There are levels to the fuckery of Trump investigating Yale for having Black medical students People of color are often better-served by doctors who are also POC, & there already aren't enough doctors of color to meet community needs This'll worsen the crisis ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“There is a real financial squeeze underway. For the first time in three years, inflation is eating up all wage gains," wrote Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. "This is a setback for middle-class and lower-income households and they know it.”

Folks, Saturday is a PERFECT time to learn about some of the most important but under-radar elections happening this year. West Virginia is Tuesday; Georgia is in two weeks; and a lot else coming up. Explore and share!

What's notable to me about the Alito-Jackson spat on Monday is how little Alito's opinion bothers with anything resembling legal analysis. He doesn't respond to Jackson, in any meaningful sense. It's just an angry blog post about how she really ought to be more respectful to him.

For the first time since news of Mississippi’s $77 million welfare scandal first broke in 2020, a judge has sentenced one of its conspirators, even as six others await sentencing.

The abject failure and total incompetence of this administration is astounding. “The 2 week ceasefire plan includes allowing both Iran & Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz…The world had considered the passage an international waterway and never paid tolls before.”

f'real my eyes bulged out of my head Sauer is trying to tie birthright citizenship to whether the parents had 'lawful residence and intent to remain' ACB was like so um..slaves? And Sauer went Well Mississippi said slaves have indefeasible domicile & even if they ran away they still lived there 😐

On this 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, we remember the victims – who were primarily young immigrant women. We also carry forward the lessons of this painful moment in NYC's history. Reckless, unchecked greed resulted in mass catastrophe. (1/3)

This is fascinating because it’s reminiscent of him describing how well the pandemic effort was going. And, well, we all know how that turned out.

“There has been a constant drumbeat…that the party’s progressive wing is full of woke, over-educated scolds out of step with average Democrats. What this data suggests is that moderate Democratic voters are fully in line with the growing economic populism in the party and actually want more of it.”

one stunning down-ballot result in TX last night that folks might’ve missed was the ouster of Dallas’ two-term DA, John Creuzot, by Amber Givens, an embattled former judge who previously clashed w/ the DA in her court 

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extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina via boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Here we have: 1. An anti suffragist white women who believed that women should not vote or be involved in politics, 2. A Black man who advocated that Black ppl be educated on skills that make them better laborers (Black jobs?) but not push for civil rights, and 3.Charlie Kirk. Makes sense to me.

Paramount right now.

“We want to help our fellow Americans so we’re taking the social safety net away from people who can’t pay for medicine on their own.”

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

Meanwhile, in the real world…

Friends. White racists in America have always spoken about Black people in this way. This part is not imported from Germany, it’s homegrown.

I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Can't WAIT to see which justices show up to the State of the Union address Tuesday 🍿

Trump has ordered the Treasury to send him $10 billion in cash & $10 billion for a slush fund (on top of the $200 million in cash stolen from Venezuela for another slush fund), on top of $10+ billion gotten from foreign governments in exchange for favors, but do go on about not taking a salary ...

NEW: When North Carolina's GOP wanted to pass a bill last year to require that local governments comply with ICE, they were one vote down. A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills. Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

So the tariff money he brags about is just gonna go to covering the cost of Trump lawsuits against America? Filling his pockets while regular Americans prepare for massive job layoffs?

They are hiding in homes from a paramilitary secret police force that is trying to ship them off to detention centers where others have been murdered. Where is the lie?

So Obama didn’t take your guns and Joe Biden didn’t take your guns but Trump “you can’t have guns. You can’t walk around with guns.” Unless you’re a Trump supporter who carries guns to BLM protests and murders people, of course.

And this should not be taken as an out for Senate Dems to waiver on refusing additional DHS funding. This is not a “one bad apple” scenario.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Yes, Kristi Noem should be impeached. What we're seeing in the news scares me to death. DHS got $191 billion in the Big Ugly Bill, and she has not come before @democrats-judiciary.house.gov to explain to the American people and Congress how she's using that money.

I’m sorry. Did I miss the part where they called for DHS to remove federal agents from Greater MN as the first step to de-escalation? Cuz without that this is embarrassingly weak but on brand for every company listed.

Walz: "It's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of our state, and today that campaigned claimed another life. I've seen the video from several angles and it's sickening. But I have a strong statement here for our federal govt: Minnesota's justice system will have the last word."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency that this state is exhibiting and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional absolute abomination that is passing for what these ICE agents are doing on these streets."

“This Administration is demonstrating an ongoing pattern of co-opting & misusing laws that were passed to protect Black people from white supremacy to, now, protect white supremacy by silencing its critics.” @jbrownedianis.bsky.social via @therootdotcom.bsky.social www.theroot.com/civil-rights...

This is literally what they said in the Washington Post about LA in June of 2025. The fainting couch disbelief that Americans will push back against tyranny would be funny if it weren’t getting people killed.

I know in my heart that the Siege of Minneapolis will go down as one of the biggest political blunders/grossest abuses of federal power in American history. Just a matter how long that consensus takes. Next week? Next year? Next decade?

Is our national memory too short to remember Abu Ghraib?

The consequence of 92% of Black women saying no to tyranny in 2024.

Is the answer “The United States” cuz he’s already doing that.

Reminds me of last summer in Los Angeles when federal immigration agents tried to declare an unlawful assembly to disperse a crowd they had no idea how to control because they lacked the training to do so — only to realize they needed to ask the local cops, who they’d ignored, to do that. Mess.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

💯 this is not sustainable. Any Senate Dem voting to fund and sustain this violence against the American people is complicit. Period.

Friends, this is unsustainable. We will not make it for 3 years. The American people have never and won’t ever abide by this level of tyranny. It’s not in the DNA. A reactions is inevitable.

Hard to believe The Onion can even stay in business with headlines like these. Full on dystopia. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

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Is someone compiling a list of alleged fraud and abuse in red states involving federal dollars? Would be interesting to see.

So US tax payers fund secret police and black sites on American soil now? I hope federal workers have prepared for another shutdown at the end of Jan. Democrats cannot pass a bill that funds this violence.

This is so funny to me. The Exxon bros do not like Trump. Like, did he call Rex “Trump is an effing moron” Tillerson before the meeting and they laughed at Trump as the pregame?

These are straight up White Citizen Council talking points. That the people who defeated this scourge once are here to see it crawl back out from America’s underbelly 60 years later, breaks my heart.