“Anyone who imagines that the unthinkably rich aren’t greedy, because they can already afford to buy whatever they want, doesn’t understand human nature.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ultra-...

A right-on read. There is a huge and important set of policy wins here that could improve people’s health and pocketbooks that doesn’t actually require that much legal change and is essentially free for the govt.

According to the data, wages have been outpacing prices, but people all say they feel pinched. Maybe the way we measure healthcare costs is part of the problem cepr.net/publications...

NEW: A Presidents' Day lesson from Philadelphia. “Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history,“ Judge Cynthia Rufe wrote. This evening, at Law Dork:

“all MAGA will do is help make the United States backward, poorer, sicker and irrelevant.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/turning-ou...

“The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics. Sweeping destruction — rather than careful reforms and policy corrections — is the order of the day." share.inquirer.com/WP9k7m

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

geeze, it's almost as if it's utter nonsense, just like 10000 other investigations over 25+ years have shown. risk years in prison for no reward whatsoever? 🙄 no one does it?🙄 weird! 🤣🤣🤣

Today, construction on the nation’s largest infrastructure project came to a halt - with hundreds laid off - because Donald Trump is out of control. The good news: political pressure still works, and we can use our voices to make sure he doesn’t have the last word.

On a platter, my Liege @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Redistricting between censuses and gerrymandering for political gain sucks and should be ended but FAFO.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Black history was erased from schools and books, so communities shared our stories themselves. Negro History Week grew into a movement long before it was official. Progress came because people organized, resisted, and fought for better.

“agriculture consumes the overwhelming majority of the river’s water. Roughly 70 to 80 percent of Colorado River water goes to irrigation... not all agricultural practices make sense in a desert“ nicholasmonck.medium.com/its-time-for...

“It isn’t built on long-term institutions, and the three rulers who have changed the behaviour of the US, China and Russia are septuagenarians”.

Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

“$175 billion to the Department of Homeland Security, which is about $520 per American, including $75 billion for ICE. And that’s on top of the agency’s $11 billion annual budget”. www.levernews.com/why-america-...

While the Trump administration is forcing the National Park Service to remove mentions of slavery from George Washington’s house, sites like the Legacy Museum in Montgomery continue to tell the story of enslavement in a direct, uncompromised way, making clear the connection between past and present.

This video is now banned for US users on Tik Tok. The platform has fallen to the regime. And this is EXACTLY the kind of footage they DON’T want US citizens to see.

NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Banks decrying proposed credit card interest rate caps are paying depositors 0.1% interest & then getting paid 5% just for putting those depositors' money at the Fed - all while those banks charge borrowers 7% interest for mortgages & 25% interest for credit cards. Think about that.

We're sick of hypocritical political leaders. Join us if you want to elect better Democrats (who don't own and trade defense stocks) secure.actblue.com/donate/comms...

In a note to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, President Donald Trump blamed Norway for not awarding him with the Nobel Peace Prize and linked that with his interest in obtaining "complete and total control of Greenland." 🧵 (1/x)

Florida’s 2026 legislative session is underway and so is the fight to protect our democracy. From redistricting battles to election bills that threaten access, what happens this session will shape whose voices are heard and whose are silenced. floridaphoenix.com/2026/01/13/a...

WATCH— @niallstanage.bsky.social : “It’s surely better for 🇺🇸 democracy that people protest a government agent shooting someone in the head than to be docile or acquiescent to those kinds of actions.”

The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda. Only 57 Democrats voted NO. clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Trump has a new justification for the shooting of Renee Good: disrespect

The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

“IT WAS MURDER” Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026) 👏👏 (📸 Erik Castro)

On this 5-year anniversary of January 6th, let’s all remember that we are not immune from coups and insurrections. We are not immune from authoritarianism. Preventing them from happening in the U.S. requires all of us pay attention and do something to protect democracy.

Venezuela launches crackdown on dissent after US capture of Nicolás Maduro

In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."

Black voters in TN, our political power is under threat. The Supreme Court could weaken Section 2 of theVRA, letting Republicans eliminate 7 Black-majority districts and 7 Dem seats, locking Democrats out outside Memphis and Nashville. Sign the petition to protect our vote: https://bit.ly/48THV0A

Opinion | Kamala Harris wouldn't have ended healthcare subsidies, levied crushing tariffs, defunded scientific research, deported innocent people, pardoned drug kingpins, or run crypto scams. But she might have made another uninspiring appearance on The View. The voters chose correctly.

In 2025, journalists in the U.S. have been assaulted, arrested, and targeted with retaliatory lawsuits, covert surveillance and sweeping secrecy measures. Press freedom is at risk like never before, so we’re fighting back with new strategies. Join us by donating today: freedom.press/donate

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

While my pierogi dough rests, reflecting on how it’s not democracies that loudly celebrate banning activists the way the Trump administration has done here. As I told the EU Parliament in April, the US is now in league with autocracies like Russia.

"When a project that has met every requirement is suddenly stopped without explanation, it is fair to ask whether this decision is being driven by evidence, or by personal and political grievance.” - Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social @SenTimKaine Rep. @BobbyScott (D-VA03) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/afte...

TORRE: “What’s it like to watch CBS right now?” CHUNG: “We don’t.” @pablo.show $PSKY

Rick Steves rules. Good dude!

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

"In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In Washington DC, the dedicated Trump administration operatives who help cover up his vicious sex crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Special MAGA Propaganda Unit. These are their stories."

Y’all, all these white men being discriminated against by the white men running everything is the best civil rights reporting I’ve seen under this new administration. We’ve all been focusing on the wrong things.

After four years of Democrat Party chaos, America is finally under the resolute leadership of President Donald J. Trump, who reminds me of my alcoholic father. by Susie Wiles