The only time the US experienced 15%+ growth was during WWII, when the economy was effectively nationalized. Federal spending represented btw 44-50% of GDP, tax rates on incomes above $500,000 were 82% and top corporate tax rates were 40%.

Those sure are words.

A leading historian of decolonization, Fred Cooper, on the uses and pitfalls of the inflationary invocation of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

OK 1 million is sort of a lot.

There is an awesome running gag in the Seth Rogan tv show platonic where he tries to run over/knock over/destroy delivery robots whenever and wherever he sees them.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Has any other president attacked US Olympians as “losers” because they didn’t like him? Of course not. What a disgrace. What an embarrassment. Trump is the biggest whiniest, most insecure, pathetic, snowflake of a man baby in the entire history of politics, nay in the history of the country.

It is a miracle and a scandal that no one has yet made a movie about the US cuing team starting some combination of Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, etc

Trump Admin concludes Trump and friends not in any way involved in in Epstein child sex-trafficking scheme, which really wasn't even a sex-trafficking scheme, despite what everyone has said and the millions of documents and picures and survivor testimony and such. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I like how the Olympic commentators are trying to speak in a very vague way about the Norwegian ski jump suit tampering scandal because they can’t quite say that the men were injecting their penises with strange substances

I would volunteer to get arrested and go on trial for throwing one of these things just so I could hear the Trump Admin try and explain to a Jury why a rubber dildo was a deadly weapon that mask clad and body armored ice goons cowering and fearing for their lives.

Indonesia’s vulnerable democratic system has been under repeated attack from government for most of the last decade. Under the administrations of Jokowi and now Prabowo, a laundry list of actions have been taken to chip away at it theconversation.com/indonesias-l...

@quinnslobodian.com on Musk today on @democracynow.org

This is confirmation of the old canard that getting rid of laws and social prohibitions against old men preying on young girls is a core principle of libertarianism.

Its worth noting that from 1969-1997 the Washington Post published Colman McCarthy - a journalist, pacifist, and educator who taught about nonviolence in DC public schools. Every week readers of the Post would learn about nonviolent activists and campaigns. www.washingtonpost.com/local/its-ti...

My daughter participated in a walkout from her high school to protest ICE yesterday and I had no idea until I got an email from the principal noting hers and others’ absence. I told her that she should at least tell her mom and I afterwards so we can publicly brag about her.

Imagine saying at the National Prayer Breakfast that you love concentration camps and large prisons for the most vulnerable people in society.

This is extraordinary

Trump letting the last and most important nuclear arms treaty expire, as the US, Russia, and China develop new generations of weapons, is a terrifying turning point for the whole world.

Lets get to work.

The fraud, corruption, and financialization of youth sports detailed in this article is completely insane.

Really are there two more gutless, useless, cowardly figures in all of US politics? Fascism is not worth fighting? Masked terror squads murdering and kidnapping people? Do they have any red lines at all?

Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine is a collection of writings by the Palestinian political leader, who has been held in Israeli prisons since 2002 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Wondering if there are activists in Frederick MD and Hagerstown aware of and organizing against this, which is nearly two hours northwest of Washington, DC.

This, 100%. As a constituent, @vanhollen.senate.gov I strongly urge you to vote against every Trump nominee and gum up the works as much as possible.

This is absolutely going to spur record midterm turnout. Pissed off normies are going to just overwhelm these fuckers.

The Trump administration has badly miscalculated that its campaign of terror would cow people in into submission. Instead, it seems to be producing radical civic mindedness, including a willingness to sacrifice on a truly heroic scale, among millions of Americans. This is only going to grow.

Bezos could double the Washington Post’s news staff and the cost would be a rounding error on the interest of his fortune. He’s gutting the post because he hates democracy in any institutions that might in any way hold him and other billionaires even remotely accountable to public opinion.

Resending my pinned skeet to open Black History Month.

Lfg

This is why the Trump administration wants to integrate federal databases with AI technology. So that they have a comprehensive Chinese style system of monitoring the daily lives and online activity of Americans for the purposes of social control and punishment.

This is terrifically sad news. One of the true giants of the historical profession, endlessly curious and creative, and a genuine pioneer of new kinds of international history, especially using NGOs and culture as topics/methodology.

The entire viewing audience for this movie will likely consist of the people that Trump forced to come watch it at the White House. One of the most transparent bribes in history.

Announcer: “First and goal on the Nazis 9 yard line. Schumer lines up, looks at the defense, and calls a time out? Wtf? And now he’s bringing out the punting unit?” Hakeem Jeffries: “this is clever. Because next time they turn the ball over, we will have excellent field position to punt again.”

I was involved in anti-corporate globalization activism in the late 90s and early 2000s, and it was impressive how quickly police in DC and elsewhere Incorporated the lessons of Seattle in Nov 1999. Though community members in cities invaded by ICE will learn from Minneapolis, so will ICE itself.

"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

This is a good conversation, and the participants make an important point: that we should treat the residents of Minneapolis not as “protesters” but as citizens engaging in civil resistance against a lawless federal government employing what we might now reasonably call paramilitary death squads.

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I swear to God, some of the people on Bluesky would denounce the generals plot against Hitler because they weren’t antifascist before them. Literally no one cares that you called Trump a fascist before the Atlantic writer or anyone else did. No one is asking for your approval or permission.

Really, who gives a shit whether or not someone decided to start calling Trump a fascist before you? Are people on the streets Minneapolis or Chicago or Washington asking people “tell me when you concluded Trump was a fascist” and turning people away? This is not about your feelings. Grow up.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

It’s rather astonishing the speed and scale with which mass nonviolent resistance to the Trump administration seems to be spreading. Tactically, it is evolving out of local conditions, and according to local strengths, as one would expect. But people are catching courage and inspiration from this.

This is breaking through to normies.

Right now, Maryland Senators are debating a ban on 287(g) which allows law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. Anyone against ICE should be calling their state representative to tell them they demand that law enforcement not cooperate with ICE.

Oh for fuck’s sake, @governorwalz.mn.gov. Stand up for the goddamn people of your state who are being murdered by ICE. Show some fucking spine. Are you going to do nothing to protect them?

Imagine being MN Republican Congressman Tom Emmers and running *in Minnesota* in 2026 on a platform of “I believe you, constituent of mine, deserve to be publicly executed by ICE if you protest, or even observe them. No you have no right to bear arms. You simply deserve to die.”

Speak the truth, @govwesmoore.bsky.social. ICE agents murdered someone on camera in broad daylight. It was not “a shooting involving federal agents.” Its important to say exactly what happened here. Do not use your office to sugarcoat a public execution by federal agents.

There’s a reason ice agents immediately started trying to confiscate phones. This is a straight up public execution.