IOWA RACE UPDATE: Sen. Joni Ernst is OUT, leaving this must-win seat WIDE OPEN. We MUST seize this momentum and take the lead in this race. That’s why we have to ask: will you rush a grassroots donation to Josh Turek’s Rapid Response Fund today?

Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had less than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 90,000. Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have 10 gun deaths per year; the US has nearly 50,000. It’s the guns.

aerie is the first big company that i’ve seen formally state that they won’t use ai-generated imagery. it’s one of their most engaged posts with 33k likes.

Today marks SIX WEEKS since I was elected by the voters of AZ-07. For six weeks, Speaker Mike Johnson has denied them their voice in Congress. That's not leadership. That's obstruction.

One of Mamdani's superpowers is that he doesn't seem to think that people who disagree with him are bad people. He tolerates disagreement with a smile. This has allowed him to bring along a *lot* of New Yorkers who don't necessarily love all his ideas but like *him*

.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody." "We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

One interesting tidbit from the exits: Zohran Kwame Mamdani won 9% of Trump 2024 voters

Literally thought this was an SNL skit.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

today’s mass media layoffs really go beyond “industry news.” we’re watching the removal of the people who explain what’s actually happening to us, beyond canned press releases and official narratives, at a time when we need that the most. healthy democracies need journalism!!

What if Democracy dies in indifference? Deep cuts at behest of Bezos. Exec Editor Matt Murray announces: Sports desk killed. Metro desk down to about a dozen (previously 40+) Hope to keep presence in 12 foreign bureaus (currently 70+ staffers) My story: npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-…

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

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And like clockwork, just days after climate denier Bjorn Lomborg was exposed in the Epstein Files, Jeff Bezos's Washington Post publishes Lomborg op-ed downplaying the climate threat:

almost as if the whole point was always mass deskilling of intellectual workers

This should be a bigger story. A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules. They didn’t follow the law, didn’t follow the science, and betrayed the public

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

This confirms what many of us have felt: This has not only been worse than we’d ever imagined, but also worse than we knew only days ago.

Private prisons are criticizing ICE on their investor calls for not filling up their prisons fast enough. Your reminder that ICE is a for-profit industry — and the companies profiting are big campaign donors to the politicians voting to fund them.