n...

Thank you for this. You reminded me of one of my coping tools -- learned from Louisa May Alcott's "An Old Fashioned Girl -- in which she says something like, "When you are depressed, do something nice for someone else." And the example is starting by sweeping off a neighbor's porch.

Thread. This is the way through.

Thread. Tl;dr: the community came together and pushed them out of their manufactured photo op. There's wildly overcompensating, and then there's whatever Bovino is doing. What a small man by every measure.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Im my ALL IN THE FAMILY rewatch, and it’s nuts how much this show remains relevant. Archie Bunker operates on fear. It’s his default setting. Fear that he’s not important, that he won’t get what he wants, that other people are having a better life than him. Carroll O’Connor was a brilliant actor.

Assume that if you have been ICE spotting in the city that you are on a list. Do not share photos of protests with faces visible. Lock down your shit and make a plan.

How about those of us who don't want to fund DHS at all, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social?

The pathetic flopsweat performances of Noem and Homan on the Sunday news shows is a good reminder that when you staff an administration with hateful stupid thugs, they'll handle the "fucking around" part well enough but will be utterly useless when the "finding out" begins.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson

the shooter is literally on camera saying "fucking bitch" after shooting a woman who had just told him "I'm not mad at you" but sure, people who think this sucks need to tone down their rhetoric

He is clearly a murderer. That's neither hateful nor ridiculous, it's simply objective observation. What is dangerous and hateful is the administration's position that if you disagree with what they say, they will feel justified in continuing to kill innocent Americans.

That second half by the Bears. The Cubs signing Bregman. Do not trifle with a Pope from Chicago. Do not do it.

LLMs are creating two productivity traps; work slop and summary addiction. 1. Work slop is glossy filler + buzzwords that still needs a redo or the trash. 2. Relying on AI summaries feels efficient until you realize nobody understands the actual work. Work slop then drives even more summarizing.

Brazen liars cannot deal with reality or being called out as liars.

This is one byproduct of Trump using up all the MAGA people with attached brainstems in his first term and surrounding himself with nothing but toadies, trolls, Nazis and silicone: He and his people play only to their bubble, and they think they're winning as long as the echo chamber is happy.

I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.

Under New Jersey election law, candidates are allowed a six-word ballot slogan. Under current circumstances, it feels like someone could get pretty far with Dismantle ICE. Restore integrity. Impeach crimes.

I’ve found this post and the many responses to be actually hopeful because a lot of these guys are absolutely gonna drop out long before they get their signing bonuses if everyone keeps screaming at them.

They're on a mission from God.

Donald Trump--and his minions--need to be removed from office, full stop.

If ChatGPT was really as useful as its proponents claim, OpenAI would not be spending nearly this much money on prime-time NFL ads.

Take it all literally and seriously. He just told you he is not constrained by international law. Stephen Miller, a white nationalist goblin, is leading the effort. They're playing for all the marbles. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Trump: “I’m not talking about money for Greenland, yet — I might talk about that, but right now, we are going to do something in Greenland whether they like it or not” “Whether they like it or not” — those old Epstein habits die hard

I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.

Agents like this should be identified and their name and picture posted on a searchable web site with videos and content like this linked to their names

This is a big one. The Washington National Opera was one of the Kennedy Center's few mainstays, and this break is evidence that the Trump-zombie version is simply not a viable arts venue. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

BTW, if y'all don't know, look up Steve Kerr's bio. If anyone knows, he knows.

There is no planning under this administration. Everything is done to satisfy the immediate whim of the Mad King.

Forcing “coal-fired power plants to stay open—even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, & the grid operators responsible” don’t want them. Central planning of the US economy, via the carbon oligarchs at the federal Department of Energy. What can go wrong? 🔌💡