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My mind is just blown by how sick and depraved these people are. I wish I wasn't still so shockable. But I suppose that's a good thing.

Bookmark this for 2028.

The animating principle of the Republican Party is reveling in being a bad person

This is one more reason why this horrific ad feels so incredibly gross.

A building, meant as a memorial to an assassinated president can be easily renovated, but that won't happen if he doesn't get his name on it, and it will be destroyed instead. Ladies and gentlemen, your humble and self-sacrificing leader. A building that YOU, the taxpayer, owns not him.

I named my dog "Nature" because he abhors the vacuum.

Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

New at The Watch: I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution. They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Maybe Summers read the new issue of my OUR LAND newsletter on "Donald Trump and the Deconstruction of America," which notes all the daily outrages from Trump distract from the grand master plan of MAGA to transform American society. The big-picture story of Trumpism isn't being told. Check it out.

One thing Orwell couldn’t have prepared me for is the Orwellian use of the word “Orwellian”

Straight out of Project 2025.

"When you cannot distinguish between someone trying to save your system and someone trying to destroy it, you have forfeited any claim to strategic thinking." This piece hits the nail on the head.

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

Wow, this is wild to watch 10 years later. I forgot he campaigned in 2015 as a vaccine skeptic! Nuts.

Latest development in the effort to turn the clock back to the 19th century...

Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.

"It is up to us to get him back. It is up to us to free him because the US is a government still, for this moment, of by and for the people!" Watch @timmiller.bsky.social's speech from the Supreme Court demanding that Andry is freed now. Donate to help at freeandry.org

9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.

Vought is lying. 60-70% of Project 2025's executive action proposals have been initiated or implemented — like gutting education and environmental laws. 30-40% is currently proposed as legislation — gutting healthcare, banking deregulations, voter suppression, and more.

"While narcissistic dynamics rely on urgency and alarm, deep change comes from staying calm, clear and connected."

Good lord. Can we make America America again?

“A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” - Declaration of Independence (in reference to King George III)

"As he manipulates the stock market with his tariff schemes...a word to the wise in these foreign governments can make them tens of billions of dollars. And then they can funnel money back to him through the crypto mechanism. We’re talking about corruption at just an epic scale"

This is exactly what we'd be reading had this happened just about anywhere else in the world. Surreal.

The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

That fear you have, that maybe even small decision to limit what you say or where you go, even for US citizens, it means we’re living under authoritarianism.

A must-read piece. The daily bombardment of horrifying news stories makes the big picture hard to see. This article connects the dots better than anything else I've read. Thank you @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social

Up is down, down is up.

I mean, it's one banana, Michael. How much could it cost? Ten dollars?