We need to wake up and realize that we are one people living on one miraculous planet.

This is the only home we will ever have.

We must start treating it that way.

Boston’s Michelle Wu Is a Model Wartime Mayor Building affordable housing and filling potholes while trying to protect a democracy and economy under siege: Welcome to the world of a blue-city boss in the Trump era.

A great profile of a great mayor--who will someday be the most important Democrat in America. @mayorwu.boston.gov
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To rebuild our democracy, we need to bring voters and representatives closer together.

Here's my science-based dive into one way to do it: increase the size of the U.S. House.
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Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

And echoing the words of the great Jack Layton. Thank you.
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In a world where many doubt their own strength, the little honeybee proves them wrong every day. It doesn't wait to be big or important—it simply does its work, quietly, consistently, and purposefully. And in doing so, it sustains life itself. Never underestimate the impact of small actions.

'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill

My analysis: it's probably already too late. However, people won't figure it out until January 20, 2029 when Americans see someone who wasn't actually elected present inaugurated anyway. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

The Democratic Party is about to make the most predictable mistake in American politics Democrats will win in 2026 and 2028. The problem is winning in a system with a two-year half-life.

I would just add court reform to this list, because I bet SCOTUS strikes down any Fair Vote style reform leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-democr...

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

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Wow.

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.

WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

"I feel like we're performing CPR on what may already be a corpse-called the constitution" Woke Hoth Man

This is the equivalent of "putting the sign in the window", as Mark Carney referenced the other day. No matter who we are, we must stand up for what's right, and not be afraid of the bully.

Who speaks for Earth?

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate

Good vs. Ice YouTube video by Jesse Welles

On the eve of 1000+ rapid response "Ice Out for Good" protests, here's our generation's phil ochs/bob dylan/john prine/you get the idea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...

Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.

I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...

The Shortest Day 2020 YouTube video by Jim Henderson

Remembering 5 years ago...
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They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome, Yule!

#shortestday #revels #welcomeyule #peace

And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:

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They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.

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And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.

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Chariots YouTube video by In Good Company

For a modest timeline cleanser, here's a song of the season, recorded 5 years ago... youtu.be/Jx5uNqApD6w #WelcomeYule #Chariots