@566unicorns.bsky.social
Politics watcher and opinion writer from California
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One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
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Danish military veterans of U.S. wars are feeling betrayed by Donald Trump's threats against Greenland and criticism of Denmark.
Danish veterans of US wars feel betrayed by Trump’s threats against Greenland
www.stripes.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Danish military veterans of U.S. wars are feeling betrayed by Donald Trump's threats against Greenland and criticism of Denmark.
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16 years ago today the Supreme Court decided that corporations could buy influence over our politics. As a result, too many representatives are beholden to corporate special interests rather than the people they were elected to serve.
January 21, 2026 at 9:50 PM
16 years ago today the Supreme Court decided that corporations could buy influence over our politics. As a result, too many representatives are beholden to corporate special interests rather than the people they were elected to serve.
Bessent's "asymmetric information" is the new "alternative facts." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
January 21, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Bessent's "asymmetric information" is the new "alternative facts." www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
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After decades of service to our country, a career that started as a Navy pilot and finished as a three star admiral, I was removed from my position without cause.
I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving.
Join my team at nancylacore.com
I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving.
Join my team at nancylacore.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 AM
After decades of service to our country, a career that started as a Navy pilot and finished as a three star admiral, I was removed from my position without cause.
I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving.
Join my team at nancylacore.com
I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving.
Join my team at nancylacore.com
"The DOJ declined to comment."
A federal judge’s comprehensive rebuke of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) aggressive campaign for California’s voter rolls last week could hurt DOJ’s cases against other states, experts say. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
California judge’s dismantling of DOJ’s voter roll lawsuit could resonate nationwide
A federal judge’s comprehensive rebuke of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) aggressive campaign for California’s voter rolls last week could hurt DOJ’s cases against other states, experts say.
www.democracydocket.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:52 AM
"The DOJ declined to comment."
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one funny ("funny") moment at oral argument today:
KBJ like 'lemme stop you right there' as a white woman in Trump's DOJ tried to argue that Black Codes were actually always unconstitutional and an outlier that shouldn't be part of a history & tradition analysis
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...
KBJ like 'lemme stop you right there' as a white woman in Trump's DOJ tried to argue that Black Codes were actually always unconstitutional and an outlier that shouldn't be part of a history & tradition analysis
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...
The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:21 PM
one funny ("funny") moment at oral argument today:
KBJ like 'lemme stop you right there' as a white woman in Trump's DOJ tried to argue that Black Codes were actually always unconstitutional and an outlier that shouldn't be part of a history & tradition analysis
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...
KBJ like 'lemme stop you right there' as a white woman in Trump's DOJ tried to argue that Black Codes were actually always unconstitutional and an outlier that shouldn't be part of a history & tradition analysis
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...
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Free America: What Comes Next Mass Call
January 22 | 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT
We’ve walked out. We’ve rallied. And we’re turning momentum into lasting power.
We’re building muscle and people power through sustained, collective resistance—and we need you with us. (1/2)
January 22 | 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT
We’ve walked out. We’ve rallied. And we’re turning momentum into lasting power.
We’re building muscle and people power through sustained, collective resistance—and we need you with us. (1/2)
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Free America: What Comes Next Mass Call
January 22 | 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT
We’ve walked out. We’ve rallied. And we’re turning momentum into lasting power.
We’re building muscle and people power through sustained, collective resistance—and we need you with us. (1/2)
January 22 | 7:30pm ET/4:30pm PT
We’ve walked out. We’ve rallied. And we’re turning momentum into lasting power.
We’re building muscle and people power through sustained, collective resistance—and we need you with us. (1/2)
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 19 JANUARY 2026
HONOR DR MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.
I BELIEVE HIS HAND IS ON YOUR SHOULDER RIGHT NOW &
HE IS TELLING US :
"WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD "
HE IS TELLING US :
"THE ARC OFTHE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE"
We Shall Overcome
DAY 19 JANUARY 2026
HONOR DR MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.
I BELIEVE HIS HAND IS ON YOUR SHOULDER RIGHT NOW &
HE IS TELLING US :
"WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD "
HE IS TELLING US :
"THE ARC OFTHE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE"
We Shall Overcome
January 20, 2026 at 12:05 AM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 19 JANUARY 2026
HONOR DR MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.
I BELIEVE HIS HAND IS ON YOUR SHOULDER RIGHT NOW &
HE IS TELLING US :
"WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD "
HE IS TELLING US :
"THE ARC OFTHE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE"
We Shall Overcome
DAY 19 JANUARY 2026
HONOR DR MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR.
