Every question to Lutnick on matters of commerce should be prefaced and concluded with "how do we know you're not lying like you lied about Epstein?"

Binance founder pleads guilty to money laundering and other crimes Trump pardons said founder. Binance promotes Trump's crypto coin to the tune of billions of dollars In any other dimension, press would be screaming for Trump's indictment on bribery charges www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

You saw show, now read the book! OK, not exactly. But Prof Jorell Meléndez-Badillo did collaborate with Bad Bunny, and his 2024 book “Puerto Rico: A National History,” looks like a great read.

What’s clever about “Together we are America” is that within the US it’s a message of unity but, given the placement in the program following shout-outs to a bunch of countries North and South, outside the US it can be interpreted as “Together we are the Americas.”

Bad Bunny is KILLING THIS. So good!

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

France has ended up in a strange position after using some €250bn of tax-payer money to build a fleet of nuclear power stations. Wind and solar power is merrily entering the French power market at prices nuclear production can't match, resulting in huge surpluses of power. 1/

AFT teachers showing how union power helps build community power. “They thought the cold would keep us inside. They thought fear would keep us quiet. They were wrong.” youtu.be/t4r7tJ9oZT4?...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

All I’ll say is we didn’t have a winter like this for all of Bill de Blasio's eight years since he put the fear of FUCKING GOD into the groundhogs.

In the tsunami of scary things and awful crap we live in now, this is a small one. But if I was writing a history of this era, this is the epitome of the Gilded Age 2.0

In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history: “On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Please correct this headline @apnews.com. All humans are primates. That’s a biology. What Trump posted was a depiction of the first Black U.S. president and First Lady as chimpanzees. That’s racist. (Please repost to get an AP editor’s attention on this.)

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.

Organizers of the National Prayer Breakfast invite Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez, the dictator of El Salvador, best know for his torture camps and friendly relations with drug cartels, as a featured speaker. The invitation is a good demonstration of the political values of Christian Nationalists.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The fallout from the Epstein files is going to make Me Too look like a picnic

Bizarre report basically saying Tesla has failed as an electric vehicle maker despite having first mover advantage - but keep investing because it will dominate driverless cars, robots and AI where it faces competition with more developed products. It's a cult. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/m...

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

Despite the Trump administration's gaslighting, only 22% of voters think the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti was justified — including only 16% of Independents — according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

Nothing like sitting down to a woke oatmeal-flaxseed-berry breakfast, laughing along w @volts.wtf about “reactionary centrism,” only to get a sick feeling in my stomach as I realize that I’m not as careful as I used to be about criticizing our side while being clear that Rs are the main culprit ;)

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

This is the key story of Minneapolis- mass organizing of a significant percentage of the population. Rallies are great but building trained networks of activists with real skills to challenge autocracy is the key to defeating the far right over the long term.

Judge Biery is a bad ass www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nervous that Trump and the Rs will steal the election in November 2026? There's a super easy way to turn that fear into hope: Start talking to the people you care about. /1

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

I was a little late to catch up with this WSJ kleptocracy story. We already knew Sheikh Tahnoon dropped $2b on World Liberty Financial to get Trump to let UAE import advanced chips. Now we learn Tahnoon also purchased 49 percent of World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I like this critique of my post! But I also think it undervalues the practical, pragmatic amount of work AI can do right now (even including its error rate). My fear remains that thoughtful critics don't see the the full risks (& benefits) of AI because they do not see its current effectiveness.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Putting down a marker here: when I finish my book, I’ll try to recruit some skilled developers to build a course called “Software Engineering for Plumbers and Poets” – or something like that. /1

Mamdani is doing what 99% of politicians fail to do- which is educate public about how government works, which helps stop bullshit propaganda against it. This is essentially Schoolhouse Rock civics but desperately needed in a time of Trumpist civic nihilism.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

Pundits: this seems like a bit of an overreaction. Mamdani is a Luddite! “the bot provided answers that, if followed, would lead to illegal behavior by businesses, like taking a cut of employees’ tips” Pundits: (crickets)

Trump & the Supreme Court think ICE should have more immunity to local laws than the British Crown soldiers had under Boston law. Notably, it was our second President, John Adams, who represented the soldiers at trial. Demanding ICE have no more immunity than Redcoats seems a minimal demand.

As of today, 25 out of 50 US states have introduced plug-in solar legislation.

It is delightfully strange for New Yorkers to have a humane and cuddly mayor. If I saw a photo of Giuliani with his arms wrapped around a bunch of kids, I’d assume he was trying to arrest them.

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

Given whom Mamdani’s hired, my guess is we’ll see him create initiatives in other areas that use a similar strategy. Sometimes winning is about building up enough grassroots power that you can smack the people fighting it upside the head. But sometimes it’s just about about ungunking the system.

Feeling exhausted by the first few weeks of 2026? No, there are no cute puppies or kitties in this episode. But there is a fascinating, incredibly hopeful discussion about the little nerdy moves that can radically cut the cost of rooftop solar in the US. Another brilliant interview by @volts.wtf

Trump: yes, I am saying the loud part very loudly and beautifully — the Minnesota occupation is a variation of what we did in Venezuela

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Is the National Guard still in DC? Because we could use the roads plowed.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...