Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

Sarah Longwell and I discuss the awful speech by JD Vance in Munich—a humiliation for the U.S., and a confirmation that this administration isn't on the side of the democracies.

And a coda on the contrasting admirable behavior by several attorneys at DOJ & SDNY.

www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-h...

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:

- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more

#NIH #MedSky #research #science

Btw let me reinforce this again when it comes to this crew: EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION.

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

The double standard is absurd. #MichelleObama even came to the table with a well thought out plan and worked to implement it much to the chagrin of current crop of MAGA/MAGA. RFK Jr., on the other hand, can barely for a coherent sentence and doesn't even have a concept of a plan for it.

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Junior & Charlie Kirk rounding up a few homeless people in Greenland and offering them a free lunch to put on MAGA hats to say how much they want the US to take over their country was right out of a Borat movie. Unbelievable.

Say a chemical company creates a useful product but also generates a toxic waste byproduct and dumps it in the nearby river, causing birth defects in children downstream. We call that a "negative externality." The company that dumps it in the river saves millions on cleanup costs. 1/7...

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech?

We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

Hang it in The Louvre.

I don't know how many times we have to say this because MAGA is a bit slow:

Republicans have the majority in the House.

They own the government shutdown if they can't pass a bill.

Donald Trump’s effective abdication of the presidency renews concerns about Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness

Future historians — if there are any — will just be shaking their damn heads over @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest amazing time capsule. Henry Ford would be, too. Republicans in total disarray. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...