I BELIEVE HIS HAND IS ON YOUR SHOULDER RIGHT NOW &
HE IS TELLING US :
"WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULT DAYS AHEAD "
HE IS TELLING US :
"THE ARC OFTHE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE"
We Shall Overcome
I wanted to make lifesized posters of these today and stand on a freeway overpass. Y'all will have to be my audience today. Long live the peaceful message of #DrMatinLutherKingJr #MLK #MartinLutherKing #DrKing
January 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I wanted to make lifesized posters of these today and stand on a freeway overpass. Y'all will have to be my audience today. Long live the peaceful message of #DrMatinLutherKingJr #MLK #MartinLutherKing #DrKing
"This is pathetic."
Indeed.
Gift link in the post thread.
Indeed.
Gift link in the post thread.
My Republican colleagues must take notice:
The U.S. cannot base foreign policy on whether or not a president gets a prize.
This is pathetic.
It is petty and dangerous narcissism — behavior we might expect from a spoiled child, not the leader of a democratic nation.
The U.S. cannot base foreign policy on whether or not a president gets a prize.
This is pathetic.
It is petty and dangerous narcissism — behavior we might expect from a spoiled child, not the leader of a democratic nation.
Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 19, 2026 at 11:57 PM
"This is pathetic."
Indeed.
Gift link in the post thread.
Indeed.
Gift link in the post thread.
"Minnesota is an odd choice for such a huge operation. It has fewer than 6M people—and its % of undocumented residents is less than half the ntl average.
They've misjudged the ground beneath their feet: ordinary ppl for whom watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin."
They've misjudged the ground beneath their feet: ordinary ppl for whom watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin."
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:46 PM
"Minnesota is an odd choice for such a huge operation. It has fewer than 6M people—and its % of undocumented residents is less than half the ntl average.
They've misjudged the ground beneath their feet: ordinary ppl for whom watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin."
They've misjudged the ground beneath their feet: ordinary ppl for whom watching their neighbors being dragged away is an intolerable sin."
"But despite what corp CEOs tell themselves, they do have a choice. Trump is growing weaker by the day. Americans aren’t falling into line behind his attempted authoritarian takeover. On the contrary, their resistance is stiffening.
Franklin: If you don’t hang together, you’ll all hang separately."
Franklin: If you don’t hang together, you’ll all hang separately."
“Even now people continue to treat TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out — as if it were an established fact, although the past few weeks show that it’s just wishful thinking.”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-busine...
@pkrugman.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/big-busine...
Big Business Should End Its Faustian Bargain With Trump
He’s out of control – and if you don’t hang together to counter him, you’ll hang separately
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:56 PM
"But despite what corp CEOs tell themselves, they do have a choice. Trump is growing weaker by the day. Americans aren’t falling into line behind his attempted authoritarian takeover. On the contrary, their resistance is stiffening.
Franklin: If you don’t hang together, you’ll all hang separately."
Franklin: If you don’t hang together, you’ll all hang separately."
"I think the people risking their lives and livelihoods to protect their neighbors are the best of us, and I feel like we all owe them a debt of gratitude."
Word.
Word.
glad to have had a chance to note that the Minneapolitans are great Americans and the ICE invaders are unpatriotic freaks
The people risking their lives and livelihoods to protect their neighbors are the best of us, and we all owe them a debt of gratitude.
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January 18, 2026 at 10:36 PM
"I think the people risking their lives and livelihoods to protect their neighbors are the best of us, and I feel like we all owe them a debt of gratitude."
Word.
Word.
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Thanks to former mental health professional @hartmannreport.com for inviting @gregpalast.bsky.social to write this story that explains what we need to know.
How New Venezuela President Will Save Us from Trump’s Crazy
An OpEd for Hartmann Report by Greg Palast: The Radical Pragmatist versus Rubio’s Vulture
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Thanks to former mental health professional @hartmannreport.com for inviting @gregpalast.bsky.social to write this story that explains what we need to know.
Sober thread. It ends at the precipice of the cliff with the infrastructure of our democracy rapidly crumbling into the abyss. We've been at this point since Trump 1.0 & Biden proved a poor remedy for a polity & dem party asleep at the wheel.
Soliution? WAKE UP and prepare to defend our freedoms.
Soliution? WAKE UP and prepare to defend our freedoms.
So with everything happening in Minnesota, I feel like some people need an explanation of what the Insurrection Act is and isn't, along with martial law (which isn't the same and is very nebulous) from someone who knows what they're talking about. Buckle up.
