Marcy Sacks

These guys would pay billions to get out of paying millions in taxes.

Disgusting.

If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

We tried that after the Civil War. How’d that go?

This the most anti-American administration in history. Destroying everything good about us, growing all that is bad.

Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. Your tax dollars paid for this ad.

These Elections Could Decide 2028. No One Is Watching Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

My new favorite news photo. The ugliness of these people just leaps right out at you.

The RNC in 2024 gave every delegate a “Mass Deportations Now” sign.

This MI Jewish voter stands firmly behind Abdul el Sayed.

NFL scouts from the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers, Detroit Lions, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Seattle Seahawks, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, Los Angeles Chargers, New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs are at Michigan Stadium today.

This makes me incredibly queasy.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

More like DO(i)J, tbh.

It’s time for Congress to pass a robust anticorruption agenda that would help end the era of massive money in politics that the Court ushered in. bit.ly/4b5yJ9H

This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Ossoff brilliant at this

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

I prefer principled leaders. We need many more like Mayor Mamdani.

Must be nice to be rich.

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

The Trump administration moved today to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate development and other activities in what environmentalists characterized as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

Why do I get calls literally every day from different public opinion polls? Aren’t these supposed to be random?

So, uh, just to be clear: birthright citizenship is for everyone, not just immigrants. It's just that most of us in the US haven't ever had to think about it in our own lives. Take it away, and what replaces it?

I also wonder what it will take for elected Democrats to become serious about judicial reform. Dobbs wasn’t enough; neither was the death of the voting rights act. There doesn’t seem to be a constituency they value more than their cowardice.

What I wouldn't give to just once read a headline that says, 'Internal Records Demonstrate that the President is Full of Shit.'

UnWritten is back. After clearing licensing/editorial questions, the Kickstarter relaunch is live. Short 2-week campaign, limited print run. If you don’t pre-order now, there won’t be extra copies later. Let’s finish this properly. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Open the damn bridge!

Such a disgrace. This guy’s worked his whole life to be selected for the World Cup. He’s earned it.

sign at mt. kisco, new york anti-trump protest this past week:

I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

What an embarrassment

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

If you aren't on Twitter, you might not have seen this! @marc-gregor.bsky.social and @byazuniga.bsky.social are putting together a photo book chronicling the 2025-26 Michigan men's basketball national championship season. It should be fantastic. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it. Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Happy Easter and Happy Passover!

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The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.