We had a perception of reality before that this was just inevitable: "What are you going to do? Social media is here to stay.“ Now suddenly we’re all saying, "Wait, everybody agrees this is harmful for kids. So why are we giving it to kids?” Including my thoughts:

Zohran is cancelling the NYC Department of Social Services' $9 million contract with McKinsey. Starting in 2022 under Eric Adams the City of New York paid McKinsey $1.6 million to research trash cans.

Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?

Whoa.

"In a letter to employees on Friday, Kirby said United is planning for oil to hit $175 per barrel and stay above $100 through the end of 2027." yeah don't fucking listen to the news but do listen to the airline ceos because they get the real data

PLEASE DO NOT PATRONIZE JBS

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

States have a moral obligation to develop universal health care systems, Pope Leo XIV said, stating that "health cannot be a luxury for the few."

The Arizona desert community of Martinez Lake hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the record for the highest March temperature ever recorded in the U.S.

Reaction of CVS in Tennessee demonstrates how state legislatures offer a real arena in which to wage fights vs the consolidation of corporate power Lets not assume the fight against monopoly power only occurs in federal agencies & courts

On our Commentary page, from @billhogseth.bsky.social ... Before the wave hits: Rural Wisconsin organizes against the One Big Beautiful Bill

There's been a lot of discussion about the echoes of the civil rights movement in the protests today, with people obviously drawing comparisons between the strategies, tactics and coalitions that were vital then and are still vital now. But this post has me thinking about a different echo ...

“The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good [and Mr. Pretti] aren't those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They're those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything.”

A temperature of around minus 10 degrees did little to slow Minnesotans around the Twin Cities on Friday, with businesses closing, workers and students staying home, and demonstrators demanding that federal immigration agents depart. nyti.ms/3Zu4tiB

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Many sympathetic “radical King” accounts still cling to a American fairy tale—the Great Man who had it in him. But MLK Jr came up inside a web of socialist organizers who treated racial & economic justice as inseparable & treated organizing as a teachable craft www.laborpolitics.com/p/who-taught...

It was 10 degrees when they did this.

Important work here from the NYT. Ross wasn’t run over. He dropped his cell phone, which he had shifted to his left hand to draw his weapon. And then he shot and killed a person with the gun in his right hand. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...

Great stat from Joe House on Bill Simmons’ podcast: Teams that play on Thursday after playing an OT game are 6-25 against the spread since 2000. Lions defense played over 37 minutes vs the Giants. Packers didn’t even play 23 minutes. That’s half a game difference on a short week.

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's Perseverance rover.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Is a Big Corporate Cash Grab substack.perfectunion.us/p/the-one-bi...

We cannot afford HR1.... While western WI counties brace for reduced support to essential services, the bill simultaneously delivers substantial tax benefits to the super rich. HR1 delivers $1T in tax benefits to the top 1% of earners, as counties absorb cuts to the budgets for basic programs.

“The latest and most flagrant example of the government’s enabling private sector companies to expand and entrench their power under the guise of protecting American tech supremacy was the launch of Project Stargate,” Singh’s writes. trib.al/5ZCV68J

This month, our members stood up at county budget hearings across four counties in western WI to warn how HR1 (aka One Big Beautiful Bill) will create a fiscal crisis for our county govts and threaten the local services our loved ones rely on every day. Western WI cannot afford HR1.

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Bernie Sanders says on The Axios Show that OpenAI should be broken up. He is the first prominent Democrat to suggest that the government should intervene in OpenAI, potentially opening a key fault line in 2028 politics.

“The answer to federal threats is municipalism. Doubling down on protecting our communities and making sure we have the resources to keep our neighbors safe”

One of the most brutal days in American history, on the brink of 17M losing Medicaid, 3.2M losing SNAP, massive wealth transfer to billionaires, 20x expansion of ICE. But the National Apartment Association (landlord lobby) celebrates this cruel bill as a "95% win for the housing industry."

“It takes more muscular forms of protest and noncooperation, like walkouts, labor strikes, and economic boycotts, to stop autocrats in their tracks…. Coordinating mass action, including organized noncooperation across different sectors and pillars, takes a commitment to big-tent organizing.”

Via "One First," my quick write-up of President Trump's "Presidential Memorandum" purporting to federalize 2000 California National Guard troops; the relevant legal authorities for doing so; and how the move is both a modest *and* dangerous escalation of what's going on in and around Los Angeles:

On this day in 1920, the Ku Klux Klan hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization. Within 16 months, nearly 100,000 new members had joined, and by 1924, there were three million active members nationwide.

The pro-democracy establishment talks about threats and norms, but rarely about the material conditions people are living in. This piece isn’t an attack. It’s a structural critique of a system managing decline while blaming the public for noticing. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...

Learning how to practice democracy at a small scale can teach us how to rebuild it at a large scale Yesterday, over 30 people in Menomonie WI gathered to discuss, plan & commit to win tenant protections in our town This is what it looks like to build an independent political home in your backyard

That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. The political conflict isn’t over, nor is the outcome determined, or democracy destined to be extinguished for good. But let’s finally discard whatever residual notion of “It cannot happen here” is still floating around.

This is our local food pantry here in Dunn County, WI. Last year, 5,000 people used the food pantry’s services. More than 10% of the 45,000 people who live here. Don’t tell me this isn’t class war.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

The ruling class wants us hopeless. Because hopeless people don’t fight back. At GROWW, we organize working-class people in small towns & rural areas to win real fights in western WI. Hope is a skill. We build it through action. That’s why I stood with Bernie Sanders yesterday in Altoona, WI

Make no mistake that corporate media is a mouthpiece for the billionaire class. When they say "personal liberties and free markets" what they really mean is "an ideology that rationalizes the suffocation of working people for the benefit of the super-rich"

Wisconsin is the Dairy State. Today, that means corporate “farms” extract wealth and leave behind poisoned wells while big dairy lobbyists & their politician friends gut regulations that keep our communities safe. If the DNR won’t do its job, then we’ll do ours. We’ll organize to protect our homes

You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

A first excerpt from @chrislhayes.bsky.social terrific new book, published this morning: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I can think of no other way to properly eulogize Garth Hudson’s passing than to put on Chest Fever, turn the volume up, and allow the full-throated power of his organ intro to wash over me in waves

MLK was a great man, but he was just one man. Today, I’m reflecting on the entire movement of people who struggled, strategized, took risks, faced violence, all while keeping a laser focus on human dignity, justice, forgiveness, and truth. Let’s take a moment to let their examples sink in.

The notion of there “being good billionaires who share our values” is an excellent example of why the Democratic Party is currently a failed political institution

The family of David Lynch announced that a worldwide meditation is set for Monday, January 20th, to celebrate the legendary filmmaker's life. Here's what you need to know... / #DavidLynch

Costco workers affiliated with the Teamsters have voted in favor of going on strike if no deal is made ahead of a January 31 contract deadline.