Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for Religion Dispatches religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-just…

“The United States under Trump is dark, aggressive, and lawless. It has become…a predator nation. This period of our history will eventually be judged, and the verdict will be unforgiving” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

Your daily reminder that the Trump administration was required by a veto-proof law it signed to release all of the Epstein Files last month, and so far has released just zero point six percent (0.6%) of those files.

You know things are bad when the most boring person doing the most boring job for decades has to come out and say, “Stop trying to arrest us for doing math”

FBI raid of reporter’s home is a “Tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press” says major legal group defending free press: rcfp.org/fbi-search-was…

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-ic…

The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering vox.com/politics/47519…

People pretending there is a GOP right now is amusing. There is no party until they act in the interest of more than one man.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune compiled a chilling recap of multiple incidents showing ICE agents escalating aggression toward innocent bystanders including detainments, threats of violence, and physical abuse. This isn’t law and order. It’s state violence.

Bari held a meticulously reported 60 Minutes piece about CECOT for “more reporting”—specifically, comment from the administration, which they’d already declined—but greenlit this based only on what two anonymous US officials claimed. Sounds like her standard for reporting is

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Republican-Appointed Federal Judge Rules That Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio "Illegally Conspired" to Arrest and Cage People Exercising Their First Amendment Rights—and Notes Rubio As Highest-Ranking Official Ever to Run Such a Conspiracy washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01…

A Russian schoolteacher secretly filmed his own workplace as it was turned into a war propaganda machine. That footage is now part of a documentary shortlisted for an Oscar. Here’s the story behind ‘Mr Nobody in Russia’:👇 [1/12]

Earlier today, the Trump administration was exposed for hiding a student loan report that was required to be written by federal law. The report exposed a tuition price-setting scheme. The Student Loan Report the Trump Administration Didn’t Want Published prospect.org/2026/01/16/stu…

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

This is a must-listen discussion that will shake anyone complacent about the 2026 Election - our guest warns that Trump won’t yield power. Here: newyorker.com/podcast/politi…

There is no world in which it’s legal to unload a can of pepper spray in the face of someone who is recording from 15-20 feet away from the action. That’s just criminal assault, not a valid law enforcement use of munitions.

Lifting every American over the poverty line with just straight up cash in the entire country would cost around $168 billion annually.

ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. propublica.org/article/billio…

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%. The

Incredible results out today. The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines- is now cutting melanoma recurrence and death nearly in HALF by training the immune system to recognize cancer. This is why we fund science and support mRNA technology.