Charles Ponzi had very similar concerns.

"Of 31 people charged in non-immigration cases tied to the campaign in Chicago, charges have been dropped against 14. No one has been convicted." ✊

o'hare forgot to drip the taps

This looks like an indictment. It is. But I see it as a reason for optimism. We don’t need to be exceptional to transform Americans' lives. We need to become average. The solutions exist. We see them working. We have to choose them. And that means fixing our democracy so that it delivers.

Family and work: Parents would get 25 weeks of paid parental leave. Workers would get 27 days of guaranteed paid time off per year. We'd work 231 fewer hours per year—nearly six fewer weeks. Net childcare costs would fall by 60%.

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

Noooooooooooo

This is why your timeline looks like that. 😭

Unbelievable. Cold AF Caleb ❄️

My frents

No cap, I dozed off for a bit in the 3rd quarter. Glad I woke up for the fourth.

This is literally what I've been writing and podcasting about for years. I was planning to do an essay on this, but here's a 🧵. The main reason is psychology. Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently scared of the world.

Oh! Enjoy Chicago from a lake view today!

I saw this post and couldn't remember why I followed the account until I went to the YT page and ... oh yeah that's the reason!

In earlier years, the United States did more than any country to eliminate the use of offshore bank accounts as shelters -- numbered Swiss accounts ceased to be a thing thanks to Washington's reporting and filing regulations. Now we're watching the president use one.

Today’s extraordinary meeting of EU Ambassadors will begin at 17.00 CET and take place in restricted format. Ambassadors will examine Trump’s 10% tariff announcement and coordinate possible next steps. France has already asked for the activation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument.

🚨 Just in: Emmanuel Macron demands the activation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument in response to Trump’s 10% tariff announcement, l’Elysée confirms.

What is the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) that European lawmakers want to activate in response to Trump's 10% tariff announcement? Adopted in 2023, the instrument was designed to hit back at foreign acts of economic coercion. It was inspired by China's trade restrictions on Lithuania. 🧵

A powerful story

Two young men are partly blind because ICE shot them in the face with “less lethal ammo” Both were protesting the killing of Renee Nicole Good Kaden Rummler & Britain Rodriguez are disabled for life and they did nothing wrong ICE enforcement is a disability justice issue

She settled with the city after it promised to reform how it uses less-lethal munitions. But those reforms never came and Tirado (@killermartinis.bsky.social) has spent the years since struggling to hold law enforcement accountable.

When less-lethal weapons are misused, there are virtually no consequences for law-enforcement agencies or individual officers. There are no consequences for anyone at all, other than for the individuals at the wrong end of the launcher. Learn more at Part 5 of THE PEOPLE VS. RUBBER BULLETS.

"The Clean Slate Act will streamline expungement and record sealing statewide, helping millions of Illinois residents hindered by past arrest and conviction records."

A good, informative read. It’s not very long.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

We've also confirmed the news that DOJ is probing Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey for conspiring to impede federal officers — prompting renewed fears that DOJ is being weaponized against the president's political adversaries. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

And he's running as a Republican? Weird, huh?

Hey everyone, great new account to block immediately so they don't get any engagement to drag back to fascism HQ

Not only is this the correct way for elected Democrats to address the current moment, but it will inspire me to donate to a campaign more than a thousand texts and emails ever will.

REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners? TRUMP: I don't talk about that REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?

BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland. The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Biology is so wild. It doesn't respect the rules we make up. We all know children inherit genes from their parents. But it turns out mothers also inherit genes from their children! And it can help them. (But it can also hurt them.) For more, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’ve posted about this before, but about five years ago I got third degree burns up my forearm (and livetweeted the experience) and now you can barely even see the scar because during pregnancy, my sons’ stem cells healed the area. And now my husband’s and kids DNA is testably part of me

Timeline cleanse. Hang in there.

🚨 BREAKING: Over 100 clergy at Target HQ in Downtown Minneapolis demanding justice #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood 🎶 “We can stay here all day, we shall not be moved. We are shopping elsewhere, we shall not be moved.” 🔗 Watch live: www.facebook.com/share/v/1ALf...

Their “news” coverage is spreading so much disinformation and flat out lies needs to stop. www.reuters.com/fact-check/u...

NEWSMAX: If we take Greenland, can we get out of NATO and stop paying $50 billion a year? REP. RANDY FINE: NATO needs the US a lot more than the US needs NATO. Greenland should be part of the United States.

A thing that you can do right now to support your community is to download and install the SIGNAL messaging app and learn how to use it *before* ICE/CBP attacks your city. signal.org

Th NYT got its hands on Grand Jury testimony from GA in which top Republicans mock and express disgust at Trump’s stolen election claims. 🎁 gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Publishers have obviously not heard anything about a certain hockey show.

This is a negotiation for hostages.

"The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses." Properly disposing of this hexavalent chromium costs millions. Dumping it in the river is free. Therefore, EPA says do the latter. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Oh, look. Another war crime. We did a perfidy, which no one has done in so long that I don't even know how to properly make it a verb. Perfidy goes back even before the Geneva Convention It’s one of the older “laws of war”

Holy shit! They’re going after the _bankers_ now⁉️

We need all the Blue States to band together to pass legislation providing clear guardrails for ICE activity:

This!

Apparently the 2nd edition of our book is out today. It is not the book I would've written alone but I am *always* grateful to be able to collaborate with others around tough questions and my coauthors are all awesome people even when I disagree with them, which I don't even do all that much here!

"Fucking bitch." The two words ICE Nazi Jonathan Ross used after he splattered the brains of Renee Good all over her Honda Pilot; two words that perfectly encapsulate MAGA incel red pill bro culture; two words that small dick energy MAGA men with daddy issues utter every single day.