I went to bed last night in 2026 and woke up in 2003. 😔
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I went to bed last night in 2026 and woke up in 2003. 😔
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
Bravo, Wall Street Journal
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
"See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday"
Gift link:
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
News: "In a rare direct rebuke to a U.S. president, three American cardinals urged the Trump administration to step back from foreign policy strategies and goals that threaten world peace." www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
These will all go to 2026 referendums.
The University of Arkansas's law school just withdrew the appointment of its new dean six days after hiring her because conservative politicians complained that she filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of transgender students
SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”
Via Alpha News
One of the harshest truths I’ve learned from studying psychology is how easily people can defend truly heinous behavior when they believe it’s necessary to protect their own group.
Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”
LOUDER, FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
On this day 134 years ago, Jan. 1, 1892:
Ellis Island opens as America's primary gateway for immigrants, which it remains for over half a century. As immigrants have chosen to become American rather than merely happening to be born here, surely they should be considered the true heritage Americans.
This paraphrase of 60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi in Playbook is really the thing: “declining to air a story because the administration wouldn’t comment for it amounted to handing the state a veto on journalism”
BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) just signed the discharge petition to force a vote on making the DOJ release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files.
She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
Excellent @leedrutman.bsky.social on how it is nearly impossible for moderation to matter much when electoral outcomes are almost perfectly polarized along one dimension - why we need to move toward a multi-party system leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."
BREAKING
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
A federal judge lamented Monday that the Trump administration had doomed five West African men it deported to the prospect of torture and death in their home countries — even though they had won protection from U.S. immigration courts.
“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words”
17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.
"There will not be another American “civil war.” The country is too geographically and economically and socially enmeshed for that. But the lone wolves, the fringe groups, and the homicidally desperate will strike, again and again, killing both the innocent and guilty alike."
We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live
Sarah holds up a brightly colored eel calendar with a moray, ribbon eel, splendid garden eels, and American and European eels, in front of some plants on the sidewalk
Last year we sold 5x more advent calendars than we have this August. Advent calendars are the biggest thing that keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist so this makes me a bit nervous!
These calendars are bright and cute and are full of really fun information about eels!
Get one here: EelFacts.net
