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January 21, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
I first noticed @marisakabas.bsky.social's byline a few years ago, when she interviewed the Kansas editor whose home was raided by cops.

I don't know of any independent, solo journalist who does--as she did here--more actual reporting, as contrasted to bullshitting, about big news events.

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marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.

My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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mollyjeffery.bsky.social
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
A letterpress card in cream with all caps writing: R.E.M. GAVE ME UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS FOR HOW I'D FEEL AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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jamesmartinsj.bsky.social
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...
Cardinals urge Trump to step back from threats on Greenland and Venezuela
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
January 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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jkuznicki.bsky.social
I wonder what happens when you subsidize demand
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d
President Trump will next week unveil a plan for letting savers in 401(k) retirement plans to use some of their money for down payments on a home purchase, according to National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.
Trump to Announce 401(k) Home Investment Plan at Davos
President Donald Trump will next week unveil a plan for letting savers in 401(k) retirement plans use some of their money for down payments on a home purchase, according to National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett.
bloom.bg
January 16, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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annecaprara.bsky.social
I implore my fellow Dems not to overthink this. You can just say - I’m against the government shooting people in the face for no good reason. This is not hard. Same with the ludicrous invasion of Greenland. Democrats are anti-invasion of Greenland bc it’s the dumbest thing ever. Be ruthlessly blunt.
aedwardslevy.bsky.social Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 7d
New CNN polling:

Most Americans see an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good as an inappropriate use of force. Roughly half view it as a sign of broader issues with the way ICE is operating, w/under 1/3 saying that ICE operations have made cities safer.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/p...
Bar charts showing that most Americans call the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis an inappropriate use of force and roughly half that ICE enforcement action is making cities less safe. Views are sharply divided along partisan lines, but with Democratic-aligned adults more united in opposition to ICE than Republican-aligned adults are in support.
January 14, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
here we go
jbendery.bsky.social Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 7d
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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dicknixon.bsky.social
No. Square the circle. "He's spending money on invading other countries. The only money he's spending here is to kill you."
vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14d
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.

Say bad things are bad.
January 8, 2026 at 2:31 AM
ejmilleresq.bsky.social
@stlouisblues.bsky.social Hope to see Mr. Goalie honored with a uni patch. #1
January 8, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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wrenispinkle.bsky.social
The unrealized promise of America is good, actually, and we should fight for it
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Dec 19
i have been thinking a bit about how any political program that requires the premise of “america bad” is a dead end
December 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
busbyj2.bsky.social Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · Dec 17
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 16
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional.

by John Roberts
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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theatlantic.com
For 20 minutes, Americans watched Donald Trump address the nation, “drenched in pure panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House.
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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henninghoff.bsky.social
Excellent colum by @josephdeweck.bsky.social #Pariscope predicting that Trump’s attack on Europe, based on misconceptions, will backfire—just like Putin’s war of aggression did. A preview from our Winter 2026 issue (“New Ideas for Europe”) ip-quarterly.com/en/trump-lik...
Trump, Like Putin, Is Miscalculating on Europe
Vladimir Putin’s ill-judged war against Ukraine has weakened Russia—turning it into a junior partner of China and triggering Europe’s rearmament. Trump’s frontal assault on European democracy will reb...
ip-quarterly.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Earlier this week, Kristi Noem told me under oath that she has not deported veterans. I then introduced her to one that she did deport.

But it’s much worse than that:

@moulton.house.gov got DHS to admit that they’ve deported at least 8 vets and are planning to deport dozens more.
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
Bonkers to the nth power
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Dec 10
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I’ve stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an “aura” around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks — Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to “ace” this Examination and, in fact, most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am “slowing up,” am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am “slowing up,” but it’s not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful “source” of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
ejmilleresq.bsky.social
Agree. A very insightful look under the hood.
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · Dec 9
really good essay from @joestieb.bsky.social on what the just-released national security strategy says about MAGA--and the authoritarian internationale. they believe the foundation of america is white christian patriarchy, and they are writing that into defense policy.
liberalcurrents.com Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Dec 9
"Security, in this telling, means preserving a conception of the nation rooted in a blood-and-soil identity rather than shared civic ideals." www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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A cartoon by Barbara Smaller. #NewYorkerCartoons

See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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niawag.bsky.social
Trump's farmer bailout will primarily go to massive row-crop farmers. Big Ag as they say. Smaller and diversified farms are getting something else - it rhymes with shackjit.
niawag.bsky.social Gawain @niawag.bsky.social · May 22
Trump is going to dump tens of $ billions in payments for huge commodity farmers to compensate for huge losses they will suffer from his idiotic trade war. Meanwhile, small farmers growing for local markets will get nothing. Just canceled grants and "thoughts and prayers". wapo.st/3YXdAbU
A Kansas family farm, barely getting by, grapples with Trump’s cuts
Like many of his rural neighbors in northeast Kansas, Jacob Thomas is trying to compensate for deep losses in federal funding. There’s worry and anger.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
In other words, Trump is planning to provide socialist welfare to people who voted for him after he ruined their businesses with his stupid tariffs.

But you can't have medicine, food, or ACA supplements.
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · Dec 8
President Trump is planning a $12 billion farm aid package, according to a White House official — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president raised tariffs on China as part of a broader trade war. https://to.pbs.org/4ptNxEm
WATCH LIVE: Trump expected to unveil $12 billion farm aid package as farmers grapple with tariff pains
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion farm aid package, according to a White House official — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit b...
www.pbs.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ejmilleresq.bsky.social
We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | We Rejected This Practice 60 Years Ago. We Must Do So Again Today.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
ejmilleresq.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM