'Tom, arrest me. Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump "has created the conditions" surrounding the Los Angeles protests. The governor went...

NBC Interview with Gavin Newsom. He lays it on the line and slams Trump on everything from the illegal take over of the national guard to tariffs and is not holding back. This is how Dems need to handle Trump.

Hang in there stalwarts! We made it, or rather we are making it; we will make it. The days reliably lengthen. The change is already here. Nourish yourself! Because just like Alice Walker’s Revolutionary Petunia, in the summer we will bloom.

(….or maybe now we bloom like the begonias in my office)

When the dog whistle is clearly audible to the human ear…

The Paranoid Thriller That Foretold Trump’s Foreign Policy Some of the president’s policies are literally stranger than fiction.

Donald Trump’s baffling declarations on foreign policy were once the stuff of paranoid political thrillers, Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic Daily.

Break a leg! Can’t come tonight but looking forward to seeing the exhibit!

Amazing detail! So much work.

Trump Is Already Drowning Us in Outrages A guide to the Week One distractions, late-night devilry, executive overreach, and the Administration’s early infighting.

Exhausted yet? It’s been three full days since Donald Trump returned to the Presidency and he’s already drowning us in outrages. Susan B. Glasser breaks down the Week One distractions, late-night devilry, executive overreach, and the Administration’s infighting.

Yikes

When it comes to big goals—a fair economy, a solution for the climate crisis—staying optimistic “can feel as if you’ve been pushing a boulder up a hill only to see it come rolling back down,” @galbeckerman.bsky.social writes.

But finding meaning and purpose is still possible: theatln.tc/UsbA2qNb

This day doesn’t feel real.

Good evening from Parker. We are still here and we are strong.

Welcome to the Village People Inauguration Showing off his new big tent, Donald Trump played circus master to a strange kind of union.

Showing off his new big tent, Donald Trump played circus master to a strange kind of union. Spencer Kornhaber on the Village People inauguration:

Jan-Werner Müller | Everyone has their reasons In the run-up to Trump 2.0, the speed with which former opponents of the once and future president are adapting to his...

‘In 2021, Niall Ferguson described Trump as a “demagogue and would-be tyrant”. Last month he was dancing to “YMCA” at Mar-a-Lago.’

Jan-Werner Müller on the ‘anticipatory obedience’ on display in the run-up to Trump 2.0: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Oh my gosh! Is this true? I thought this day would never come?

Sugar cookies with Hershey kisses fused together and looking suspiciously like breasts with nipples.

Unintentional cookie erotica for a cold winter Sunday.

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