January 18, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Sober thread. It ends at the precipice of the cliff with the infrastructure of our democracy rapidly crumbling into the abyss. We've been at this point since Trump 1.0 & Biden proved a poor remedy for a polity & dem party asleep at the wheel.
Soliution? WAKE UP and prepare to defend our freedoms.
Soliution? WAKE UP and prepare to defend our freedoms.
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ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
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Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence.
Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.
Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.
January 18, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Calls for people to film events in Minnesota reflect good intentions, but intention without process produces unusable evidence.
Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.
Evidence collected for awareness & evidence collected for legal accountability are not the same activity. They require different standards, safeguards, and infrastructure.
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ICE and other federal agencies are exploiting legal uncertainty to buy our personal information from data brokers without a warrant.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
DHS is Circumventing Constitution by Buying Data It Would Normally Need a Warrant to Access | ACLU
Self-serving legal justification for data purchases is among documents obtained via FOIA
www.aclu.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
ICE and other federal agencies are exploiting legal uncertainty to buy our personal information from data brokers without a warrant.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
Congress must act now and protect our right to privacy.
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It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors!
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
January 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
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How to shut down a racists.
Watch how the folks in Minneapolis took care of this asshole racist Trump supporter who was pardoned for the Jan6 Capital Insurrection. The crowd turned on him and he's lucky he got out of there alive. Jake Lang you are not welcomed here. Fuck Off!
Watch how the folks in Minneapolis took care of this asshole racist Trump supporter who was pardoned for the Jan6 Capital Insurrection. The crowd turned on him and he's lucky he got out of there alive. Jake Lang you are not welcomed here. Fuck Off!
January 17, 2026 at 11:52 PM
How to shut down a racists.
Watch how the folks in Minneapolis took care of this asshole racist Trump supporter who was pardoned for the Jan6 Capital Insurrection. The crowd turned on him and he's lucky he got out of there alive. Jake Lang you are not welcomed here. Fuck Off!
Watch how the folks in Minneapolis took care of this asshole racist Trump supporter who was pardoned for the Jan6 Capital Insurrection. The crowd turned on him and he's lucky he got out of there alive. Jake Lang you are not welcomed here. Fuck Off!
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Experts we spoke to who reviewed Ciji Graham’s case agreed that even if the standard treatment for her heart condition posed a small risk to her pregnancy, the risk of not treating Graham was far greater:
“No mother, no baby,” one doctor said.
“No mother, no baby,” one doctor said.
A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.
In a state that had legislated its commitment to life, Graham spent her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.
www.propublica.org
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Experts we spoke to who reviewed Ciji Graham’s case agreed that even if the standard treatment for her heart condition posed a small risk to her pregnancy, the risk of not treating Graham was far greater:
“No mother, no baby,” one doctor said.
“No mother, no baby,” one doctor said.
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When you lose Piers Morgan.
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 AM
When you lose Piers Morgan.
I hope the 1500 special forces from Alaska kick these puny rookie fascist ICE cowards in the nuts. Tackling a dancing furry is the weakest, most caricature bully thing I've ever seen. I hope that furry was laughing his ass off at his tiny-dick assailants under his mask.
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 AM
I hope the 1500 special forces from Alaska kick these puny rookie fascist ICE cowards in the nuts. Tackling a dancing furry is the weakest, most caricature bully thing I've ever seen. I hope that furry was laughing his ass off at his tiny-dick assailants under his mask.
Marco Rubio used Trump to get "the U.S. military to swap out one dictator for another [in Venezuela].
Like Bibi Netanyahu using Trump to further his interests in Iran, or Peter Thiel using Trump to get Greenland."
Not to mention Stephen Miller using Trump to ethnically cleanse the US population.
Like Bibi Netanyahu using Trump to further his interests in Iran, or Peter Thiel using Trump to get Greenland."
Not to mention Stephen Miller using Trump to ethnically cleanse the US population.
Trump is severing the linkage between the legislature and the purse, and attempting to concentrate access to capital in the hands of the executive. This is not how a president of the United States observing the Constitution operates.
How Trump Turned a Foreign Country Into a Piggybank
And how Marco Rubio used Trump to hurt Cuba.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Marco Rubio used Trump to get "the U.S. military to swap out one dictator for another [in Venezuela].
Like Bibi Netanyahu using Trump to further his interests in Iran, or Peter Thiel using Trump to get Greenland."
Not to mention Stephen Miller using Trump to ethnically cleanse the US population.
Like Bibi Netanyahu using Trump to further his interests in Iran, or Peter Thiel using Trump to get Greenland."
Not to mention Stephen Miller using Trump to ethnically cleanse the US population.